SAT Critical Reading thread

<p>@eagles Exuberant is the right answer. As I explained before somewhere, the sentence was like “No one spoke out during the giddy growth of biofuels”, and in the sentence before that it was talking about how biofuels grew exponentially and stuff.</p>

<p>Edit: Btw was the war/recently divorced diary passage an experimental section?</p>

<p>Anyone remember the memories and house passage answers? That was really difficult</p>

<p>^to the poster who aksed about skittish </p>

<p>Well in the sentence preceding giddy, it said there was rampant growth in such a short time and a little while later I think the author says in the same amount of time it died out. So skittish is frivolous, dizzy, excited, ect. While exuberant leans more towards over joyed and happy kind of happy if you know what I mean. Thats why. But I could still be wrong since my memory is fading.</p>

<p>@sat100 I’m pretty sure the war/recently divorced journal one was not experimental since I had that passage plus 4 writing sections</p>

<p>@anon I got the same answers for those 3. What were the options for the memory question? I remember one about the reader not being able to trust the narrator but that wasn’t the answer. I think the answer was something along the lines of explaining something</p>

<p>@eagles94: actually, I thought that sentence came after the use of “giddy.” Thus, it would be invalid as evidence for the argument…but that is if I remember correctly.</p>

<p>They were both discussing the utiliy of bio fuels. I remember one other answer saying how they criticized the public but that wasnt in passage 1. </p>

<p>For the last question, I put passage 1 criticizes biofuels because at the end of the passage, the final paragraph is talking about how cons completely outweigh pros. Food inflation, rising prices, and something else. The second one, the last sentence says that biofuels should be part of the solution. So potentially useful.</p>

<p>However my only doubt on this is that passage one mentiond “could.” It kind of made me hesistant but not enough to impede me from pick A.</p>

<p>@eagles94
I had eliminated all answers except A and C, but I realized C said Author of Psg2 extols biofuels as the best source, which is not true. I got A as well.</p>

<p>Also, what was the purpose of asking the question: “Did I remember him [classmate/friend] from class?” </p>

<ul>
<li>I thought it could be btwn replying to the reader’s initial question OR establishing a certain statement or recollection that the narrator could not remember…(the latter being, in my perspective, the more right answer)</li>
</ul>

<p>I’m talking about the memory passage…</p>

<p>I thought the purpose was to “recall the origins of the relationship”. The author specified that she knew the relationship existed and was going on at the time, but questioned as to when the relationship started.</p>

<p>@eagles well rampant means unrestrained so it means large growth. So there is still a good chance its exuberant or excessive/unrestrained growth. One of exuberant’s definitions is unrestrained, I checked on dictionary.com earlier.</p>

<p>^ Was that answer choice A or E. Cant remember</p>

<p>Yeah, thats why im not completly counting out exuberant. Just saying that in my opinion, skittish fit better.</p>

<p>hey guys am i the only one who remembers “capricious” as an answer to the giddy/skittish/exuberant question?
If so Im almost 100% sure thats right…
its almost a perfect definition</p>

<p>Eagles</p>

<p>Skittish was A
Exuberant was D
I think irresolute was E</p>

<p>Justgetting, I remember, but it wasn’t constantly shifting, it just shifted once from “overhype” to dislike of biofuels.</p>

<p>i put capricious as well.</p>

<p>btw, does anyone know which was the experimental?
i had three 25 minute critical readings.</p>

<p>yes, the growth overall was capricious (it was a choice) but in that context, the author said “there was no opposition to this giddy growth of support” which means that in THAT moment, the support wasnt capricious (sporadic…fickle…random). the word we’re looking for is uncontrolled, way-too-much, overpowering…which could be skittish or exuberant</p>

<p>also did anyone put “form” means type? (for the house passage where the author says that story telling is a form of lie or whatever"</p>

<p>also, what about that question was about what does fixiative mean? i put choice A which was like “to save it from being forgotten” b/c the sentence the question referred to was “the real story changes as it goes through a fixative which prevents it from oblivion”… fjdhksdhksjdf</p>

<p>btw, for the exuberant part… the questions around it were also D, right? I remember getting like 4 in a row.</p>