2011 January SAT: Critical Reading

<p>I put resignation. Despair is too extreme</p>

<p>So conscientious or self- satisfied?!
AND YES one person agrees with me! Possibly increasing my chance? :)</p>

<p>she wrote love because she wanted to be more involved with the writing of the letters, i think</p>

<p>I’m 99.9% sure that it’s conscientious. Also, I put down the wanting to contribute one and resolve, not resignation, since she finished what she was going to put in the letter.</p>

<p>I put self-satisfied for the attitude of the granddaughter</p>

<p>The paragraph said that she would enter into her grandmother’s world “without regret and breezlessly” so I thought she was satisfied doing so.</p>

<p>I put grandma learned how to write love to put more effort into writing. Nothing in the passage suggest that the grandmas’ relationship improved.</p>

<p>@goodatmath, i agree.</p>

<p>lockclock,</p>

<p>I don’t think the historian one was accomplishments because accomplishments was too extreme a word. Nothing indicated that the courtiers had ever accomplished anything, but you can evaluate them based off their actions/deeds, which would be the opposite of diaries/correspondences.</p>

<p>Also, I’m pretty sure the off to the races was enthusiasm. What part of writing letters for her grandmother was game? (as in a competition of sorts) She was mostly enthusiastic about conjuring tales about the grandmother’s family, which linked to a previous question about her being optimistic.</p>

<p>resigned and self-satisfied<– what i put. IntellectualLi i disagree with “why did the grandmother learn to write love” because i think its b/c she wanted a more direct role in the writing of the letters because the narrator talks about how she was doing everything and then her grandma took complete control of the closing</p>

<p>I put resignation…pretty sure with it’s right</p>

<p>I think its self satisfied. She had nothing about her being careful
Why was the Saicher one for the last line of passage 1 ironic?
i put becuz the mother knew the story.</p>

<p>it should be wary because she was careful by putting grandmother’s son for her brother or something and talking about her hip joint and stuff</p>

<p>is the artist vocab not neglected…established?</p>

<p>gildedmushroom: i think your correct now. i wasn’t positive on the definition of surmise, and my answer, i thought, was fine. It was surmise…deeds.</p>

<p>Ironic because it makes fun of the age</p>

<p>no i THINK the artist vocab was arrested and preserved.
and it is conscientious because the granddaughter had to make sure she was writing the letter from her grandmother’s pov. (using the “I” and complaining about some hip joint pain)</p>

<p>It was deinitely resigned. Right before the grandmother sighed.</p>

<p>conscientous means going by your conscience… how does that pertain to the context of that part of the passage?</p>

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i agree with this because these didnt indicate self-satisfication. but of course, i could be wrong ):</p>

<p>no! it’s definitely self-satisfied.
she talked about the burger, and… i’m almost certain it was self-satisfied.
it was just her and the paper.</p>

<p>and there’s nothing in the passage that indicates she was cautious about putting “brother” instead of whatever. she just did it. </p>

<p>also: i said it was ironic because it was poking fun about the whole thing with his age.</p>

<p>“conscientous means going by your conscience… how does that pertain to the context of that part of the passage?”</p>

<p>Conscientious means meticulous as well. It’s not wary because IMO that involves caution against a potential threat. Self-satisfied… nothing directly stated that she was happy with what she had said. She had changed certain words, remembering to maintain her grandmother’s point of view. You can infer she was self-satisfied, but I didn’t think that would apply to be the right answer.</p>