SAT Critical Reading thread

<p>Anyone got aggravate/truncate for one of the answers</p>

<p>yep secure was it</p>

<p>did anyone put “desirable and hard to find” for the ink one? it said “of the luxury”…so i was thinking it was “hard to find”, while the passage def said it was desirable. why is it “aesthetic and practical”? I can understand practical, but aesthetic: dealing with beauty right? the only thing it did was remove bad smell, that has nothing to do with aesthetics right?</p>

<p>i said won over. the reason is, secure has a connotation of having it before and/or making something safe (or clinching). To gain did not mean securing a spot in the 100 most influential.</p>

<p>it was most probably “comes from nature” as they discuss the importance of the luxury item, musk, to come from fish and even go further in saying that, raw, it reeked.</p>

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<li>thus, we can rule out: “aesthetic” (one can even argue that it is not pragmatic)</li>
<li><p>the passage never says it is “hard to find.” The only support is luxury…that does not imply that its hard to find.</p></li>
<li><p>the only good answer remaining is the “comes from nature”</p></li>
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<p>@tenacious, what was the other word? like besides “come from nature”</p>

<p>@Seahawk, I was thinking the exact same thing for the longest time. After I finished the section, I spent like 5 minutes on that question debating over which could be wrong, and changed it from secure to win over for the reason you stated, but then I remember it said she “‘whatever the word was’ a place in moral history during the late 20th century.” I remember her speech was in the 70s, and she died at like 56, so it was very close to or after her death so I figured it would be secure since it was so long after her speech. I can’t remember atm if I stuck with secure or changed it again.</p>

<p>Starting to get worried over CR score now… I thought I would actually score a 700 this time. I hate CR!!!</p>

<p>no, i thought the “binding glue” was from fish, not musk.</p>

<p>I hope it was the one where it comes from nature lol xD</p>

<p>Was the writer with views that was different from the public experimental?</p>

<p>@tenacious seahawk is right, the glue came from fish and it said the musk helped cover it up. The author was trying to make it humorous, or so it seemed from the wording. I was confused about that the first time I read the passage as well.</p>

<p>@pencil, Could you explain a bit more about the passage please.</p>

<p>^ At the end of that passage he said he went to a doctor who told him that his eyesight was normal, and then there was a question about “construction” and the answer was either particular interpretation or rhetorical stance.</p>

<p>i did not get a passage about normal eyesight, that could be experimental?</p>

<p>that was probably experimental…</p>

<p>^Ah thank you</p>

<p>^ for those with the eye passages: did u guys have the 35 question writing section about Deep Blue and computers? im trying to figure out which writing was exp (i had 3 writing sections).</p>

<p>Deep blue was non-experimental.</p>

<p>@ iBeleiveSo: what was the other 35 writing section pargraph review about?

  • you were talking about 1 with Deep Blue?</p>

<p>Deep blue was the real writing section</p>

<p>what do you guys think about the curve with -3 CR?

  • 800? 790? 780?</p>