USA June 2011 SAT Critical Reading Thread

<p>What does the use of “separate lives” indicate?
-A plan she had previously espoused</p>

<p>Why is want underlined?
-Shows that she felt a little blame for the rift between her and her mother</p>

<p>Anyone care to explain these 2?</p>

<p>As for peccadillo, what were the other choices, I don’t remember that as a choice. Was that experimental?</p>

<p>I think the presidential thing was supporting a point/example.
Definitely Missed Churlishness and largess</p>

<p>yeah, dont remember peccadillo</p>

<p>peccadillo=experimental</p>

<p>^ it was experimental</p>

<p>good. I do have to say one thing. THANK GOD FOR DIRECT HITS!!</p>

<p>why isn’t the bee and apple…highlight an unlikely relationship or something like that</p>

<p>Raza: I assume he means softer meaning MORE of a curve, since the vocab questions were unusually hard this time (I almost always get them all right on practice tests and on the actual test I think I got around ~4 of them wrong). I have a friend who took the test in May and said she got 4 wrong for a 780, so I assume the curve will be similar if not softer. I’m guessing I got maybe 5 wrong, so hopefully that’ll still put me in the mid-700 range.</p>

<p>Brolex: No, the bee one wasn’t experimental. I’m pretty sure the regular passages were as follows (not necessarily in this order, though):

  • Wind turbines (this one was short, so I don’t know if you’d count it as an “official” passage).
  • Indian girl and her mom.
  • Censorship.
  • Bees/garden.
  • Gossip.
    There was one experimental about classical music (that’s the one I got) and one that had a picture of a rabbit or something. I think there was one more as well, but I can’t remember what it was about.</p>

<p>lol i read pecadillo in Vocab Cartoons vol 2 as i was driving to SAT center. Thats some luck there. Course its on experimental…</p>

<p>The one about the rabbit/duck picture and psychological illusions in art was experimental.</p>

<p>what does “tagged” mean?</p>

<p>it was a question in the censorship passage. the answer choices were defaced, removed, touched (i forget the rest)</p>

<p>I put designated
@herro1234</p>

<p>@jrm927- Really? I felt that the vocab was slightly easier than the tests in the BB. Felt pretty good on all but 2. But, yeah! Lets hope for an easy curve!</p>

<p>for tagged i put the one about being restricted to or limited to…a word synonymous to that</p>

<p>designated is the answer</p>

<p>@Iemit737- what were the other options. Dont remember what I put
I think I put designated?</p>

<p>^Yeah designated is correct</p>

<p>i put designated</p>

<p>Designated.</p>

<p>i picked removed.</p>