<p>ineedmagenta - that sounds about right.</p>
<p>for the ballet and extroverts, I put that they react similarly to physical stimuli</p>
<p>I remember that answer choice (family destroyed the house), but I don’t think it was the right answer.</p>
<p>ok thx… last one… was mental makeup an answer the pain passage?</p>
<p>Yes (for me)
The question was, what does “psychology” refer to?
or something like that</p>
<p>yep i got mental makeup as one</p>
<p>Yes. It was how is “psychology” defined in context?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I did not take the January SAT, but I’m a bit intrigued about the “conscientious vs. self-satisfied” question. Does anyone remember the question?</p>
<p>I love the “debatable questions”. :)</p>
<p>Also it may help to have an unbiased opinion have a fresh look at the question.</p>
<p>The passage was about a girl writing letters for her grandmother who did not speak english. She began to embellish the letters for the grandmother. She referred to all the various things she’d say in her persona, and she sounded proud (she was young at the time) to have been so skilled at it. The answer is definitely self-satisfied. Conscientious doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>^ Unfortunately, without a word-for-word replication of the passage, there is no way to come up with a correct answer. People skew definitions and exaggerate the context of the passage to suit their answers on debatable questions…especially because the question asked about tone; even small changes in diction could change what seems to be the best answer.</p>
<p>"Of course, the protagonist of the hockey tale was not “my brother.” He was “my grandson.” I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s. I complained about my hip joint, I bemoaned the rising cost of hamburger, I even touched on the loneliness of old age, and hinted at the inattention of my son’s wife (that is, my own mother who was next door, oblivious to treachery). "</p>
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<p>That was the quote they used, right?</p>
<p>the diction definitely implied self-satisfied.
the answer to another q was something about jumping into the task enthusiastically - she obviously loved embellishing the stories (dinner table anecdotes, Minnesota weather “arias,” mocking her own mother)!</p>
<p>Edit: @ineedmagenta: rofls kudos for finding the passage. now i’m 100% sure. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, she was “off to the races”–she didn’t need to be prodded to write the letter–i.e., she was enthusiastic about writing them, hence the last question being that this was an account of how she learned to love writing.</p>
<p>Haha thanks. I’m a google mastermind of sorts. The Tribulation passage was from a book called The Little Friend by Donna Tartt. I kind of want to read it.</p>
<p>THANK YOU.
I feel much more confident now 
I remember my SAT teacher used to tell us to google a phrase from the passage, but I could hardly remember anything. My brain is fried, and being on CC fries it even more.</p>
<p>i dont remember the self-satisfied question at all… maybe i skipped it or maybe its just been a long day…</p>
<p>Lol i actually liked all the passages in this one! </p>
<p>Satchel Paige is an awesome name. Wiki: “July 7, 1906 June 8, 1982” x)</p>
<p>The question that is being debated is something like this: What is the tone of the author in lines X to Y</p>
<p>It was either self satisfied or conscientious </p>
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<p>Lines: </p>
<p>"Of course, the protagonist of the hockey tale was not “my brother.” He was “my grandson.” I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s. I complained about my hip joint, I bemoaned the rising cost of hamburger, I even touched on the loneliness of old age, and hinted at the inattention of my son’s wife (that is, my own mother who was next door, oblivious to treachery). "</p>
<p>Did anyone get “because the letter lacked substance” or something for one?</p>
<p>Are you referring to the “meager soup” question?</p>
<p>I remembering choosing “making substance” for the meager soup one</p>