<p>oh yeah, so ... um, as a general rule of thumb on this board, would you guys consider the consensus/most popular answer to be correct? yes, right?</p>
<p>the author said something like "My mother punished me for my earlier comments by making me try my hand it calligraphy"</p>
<p>so I think the author is using "punished" me as an overstatement to highlight that it was a painful process.</p>
<p>Yeah, i would say so. Which problem in particular?</p>
<p>ooh, good point. i had forgotten that. so the answer..?</p>
<p>That was a confusing one. But I think the mother didn't view it as a punishment, and the question was from her point of view. I put the answer was to teach her daughter.</p>
<p>the answer was to transmit a difficult skill. I remember seeing some piece of telling evidence of this answer in the passage, but I'm not quite sure what it was.</p>
<p>I did so bad on the CR, I usually get no wrong on the sentence completions and do pretty well on comprehension when I do practice tests (I also did very well on math, which confused me).</p>
<p>Anyway, I put glean, derisive, and to teach a difficult skill.</p>
<p>For the astronaut one, I had a really hard time, I ended up putting that is was an unnecessary development. Maybe I missed a detail, but I swear to god I couldn't find anything to say why the language was developed. The last paragraph ruled out improving communication between the astronauts and the ground team (pretty sure it said that it made things worse). For unprecedented factors, it did mention that but it didn't say anything that would indicate that the new language would help with that situation. Exclusivity was also ruled out, it was mentioned after the author discussed that particular part, and creating a universal language seemed out of scope of the passage. Maybe I was just tired :x</p>
<p>What'd you guys put for the tone of the photography passage? It seemed like a simple question but I wasn't sure and put regret (it seemed like a sort of restrained sarcasm to me, but w/e).</p>
<p>And how bout some of the sentence completions? My vocab is decent but I got majorly stomped by alot of those questions. The one where the woman championed/advocated short stories, I didn't know what a prognotocist or finagler was. Or um, the one where the boy was neither rich nor penniless, was it magnanimous and prosperous?</p>
<p>I seriously did so terrible on CR, decent scores for the rest though.</p>
<p>I'll repost:</p>
<p>Traveler:</p>
<p>Ah, the question about "provincial charm" (which was the answer btw). The inn for the person in the first passage was entertainment and he specifically talked about how you're missing a piece of life w/o going to a village w/ inn w/ a companion. The town in the other, though somewhat foreboding with its foretress-like structure still offered provincial charm for reasons that I have now forgotten. I did a lot of reasoning on this problem, and I'm almost 100% sure the only reasonable answer was provincial charm. foreboding was a throw-off designed to target test-takers specifically focusing on the fortress/castle description in the second passage. So yeah...</p>
<p>NASA:</p>
<p>language and thinking for the Inuit b/c I clearly remember all the other answers making no sense at all</p>
<p>space jargon was definitely unprecedented events. In the passage it talked specifically about Nasa applying words to bizarre, previosly unused processes/technology...therefore, unprecedented events. It was not exclusion b/c the author talked about exclusion and then said specifically that this was not the case for NASA. I remember it like it was minutes ago because I went through that exact thought process like three times. </p>
<p>Calligraphy:</p>
<p>simple - uncomplicated, because it was used twice and uncomplicated was the only answer that fit both times "simple" was used. </p>
<p>punishment was an answer for one</p>
<p>harmony was an answer for another because I specifically remember the word "balance" being used when the mother drew the brush strokes</p>
<p>another answer was for what the daughter's function in her mother's business was; the answer was like a editor in a publishing house or something.</p>
<p>bilingual signs was what the mother did </p>
<p>I don't remember arguing</p>
<p>Vocab/Random Passage Questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>intellect for the Cleopatra one</li>
<li>ebullience/pessimistic for the problem talking about the movement for political reform</li>
<li>impecunious for the problem about the donator or w/e</li>
<li>wrestler was devoid of ambiguity (uncertainty) w/e b/c of the stark contrast between good and evil described (which was devoid of the uncertainty between sides; in wrestling, you're either good or bad, no in between.</li>
<li>proponent for the champion one; although i got that wrong for a stupid reason.</li>
<li>compulsion for another</li>
</ul>
<p>Random:
- gleaned; Ernest Hemingway gleaned something from traveling with an overly talkative companion
- tepid
- reticent
- i think insipid was part of a correct answer somewhere</p>
<p>Hollywood:</p>
<p>cornerstone was a fundamental element</p>
<p>derisive for the tone of slave to trends question</p>
<p>Photography:</p>
<p>tone of last sentence: regret</p>
<p>point of passage: something talking about art form and photography</p>
<p>BTW, feel free to confirm/reject these answers.</p>
<p>the compulsion was was coupled with "fastidious," right?</p>
<p>What about the genius reading?
