<p>The way I described aberrant input was visual distortion because I couldn't remember the original phrase. That's probably it.</p>
<p>I remember now! Aberrant input was indeed describing information that doesn't match our prior experiences. And I remember the second one too! I was thrown off by the right thing at first but the question was asking why do these people subconsciously fill the roles mentioned. It was indeed because it was socially customary. I will shortly add these 2 to the list.</p>
<p>66 out of 67!
12 questions for the environment passage seems a bit much. Does anyone remember the context for the SECURE=ACQUIRE question?</p>
<ol>
<li>ENTHRALLED - loved to read</li>
<li>RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)</li>
<li>IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)</li>
<li>CHAGRIN</li>
<li>ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)</li>
<li>EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)</li>
<li>AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)</li>
<li>PROPONENT (a champion)</li>
<li>EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)</li>
<li>COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)</li>
<li>TEPID - little enthusiasm</li>
<li>PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)</li>
<li>HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)</li>
<li>SEDENTARY (children were confined)</li>
<li>TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)</li>
<li>People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED</li>
<li>Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.</li>
<li>An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.</li>
<li>A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</li>
</ol>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. The situation most nearly similar to that of the athlete practicing his moves because his behavioral pattern is that of a muscian or someone practicing his work
9. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
10. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Dark side - lose flexibility in thinking
5. Wild idea - unconventional
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children
11. "Aberrant input" described information that doesn't match our prior experiences.
12. Why do people subconsciously fill the roles mentioned? It was because it was socially customary.</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Description implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.</p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>Blockbuster movie
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>
<p>wait sunnyboy do you have the environment passage in front of you?</p>
<p>Here's the format for the verbal section:
15 questions divided between 2 passages in the 1st verbal section (for example 7 in one and 8 in the other, or 6 in one, 9 in the other)
12 questions for the paired passage.
13 questions for a single passage.
19 sentence completions
8 short passage questions</p>
<p>that's 67 questions</p>
<p>we have the sentence completions (19/19)
we have the short passage answers (8/8)
we have one missing from the Environment passage (12/13)
we have one missing from the paired passage (11/12)
the astronaut passage and calligraphy passage must then be in the same section and have a total of 15 questions but our numbers add up to 16. That means we have 1 more question than we're supposed to. If we delete a question from this section and add the 2 questions we're missing from the enviro and paired passages then it adds up to 67 and we will have the complete June 4th SAT verbal section! (16/15)</p>
<p>is the extra question number 8 in calligraphy on our list? someone previously said that we should delete number 8 from our list.</p>
<p>I remember an astronomy question with AGGREGATE as an answer.</p>
<p>Yes, i found the book at our local library!</p>
<p>Well surely then we can get the last enviro question we're missing!</p>
<p>Stantonia - you are right. The astronauts + Bilingual Calligrapher passages should total 15 questions. We have 16. I believe that item 8 under Bilingual Calligrapher should be deleted. What do y'all think?</p>
<p>Give me a few minutes I'm working on it!</p>
<p>I think we should delete number 8. It's probably one of the other answer choices to question number 2 in the enviro passage. </p>
<p>Also what happened to the post by chaxiaxia (don't know the spelling) that said a traveling passage question might have been something along the lines of...the author of passage 2 talked about the advantages of traveling with a companion. What from passage 1 would fit this description. I don't know I only saw the post once.</p>
<p>OK - the Environment passage by definition has 13 questions. We have 12. The 13th and final question is - In line xxx "distinguishes" most nearly means. And the answer is DIFFERENTIATES. Here is the exact sentence from the book: "One thing that distinguishes artists may be the retention of that childhood ability to see the world afresh." So DISTINGUISHES = DIFFERENTIATES.</p>
<p>Excellent job sunnyboy!
66 out of 67!!
One more in the traveling passage to go, amazing!</p>
<ol>
<li>ENTHRALLED - loved to read</li>
<li>RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)</li>
<li>IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)</li>
<li>CHAGRIN</li>
<li>ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)</li>
<li>EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)</li>
<li>AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)</li>
<li>PROPONENT (a champion)</li>
<li>EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)</li>
<li>COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)</li>
<li>TEPID - little enthusiasm</li>
<li>PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)</li>
<li>HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)</li>
<li>SEDENTARY (children were confined)</li>
<li>TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)</li>
<li>People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED</li>
<li>Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.</li>
<li>An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.</li>
<li>A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</li>
</ol>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
9. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Dark side - lose flexibility in thinking
5. Wild idea - unconventional
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children
11. "Aberrant input" described information that doesn't match our prior experiences.
12. Why do people subconsciously fill the roles mentioned? It was because it was socially customary.
13. "DISTINGUISHES" most nearly means DIFFERENTIATES</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Description implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.
12. </p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>
<p>Have carefully reviewed all comments. Couldn't have come up with this without Stantonia's brilliant job of finding the passage. Believe that the 12th and final answer was The author of Passage 1 would argue that Fleming did not acknowledge the occasional pleasures of traveling with a companion!
What do you think???</p>
<p>Yes! The quote in the 2nd passage only highlighted the negative!
