<p>Lackin* (not making)</p>
<p>The question asked what the meager soup referred to.
I put: (the substance of) her grandmother’s letters</p>
<p>I can’t remember if the parentheticals were in the answer choice.</p>
<p>I didn’t think the reading passages were that hard and this was my first time with the actual SAT. I’m pretty sure I got the variable reading sections about the omnivore. None of my other classmates got that passage. It was hard as hell to get through. It was so convoluted and figurative (the phrasing of the questions, so the questions were hard, even though the passage itself was slightly interesting. Vocab was also hard in that variable section for me. The satchel paige one wasn’t that confusing and I kind of enjoyed the letter writing one. Did anyone choose self-satisfied for the mood/tone of the author in the paragraph where she tells details of her family life in a rehashed manner? Vocab was easy (maybe because I crammed for SAT vocab the night before). Passages ultimately not that hard after being used to the more pedantic, annoying mc of ap lang passages (i.e. which of the following devices is NOT employed = shoot me please)</p>
<p>There’s a debate between self-satisfied and conscientious</p>
<p>I put self-satisfied. My view is that the author’s actions were conscientious but her tone was self-satisfied.</p>
<p>did anyone get answer - ‘it represented glamour of city life??’</p>
<p>The thing that made me choose self-satisfied was the “Of course” at the beginning and some other smug-sounding phrase in the middle of the paragraph which I do not recall. Conscientious seems too superficial an answer.</p>
<p>Dano, I’m pretty sure that was the least likely answer actually, do you remember the question?</p>
<p>Can anyone inform me on what the consensus is for why the Grandmother paused and what the grandmother’s description of writing as sensual most directly explains?</p>
<p>Dano - I put it reflected her problems in life or something because the passage talked about “hunting for a fancy school” and “finding an apartment”, and none of the other answers really made sense.</p>
<p>@Blaze I believe it is resignation.</p>
<p>@Striynx, that is what I put too.</p>
<p>I picked “self-satisfied” for two reasons. First, the sentence “I departed from my own life without a regret and breezily inhabited my grandmother’s” makes it clear that the author was satisfied with her actions.</p>
<p>Second, there’s nothing in there suggesting she was conscientious. If anything, she was the opposite, as shown by the whole “treachery” thing. To be honest, conscientious didn’t even cross my mind.</p>
<p>And Dano, the correct answer for that, as far as I can tell, is that it represented some of the author’s worries. Sorry. =/</p>
<p>It can;'t be conscientious. The “without a regret and breezily inhabited” is too casual to conscientious imo</p>
<p>Simile was an answer for one of them? I remember seing it as an answer buy idk what the right answer was I can’t remember</p>
<p>As I read that passage and the whole"no worries about competitive schools" I couldn’t help but shudder at the irony of what I was feeling (regarding my future) while taking the test.</p>
<p>@Thesos Thanks, but what about the one about the writing being sensual?</p>
<p>blaze do you remember any of the options to trigger my memory? I recall that that was the hardest question for me for the whole passage. I think I chose something like “That’s why she asked her granddaughter if her signature looked pretty” but I didn’t feel confident</p>
<p>I narrowed it down to “pretty” and “why she didn’t care to learn to write”.</p>
<p>I chose the same answer as you did though.</p>
<p>conscientous or self-satisifed? dogmatic or polemical? flower pattern or more space?</p>
<p>In the comparing passages about the environment, was pessimistic v. somewhat optimistic correct?</p>