January 2009 SAT Critical Reading Discussion

<p>I thought the question was asking for the authors’ attitude towards the parent though? Not the parents’ attitude towards rock.</p>

<p>i’m prettyyy sure i put barbaric</p>

<p>limekiwi - wasn’t the question asking like the “people’s” attitudes toward rock? and then it gave line references to both passages</p>

<p>nah it was something like “what words best contrast the parents (line X passage one) with the people (line Y passage 2)?”</p>

<p>xs0itg0esx - Wasn’t the word primitive? I remember putting barbaric though.</p>

<p>i’m prettyyy sure i put barbaric</p>

<p>wasn’t the question asking like the “people’s” attitudes toward rock? and then it gave line references to both passages</p>

<p>i forgot what i put, but all i know is that the parents hated rock and the people accepted it</p>

<p>hey are you guys sure about the 1950s thing on Rock and ROll passage? did both passages REALLY aggree on that statement? cuz i thought the author of the first passage said that in the 1950s teenage ppl enjoyed rock and roll while their parents thought it was “barbaric” plz do explain it to me… i also put approval/disapproval… and what about the very last question of the rock and roll passage? it was asking about both passages, i was kinda confused btw choice(A) (which i dont remember) and maybe choice C which was like “passage two is concentrating on commercial blah blah” … help!</p>

<p>Hm… people’s attitudes toward rock as a question definitely makes more sense. I must have misread it then.</p>

<p>hey are you guys sure about the 1950s thing on Rock and ROll passage? did both passages REALLY aggree on that statement? cuz i thought the author of the first passage said that in the 1950s teenage ppl enjoyed rock and roll while their parents thought it was “barbaric” plz do explain it to me… i also put approval/disapproval… and what about the very last question of the rock and roll passage? it was asking about both passages, i was kinda confused btw choice(A) (which i dont remember) and maybe choice C which was like “passage two is concentrating on commercial blah blah” … help!</p>

<p>^^^^^ yes it was 1950 one because it specified how popular rock became and both passages support that… and yeah, (C) does sound kinda familie… dont remember it %100 though</p>

<p>I remember putting (c). I think it was “passage 1 talks about the social aspects of rock, while passage 2 talks about the commercial aspects”. Something like that?</p>

<p>and also about the “elevated status” thing, i put something about “the science community failed to renovate its discipline”, maybe sth about failing to meet ppl’s expectations tho it was not exactly worded like that. cuz at the end of the quote was something like “the scientists (failed) to (renovate) their principles???” im not sure exactly what it was like, but i was pretty sure that the paraphrasing was PERFECT. anyone?</p>

<p>Limekiwi: yay! that exactly was my answer!! urrgh according to the collegeconfidential i’ve already gotten like four wrong… geez…btw, is this discussion wholly trustworthy???</p>

<p>i remember the answer social aspects vs. commercial aspects, i think i put the one with demographics in the ansewr</p>

<p>and could you guys tell me what was the question regarding “demographics blah blah”? ( not the very last question… i remember choice (A) of the last question mentioned something about demographics but (C) sounded better ) do you remember some of the other choices?? i remember that question was the first one in the rock and roll passage…? or what passage was it…?</p>

<p>and also r u guys sure about the “wry amusement” one??? cuz i put “feigned innocence”… i also found a solid supporting clue for this one as long as I remember… doesn’t “wry” have kinda negative connotation? The clients were pretending to be “innocent”, cuz while they knew their paintings were FAKE, they implied they were rather GENUINE . anyone?</p>

<p>I got demographics, barbaric, and wry amusement.</p>

<p>ro, i put all of those too!</p>

<p>the correct answers are social/commercial, wry amusement (cuz both parties new that his were coppied and it was more of a humerous/amusing situation when he sold one), barbaric</p>

<p>its DEFF social/commercial cuz passage one tlked bout the social aspects (parents, america, adolesecents) and passage two tlked about commercial (assimulating to TV and all that stuff) so demographics MUST be wrong</p>