January 2009 SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>deff not overly complex… what were other choices??</p>

<p>can someone accumulate the answers we’ve concluded for each passage?
thanksssss</p>

<p>Oh! What was the one about the author using different words to describe the painter? The answer choices were something like excuses or an explanation for a situation or something? I didn’t know which one to put because they both looked right to me</p>

<p>i doubt the answer was “overly complex”</p>

<p>The author of the passage used “specialization” in reference to modern scientific thought. He then used “specialized” in reference to the nomads’ way of life. The first one meant ‘overly complex’ and the second one meant ‘unique’, or ‘individual’, but I don’t remember the exact wording. I’m 100% sure that one was right though.</p>

<p>how did the painter feel towards tom keeling?
was it disdain?</p>

<p>I put disdain.</p>

<p>^ I put disdain since it seemed to be the only one that fit his description of Tom’s paintings</p>

<p>“overly complex” might be right, u might just be wording it wrongly… it was an easy question though… and it was disdain</p>

<p>anyone know the word that went with hapless or portrayed for the bad economy questionn?</p>

<p>no sorry…</p>

<p>wait, did the question ask to distinguish between the “specialized” and “specialization” quotes?</p>

<p>I think disdain was correct too. I spent like 3 minutes on that one, haha.</p>

<p>Bad economy one = hapless.</p>

<p>Ingette: Yeah.</p>

<p>i put disdain</p>

<p>word that went with hapless was casting</p>

<p>@jules92: casted, i believe.</p>

<p>thankss, what about the one that went with portray? portray was the first blank, cant remember the 2nd</p>

<p>u guys prob not gonna rmemeber but last CR section, number 14; they took lines from both passages and ask what they both do… i think “make assertions” was a choice… anyone remeber?</p>

<p>Anyone get beguiled for one of the earlier MC vocab questions?</p>