That one stumped me a bit.
What were each of them saying about geniuses? I was stuck b/w Passage 1 says something that Passage 2 provides examples to refute and then Passage 1 indicates geniuses are exceptional but P2 assumes they are more common.
???</p>
<p>uhhh...
well p2 never said that it was more common, but it was tricky because that was a choice and a lot of people might have chosen that option. p2 acknowledged that geniuses were not commonplace.. the author said that it could be found in everyday life (this is different from commonplace... his example was that his friend was good at flattering people and softening their edges or something like that), and that the concept of "genius" was not limited to the Einstein sort. anybody want to second that?</p>
<p>But the answer didn't say that p2 explicitly SAID that she thought geniuses were more commonplace--the answer said that p2 assumed or implied or something. p2 said something about "if you were looking for the other definition of genius, you wouldn't notice her." P2 also didn't provide lots of examples refuting the fact that geniuses were exceptional. I eliminated all other choices.</p>
<p>i don't really remember it well, so i'll defer it to somebody else. what did you actually end up choosing again?</p>
<p>papercrane - I think you're misinterpreting the meaning of commonplace. Very simply, the author of p2 saw genius as something more commonplace because he applied the use of the term to an ordinary person. Given further opportunity, he would more than likely have used the term "genius" in describing other people as well.</p>
<p>Therefore, I believe I chose the p2 assumes that geniuses are more commonplace. I eliminated three of the choices right away and was left with this one and the other choice. However, I don't remember exactly what the other one was. I eliminated it in the end for some pretty compelling reason. If you think about it, the author of p2 was at least assuming geniuses to be more commonplace than the author of p1. I think that because the question was asking for an answer in relative terms (p2's outlook versus p1's outlook), the answer had to be the commonplace one.</p>
<p>but i remember it explicitly saying something about how "geniuses are rare" in p2. or at least not commonplace. i remember that much.
i don't feel like i got whatever i put wrong, so I'll just leave it at that. Dunno.</p>
<p>The second passage said that geniuses may be rare, but his friend is one of them. Or something to that effect.</p>
<p>and, therefore, by assuming his friend to be a genius, he was assuming geniuses to be ordinary, everyday, and commonplace. He may have stated that they are rare (I'm not sure if he did), but his assumptions, in seeing his friend as a genius, indicate that he was operating under the illusion that geniuses are ordinary (he thought his friend to be one). What one was supposed to see in the comparison between the two passages, the central contrast, was that one said that geniuses cannot be ordinary (he lamented the use of the term "genius" in describing the average, regular person) whereas the other one was pretty much making the mistake that the first passage resented. As I said before, there was something about the other answer choice that didn't make sense anyway.</p>
<p>commonplace isn't the same thing as everyday. everyday means it isn't in the conventional adademic/mathematical/verbal intelligence sense... that's what I thought it was at least. commonplace means "everybody who can solve a quadratic equation is a genuis!" i forgot. meh, i don't think i got it wrong but there is no point in arguing about it anyway.</p>
<p>The other answer choice (as I have been posting) basically said that p1 offered a definition for a word that p2 provided several examples to refute.
I put the other one.</p>
<p>oh yeah...that one was clearly wrong because it says that p2 offered several examples whereas it just talked about that one girl.</p>