SAT Critical Reading thread

<p>I said it was form. </p>

<p>The musk one is absolutely aesthetic and practical. It smelled good, and also had a practical use in covering up bad odors.</p>

<p>@seahawks I answered the same with the same reasoning. i hope thats correct.</p>

<p>@collegekid: I think I might know what you’re talking about. It was a “what word best fits” type of question. I chose form. I’m pretty sure it’s form. I didn’t think the other answer choices were that good (although I can’t remember what the answer choices were right now). </p>

<p>BTW, these DEC SAT threads are addicting.</p>

<p>^lol I think I made 50-100 posts today.</p>

<p>What score are you aiming for?</p>

<p>When I was done taking the test, I was thinking “that was so easy atleast 2200”. After seeing these Dec SAT threads, I would be lucky to hit 2150. So lets just say 2150. How about you?</p>

<p>2400 :slight_smile: I’m really hoping I get it. I REALLY don’t want to take it again. At first, I thought the test was super easy too. But after reading these Dec SAT threads, I’m starting to quiver a bit. I’m hoping for a good curve.</p>

<p>I think the question itself was type, and the answer was form. </p>

<p>90% sure it was practical and aesthetics.</p>

<p>nvm I’m pretty that post was a bit too in depth even for CC. :slight_smile:
Nervous about CB, so just going to take this off now lol…</p>

<p>Yea I am gonna stop trying to deny it, even though I pick another answer, I think practical and aesthetics is right. Since aesthetics can refer to smells (although no one thinks it can, so its perfect for CB to confuse others) it seems like a good fit. </p>

<p>But the ‘found in nature’ is still convincing too, since it was proved in the passage.</p>

<p>Edit: ^ #3 is an anecdote, the other choices could all be canceled out.</p>

<p>I’m not going for a total SAT score this time, I completely blew off writing and am relying on the 800 writing I got for the superscore. Hoping for 750 CR (740 last time) and 800 M, which would get me 2350 superscore!</p>

<p>Wow randomazn. That’s long. </p>

<p>1) I’m pretty sure it’s ambassador.
2) If you read the next sentence, secure works better.
3) Engaging anecdote. It even says in the passage that it was ONE of the many origins. It doesn’t even focus on origins anyways.
4) Exuberant. I don’t really remember that question, but from the other threads, exuberant is the main consensus.
5) Edit. The rest of the answer for rearrange doesn’t make sense
6) I put something about meaning. I don’t think it was origins of friendship.</p>

<p>I agree with all of randomazn’s points, and all my answers were the same. I’m leaning towards origins of a friendship on the house one, and I’m almost positive anecdote was right.</p>

<p>Random I think only two of your quires are actually debatable. </p>

<p>1) Ambassador, I don’t recall the author speaking of Barbara failing, I skipped a lot of things so I might have missed it but I am pretty sure there was nothing in there referring to her failures.
2) Highly debatable I guess, but I think secure was the correct answer.
3)Engaging anecdote, no doubt.
4) Exuberant, the growth was unrestrained, and prodigious. Then it suddenly dropped because people realized the truth.
5)Edit, he did talk about “rearranging your memories” but not to make note of the most important ones.
6)The other debatable answer. Was “unresolved issues” the same answer as “a lost memory” or something about a bad memory? If so I would pick that. I don’t think he was truly curious about his friendship origins.</p>

<p>We can talk about the DEC SAT because all of it is done. Everyone’s already taken it.</p>

<p>@psychoanalyze</p>

<p>I think it was “origins of friendship.” The sentence after that phrase talked about how the narrator wondered about where his friend came from and whether he went to the same school. Generally for SAT CR sections answers come straight out of the text and are literal, so I think any other answer besides “origin of friendship” would be an overthinking of the question.</p>

<p>@psychoanalyze</p>

<p>By debatable, I meant that those questions actually had two very accurate/possible answer choices(specifically #6 and #2). The rest of his questions, like the skittish vs. exuberant, have an answer that fits, for the previous example, exuberant would be the stronger/better answer. I wasn’t talking about whether it was allowed or not lol</p>

<p>This is either the most depressing or relieving thread on here. I’m trying to decide on which.</p>

<p>@asterix: I don’t think it’s origins of friendship. That was irrelevant to the passage, IMHO. And the general consensus in the other DEC threads is that origins of friendship is not what the author is trying to get across. </p>

<p>@ SAT100: actually, my talkingaboutit was for randomzman after he deleted his post. But I think all or most of the questions are not debatable because there’s one answer that’s better than all the others. </p>

<p>@ Deffjing: lol. It’s only depressing if you knew you got a lot wrong. Cheers.</p>

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