January 2009 SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>so was the science one the experimental? </p>

<p>or how about the wood block group mentality one? that one was hard</p>

<p>there was no “wood block group mentality” on mine so…experimental.</p>

<p>so is it D or E??? i think Dwas assertions</p>

<p>For the scientist one, I said that they weren’t able to meet the expectations of america, the question was like which idea is partly represented…</p>

<p>If I got that wrong then I have 2 wrong if not, 800.</p>

<p>spenny, i dont think thats right cuz it does not sound familier, can u reiterate the question and other possible choices?</p>

<p>The choices relevant choices were:</p>

<p>The scientific profession has an elevated position in society.</p>

<p>Scientists are not meeting the expectations of society.</p>

<p>oh i put The scientific profession has an elevated position in society BECAUSE the passage said how people blindly agreed with them and they got lots of funding</p>

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Second that.</p>

<p>@xs0itg0esx:AND they mentioned how scientists have just come to expect their status in society.</p>

<p>ingette, no where in the passage does it say how they did not meet expecations. the whole passage is saying how we blindly oblige to scientific tenets without considering other mindsets. A couple lines talked about the funding science receives, so i think its correct to conclude that they have an elevated spot in societt</p>

<p>…i was agreeing with you, xs0it0esx.</p>

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to better clarify for anyone else…</p>

<p>it was the section about how the minority in a group will more often than not conform to the group. i cnat remember when it was in the test though, not usre if it was test 3</p>

<p>oh i apologize ingette, sorry</p>

<p>What do “fine” and "simply mean?</p>

<p>So was the experimental the one with 23 questions ? or was it the one who had a different weird number of questions?</p>

<p>was that basically? and unhappily ment unfortunately… did we reach a consensus on the specification questions and the assertion quesrtion?</p>

<p>i think the experimental for me was test #3 which had a lot of questions, two full passages i believe</p>

<p>Was that a 20 minute section?</p>

<p>Yea I was going to put scientific profession, but I didn’t agree with the word profession. I thought it would definitely have been right if it said community instead.</p>

<p>specification Q’s???</p>