We have finally done it!</p>
<p>Excellent job sunnyboy!</p>
<ol>
<li>ENTHRALLED - loved to read</li>
<li>RETICENT - (Thurgood Marshall was forthright in public but reticent in private)</li>
<li>IMPECUNIOUS .. AFFLUENT (neither poor or wealthy)</li>
<li>CHAGRIN</li>
<li>ENDEMIC (wildlife in Australia or New Zealand)</li>
<li>EBULLIENCE .. PESSIMISM (group has to rethink their policies because their initial ebullience gave way to pessimism)</li>
<li>AMALGAM .. COIN (author combined two names to coin a new name)</li>
<li>PROPONENT (a champion)</li>
<li>EXTEMPORIZE (about monarch butterflies)</li>
<li>COMPLICITY .. EXONERATED (evidence connected person to crime so he/she could not be exonerated)</li>
<li>TEPID - little enthusiasm</li>
<li>PERSPECTIVES .. ANONYMITY (artist's strange perspectives lead to anonymous figures)</li>
<li>HAMPERED (interpretation of data hampered)</li>
<li>SEDENTARY (children were confined)</li>
<li>TRANQUIL (quiet reading room)</li>
<li>People CONFORM to gain approval and avoid being REJECTED</li>
<li>Two dancers were DETERMINED to MASTER Latin American dance steps.</li>
<li>An experiment did not produce DECISIVE results, the results were only of NOMINAL importance.</li>
<li>A stain would DISPERSE across a cloth if you try to dissolve it.(or something similar)</li>
</ol>
<p>PUFFIN PARAGRAPH
1. The simile implies oceans are critical to the planet
2. Puffins are ENDEARING</p>
<p>BILINGUAL CALLIGRAPHER
1. Punishment - something difficult to master
2. Daughter's job is most similar to the editor of a publishing house
3. Both mother and daughter often get frustrated with each other
4. List of different jobs depicts the variety of the mother's work
5. Mother's description of how to write shows that she emphasizes HARMONY
6. In the description of how mother lectured during lessons, the word 'stuffing' in the sentence on how she stuffed her daughter's head full of lessons most nearly means CRAMMING
7. The word SIMPLE most nearly means UNCOMPLICATED
8. In the last paragraph LuLing "provides instruction."
9. The last paragraph uses lots of figurative language</p>
<p>MINI-PAIR: GENIUS
1. The purpose of the opening sentences in Passage 1 is that they provided a context for the discussion
2. Author of Passage 2 uses a word that the Author of Passage 1 would challenge
3. Author of Passage 1 would consider the description of the person's friend to be OVERSTATED
4. The author of Passage 1 lamented the lack of geniuses and if he thought the way the author of passage 2 did then geniuses would be everywhere.</p>
<p>EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENT ON BEHAVIOR: PSYCHOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
1. Purpose of the first paragraph - a generalized thesis which is then supported
2. Most similar to "going thru" - going thru driving test maneuvers
3. Paying a professional decorator to find a better spot for a sofa - unfortunate response to a behavioral phenomenon
4. Dark side - lose flexibility in thinking
5. Wild idea - unconventional
6. List of teachers..students; doctors..patients etc - something like roles we unconsciously fill
7. SECURE = ACQUIRE
8. What distinguishes artists? It was something along the lines of artists always seeing the world in a fresh perspective
9. Passage is a thoughtful examination of a phenomenon
10. Adults were able to compensate for visual distortion because they were more experienced than children
11. "Aberrant input" described information that doesn't match our prior experiences.
12. Why do people subconsciously fill the roles mentioned? It was because it was socially customary.
13. "DISTINGUISHES" most nearly means DIFFERENTIATES</p>
<p>PAIRED PASSAGE: TRAVELING ALONE
1. PARADOX - "I am never less alone than when I am alone"
2. Sterne would most likely support the idea of traveling with a companion
3. Fleming would support the author of Passage 1 in that traveling alone is better
4. Description of different routines illustrates the PETTY differences between two people
5. Description implies PROVINCIAL CHARM
6. What Hemingway TOOK from his road trip with Fitzgerald...what he GLEANED
7. Last paragraph of Passage 1 acknowledges that there is an exception to the rule stated above
8. Hemingway's quote "Never travel with anyone you don't love" implied that Fitzgerald did something that annoyed Hemingway
9. The shy person liked to travel because he got to meet new people.
10. The last paired passage question asked about the role of the Sterne and Fleming references. The answer was that both provided a contrast to initial statements.
11. The author of Passage 1 considered undisturbed silence one of the comforts
he enjoyed when traveling alone.
12. The author of Passage 1 would argue that Fleming did not acknowledge the occasional pleasures of traveling with a companion!</p>
<p>ASTRONAUTS
1. Description of Inuit language shows relationship between language and thought. I believe this was the question saying Inuit had like ten words for "snow" but one for "tree" and a simple translation of any of the ten into "snow" would cause the original thought to be lost in translation.
2. Author implies that there is more jargon than efficient communication (there's exclusivity)
3. Description of astronaut jargon as "foreign language" shows that most laypersons would find it needlessly complicated
4. Different languages use the same words in different manner
5. Space jargon developed as a response to an unprecedented situation
6. There was a question with how CAPCOM, an abbreviation, has become a word.</p>
<p>BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE
1. Cornerstone means fundamental element
2. Author was DERISIVE</p>
<p>Wow. I might get an 800 on this verbal section! (I got a 680 in March) They all sound like the answers I put. There are a few I don't remember the context of like secure =acquire, dark side and which author supports which passage in the traveling passages.
How did everybody else do?</p>
<p>Congratulations Stantonia! Hope you make an 800. I missed one but am hopeful that the scale will permit at least one and maybe two mistakes for an 800. Good luck to all!</p>
<p>The March SAT curve allowed 2 wrong for an 800 so it is very possible that you can get an 800. Let's check back here next Monday with the scores and compare them.</p>
<p>wow, awesome guys, thanks, i think I got 1 or 2 wrong.</p>
<p>if any one wants the scale for march, it's here67 800
66 800
65 800
64 790
63 770
62 750
61 740
60 720
59 710
58 700
57 690
56 680
.....</p>