USA June 2011 SAT Critical Reading Thread

<p>For all you guys who are discussing in the Critical READING section…
Censure means “to issue official blame.” The passage discussed CENSORship.</p>

<p>Minus 6 raw or wrong?</p>

<p>@ skorpius7
i got those answers too</p>

<p>I am re posting this because I feel that this section could really hurt my chances at 700+ in CR. Any help is appreciated.
anyone remember the questions and other answer choices to these answers for censor passages?
Both believe in Independent Thinking
Outraged/Spirited vs Thoughtful
extreme
uncontroversial books
protect from negative influences.
passage 1 emphasizes the limitations of schoolteachers</p>

<p>Excellent Lets move on to the Wind Turbine, Train Paragraph questions…Any more come to mind?</p>

<p>A feeling of motion or nostalgia? for the train question.</p>

<p>motion…</p>

<p>I picked motion at first, but changed to nostalgia after rereading the sentence. Nostalgia still makes more sense to me.</p>

<p>Nevermind. It’s definitely motion.</p>

<p>For the wind turbines question about how the environmentalist mentioned in the second passage would react to a few lines in the first (talking about how wind turbines really aren’t too noisy and would not be as ugly as some electric towers), was it emphatic disapproval or mild displeasure?</p>

<p>The train one the question for contrast was geography.</p>

<p>Influence, I put emphatic disapproval</p>

<p>Hey guys I had a critical reading where one of the questions was something like “How would the author of passage 2 react to this sentence”, and the sentence they referred to was written by the author of passage 2. that was a major *** moment for me</p>

<p>A feeling of motion or nostalgia? for the train question. <<for this question does anyone remember the other choices? i dont remember what i put but i def remember considering feeling of motion</p>

<p>I put mild displeasure but I’m having second thoughts. My train of thought was that because it stressed the wind turbines’ advantages and their acceptability in comparison to grosser energy structures, the environmentalist wouldn’t react quite so harshly to the comment (since he was arguing to preserve natural scenic beauty). However, the argument could be made that it was emphatic disapproval since the author characterized the environmentalist as someone who is strongly opposed to wind turbines. I think you may be right, can anyone else confirm?</p>

<p>crap, i must’ve read the question wrong then. i put guarded optimism for some bizarre reason.</p>

<p>does “familiar but undeserved” ring a bell?</p>

<p>thats what i put</p>

<p>can someone explain the question with answer “extreme” from the censure passage? I forgot what it was</p>

<p>like goldring said, can someone explain “extreme” along with the “familiar but undeserved” and also what were the other choices with idiosyncratic in it as the answer?</p>