<p>The passage compares the darkness in which the mediums of the 19th century performed their acts in to the darkness or secrecy of the parapsy data of today. It never talks about the 19th century being related with anything scientific at all.</p>
<p>What was 23 and 24? Anyone confident?</p>
<p>24 c
23 is definitely confusing. It's either B or E.
I can't remember for sure which one I answered on the test.</p>
<p>24 is definately C
I don't think it mentions or insinuates anything about modern vs. primitive. I think it's E, my opinion</p>
<p>Hate to butt in, but I decided to play the home version (Thanks for posting) and took that section myself.
I agree with the posters who have the following:
13-b
14-a
15-d
16-b
17-e
18-d
19-e
20-b
21-e
22-c
23-e
24-c</p>
<p>13 B
14 B
15 D
16 B
17 E
18 D
19 E
20 B
21 E
22 C
23 E
24 C</p>
<p>my opinion
why A for 14????</p>
<p>the author of passage 1 never claims that psychic powers don't exist; he simply claims the evidence to insufficient and crude. ETS also likes to use SAT words to cover up right answers.</p>
<p>and ur post is in reference to which question??</p>
<p>To me the author criticizes Koestler"s work for failure to abide by the scientific method, i.e. repeatable results from experiments. He would view the mediums harshly because they have no "proven" parapsychological power. (Proven as a scientist would consider proven.) JMO.</p>
<p>q 14, it should be B</p>
<p>Esoteric-"of or relating to knowledge that is restricted to a small group." I think the author's point is that there is zero provable "knowledge", not that such "knowledge" is limited to a small group. But I am wrong on a daily basis, so draw your own conclusions.</p>
<p>it is very hard to be positive on critical reading questions. i really don't know for sure.</p>
<p>From what answers D and I saw flying by on the board, most of you did very, very well and I hope you achieve any goal that you had for yourselves for this test.</p>
<p>by the way, a lot of people say for the passage about the old man that the person reading to him had "respect", I thought he was "concerned sympathy"? Which one is it? I fail to see why some people say "respect"?</p>
<p>well, the fact is, he wasn't sympathetic as much as he was passively observant, so he was generally respectful</p>
<p>again, alex brings up the good point that it is hard to be 100% sure on CR questions, for they require you to know exactly what ETS wants and how it thinks</p>
<p>curmudgeon: impressive that you and your D read this entire thread, or skimmed...</p>
<p>Just want to join in saying thanks to jrcho for scanning and posting the passage/questions! And don't worry--I don't think you're helping anybody out for the Saturday test. Anybody who's planning to practice like mad in the next two days probably already has stuff to work on, anyway.</p>
<p>BTW, curmudgeon, I agree with you on all your answers for this passage.</p>
<p>In the Writing section, there was a question like:</p>
<p>He was [somewhat] uncertain about [how to use]...</p>
<p>Was [how to use] correct? It certainly is used commonly in oral English, but I'm not sure if it's proper proper grammar.</p>
<p>There was also another question in the black woman passage about assumptions (I think it was that question). I had narrowed it down to two:</p>
<p>1) Members of communities believe that they are the best keepers of their society's knowledge
2) Members of communities can offer valuable insight about their lives
(something along those lines; correct me if you know the real question)</p>
<p>THANK YOU for posting critical reading!</p>
<p>Can you please post some writing questions for us to discuss? thanks</p>
<p>Re: Parapsychologists Passage, Question 21:</p>
<p>The author of Passage 2 would most likely react to Arthur Koestlers assessment of the status of parapsychology in Passage 1 with:</p>
<p>(A) mild amusement
(B) scientific detachment
(C) cool indifference
(D) muted outrage
(E) general agreement</p>
<p>I can understand the possibility that the author of passage 2 is in general agreement with Koestler; however, it is also plausible that he is in agreement with the author of passage 1 that there is extraordinary evidence to support the theoretical physics concepts (i.e., evidence that does not require a "leap of faith"). As a scientist I do not take leaps of faith . . . . I study evidence.</p>
<p>In such a case, the author of passage 2 may NOT be in "general agreement" with Koestlers assessment of the status of parapsychology.</p>
<p>The authors whole approach to passage 2 is that of scientific detachment, why would he most likely react to Arthur Koestlers assessment any differently?</p>
<p>Serendipitous, about parapsychology question 21:</p>
<p>While I agree with you that "scientific detachment" is arguably a good answer, here's my take on why "general agreement" would be the better answer according to "ETS think":</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Arguing against the "scientific detachment" answer: Although the author of Passage 2 argues that scientific detachment is the best way to study parapsychological phenomena, the TONE of passage 2 itself is not really scientific detachment. The author seems to have a bit of a chip on his shoulder--see the first paragraph and the "This is patent nonsense" comment. </p></li>
<li><p>Arguing for the "general agreement" answer: As we've all probably noticed by now, ETS only likes reading answers that have very specific proof in the passages. So, here's my "proof" that Koestler and the author of Passage 2 agree on a very specific point, that there are a lot of strange things going on in science in general, and not just in parapsychology:</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Passage 1, lines 17-21: "...the unthinkable phenomena of ESP appear somewhat less preposterous in the light of the unthinkable propositions of physics."</p>
<p>Passage 2, lines 93-95: "The anomalies encompassed by parapsychology are only a small portion of the anomalies that face science today."</p>
<p>Again, not necessarily MY opinion--just what I think ETS wants!</p>