<p>okay,some more answers
cacophony:ears was stench :nose
mellifluous one was delicious:taste
meteorologist:foreast was doctor:prognosis
gale:wind was deluge:rain
the tone of the last passage was thoughtful</p>
<p>I dunno, man... I thought the verbal was VERY easy. I mean, okay, a mosaic is an assortment or a collection of tiles and a pilferer is a thief that filtches (steals)... I can't remember the answers, but I didn't find it very difficult. I think I got all the SC and Analogies correct except for one. And the passages were facile as well except for the last one -- that one had some tricky questions. If you want to clear up some more doubts, feel free to ask.</p>
<p>Oh, and Akash, I got the EXACT same answers as you! Hehe. Good stuff. ** Thumbs up **</p>
<p>is the leonardo davinci section one experimental?</p>
<p>akashbansal, i just got 3 wrongs lookin at ur post...</p>
<p>i got two wrong looking at super_nal beings post!!</p>
<p>btw the same test was used in June in the US, and the curve was normal, so relax.</p>
<p>Anyways as for me, i think i'm going to get another 600 on the verbal (the exact score for the 3rd time in a row)</p>
<p>cacophony:ears was stench :nose</p>
<p>meteorologist:foreast was doctor:rognosis</p>
<p>u sure? what are some other answers?</p>
<p>lets discus crital reading. lst passage was hard.</p>
<p>So I'll try to put it all here... and yes, I'm obsessed. ?? indicates I don't remember. Feel free to carry this forward. </p>
<p>Sentence Completions</p>
<p>stubborn girl - recalcitrant</p>
<p>fossils discovered - bolster... disprove</p>
<p>days of sept - mnemonic</p>
<p>what goes up must come down - axiom</p>
<p>critics claimed guy phony - sham</p>
<p>stars forming - aggregate</p>
<p>Analogies</p>
<p>?? : clarify :: disheveled : organize</p>
<p>editorial : commentary :: lampoon : ridicule</p>
<p>aviator : aircraft :: driver : automobile</p>
<p>bus : vehicle :: liner : ship</p>
<p>connosieur : expert :: ?? : ??</p>
<p>gale : wind :: deluge : rain</p>
<p>acquiese : protest :: confirm : deny</p>
<p>graybeard : youth :: greenhorn : experience</p>
<p>flummox : confuse : bewitch : spell</p>
<p>pilferer : filtch :: ?? : ??</p>
<p>mellifluous : ?? :: delicious : ??</p>
<p>cacophony : ears :: stench : nose</p>
<p>meterologist : forecast :: doctor : prognosis</p>
<p>omen : presage :: ?? : ??</p>
<p>tiles : mosaic :: pieces : puzzle</p>
<p>vignette : brevity :: ?? : ?? (bridge - vignette is characterized by brevity)</p>
<p>resolute : pigheaded :: accommodating : fawning (please confirm)</p>
<p>Critical Reading</p>
<p>Gender passage</p>
<p>weird q - A) an inanimate object was "she" and something else was was "it". (i think that's the right answer, coz the lines said something about gender associations for inanimate objects and some of the choices had animals in them, so they were definitely out.)</p>
<p>what's supposed to sound feminine - entree</p>
<p>Japanese women poets</p>
<p>umbrellas to rooms - made poem incoherent</p>
<p>most directly contradicts - others might understand while she might not</p>
<p>Section 6</p>
<p>properties - attributes</p>
<p>literally - beautiful location</p>
<p>author's tone - thoughtful</p>
<p>Gridins</p>
<p>first one - 5.4 (lol)</p>
<p>perfect sq, multiple of 5 n 10 - 100</p>
<p>3xt table - 15 (7+8)</p>
<p>14</p>
<p>probability q - 2.8 < x < 4</p>
<p>1280</p>
<p>160 tshirts</p>
<p>fraction of cube vol - 1/8</p>
<p>1350</p>
<p>Quantitative Comparisons</p>
<p>last q - C)</p>
<p>Multiple Choice</p>
<p>combos of battery packs - 5</p>
<p>median 4, average 5 - 6</p>
