<p>What’d you guys think of the critical reading section of the January 2011 SAT? I thought it was somewhat harder than the December test. There were a lot more personal stories, and I usually prefer scientific topics.</p>
<p>Discuss feelings/questions/answers here.</p>
<p>i am pretty sure i bombed it…</p>
<p>Haha it’s ok, you can always cancel/retake it. Has the embargo been lifted yet?</p>
<p>I think it was okay… one of the passages was so boring</p>
<p>Why was the passage on Satchel Paige not experimental. I got one experimental passage and I was certain during the test it was that one, but apparently not. I mean it had 25 questions when I’ve never seen any 25 minute reading section have anything other than 24 questions. The two passages were also unusually short. This is blasphemy, why does Collegeboard do this. I also thought it was by far the hardest passage too. This is why I hate the SATs.</p>
<p>The Paige passage was hard. For me, section 9 was the easiest.
And I also had trouble with the passage about a house named Tribulation. What was that all about…■■■■</p>
<p>The vocabs, though, were fairly easy. But what was the answer to the sentence completion question about this artist lamenting something (I forgot, sorry!) and posterity? There were two blanks.</p>
<p>Yeah now it’s coming back to me… the Satchel Paige and Tribulation passages were hard. I’m hoping for a generous curve.</p>
<p>So can anyone confirm whether or not we can talk about specific questions yet?</p>
<p>that was arrest and preserve, i believe?</p>
<p>what did everyone put for the one that was about the paucity of royal officials, and made a historian compelled to _____ their motives from ______ instead of records?</p>
<p>i put surmise, deeds but I was unsure why it couldn’t have been alleged, assertions</p>
<p>I think we can talk about questions now that it is past noon EST.</p>
<p>I put surmise deed, and arrest, preserve as well.</p>
<p>saywhatt, I thought that vocab question and the one before it were pretty hard. I put surmise… deeds for the one about the historian and courtiers. Arrested… preserved for the artist/beauty one</p>
<p>OK I got the historian/courtier question wrong, but got the artist question right…</p>
<p>Questions: (from memory)</p>
<p>What would the author of Passage 1 respond to the Satchel Paige’s claim “I did nothing to stop it.”</p>
<p>I put like he contributed to the stories</p>
<p>What was “resolute” about the Tribulations passages?</p>
<p>What did the example of the chandelier in Tribulation serve to do?
example of recurrent phenomenon?</p>
<p>What did the Ceeve family believe the purpose of memories was?
to inspire family achievements?
or protect cherished beliefs?</p>
<p>Why did the grandma learn to write love?
I put to contribute more directly to letter i think…</p>
<p>I think I put something/accomplishments for the courtier one. I am guessing I am wrong :x</p>
<p>I said he didn’t care much…and for “resolute” I put something about determination.</p>
<p>What was the answer to the one about Tchaikovsky’s nutcracker and how the children remembered the costumes and music…?</p>
<p>Can someone refresh my memory on each of the passages?
First reading section: short passages were about environmentalist tourists being harmful or something.
What did the first author emphasize primarily? I put harmful effects
There were passages on Satchel Paige and then on a house named Tribulation. Don’t remember which sections.
Last section was about a girl writing letters for her grandmother</p>
<p>To cherish beliefs for tribulation; and chandelier…i forgot…</p>
<p>drPanda: nutcracker vocab = indelible</p>