<p>and me? -0 math, -0 writing + okay-good essay that filled all 2 pages, -2 at least for cr but maybe 3 depending on the answer to the methodology/philo/positive medium question. think I can pull it off?</p>
<p>@Monepo
I think we maybe getting a more forgiving curve for the CR, so you have a great chance at pulling of the big one…good luck!! And with -0 writing, all you need is a 9 to get a perfect on that section anyways.
PS:
What did you put for the
-metho/philo question
-the explain an assertion or qualify a statement question</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@drac
It’s all consensus, but what was the question? The passage was describing the circadian clock, but not giving any instructions or directions about it. How can you instruct someone how to use an internal rhythm? It seems to me that the author was more inquisitive: he questioned the effect of light with the Frenchman; he questioned the internal adjustments with the long flights/changes in time zone. Yes it was objective, but the author was well-informed about the issue and was therefore concerned and inquisitive about the clock.</p>
<p>@drac313 haha thanks man …I needed to here <em>some</em>thing positive. For the 1st question, I put methodology because although it wasn’t exactly a set of steps being described in the 1st passage, it was a technique to follow(social consciousness, that is) to improve a person’s photography. As well, the 2nd passage did exactly as the answer choice said and “employed” the technique in her job.</p>
<p>For your 2nd question, I put explain an assertion, because: (a) Saying that it had come from legend does 0 to qualify/make legitimate the statement and (b) when he said galileo did w/e, you might be asking “How can you say that?” The hyphens go on to explain his assertion, saying that it came from a legend.</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>@Monepo
I agree about the “explain an assertion.”
What did you put for the “cold-blood” question?</p>
<p>lol @ all the ppl who are getting 2300-2400. I missed at least 5-6 CR, probably 9, math -1, omitted 1, and writing no idea but probably 700.
So,
CR -9
Math -2
Writing -5 MC, 10 on essay</p>
<p>Any ideas?</p>
<p>@Chachaseeds</p>
<p>That will be around 2150.</p>
<p>@SRhett
I had the same debate during the test, but type in define:instructive in google right now…instructive means informative in its base definition. Instruction means what you are thinking. Instructive is different.</p>
<p>I put rational for the cold-blooded question. Heartless detachment is what cold-blooded means literally, but in context, at least IMO and the general consensus of a few others, rational made more sense…but we will see when the QAS comes out haha!</p>
<p>@chacha
With 9 wrong probably
CR:660-680 (I am leaning towards the higher end on this one)
Math: 740-760 (Probably more towards 740 though, considering the math wasn’t exceptionally bad this time around)
Writing: 700-720</p>
<p>You are looking at a 2100-2160 this time around.</p>
<p>I made two dumb mistakes on math as well, we are in the same boat there!</p>
<p>@drac, did u get objections to stories, qualify a statement, and philosophy?</p>
<p>Thanks all. Looks like I’ll probably be taking the test another time around in May… I’m definitely going to take it again if I get less than a 2100.</p>
<p>Word (Q 1~8)
5. Transcribe
8. Prescient</p>
<p>Blog (Q 9~10)
9. What do strangers refer to? Random readers
10. Criticized on advanced technology / Commented on contemporary</p>
<p>Farm (Q 11~12)
11. Discovery that can discredit the opinion? Trading (I don’t think it is neighbor)
12. Scientific proof? Finding evidence that they cultivated distant farms (many say that the answer choice that had the word “neighbor” was in Q11, but I think it was this one that had one of the answer choices having the phrase “trading with neighboring villages.” I think this is not the answer because neighboring villages are likely to be “near.” We need to find prove that they could have “distant” farms)</p>
<p>Photography (Q 13~24)
13. Technical skills are less important that something
14. What does “course” refer to? Progression
15. What does “rides” refer to? Depends
16. Can be powerful if good person uses
17. Deal (solve) dissatisfaction
18. What does “history” refer to? Future social changes
19. To catch subtle evidence of attitude
20. What question would author 2 add to the list of questions of author 1’s? Distort the subject
21. Objection to stories
22. Philosophy / Methodology
23. To persuade skeptical readers who do not believe injustices do exist
24. The assumption that authors of both passage make is?</p>
<p>Word (Q 1~6)
4. Adroit & Erudition
5. Voluptuous
6. Ruminate</p>
<p>Singer (Q 7~8)
7. To dramatize magnitude
8. Awe</p>
<p>Mrs. Alexander the Landlord (Q 9~14)
9. Polite policeman
10. Foreshadow future events (is it future? I heard some say past events which of course doesn’t make any sense)
11. Aloof & Proud
12. What does “cold blood” refer to? Rational / heartless detachment
13. Captivated to her attitude
14. Content / ambivalent</p>
<p>Biological Clock (Q 15~24)
15. What’s the purpose of the article? To introduce a phenomenon and (re)solutions / To introduce a theory and ways of testing it (I personally chose the latter one because I couldn’t find any (re)solutions. As a matter of fact, ways of testing it make more sense since they did experiments to find out that our internal clock is actually 25 hours and not 24 hours. Also all the things regarding going in to a light isolated cave for months and etc).
