SAT January 2012 - Critical Reading

<p>r u sure? i dont think it was part of experimental…lol it had to do something with the bigotry thing and the camera…o well…okay so can anyone answer my question about 19?</p>

<p>wow 78 pages of panicking goodness!! haha</p>

<p>i read through the first 10 pages or so, but I can’t take it any longer, but i did notice some discrepancies over the quackery question earlier. Not sure if it was resolved in pages 10-78, but here are my two cents. “Quack” appeared in my Barron’s PSAT book, defined as “impostor”. I thought of quackery as the noun of that, and it seemed to fit right at the time.</p>

<p>@shannon quackery is right.</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</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)–recycling workshop
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. Discuss attempts at controlling traffic</p>

<p>ugh we’re missing two more questions…for biological clocks…grrrrrrrr…hopefully i got those right i pray to God…im guessing i got -7 to -8, any chance that could be a 700?</p>

<p>@ desi I AM really frustrated. i missed at least 5-6, but just to be safe I’ll say I missed 9.</p>

<p>here are the COMPILED answers from anon, who has hacked the SAT collegeboard company:</p>

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<p>What were other options for:</p>

<p>What does “history” refer to?
I just don’t really remember it and I’m worried I got it wrong.</p>

<p>LOL!!! I actually fell for it… i hope i get like a 2250+ total, i want to be DONE with it…</p>

<p>Wasn’t the answer to the traffic analogy something about a person becoming a teacher because wasn’t the recycling guy forced to teach workshops and the traffic engineer was a celebrity who voluntarily went to inform others…</p>

<p>What was dat for chacha</p>

<p>@ fat cute turtle
history referred to teh stuffz that could happen in the future or something.</p>

<p>@cbeauch</p>

<p>I said the same thing as you but few seem to agree.</p>

<p>did anybody else put comprehensive/drudgery and not inclusive/selection?</p>

<p>drudgery is dull or boring work so no that does not make sense</p>

<p>well turtle I think we are right to be honest, but I’d rather just wait til scores come out and flaunt then argue…
but for me it’s looking like worst case scenario = -6 or 60 raw score, best case scenario = -1 (didnt know *** ruminate meant) the other 5 questions are all in a mild debate… or I just can’t remember what I put</p>

<p>so wouldn’t it make sense to focus on all the elements of a person’s life (being comprehensive) than focus on the boring, dull parts (drudgery)?</p>

<p>@ evil I think it’s definitely inclusive…selection.</p>

<p>I remember that question and im fairly sure the drudgery answer was incorrect.</p>

<p>gurg. yeah probably. yeah, definitely.
i’m just being stubborn in my head and don’t want to accept that i’m wrong hehee
but yes i believe i was wrongo, darn</p>

<p>back to the question about the bioclock…was it a phenomenon with ____ or a theory with testing? i don’t remember the second part of the phenomenon answer, but I don’t think it was solutions. it might have been somethign similar that meant like conclusions, but i dont’ think it was solutions or resolving or something like that</p>