<p>does anyone remember how exactly the alaska passage starts off? i still don’t see how the answer could possibly be past/present</p>
<p>glamour of urban cities is still my answer</p>
<p>the words “Scatter” and “random” in the sentence made me pick distribute widely. not sure about that one</p>
<p>andrew- i agree with the challenge.
it was a very hard question - but the stereotype of arctic was shown - idyllic.
author put in private school (competition between schools) and apartment (competition of wealth) to challenge the idyllic description of arctic.</p>
<p>not past and present
broadcast -widely.</p>
<p>wasnt the alaska passage about the daughter watching seasame street? and she stats saying stuff about rural life?</p>
<p>also does any1 no if the CR section with the Tribulation passage is experimental or not? cuz that section has 25 questions which i found really weird.</p>
<p>What were the possible answers to the “silence” of the Grandma question?</p>
<p>anticipation, resolve, resignation…</p>
<p>and the answer is resolve.
it means - to be determined in a very hard decision…
she was stumped and was at a dead end.</p>
<p>no it was not resolve it was resignation as she signed and told her to put something down
also alaska was idllyic and problems the author was concerned about as it said ‘they don’t worry about apartment/schools’ so problems</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>So far, there has been much dissension on a lot of questions. How hard do you think the curve is going to be? Was this a hard CR section?</p>
<p>I already know that I got 2 CR wrong (vocab), but I really want to get higher than a 750. Anyways, here are my arguments:</p>
<p>Conscientious: Yes. Definitely. The diction of the passage clearly outlines that she was impersonating someone else and meticulously added specific material. Did you notice the “as a whole” part in the question? Just because she was “breez[y]” and willing to do the job does not mean she was complacent or “self-satisfied”. The whole latter 60% of the paragraph served primarily to underscore a list of different details that she inserted in order to more accurately impersonate her grandmother (diction regarding complaining about the price of a burger [which she would’ve never said as a child], putting daughter and “mother” with quotations, and “grandson” lead to this conclusion) . Though she may have felt self-satisfied, the diction more directly points toward a conscientious mindset.</p>
<p>Finally, what were the answer choices regarding the blue letters on the house? I remember putting something about cultural history.</p>
<p>Resolve is more definite.
Resignation indicates some acquiescence, which the grandma had to do because she thought for a long time before finally giving up and resignating not to write any more.</p>
<p>sorry, im kind of lost. can somebody make a compiled list?D;</p>
<p>“author put in private school (competition between schools) and apartment (competition of wealth) to challenge the idyllic description of arctic.”</p>
<p>What?
I’m sure it said “No (competition between schools) or (competition of wealth) here.”</p>
<p>^was that what an answer choice said or what the passage said?</p>
<p>I got an 800 for last January’s SAT, but I thought this time around it was rather brutal…
Then again I only really prepped for writing this time around but the general consensus seems to be that today’s CR sections were pretty hard.</p>
<p>That’s what the passage said.</p>
<p>no i still feel its self satisfied. conscientious is: characterized by extreme care and great effort; “conscientious application to the work at hand”; “painstaking research”; “scrupulous attention to details”
guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong
she was not painstakingly careful, in fact she was having fun with the burgers and stuff </p>
<p>i also feel its resignation. the question asked for in the sentence, which included the sighing part. so its resigning.</p>
<p>I think we’d have to look at the passage again to figure out whether it’s conscientious or self-satisfied, because those who think it’s conscientious are trying to say the entire paragraph supported her carefulness while those who think it’s self-satisfied say the passage supported that better…</p>
<p>I put self-satisfied, but I didn’t know what conscientious meant at the time, so I didn’t try to find textual evidence of that.</p>
<p>That question with the answer choice about stereotyping & Alaska made me want to cry.</p>
<p>I did put resigned on the silence one though. (& self-satisfied on the other)</p>
<p>I agree that it is resigning, I thought of it like this: GM was waiting for her GD to say what to write but after much silence the GM (sighed) gave up and told the GD what to write.</p>
<p>It is definitely resignation… I think… lol
She was unable to think about what more to write, and therefore “resigned” to her lack of words and told her daughter to quickly end the letter.
And the girl felt self-satisfaction because the letters became HER work, and she thought it was significantly better than her grandma’s (therefore, she’s proud of her work [complacent])
Oh and for the vocab, I put surmise/deeds, but I think I changed my mind to the other one people were talking about… FRICK!</p>
<p>Oh, and on section 10, the 3rd to the last question, there was something in past tense and past perfect tense thing. It started, “Because…” and the two choice I had left over was [has **<strong><em>ed] and [</em></strong>**ed]… Which one was it? (sorry but my memory sucks >.< )</p>