16. What does the word “work” mean? Operate
17. What does the phrase “If the legend can be believed” do? Qualify a sentence
18. What does the phrase “Found at 1917, and more thoroughly examined half century later” indicate? To describe the finding of the biological clock (I know many will think this as controversial, but I think this is right. I’ve seen some say that it’s to give scientific evidence or something but isn’t too vague to say that this verifies its validity. Rather I think it is just objectively providing information regarding its finding).
19. How independent is our internal clock from external influences. (The question was relevant to the word “autonomous”).
20. In which of the following cases might the additional time accumulate? Isolation of light and sound
21. Objective & Instructive
22. Why did the french researcher locked himself in the cave? To avoid sunlight
23.
24.</p>
<p>Word (1~6)
4. Quackery & Forestall / Humbuggery & Elude (I’ve put the former one, but I think the latter is more plausible. Well, it’s still controversial and I wish the former is correct lol).
5. Exaggerate
6. Obdurate</p>
<p>Traffic (Q 7~19)
7. Entertainment of historical event (This is also a little bit controversial, but I objectively think this is correct)
8. Have to change social behavior as well as something (like technical problems or etc)
9. Resent at new rules (laws)
10. What does the phrase “only keep in the right side was the common rule” indicate? Underscore the need for more laws (rules)
11. Gaining appreciable influence
12. What do all those different colors for traffic signs refer to? (or the question might be “Red might mean “stop” in one region and “go” in another region) The need to standardize stuffs
13. Should we change to green and red or stick with gray and purple? Highlighted the issues to be resolved
14. (question regarding Montana and Montacco have same traffic sings) Had become standardized
15. (Anology question)
16. street is disorderly organized
17. Cyclists should share the same road (or maybe have a separate lane)
18. What are “walkers and cyclists”? people that share streets with the motorists
19.</p>
<p>does this list look good?</p>
<p>My CR is like 10 ~ 15 wrong depending on the consensus.
I wish I can at least score 600. I will be glad with a score of 650.</p>
<p>@desi
What was the stories question?
There has been an unbreakable debate at this point btwn
qualify a statement vs. explain an assertion
and
philosophy vs methodology</p>
<p>so we will have to see since these q’s really don’t seem to have unanimous support behind them</p>
<p>from the list…do u think everything looks correctish at least?</p>
<p>@Drac: It is definitely qualify a statement, not explain an assertion. That has been explained throughout this thread.</p>
<p>Also I don’t remember #18 on the bio clock one.</p>
<p>@SRhett Regarding the “cold-blood” question:</p>
<p>Here is the paragraph in question:
“This was the last day of a whole chunk of my life but I didn’t know
that at the time. I sat on the stone slab of some Victorian grave
writing my poem as long as the sun lasted. I lived nearby in a
bedsitting-room with a gas fire and a gas ring operated by pre-decimal
pennies and shillings in the slot, whichever you preferred or had. My
morale was high. I needed a job, but that, which should have been
a depressing factor when viewed in cold blood, in fact simply was
not. Neither was the swinishness of my landlord, a Mr Alexander,
short of stature. I was reluctant to go home lest he should waylay
me. I owed him no rent but he kept insisting that I should take a
larger and more expensive room in his house, seeing that I had
overcrowded the small single room with my books, my papers, my
boxes and bags, my food stores and the evidence of constant
visitors who stayed to tea or came late.”</p>
<p>The answers were narrowed down to rational vs. emotionless (I think) detachment[From now on abbreviated as e.d.]</p>
<p>Firstly, the SAT almost never has the extreme case (e.d.) as the correct answer. While it is true, that’s also weak and BS reasoning so I’ll move to the 2nd reason.</p>
<p>Second, e.d. in the context suggests that had the girl looked at her situation WITH emotion, it would have been depressing. However, what the girl (and the passage) is trying to drive home is that it SHOULD BE depressing to be in said situation. The abnormal thing was that the girl DID NOT FIND IT TO BE DEPRESSING, hence she was content (to answer that question). </p>
<p>Viewed rationally, as i said before the situation SHOULD logically be depressing, which is why it DIDN’T MAKE SENSE for the girl to be content with her life.</p>
<p>Final answer: rational</p>
<p>I disagree with “17. Cyclists should share the same road (or maybe have a separate lane).”</p>
<p>The choice stating that there was little consensus on the topic was the correct answer since the author brought up the issues with the cyclists to show that there are many different sides and arguments over the lanes and that no one can agree on what to do regarding them.</p>
<p>whats question is the “deal (solve) dissatisfaction” answer for</p>
<ol>
<li>Criticized on advanced technology / Commented on contemporary</li>
</ol>
<p>Should be Commented on contemporary</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Quackery & Forestall / Humbuggery & Elude
It is Quackery & Forestall…the second really doesn’t make sense </p></li>
<li><p>Entertainment of historical event (This is also a little bit controversial, but I objectively think this is correct)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>It is still 50/50 between landmark decision/entertain historical event</p>
<p>Did anyone have passages about political ideology (double passage)?</p>