<p>ABC, conditions on A, B, C - 692</p>
<p>rectangle and rt triangles on sides - E) 80</p>
<p>last q - x-1</p>
<p>MATH SECTIONS (19/60 CONFIRMED)</p>
<p>GENERAL PROBLEMS (9/50 CONFIRMED)
1.1) Represent 66 in dots - Answer: 5.5 dots (C)
1.2) Given right triangle w/angle 50º, find smallest angle - Answer: 40º (C)
1.8) If 6/7k = 6, find 1/k - Answer: 1/7
1.12) If s represents SUM(1-1000)... - Answer: t-s
3.1) MEAN(8,12,x) < MEAN (x,8) - Answer: (B)
3.2) 2 parallel lines - Answer: xº = yº (C)
3.6) u>v; w>0 - Answer: (D)
3.?) Circumference of circle with inscribed triangle < 10pi - Answer: (B)
6.10) a+b = x Answer: x-1 (A)</p>
<p>GRID-INS (10/10 CONFIRMED)
3.16) 10x + 0t + ... Answer: 5.4
3.17) xº, 3xº, 8xº; find largest angle - Answer: 120
3.18) Find x+y in grid - Answer: 15
3.19) Thread required to make 64x10 - Answer: 1280
3.20) Answer: 14
3.21) 6 cards, find prob. > 2/3 - Answer: 2.8 < x < 4 (e.g. 3)
3.22) Smallest square number div. by 10 - Answer: 100
3.23) T-shirt packing - Answer: 160
3.24) Vol. of a slice of cube - Answer: 1/8 or .125
3.25) Avg company daily income - Answer: 1350</p>
<p>VERBAL SECTIONS (54/78 LISTED; 46/78 CONFIRMED)</p>
<p>SENTENCE COMPLETIONS (13/19 LISTED; 11/19 CONFIRMED)
2.1) 1890s doctor - Answer: antiseptic...sterile (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
2.2) CA vanguard of movements - Answer: originated (B)
2.3) Answer: predatory
2.4) play - Answer: inaccurate...extraneous
2.8) Answer: mnemonic
2.9) stage fright - Answer: bane
4.4) walrus - Answer: ungainly...graceful
4.5) National Park Service - Answer: impeded...preserve
4.6) prehistoric fossils - Answer: bolster...disprove
4.7) prodigy girl - Answer: sham
4.8) theaters/Harlem renaissance - Answer: energized (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
4.9) accountant - Answer: discomfiture
4.10) girl a source of exasperation - Answer: synonym for stubborn (B)</p>
<p>ANALOGIES (10/19 LISTED; 8/10 CONFIRMED)
2.11) QUARK:MINERAL :: SILK:FABRIC (Subcategory)
4.11) ARM:ELBOW :: LEG:KNEE (Endpoints)
4.12) AMBASSADOR:EMBASSY :: PRINCIPAL:SCHOOL (Workplace)
4.14) BUS:VEHICLE :: LINER:SHIP (Subcategory)
4.15) SAFEGUARD:PROTECT :: (Synonyms)
4.20) EMBARGO:TRADE :: TRUCE:CONFLICT
4.21) MELLIFLUOUS:VOICE :: DELICIOUS:FOOD
4.22) VIGNETTE:BREVITY :: (Characteristic)
4.23) RESOLUTE:PIGHEADED :: ACCOMODATE:FAWN (Synonyms)
4.??) OMEN:PRESAGE :: SATIRE:DERIDE (Synonyms)</p>
<p>CRITICAL READING</p>
<p>2.16-21) JAPANESE POETRY (4/6 CONFIRMED)
2.16) Beginning passage purpose - Answer: to show disappointment
2.17) Answer: educational goal/personal interests
2.20) Purpose of season metaphors - Answer: enumerate symbols
2.21) umbrella/glass chamber - Answer: to show incoherence</p>
<p>2.22-30) WESTERN SPIRIT (5/9 LISTED; 3/9 CONFIRMED)
2.22) Purpose of Lines 3-7 - Answer: initially perplexed (B) (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
2.26) Britain "Workshop of the World" - Answer: to show US economic success
2.27) Consequences of industrialization - Answer: Lost individualism
2.29) Compare two passages - Answer: Passage 2 explained historical circumstances (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
2.30) Both passages have in common - Answer: cowboys had bitter relations with employers (D)</p>
<p>4.24-25) NATIVE AMERICAN LICHEN USAGE (2/2 CONFIRMED)
4.24) Purpose of passage - Answer: To show uses of lichen (C)
4.25) Wolf lichen - Answer: Contained colored dye</p>
<p>4.26-27) WRITING FICTION (2/2 CONFIRMED)
4.26) Purpose - Answer: Finding meaning in life while writing fiction.
