2011 January SAT: Critical Reading

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1061

<p>Here is my evidence supporting MY answers and what we ultimately agreed on, back on page 40-ish.</p>

<p>"“I took over her life in prose. Somewhere along the line, though, she decided to take full possession of her sign-off. She asked me to show her how to write “Love” so she could add it to “Teresa” in her own hand. She practiced the new word many times on scratch paper before she allowed herself to commit it to the bottom of a letter.”</p>

<p>This proves my early point on the question referring to this particular piece of the passage (the one about why she wants to learn how to write love).</p>

<p>Here is the passage concerning the self-satisfied/conscientious debate.</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 bolded what I believed I thought as part of my evidence for choosing self-satisfied. "</p>

1062

<p>but for an (I assume illiterate) grandmother, being able to write one more word means everything… You could ostensibly go into a whole schpiel (sp) about why it’s significant that she’s contributing the word “love”</p>

1063

<p>it’s that she wants to contribute more to the letter.</p>

<p>people need to STOP LOOKING TOO DEEPLY.</p>

1064

<p>Can someone do a compilation please?</p>

1065

<p>the answer to the question with the grandmother was she wanted to contribute more</p>

1066

<p>After reading this entire thread over the past few hours, I now realize how ambiguous the CollegeBoard is…I think it’s really stupid how they make two answers seem like they fit…it’s a matter of opinion, not what is definitely right in the eyes of everybody.</p>

1067

<p>What’d everyone put for the one that was comparing an extrovert with a ballet dancer on the pain passage? I know some of the options were the need for social interaction, something about manipulation, and physical stimuli.</p>

1068

<p>tsweezy, the answer to that question was “reaction to physical stimuli”</p>

1069

<p>^^ Thta was one of the few instances where the superficially correct answer was right compared to the internally/“subficially” deep answer.</p>

1070

<p>if it isn’t past vs present was it to show the glamour of the city or something (i forgot most of the test lol)? Please someone resolve this. Also, what is it with the flower question? was it that there needed to be more room?</p>

1071

<p>^
Why are people asking about that? It was an easy question: it’s the narrator’s concerns. That’s the most direct interp of the passage</p>

1072

<p>yeah the exact wording of the answer started with suggest
it was like suggests the narrator’s current concerns</p>

1073

<p>I thought it was current concerns as well, but a lot of people are saying the Alaska one was to contrast past vs. present.</p>

1074

<p>It can’t possibly be to contrast past and present because there was no mention of a time difference anywhere in the passage, only a difference in geography.</p>

1075

<p>This isn’t a literary analysis test. Pick the answer BEST SUPPORTED by the passage.</p>

1076

<p>are u sure? someone find the passage plox. also, what is our conclusion about the paper size question?</p>

1077

<p>OSU, it said “today, we travel to alaska” in the very beginning of the passage. So the apartment buildings reference the past.</p>

1078

<p>alaska was in sesame place it was figurative</p>

1079

<p>Is that passage from anywhere? I want to see the Sesame Street passage again, there is no way the present was compared with the past.</p>

1080

<p>after looking at the floral paper again, it makes sense that it isn’t that she needed more room. She said the floral design cramped her writing style.</p>