<p>I will give you that she felt that it was her own work. There are two reasons YOUR way of reasoning is it wrong though (and your answer too but thats for later). It never talks about How she felt about the work in that questions area! She did she she wrote it, getting into a habit (or something like that). BUT NOT Self Satisfied</p>
<p>Defined as : smug, complacent, proud of yourself, well-pleased, puffed up, self-congratulatory, flushed with success etc. She NEVER echoed these feelings directly. </p>
<p>Now that that is in doubt…</p>
<p>"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>Uhm yeah. She was painstakingly careful. The question asked you to read a specific area. In that area it spent AN ENTIRE paragraph talking about how she did not say “my brother” she said “my grandson”. Not my mom, but “my sons wife”. She detailed his care to not say these details.</p>
<p>Summary: She never said she was super-happy with herself. She was like eh, guess I have to do it (at least in that area) THEN she spent a paragraph talking about the details she had to take care of.</p>
<p>I might of missed the surmise question. But surmise is to guess without evidence.</p>
<p>@massgirl The CR section was difficult but the vocabulary was simple. I totally lucked out on that.</p>
<p>1) I put conscientious too, but I guess college confidential agrees on self-satisfied
2) I put formative stage, because the passage started with “her first commissioned work…”
3) I put business transaction because she talked about what she got in return, the cookie thing
4) 8.5 by 11 i wrote she didn’t have enough space
5) I put resignation because when someone sighs, they’re usually not resolved. they usually just give up… like “oh well, what the heck, let’s just finish this letter and get this goddamn sat over with”… sigh
6) trivial, becames games are trivial and unimportant. games don’t necessarily garner attention
7) i dont remember about the tribulations question but it had something to do with how they forgot what they didn’t want to remember
8) i put distributed widely because of the words “random” and “scatter”
9) I put perform rather than directed, though I’m not so sure any more
10) for the “little or no” question, I think I put E because little or no is correct
11) it should be “interest in reviving” so A was the answer
12) surmise, deeds
13) @luci i’m pretty sure it’s “has …” rather than the past tense because it wasn’t a tense mistake but “the number” = singular</p>
<p>Massgirl92… I feel your pain… I got a 750 on the December… 800 on M and W… I literally took the January JUST for CR… I like bombed it haha. I honestly felt today’s CR was considerably harder than the December or any practice CR I had ever taken but apparently a lot of CCers are getting most of these “difficult” questions correct. I don’t think I can even rely on a generous curve anymore haha… prob gonna cancel</p>
development of writing style
Potential for a 5th with conscientious and self satisfied debate
got a 750 in oct but thats not happening on this one
probably lower</p>
<p>I chose self-satisfied over conscientious because when she listed the changes she had to make, I didn’t feel like she was being overly cautious about whether she put “my grandson” over “my brother,” she was simply listing how she used the stories her father told her to make her grandmother’s letters more interesting.
To me, self-satisfied fit better because she said she didn’t have any regrets about adding all these little stories and she did it breezily or whatever.</p>
<p>That being said, I did pretty horribly compared to the last time I took the SAT. Ah well, I’m just doing it for the superscore.</p>
<p>Guys RELAX! It’s conscientious. Don’t you think by taking a paragraph to describe how she says my grandson instead of my brother, my old hip (LOL), my sons wife, etc. That is showing how self aware she is. She knows who she is writing as. She is taking effort to write that her hip is hurting etc… def: involving or taking great care; painstaking; diligent</p>
<p>She is NEVER smug. She may be satisfied but not satisfied with herself (at least not in the paragraph the question asked us to use)</p>
<p>@141421356
Your point is very convincing. However, although it is true it never mentioned she was happy, smug also works too. The type of diction and the rhetorical strategies used point to the bias that she was enjoying all her fabrications over grandma’s wimpy messages. All in all, I decided on one thing. Critical Reading section is unfair. Why? Depending on the difficulty of the question (which we have no clue of), different depth of analysis is required. In this case, I think smugness is the EASIER answer (level 1-3), whilst conscientious is the HARDER answer (level 4-5). imo though… Anything is possible (i personally chose smug)</p>
<p>This ongoing argument over the conscientious v. self satisfied choices is pointless. Even if you succeed in getting the other side to agree, it doesn’t guarantee that you’re right; clearly, none on us knows the actual answer. Wait until you get your scores…</p>
<p>^^^^^ (CC needs a better quote system). “she was simply listing how she used the stories her father told her to make her grandmother’s letters more interesting.
To me, self-satisfied fit better because she said she didn’t have any regrets about adding all these little stories and she did it breezily or whatever.” </p>
<p>Nope. Not having any regrets. I don’t think that breezily was in the area. Even if it was, there is 2x more support to say that she is expending effort to change voice than there is to say I’m happy with what I did. SHE NEVER SAID that. Breezily/ No Regrets not= to SELF-satisfied </p>
<p>Self satisfied is complacent, smug, vain, puffed-up. She never acts like that…ever…even going out of the area…</p>
<p>It’s self-satisfied; half of you are terribly misinterpreting her tone, which is breezy and light, not as serious as you make it out to be. She mentions something along the lines of making all of that stuff up easily and without guilt, and she even goes on to say she threw in some hip problems, rising hamburger cost, and others.</p>
<p>She was having fun writing the letters, composing them spontaneously with whatever came to mind. She was proud and amused by the fact that she was writing these somewhat out-of-character letters under her grandma’s name.</p>
<p>like I said before, SAT questions really should not be of similar difficulty to AP english language MC type problems… andrew when you talked about the juxtaposition creating irony and mocking whatever, i thought immediately of satire in AP Lang… bottom line is even the hard SAT questions should not be that hard. This is my first time taking the actual test though, so I’m wondering if other versions had questions this hard before or not.</p>
<p>Self-satisfied doesn’t necessarily have to mean that she was vain or puffed up. She could simply be satisfied with what she her work, and that would still apply.</p>
<p>Anyway I think this debate won’t go anywhere, happens every time there is controversy over two answer choices and neither side wants to give in :P</p>