Official US November SAT discussion

<p>does anyone remember the other choices for the tepid sentence completion one?</p>

<p>I really want a final decision on commonplace vs. subtle hahaha…</p>

<p>truism |ˈtroōˌizəm|
noun
a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting : </p>

<p>it’s 90% commonplace</p>

<p>Awesome, that was my logic for that question as well. So far I’m looking a 1 wrong on CR: panache…Fail</p>

<p>My prediction for the curve will be -2 = 800 -3 = 780. Thoughts on curve?</p>

<p>Can anyone help me with a question that was like</p>

<p>The kite was originally first invented in China</p>

<p>the originally first is repetitive right?</p>

<p>What did you guys put for the tone of the passage about behaviorism and positive conditioning? As in the pArt where she said that some people misunderstand operant conditioning and they believe in the free will of people. The 2 answer choices I was stuck on were enraged and vexed.</p>

<p>I put vexed. :slight_smile: I don’t think the author was enraged, it was more like annoyed, like “I don’t understand why people hypocritically criticizes this if it’s in our everyday behaviors”</p>

<p>Darn I put enraged. It did seem a bit strong of a word but vexed seemed like an understatement. :(</p>

<p>Was the answer to the less than 1000 one 50 because it asked for X+Y when 25X+20Y<1000. Or is it 995… I put 50 cause you can let X=1 and Y=49 and get the biggest value for x+y… what did other people put</p>

<p>X and Y were MULTIPLES of 25 and 20. so it’s 995</p>

<p>How many Es did you guys get for wr section?</p>

<p>What Writing questions had ‘No Error?’ </p>

<p>I remember the one with Sir. Peter Blake, the guy whose biography shows his love for sailing and plans to raise awareness, and also the one with the writer who was only 24 yo. </p>

<p>I wasn’t sure about them but I’m hoping they were no error.</p>

<p>Let’s consolidate the CR answers:</p>

<p>Sentence Completions:

  1. staple
  2. ingrate
  3. immersed
  4. implicit
  5. doctoring…altruism
  6. panache ( swagger)
  7. defile (what were the other answer choices here?)
  8. sneered…something
  9. inert
  10. drone (this is wrong, don’t remember what is correct)
  11. sonorous
  12. soporific</p>

<p>Are those correct for this version of the test?</p>

<p>Then here are some CR answers:</p>

<p>Dolphin Passage:
1)
Japanese Calligraphy:

  1. impromptu</p>

<p>random answers that I dont know which passage they go with:

  1. commonplace
  2. wrong but inherently plausible
  3. flippancy
  4. aloofness (wrong, but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
  5. disappointed
  6. surpised
  7. ironic to underscore… (wrong but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
  8. truism- commonplace</p>

<p>Any help? (ps, I ripped off this answer list from another post earlier in the thread)</p>

<p>Also, does anyone remember the question in the Grand Canyon passage where it asked you what the 1 million people seeing the equivalent to what the explorer who found the GC saw? I put for the answer “People had a one in 1 million percent chance of seeing what the explorer saw”</p>

<p>Defile is wrong, drone is wrong, aloofness was in the one w/ panache, and the sneered was sneered…hodgepodge. i got 1 in a million for that one too, and… yup. For calligraphy</p>

<p>1) mindset of character
2) impromptu
3) he had new responsiblities and no time</p>

<p>Don’t remember the rest. I’m pretty sure the dolphin passage ****ed up my score though.</p>

<p>Jtownap, I think we said that implicit was incorrect for the sentence completion. I forgot what I put. Does anyone remember all the choices to that one?</p>

<p>And for the question you asked about the grand canyon, I remember that question but your answer isn’t what I put. I forgot what I put (again, sorry bout that) but I remember it was something like that there is a fixed benefit in seeing it? Sorry. Don’t really remember</p>

<p>Despite the consensus on CC, sneered–hodgepodge is wrong.</p>

<p>@ Jeffreyjung - what was right? Denied…mishmash was incorrect because the critics didn’t DENY that the books were little more than mishmash</p>

<p>Let’s consolidate the CR answers:</p>

<p>Sentence Completions:

  1. staple
  2. ingrate
  3. immersed
  4. implicit (is this right?)
  5. doctoring…altruism
  6. panache ( swagger)
  7. defile (what were the other answer choices here?)
  8. sneered…hodgepodge
  9. inert
  10. drone (this is wrong, don’t remember what is correct)
  11. sonorous
  12. soporific</p>

<p>Are those correct for this version of the test?</p>

<p>Then here are some CR answers:</p>

<p>Dolphin Passage:

  1. (?)
    Japanese Calligraphy:
  2. impromptu
  3. mindset of character
  4. he had new responsibilities and no time</p>

<p>Grand Canyon passage:</p>

<p>1) the million who saw it had a one in 1 million chance to see what the explorer saw, OR the benefit and seeing it is fixed (?) though I thought there was another question with that as the answer</p>

<p>random answers that I dont know which passage they go with:

  1. commonplace
  2. wrong but inherently plausible
  3. flippancy
  4. aloofness (wrong, but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
  5. disappointed
  6. surpised
  7. ironic to underscore… (wrong but I don’t remember what I put for that one)
  8. truism- commonplace</p>

<p>It was ???–reprise. Noting that the album indiscriminately drew upon blues, rock, and bebop, the critics ____ that it was (nothing) more than a _____.
I think many people added the imaginary (nothing).</p>