<p>^^^ Hey can you give us a post number? We all have different viewing settings</p>
<p>For the compiled sentence completions? 658</p>
<p>Hey for the ballet dancers and extroverts similarities question I got both of them have peculiar attraction to suffer. Anyone got the same?</p>
<p>^I think it was agreed on that it was their reaction to physical stimuli</p>
<p>yeah I finally cajoled myself into choosing physical stimuli even though it seemed obvious.</p>
<p>i got the one about “physical stimuli”
in any case, i was between that one and “societal interactivity” or something</p>
<p>Just out of curiousity what were the other options in the SS vs. Con debate?</p>
<p>I picked physical stimuli at first but changed it on the last second, for the author mentioned not only physical fitness but also self-discipline and competitiveness</p>
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<p>mm, G2COM, i also got “diagnostic tools”</p>
<p>@G2COM
I felt that even though the actual diction of the section pointed towards con, the general tone was for SS. It said that she breezily took the role with no regret and listed in great detail possible things her grandmother might have written about. Those are just examples of how well adapted she became to the role. Furthermore, she also talked about how her mother was completely oblivious to her treachery. I thought of that as an example to see how well she was fooling people. Therefore, the obvious choice, for myself anyways, was SS.</p>
<p>what was the answer to the baseball player question that asked the main purpose of both passages is to? Options were,two sides of a debate, an uncertainty etc, What was the answer?</p>
<p>^address an uncertainty</p>
<p>conscientious: meticulous and careful
self-satisfied: very pleased with yourself
breezily: appearing relaxed
treachery: betrayal of trust/deceptive action or nature</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>I’m an unbiased reader; I did not take the January SAT. I do not care whether “conscientious” or “self-satisfied” is the correct answer, but I do not see anything in this quote that directly supports “self-satisfied”. However “conscientious” is indicated in the passage with the continuing use of “he was my grandson not my brother”, “my hip joint”, “loneliness of old age”, and “my son’s wife” shows attention to detail (meticulous/careful).</p>
<p>Avid Student, I can only understand where your points come from: the mind itself, and only that. However, unfortunately, you haven’t read the real SAT passage. If you read the passage beginning to end, it emphasizes a writer’s development. As she took over her g-ma’s task of writing, the general over-arching tone is definitely self-satisfactory. From practicing SAT continuously from youth, I have learned the best answer always is connected to the main idea. The main idea is self-satisfaction, and hence the answer.</p>
<p>Was psychology the mental state or manipulative behavior and can you support why?</p>
<p>I put mental makeup, there is nothing to indicate that ballet dancers are manipulative</p>
<p>@Interficio, I put mental makeup at well; it directly stated that it had to do with their tolerance to pain, or their mental ability to cope with it.</p>
<p>Also for everybody who was talking about the grand-daughter question of not having space on paper or not liking design:</p>
<p>The passage directly stated “the floral paper…cramped my style”. The SAT generally utilizes common idioms like that in order to express a lot of the passages ideas…it has to be that she did not like the floral paper. Nothing directly stated that she NEEDED more room, but it stated completely that the flowers cramped her style.</p>
<p>I don;t think it’s that black and white. You also have to consider that it was NOW cramping her style because she’s writing more and before she only wrote like three sentences. It wasn’t cramping her style BEFORE she was writing more, with the SAME floral stationary. It’s not the flowers. How does that even make sense? “I’m writing my grandma’s letters on lined paper because I hate flowers.” um, ok, freak.</p>
<p>I found the passage, and it actually seems to lead in both ways…
In time, my grandmother gave in to the inevitable. Without ever discussing it, we understood that when she came looking for me, clicking her ballpoint, I was to write the letter, and her job was to keep the cookies coming. I abandoned her skimpy floral stationery which badly cramped my style, and thumped down on the table a stack of ruled 8 1/2 x 11.</p>