Official October SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>That’s the same as the Greek one. God I hope so.</p>

<p>Also, what was the number 148 used to do?</p>

<p>The options were stuff like:</p>

<p>Provide approximation
Valid a statement
Document a process</p>

<p>I think it was validate a statement</p>

<p>Yeah, I think it’s to validate a statement.</p>

<p>RandomD, the answer was neither, the answer was that the author of passage two considered views of other scientists</p>

<p>Insufficiently skeptical of human uniqueness was the answer to one of the last questions in the Kanzi passage about how the passage 2 author views the passage 1 author or something</p>

<p>@ RandomD, Kingshrey is right.</p>

<p>On the last apes question, was it investigating or anazlying?</p>

<p>otherwise i have complete confidence i got at least a 700 on CR. When you’re entertained by something you read, its so much easier</p>

<p>Do you remember the other choices to that one Leinad? I’m not sure what I put as my answer, it could’ve been that</p>

<p>Last ape question to me I think the answer was something about how it revolved around behavioral data… not sure. MY MEMORY IS FAILING ME AAAAH</p>

<p>@ Kingshrey13 and Leinad27, are you sure? I’m fairly sure that the answer you gave me was the answer to a different question, specifically about what author 2 did but author 1 did not.</p>

<p>And @ Kingshrey I forgot what the other options were. They were pretty wordy and stuff.</p>

<p>I’m trying to keep remembering more stuff…oh! There was something about how previous historians thought that Homer’s writing was meant to be read (when it was really meant to be sung) This was in the Greek language reading.</p>

<p>There was also one about how the man thought the praise of his writing was better than it should have been (it was a fill in the blank one)</p>

<p>For the apes passage did anyone respond that the ape they tested reflected the abilities of other apes? (And not scientific implications?)
This sounds right to me because the whole next sentence stated how scientists would fear the thought that another species could even come close on an intellectual level to our level as human beings. So if they conclude that apes just like the one focused on in the paragraph can think like humans, thats a pretty scary thought.</p>

<p>@GalindatheGood: I believe that was blank and disproportionate to. Don’t remember what the first word is…</p>

<p>I felt pretty good after I left the test center but then I got home and I realized I had gotten like 3 questions wrong! For the one about the woman who wrote about math and other subjects, I put philistine but it was polymath! Also, I put cosmopolitan and cavalier because I keep confusing urbane with urban. I’m not sure if that was wrong because if you want to sound sophisticated, aren’t you being a bit arrogant? But I know that the SAT is straightforward so it was probably the urbane and erudite choice. The Greek one was interesting but the one about apes was a bit lengthy. My favorite one was the one about dinosaurs and I put stuck for mired but I kept going back and forth between that and muddy.</p>

<p>What was the one about why the author of Passage 2 wrote something like, “it may seem as if I have taken great measure to disprove blah blah blah, given that Kanaki understands commands blah blah”? I was so stumped on this one… Was it C or D? Acknowledge that a position may seem unreasonable or to concede that opposing argument is convincing?</p>

<p>Did anyone get reluctantly optimistic about apes for an answer? The other choices were something about scientific conventions and overestimating importance of foresight?</p>

<p>@ feedback that was to acknowledge that a position may seem unreasonable</p>

<p>Were any of the last 4 questions C for the apes passage?</p>

<p>Did anyone get the one on the apes passage that asked how the author of passage 1 would characterize the statement made by the author of passage 2 in line 68? I think answer a) was clearly wrong, b) possibly mistaken, etc.</p>

<p>I put reluctantly optimistic. I had trouble with that one, so I don’t know.</p>

<p>I also put ‘possibly wrong’, since ‘clearly wrong’ seemed a bit too extreme.</p>