SAT Critical Reading thread

<p>irascability…brusqueness
dextrous…residual(pretty sure this is wrong)</p>

<p>-reject as fake
-giddy means exuberant
-Great Lakes plant is undistinguished
-Freedom when he walks through walls
-catalog essential ingredients
-playfully,human motivation
-form=aspect
-draw=take
-Passage 2 had alternate options
-Passage 1 had statistical facts
-He asked the question to speculate about the origin of a friendship(Memory passage)</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure “catalog essential ingredients” was wrong. The passage said “luxury ingredients include…”, which eliminates that answer.</p>

<p>jimsauce, so which do you think is right? i choose essential ingredients one cuz almost all passage is talking about ingredients…</p>

<p>That one was really hard, none of the answers seemed good enough. I also eliminated “artistic expression through lettering”. I think I put it showed why they used the fragrances, even though that wasn’t completely supported by all of the passage.</p>

<p>In the begining the passage said ancient Egyptian and I think Chinese wanted to make their quills or something smell nice as they write their works on something. </p>

<p>I thought it just eloborated on that so I put that as my answer</p>

<p>for the second part I put used naturally because it said musk, comes from fish blah blah, when RAW, blah blah.</p>

<p>@steven</p>

<p>At the beginning it is talking about why they used it. It was brief, but “catalog ingredients” just doesn’t seem right.</p>

<p>@Eagles </p>

<p>It said the musk covered the scent of the glue which stunk because it was made from fish, not that the musk itself was made from fish.</p>

<p>I figured this thread would be at 20 pages by now, I am guessing not many people took the December SAT.</p>

<p>Yeah, the beginning mentioned it so it may be right.</p>

<p>I think I put adroit/residual for the question about the astronaut wearing gloves, which makes sense because it said he did not have lasting effects or something like that.
Also, I put capricious for the “giddy” question for biofuel because they changed their minds?
And I put the musk as practical/aesthetic.</p>

<p>@spoinkish it was talking about the giddy growth of biofuel, and in the preceding sentence it said it had a great unwavering growth for a couple years.</p>

<p>I put “artistic expression through lettering” for the ink passage, that one was really weird.</p>

<p>the great lakes plant definitely was not undistinguished it was fragile</p>

<p>@SAT100 ohh okay got it.</p>

<p>@aviballer “-Great Lakes plant is undistinguished”</p>

<p>I got unappealing or whatever the synonym for ugly was.</p>

<p>@ThaMan</p>

<p>Why would it be fragile I thought it was talking about how hideous the plant was haha</p>

<p>Maybe I’m remembering it incorrectly</p>

<p>Does anybody remember what the vocab question with something like palliate was?</p>

<p>The majority of the people who took the Dec SAT were Slacker Seniors for whom this is the last chance to take it; Slacking Seniors != College Confidential-Goers.</p>

<p>I had juxtaposition, but I’m an insecure loser and changed it to machination! :(</p>

<p>For the education one, was it authority on/abdicated? Or [Don’t remember the first word]/usurped?</p>

<p>I think the purpose of the ink one was to explain why some ink was fragrant back then.</p>

<p>@Aj thats me lol xD I am more of a last minute person. Now its time to write about 10 essays within 4 weeks.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure that it was undistinguished because the passage described the plant as something you would not expect to be a wonder for the botanical world</p>

<p>what did you guys get for the astronaut’s hand SC?
I got something with residual</p>

<p>What are tips for sentence completion, I feel as if I always can narrow down to 2 that both look right</p>

<p>^I got undistinguished also. The passage started out “this plant is boring, blah blah” and then went to “but wait! It has [insert cool features]”</p>

<p>I got [agent, usurp] because abdicated didn’t really make sense. And I got exuberant and adroit/residual also.</p>