<p>I didn’t have newton, I had an omnivore one that no one seems to have gotten besides me. It was tough to get through, moreso because it was boring.</p>
<p>@epicgee yes newtonian passage is experimental.</p>
<p>interficio do u have 4 readings sections? if not, your omnivore passage may not be experimental</p>
<p>yeah I had 4 reading. Does anyone know when scores come out? today was my first time taking the test</p>
<p>how abt the other passages, wat u got?</p>
<p>@ mariem for the american food question, refer to post 81
@ befirnis it was something abt a person being ungenuinely concerned… solicitous refers to “having great care & concern”…</p>
<p>@befirnis adding on to zackzm’s reply</p>
<p>She had a ______ (solicitious) attitude, but was actually using it for her own gain.</p>
<p>was the Newtonian passage the 3rd critical reading section?</p>
<p>I think the Newtonian passage was the seventh section? If I am not mistaken. </p>
<p>Guysssss. Does anyone anyone remember the metaphor SC? In the November 2008 thread it says something about guitar, but it’s still not giving me a clue.</p>
<p>Also, the SC about an author writing a story about the interlacing lives of people…that was on the experimental, right?</p>
<p>i want to believe that question was referring to a title of a book being “Seven Guitars”, which represented the lives of seven friends. something like that.</p>
<p>for the one about ms verma being more composed than alu, wouldn’t she be more enthusiastic? she started laughing and was very cheerful about the book, at least initially.</p>
<p>I don’t remember that at all o.O My mind works in a weird way, I guess. But thanks anyway.</p>
<p>About Ms Verma: She was more composed because Alu was in that overjoyed state. She started laughing because in a line before the one referred to in the question it said something about an “alarmed look” on her face. Thus, she laughed because she was relieved. But I wouldn’t say that she was more enthusiastic. If anything, Alu was more enthusiastic because he was clutching the book to his chest.</p>
<p>Does anyone want to discuss the food packaging passage? Was I the only one who put convenient instead of “absurd”?</p>
<p>What about the Writing question about Hoesdovra the medieval German nun???</p>
<p>anyone remember???</p>
<p>@ Eva0607
I think the answer is absurd cause she was saying that she even swore that there were concentrated mineral water or something like that.</p>
<p>Do you guys think the author of Passage 2 of the comic question agree with the author of Passage 1?</p>
<p>^^^ i put in convenient too, but now i realized it depends on how the question is phrased. if it asked the author’s take of it, then it’s probably absurd. but i thought i read it as a trait the new foods had in common, in a sense (no author’s opinion), which would have meant convenient.</p>
<p>can’t remember the wording of the question though, so that answer is still iffy to me ):</p>
<p>@yoursky: That’s how I remember it in my head too! Something along the lines of “what was the food characterized as?” and I put in convenient because they were canned, concentrated, etc. (so as to ease preparation of meals for the soldiers). </p>
<p>Ugh. I wish I remembered more >_></p>
<p>Also, I am trying to pair up the SC and Passages to the sections. Can you guys correct me if I am wrong?</p>
<p>1st Critical Reading Section (Section 2 on the test)</p>
<ol>
<li>Trust </li>
<li>Alter … Environment </li>
<li>Metaphor </li>
<li>Parallel … Disparity </li>
<li>Zealous … Ameliorate </li>
<li>Copious … Acerbic </li>
<li>Solicitous </li>
<li>Noted … Discrimination </li>
</ol>
<p>Bioluminescence short passage
9. Foolish because hiding in the dark with a light is paradoxical
10. passage showed ways bioluminescence could be beneficial to sea creatures </p>
<p>Packaging Food
11. Industry was eager to continue using its new technologies
12. Foods were “absurd” (I put in convenient)</p>
<p>Uncle’s book
13. solemn
14. mutual acquaintance
15. relief
16. overjoyed
17. book held her captive
18. composed
19. book was reliable escape from life’s chaos
20. “quarelling friends” explained father’s attitude
21. passage in general showed past experiences
22.
23.
24.
25.</p>
<p>2nd Critical Reading section (Section 4 on the test)</p>
<ol>
<li>Adhere … authenticity </li>
<li>Loquacious </li>
<li>Thrive … Antediluvian </li>
<li>Misplaced … unsavory </li>
<li>Unique </li>
</ol>
<p>Comic Strips
6. passage 2 elaborated on passage 1
7. author of passage 1 talked about his experiences
8. author of passage 2 wanted comics to be an accepted art
9. comics used as an educational resource </p>
<p>Hiking/Artifact
10. significance of personal experience
11. ball in the undergrowth
12. to show how old the object was
13. map was misleading (no water)
14. imaginative speculation
15. “settle” means rest
16.</p>
<p>Poetry:
17. “famous” is ironical
18. statistical evidence was misleading
19. paradoxical situation OR figurative language (that’s what I put)
20. bemoaning a trend
21. students referred to specialization of poetry
22. principal audience
23.
24.</p>
<p>3rd Critical Reading section (Section 8 on the test)</p>
<ol>
<li>Elite … Function </li>
<li>Discern </li>
<li>Provisional </li>
<li>Virtuosity </li>
<li>Precluded </li>
<li>Wrongdoing … Chicanery </li>
</ol>
<p>Artistic Elephants (Long Double)
7. personal anecdote/general overview
8. sori had drawn them herself/himself
9. authors agree that elephants deliberately paint
10. “right” means “direct”
11. Ruby can’t be used for experiment because he/she learned to paint in captivity
12. substance is “reality”
13. quote: nuance and complex (art was nuanced and complex)
14. numerous and unrecorded
15. handler in passage 1 regards the drawings as artistic
16.
17.
18.</p>
<p>Let’s try to remember the rest!</p>
<p>Does anyone recall the options given for the SC question along the lines of “He wanted to be a poet, but his lack of talent ______ him from doing so”? The answer is ‘precluded’, but I can’t seem to remember if I chose it or not. Also, what about the context & other options for “Misplaced… Unsavory”?</p>
<p>As for the Math section, which of the four was the experimental? Did it contain the Right-Angled Triangle question where you were asked to choose an angle? (Options ranged from 15 to 75.)</p>
<p>First timer here, so i’m pretty nervous.</p>
<p>@4DTransition: The misplaced/unsavory was in the context of the sentence about the mayor. “The mayor’s initial confidence in the appointee was [misplaced]: subsequent investigation revealed participation in [unsavory] business deals.” Something like that. </p>
<p>I am pretty sure the section where a right-angled triangle question appeared wasn’t experimental. If you are referring to the question where you choose an angle so as to get the biggest (or was it the least?) value.</p>
<p>@4D Transition
Yeap…I put preclude too.And also picked the misplaced…unsavory answer.And for Math I chose the 75.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with some of the answers.
For the American poetry passage,
“Famous” is used to state the author’s point.
I placed “figurative language” instead of paradoxical cause it was describing how a want is never ending and like rising to the sky…which is figurative language.</p>
<p>And for the hiking passage,I put the last answer for the 1450 A.D thing.A line after she mentioned the date,the author said something about she doesn’t think there were anyone around since then,but that’s the thing about hiking in the wilderness.And the last answer had something to do with that statement.</p>
<p>And also the comic strip,cause I’m pretty sure the author of Passage 2 said that comic first and for most,lacked respect.</p>
<p>These are my opinions though.</p>