SAT January 2012 - Critical Reading

<p>^^^I think it asked about the critics or something…anyone?</p>

<p>@GoodJobBro</p>

<p>The curve has nothing to do with how many people on CC got wrong. The mistakes people made on the math section were almost all stupid ones. None of the questions were particularly tricky so I wouldn’t be surprised if 770 is -1</p>

<p>@000ooo000ooo</p>

<p>I already posted the question…</p>

<p>I think you missed my point. People who got no wrong on practice tests got 2-3 wrong on this SAT. Either way or the other, that means that the test was medium-hard. Also, tricky counts as hard.</p>

<p>Michael did u take the PSAT? If you did, can you tell me why the scores were ****ty? I got 37/48 (CR) 29/39 (Writting) questions right, but I got a 610 and 560, respectively. I tried to convert these raw scores to the SAT range using one of the college board book’s conversion table and it was supposed to be higher than these. Also I checked the PSAT/NMQST official site regarding the 2011 percentiles and everything. They gave me a lower raw score. My raw score should be like 35/48 and 27/39 but it was like 32/48 and 22/39. I totally don’t understand how the college board evaluated scores.</p>

<p>Im worried if this will happen again. I predicted like 200~210 on the PSAT but I was bewildered after I got 197. Was the curve for psat just too harsh because there werent many questions or is the sat’s curve also fluctuatable like this?</p>

<p>So was the passage about the author looking back at her start/career as a literary art critic an experimental?</p>

<p>This might sound like a really dumb question… but why couldn’t the answer to “12. What does “cold blood” refer to?” be “malicious” instead of “rational” or “heartless detachment”? When he viewed it bitterly or with hatred, then he would believe that not having a job was bad… or something like that. Doesn’t that kind of make sense?</p>

<p>I know but that wasn’t really the question…I don’t remember anything about possibility…</p>

<p>It was asking about the “possibility” that people may have differing perspectives on truth.</p>

<p>That just doesn’t sound right…Hopefully someone with a really good memory can clear it up.</p>

<p>Uhmm, I found the Crit Reading to be ehh aiight it wasnt that hard, for the photography passage one I think that it is present a philosophy and expand on it or whatever it was</p>

<p>possibility is the exact word. it is quoted from both passage 2 and the question</p>

<p>@idskyscraper honestly I have no idea because I had a similar situation to you. I thought I had ~230 and got 218. The writing curve was ridiculous.</p>

<p>For the Morocco versus Montana one…did you guys not get modern traffic laws are becoming standardized in most places?</p>

<p>RE in cold blood: Heartless detachment is what it means when referred to murder (aka its usual context), but rationally is more fitting in the context of the passage.</p>

<p>And by the way…any harsh word like malicious and heartless detachment can never be the answer on the sat…way too strong.</p>

<p>GRR this is annoying me.</p>

<p>Was the question something like which of the following best supports that people may have different perspectives on the truth?</p>

<p>"But Eno, who became a global celebrity of sorts, boating off to Paris and S</p>

<p>No its the guy who went to recylcing workshops…because that’s still teaching. Don’t be dumb…</p>

<p>Traffic → Social is not analogous to Recycling → Recycling</p>

<p>HOWEVER,</p>

<p>Traffic → Social IS analogous to Energy → Science</p>

<p>Dude that’s horrible reasoning. I looked at that answer and knew it was wrong. Plus that answer never mentioned going to different locations. You’ve missed it. Recycling has plenty social causes and affairs now that we’re dissecting questions. He went around the world. It was the BEST answer choice nearly everyone on the thread agrees so stop arguing.</p>

<p>Just wondering, was the Traffic real or experimental? I had it and thought I did really well, but it seems like some people didn’t have it.</p>

<p>@magnet
Traffic----> Coveted/Valuable skills is not analogous to Energy—>Science</p>

<p>HOWEVER,</p>

<p>Traffic----> Coveted/Valuable skills is analogous to Recycling---->Holding workshops because his skills were coveted.</p>

<p>The point isn’t that he wasn’t brought into other countries to be a social engineer. The point is that his work as a traffic engineer had implications on the social system of the people.</p>