<p>i think -3 (raw score loss of -4) will be 780 or 770 today not a 750.</p>
<p>reconcile…dogmatic or something…polemical for her friends values and then political beliefs that contradicted them?</p>
<p>“800 800 780 is brutal”</p>
<p>In that case, I’ve been taking the most brutal of practice tests.</p>
<p>hopefully -7 is a 700</p>
<p>I really don’t want to sound cocky or anything, but I really don’t think the curve will be as lenient as you guys might think. I’ve never seen it go over 800 800 800 780. And there isn’t that much dissension of the harder questions, maybe one or two.</p>
<p>I thought this CR section was pretty hard compared to other months and practice tests. Hopefully that means a better curve (fingers crossed!)</p>
<p>Have we come to a consensus about the self-satisfied vs. conscientious question yet? I don’t see a definite explained answer anywhere.</p>
<p>“reconcile…dogmatic or something…polemical for her friends values and then political beliefs that contradicted them?”</p>
<p>I had reconcile, dogmatic… absolutely no clue for sure though.</p>
<p>@Tenors</p>
<p>What book are you using? The blue book distributed by CollegeBoard includes previous years’ practice tests, and the CR curves on there are usually 800 800 800 800 (790/780).</p>
<p>No consensus on that question, malika… </p>
<p>It was definitely reconcile… dogmatic for the vocab</p>
<p>@MalikaPotter - There is about 75 percent of people who think it is self-satisfied and 25 percent that think it is conscientious. I personally put self-satisfied, but I am not so sure anymore.</p>
<p>self-satsified…she like made fun of her mom, the price of a burger? def self-satisfied</p>
<p>It’s definitely self-satisfied, Malika. Conscientious doesn’t make sense for that context.</p>
<p>What book are you using? The blue book distributed by CollegeBoard includes previous years’ practice tests, and the CR curves on there are usually 800 800 800 800 (790/780).</p>
<p>I used Blue Book once, before I started taking studying seriously last August… I used McGraw-Hill, Barron’s SAT, Kaplan 12 Test, Princeton Review… I might have seen 800-800-800-780 curves once or twice - everything else was a “one question wrong and your score is done” scoring system. </p>
<p>It was probably Kaplan that made me think that since it was my main book for a while.</p>
<p>I also put self-satisfied, but I couldn’t give a reason for it - it was just a feeling a got from the paragraph.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s “development of a writer”. I think it’s “basic misunderstanding about writing” because the daughter sees writing as an impersonal way of “entertaining” he recipient of the reader. </p>
<p>This is the misunderstanding: The grandmother writes to express true feelings, while the granddaughter writes to entertain, even if it means using irrelevant or untrue details.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! I put self-satisfied too!</p>
<p>what is the consensus on the misunderstanding vs. development of a writer one? can anyone find the passage on google books cuz we did that for the october SAT?
two wrong so far though 
Reason why the passage was ironic and idyllic…</p>
<p>@Tenors</p>
<p>That explains it. Kaplan and Barron’s are both notoriously brutal in their CR and Writing curves. I wouldn’t rely on anything but the official CollegeBoard book when looking at those. I think the Math curve is usually the same though, I’ve only seen 800 790 780 before.</p>
<p>hey guys! do you remember a question about the chlorophyll in a plant and what the passage implied about the leaves turning a certain color in the fall?</p>
<p>I’m beside myself in anger.
It all went wrong from the get-go.<br>
Unfortunately, I never attempted a part of a Critical Reading section.</p>