4.27) Lines 6-8 - Answer: Some connections aren't obvious at first</p>
<p>4.28-29) DIETARY TREND (2/2 CONFIRMED)
4.28) Purpose - Answer: To summariZe new dietary trend
4.29) 2 books - Answer: Diff. dietry trends from diff. time periods</p>
<p>4.30-35) LEONARDO DA VINCI (5/6 LISTED; 4/6 CONFIRMED)
4.30) Purpose - Answer: Show Da Vinci's originality
4.31) misinterpretations - Answer: influences from ancients
4.32) stepsons - Answer: contemporaries believed in ancient and modern sciences (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
4.34) Last paragraph implication - Answer: Scientific method earlier than known
4.35) Answer: da Vinci ahead of his time</p>
<p>7.1-13) IMMIGRANT SOCIETY (11/13 LISTED; 10/13 CONFIRMED)
7.1) Answer: prevalent
7.2) Immigrants using plain furniture - Answer: Outside reflects inwardly
7.3) Discovery - Answer: realized copy of something cheaper
7.4) Answer: moving up society
7.5) Parents' comments about the rug - Answer: realized pain of rich (<strong><em>UNCONFIRMED</em></strong>)
7.6) doctor/pharmacist - Answer: couldn't dream of going to professional jobs
7.9) literally - Answer: metaphor coincides with realism
7.10) Answer: Illustrated gulf between author and that of the doctor's son (D)
7.11) Answer: Parents were rationalizing situation
7.12) whiff - Answer: brevity of impression
7.13) overall tone - Answer: thoughtful</p>
<p>Wow boomer, that's a lot from the CR!</p>
<p>Are you sure about 7.2? I think I put geography. Ugh</p>
<p>I don't remember a SC answer being discomfiture... which accountant one was that?</p>
<p>I confirm 2.22, 2.29, 4.8</p>
<p>bus : vehicle :: liner : ship</p>
<p>i put = motorcycle:bicycle
i remember a discomfiture</p>
<p>so far I've got 15 wrong ...... yikes</p>
<p>i think i got these wrong....
walrus.....do you know other options?
resolute : pigheaded :: accommodating : fawning cant remember as well...
editorial : commentary :: lampoon : ridicule i did it wrong after giving it quite a thought... :~
graybeard : youth :: greenhorn : experience (huh...green horn went out of my mind...i am great!!!)</p>
<p>OMEN:PRESAGE :: SATIRE DERIDE</p>
<p>Does anyone remember analogies for the non-experimental section?</p>
<p>conossiuer:expert::mentor:guide
doctor:prognosis</p>
<p>doctor is to prognosis</p>
<p>cres, walrus q is defly ungainly/graceful</p>
<p>So how bad can the curve be?? Anyone good at approximating this?</p>
<p>which all were the experimental analogies
maybe that 15 wrong will come down!! </p>
<p>i just hope i improve on that @@#!@$!@# 600 in Verbal.</p>
<p>yeah Astrix the Verbal curve's like:
78=800
75=790
70=720
65=680
60=640</p>
<p>Its from June 2004, the same test was used.</p>
<p>OK... NOW THIS... is amazing</p>
<p>We had <em>exactly</em> the same test as the Americans in June. </p>
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