Official October SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>LOL. I don’t remember all my answers xD you’d have to ask me each question and I’ll try to remember what I put.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the passage that was right before the one about the student that was really close to someone?</p>

<p>The Greek one was real.</p>

<p>Does anyone know which reading section was experimental? I got four reading sections, and I’m not sure which reading section it was. I noticed that the first two (mainly the first one) reading sections were harder than the last two.</p>

<p>@rockman I found the reading section that was right in the middle really hard, but I think it could have been because when I took it, my mind was still focused on the writing section, so it was difficult to concentrate.</p>

<p>Did any of you guys have the Nixon Cold War passage? I hope that was the experimental…</p>

<p>*** I’m so completely confused about reading experimentals.</p>

<p>I didn’t have that passage, but I also had 4 CR’s so I’m not sure which of mine was experimental.</p>

<p>What was the answer for the question where one of the choices was (proud…something) (ambivalent…something else)</p>

<p>There was one about a girl who didn’t want help…what was the word in the blank?</p>

<p>Was the answer to the Greek one about the alphabet superfluous, onerous, or subversive?</p>

<p>They all made sense to me.</p>

<p>I believe it was superfluous…and if you’re talking about the great uncle with the great nephew it would be proud or pride…don’t remember which word</p>

<p>superfluous because it said little overt need for the technology of reading and writing</p>

<p>I put superfluous. It’s superfluous because they already had an oral tradition, so at that point, an alphabet to record information was redundant and unnecessary.</p>

<p>for the dinosaur passage, wasnt mired degraded?</p>

<p>Mired was stuck.</p>

<p>I got the talking ape passage.</p>

<p>What’s the general consensus as to which critical reading section was the experimental?</p>

<p>Critical Reading Answers:</p>

<p>1) Autonomous
2) Teasing
3) mired = stuck
4) phlegmatic
5) Mollifying
6) urbane and erudite
7) Passage 1 - response, Passage 2 - communication (ape thing)
8) Scientific implications
9) To validate a statement
10) Insufficiently skeptical
11) superfluous</p>

<p>Im thinking it was the mars and Venus one? Or is that the same as the greek</p>

<p>Regarding the passage about Kanzi ape and language, what did you guys get for the question about what the author of passage 2 would say about author 1’s position that Kanzi apes do not have actual language understanding?</p>

<p>I believe the only two possible answers are a) something about being overly dismissive of scientific conventions and c) readily willing to challenge preconceived notions.</p>

<p>I put a).</p>

<p>And what was the question for the insufficiently skeptical one?</p>