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Old 06-02-2012, 01:17 PM   #1
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Official June 2012 Sat CR sections (US)

Vocab was easy but the passages were hard. There were a lot of questions whete two answers seemed right. The pakistan girls passage killed me. Oh and so fid the Sphynx one.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:21 PM   #2
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I thought the pakistani girls passage was easy... sphinx was quite difficult for me
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:21 PM   #3
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I also had the about the telescope and star gazing one. I thought the passages in this test were tougher.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:23 PM   #4
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Yea i agree with gthipeful93, the sphinx one was by far the hardest. The paskistan girls was pretty straightfoward...just the names were a bit confusing at first.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:27 PM   #5
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For the spice short passage did you guys put ironic ( question was about characterization of the spice trade) or dramatic? I went with ironic.

And in the pakistani passage why was the question repeated? I was tore between two choices and I put "growing indignant feeling" as the answer.

On the sphyn passage what was implied about photographs? I am surr i got the question wrong. I answered that photographs undermine written things.
And was the guy pompous and stuffy or weary and complacent? I put pompous and stuffy.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:29 PM   #6
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pompous and stuffy
photographs can take away from the novelty or something
i put dramatic not ironic
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:29 PM   #7
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I put dramatic, idignant feeling, pompous and stuffy
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:30 PM   #8
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I also put photos take away from novely, idk about that one tho
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:31 PM   #9
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I put pompous and stuffy too..
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:32 PM   #10
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was mollified correct? What were the 2 questions with Twain? One had to do with pictures maybe? Was elude correct on vocab? On the vocab was the answer versatility...insult correct or was it D?
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:33 PM   #11
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I was probably wrong about that photograph one. Novelty makes a lot of sense now because the first sentence in the paragraph was something like: "people can say they have actually seen the spyhnx and then make exaggerated claims/details". I was planning o picking novelty but the word "novelty" turned me away for the answer lol
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:34 PM   #12
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A) peremptory...ordeal: correct for sentence completion?

mollified was incorrect; the correct choice was disconcerted

1st Twain question: unusual for that individual (or something along that line)
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:35 PM   #13
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also one sentence completion was about a guy who took a secondary road in order to avoid the traffic that was on the main road.
The answer for that one was circumvent.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:36 PM   #14
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Yes, theqaz, that was correct.

I feel stupid because I was pretty sure assiduous was the answer for one of the sentence completion, and yet I left it blank. It was right.

Also I had a passage about illusion in art that messed me up a bit... the sphinx, to me, was easy in comparison. I am hoping this was experimental.
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Old 06-02-2012, 01:39 PM   #15
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It couldn't have been experimental; i had an experimental writing, yet i still had the CR passage you talk about.
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