<p>Was the answer to the question about the granddaughter bringing out a stack of lined paper something like “she didn’t like the floral patterns of her grandmothers stationary?” it seemed too easy lol</p>
<p>The passage described the stationery (spell it right; stationary means idle or not moving) as skimpy, which literally means “lacking in size, fullness; scanty”. Therefore, the paper prevented her from writing as much as she wanted to, especially as she expanded more and more on details.</p>
<p>About the Broadcast question within the Tribulation passage, I’m still pretty sure that in context it meant “Display Openly”. I remember it talking about ‘broadcasting’ the artifacts WITHIN her and her aunt’s homes, and I feel that implies that the objects were already there. But I may be remembering it incorrectly, I would have to check the passage again to be sure.</p>
<p>@band770</p>
<p>Quote from <em>The Little Friend</em> by Donna Tartt:</p>
<p>“A scattering of lesser artifacts had been salvaged from Tribulation–linens, monogrammed dishes, a ponderous rosewood sideboard, vases, china clocks, dining room chairs, broadcast throughout her own house and the houses of her aunts: random fragments, a legbone here, a vertebra there, from which Harriet set about reconstructing the burned magnificence she had never seen. And these rescued articles beamed warmly with a serene old light all their own: the silver was heavier, the embroideries richer, the crystal more delicate and the porcelain a finer, rarer blue” (43).</p>
<p>Uh, reading that again I’m pretty sure I missed that one. So that’s -1 for me on the critical reading. Any idea on what that will end up being scaled?</p>
<p>I put distributed widely. It says artifacts were “here and there”. Distributed widely is the better answer IMO. Especially because displaying the artifacts openly isn’t as significant as having them spread over many households.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m now almost completely sure it was distributed.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it, band770. -1 on CR will almost never jeopardize an 800, especially on a section considered as hard as this test’s.</p>
<p>I got 0 math and 0 writing MC wrong. Now I come to CR and see a -7 at the least…that hurts.</p>
<p>CB was really bad with making this test. they better give us a nice curve like a 10/08 CR curve.</p>
<p>What was a 10/08 CR curve?</p>
<p>I’m still only at -1/-2 on this CR (broadcast+ maybe the goat irony). I wouldn’t have thought it was THAT hard until I helped break down a lot of the questions.</p>
<p>@GoodScores
Starting at 67 raw:</p>
<p>800-800-800-800-780-760-750-730-720-710-700</p>
<p>@Interficio</p>
<p>Yeah I’m pretty sure I got the goat irony one. It had something to do with there being a huge fuss over his age and the goat that ate the bible page lived to be 26?</p>
<p>it was beautiful lol
id get between 730-760 on it
i counted only 4 wrong but who knows</p>
<p>@band770
The score is that lenient? Let’s say I got like 9 wrong, that could still be 700s?</p>
<p>@Interficio – We’re in the same boat. I’m down 1 or 2 (indelible and possibly goat irony) on CR and there were no questions that really, really jumped out at me as being hard except the one I got wrong, which was just because I didn’t know the vocab on it.</p>
<p>But I guess we’re just good at English.</p>
<p>@ GoodScores</p>
<p>It would really close. On all of the hard curves -9 would be a 690.</p>
<p>AYYY… except I’ll probably cry if end up getting a low 700 through small mistakes no one brought up. Guess AP lang mc helped. I honestly didn’t excessively prepare for any section on this test, except a little vocab work and 1 practice test a few weeks ago. That’s why my math score is going to be abysmal.</p>
<p>I hate CR and vocab. The reading section is just such a killer, I don’t get why I do so badly on them haha. I guess it’s good though that I only need to study vocab for the March or June exam since I did well on writing and math.</p>
<p>Yeah, math is not where it’s at. :P</p>