USA June 2011 SAT Critical Reading Thread

<p>what question does ‘‘the complexity of gossip on the internet’’ answer?</p>

<p>@Lucas: I put those answers, as well.</p>

<p>btw i don’t think the right answer is the complexity of gossip on the internet lemme know if you think otherwise and please explain</p>

<p>@Lucasw: yes.
@Classiclays: it was heartfelt, not actual (their motives were actual? that doesn’t make sense to me. The point of the sentence was that their motives were heartfelt AKA, pure, as in they just wanted what was best for their kids)</p>

<p>I have read through this entire thread and concluded that I got 4 CR questions wrong, and omitted zero. So, with four CR’s wrong and 0 omits, what’s a likely score range for me? Anybody?</p>

<p>I’d say probably anywhere from a 740(for really hard tests, which is what I thought this was, I got an 800 on the other one I took and got brutalized by this one) to a 700</p>

<p>Actual also means pure. “Actual” can be used more synonymously than heartfelt in my opinion. Replacing the word and choosing the sentence which sounds better isn’t a good way to choose between the two. It may sound out of context but I believe it conveys the motives better. </p>

<p>Then again, heartfelt might indeed by the answer. There is a lot of debate but we won’t know for sure until the CB decides to release the answers.</p>

<p>The answer was heartfelt. It talked about how the mothers “genuinely” want this for their kids.</p>

<p>That heartfelt/actual/natural question was odd.
This was my thought process, it could be right or wrong.</p>

<p>I didn’t choose heartfelt because that wasn’t directly supported by the author, and it seemed too positive a connotation. </p>

<p>It’s actual vs natural that tripped me over.</p>

<p>Actual means present, existing: that worry was present seems to make sense.
Natural I thought meant like- understandable, like their worry was a natural part of them.</p>

<p>I ended up choosing natural. </p>

<p>I’m not sure anymore.</p>

<p>i chose natural as well. it’s natural to want to protect your kids from harmful things, isn’t it?</p>

<p>sorry double post</p>

<p>I think the truth is between heartfelt and actual…I picked actual because that somewhat tells me their concerns are valid and reasonable…however, ppl insisting on heartfelt have a good point too - although the passage as whole makes actual a better answer.</p>

<p>When CB asks for the meaning of a specific word, they aren’t asking for that word in the context of the entire passage, it’s literally what word could you substitute into the blank</p>

<p>Gah, too much time spent on A.P English then. If that’s what the CB does, heartfelt seems like a slightly better choice.</p>

<p>looked on the internet and the synonym for genuine is actual.
Then I looked up the definitions for genuine and heartfelt and got this:
Genuine- (of a person, emotion, or action) Sincere
heartfelt-(of a feeling or its expression) Sincere; deeply and strongly felt.
So… yeah they both seem to work in a definition “sense”</p>

<p>I did mention that. Hopefully the C.B doesn’t use the plug in approach :frowning: It’s one of those really hard questions.</p>

<p>@raza68 I did the very same thing lol</p>

<p>so which were the experimental sections ?</p>

<p>was one the cyber gossip?</p>

<p>I would say it’s heartfelt because the SAT likes to ask those questions and provide an answer that would be the best fit NOT in the context of the story. The word that makes sense in the paragraph is definitely heartfelt. The parents genuinely (as in they had good motives) wanted to help children by censoring materials.</p>

<p>That question really sucked
and
@mariamss- no, cyber gossip was not experimental.</p>