<p>f1kecy - do u remember if there’s “immediacy” in the choices? Or perhaps do you remember WHERE the question is located in the paper (bottom left, upper right, etc)? 
I have a highly visual memory haha</p>
<p>Okay, I remember the Chinese origin question now</p>
<p>So what’s the answer? Subject or subset? What’s the “subject” choice about, do you remember other words there??</p>
<p>that one is the second qn i guess, so it’s on the left
i guess it is sth like what do the writer enjoy about sth (lines quoted)</p>
<p>
That’s not the question. The question,I’m sure, is what is the primary characteristic of the author’s s\description of a certain scene- the scene in which the author stops to ask his way and talks, very long, with the people walking on the way.
this is the question about the main idea of the Chinese origin passage.
only one - subjects not subset.
one choice is: elegantly written but … (something like old?)</p>
<p>I can vaguely remember reading “congeniality” but I don’t think I answered that… If the quoted line is from the first 2 paragraphs of so, I think I answered immediacy. Didn’t it talk about being out there in the open, feeling the blahblah, experiencing first hand or something (paraphrase)? Unless the quote talked about the villagers, then “congeniality” would be the answer …</p>
<p>was there anything in the passage that suggested it was “elegantly written”? I can’t remember any…</p>
<p>Then subset is wrong- the first passage writes about life- subjects of biographies (it says life is very hard to catch into biographies) The second passage t\writes about how the biographers create biographies-> So it should be subjects and biographies</p>
<p>@kaitlin01: No this scene completely talks about people. You mistake it for another scene, which locates in the opening or the first paragraph.</p>
<p>Sorry guys, but you lost me in the “subset” vs. “subject”. Can someone please differentiate the two answers, and indicate the letter if you remember?</p>
<p>@zdragon - do you remember if one of the choices for that question is “immediacy” and if you answered anything with “immediacy”? somehow that word keeps on bugging me… the only question I remember that asked about the friendly village people is the one about how they’re “fully immersed in the present” and the one contrasting them with the people whose answers tend to be “shorter”…</p>
<p>do you remember exquisite details are meticulous?
and the activity that fulfils the ‘X-ray…dissection…inside out’ is an illustration of circulatory system?</p>
<p>@f1kecy778591–>yes I chose congeniality too!!</p>
<p>difficult undertaking was I think one of the first questions under chinese origin passage
it asked what was the purpose of this passage?
and the answer choices were like
to celebrate??? I dunno
and there was sth like difficult undertaking
I chose difficult undertaking and I’m pretty sure this was the answer </p>
<p>I chose narrowly biased too</p>
<p>@kaitlin for the immediacy
I think (not sure) the immediacy appeared in the motorcycle passage
you know how those people consider the immediate present?
I think that’s why the author mentioned immediacy</p>
<p>from what passage is “exquisite details are meticulous”?</p>
<p>Yeah, I answered circulatory system. That’s encyclopedia passage right?</p>
<p>@kipling - was there a question with immediacy though?</p>
<p>Ugh, my brain is screwing with me :(</p>
<p>both are the last two questions from encyclopedia</p>
<p>@f1kecy778591 wow I really envy your long term memory
cuz I chose illustration of circulatory system too </p>
<p>and yesssss there was sth about meticulous about exquisite details
was it one of the SC questions?</p>
<p>@kipling123: actually i cannot recall the third short passage at all (before the one which the guy joins a group of close-knit kids)</p>
<p>do you remember which choice you put for the mother ‘felt bad’, emotional response or efforts to help?coz i cannot recall the choice of emotional response</p>
<p>well I’m starting to doubt maybe those were two different questions
wasn’t there a question that also contained answer choice that had like “change in mother’s tone or sth?” I’m pretty sure the answer choices had words like
emotional response
tone </p>
<p>and yes definitely “points to mother’s efforts” but I can’t recall which question was that
I’m not even sure which one I chose
my brain is being overwhelmed with stupid SAT questions</p>
<p>can you guys provide more info about the “exquisite details… meticulous”? cant remember…</p>
<p>it asks what does exquisite mean</p>
<p>@kipling123: now i recall, there one part it quotes "describe her past like going to supermarket’, i remember i put sth like everyday</p>
<p>thanks i remember. and yeah I remember the supermarket thing too… though not the exact wording of the answer choice.</p>
<p>can you please explain the subject vs. subset of the biographies??</p>
<p>** Sentence completion **
-renewed interest in something, so ____ Hollywood films–> spate
-Amazon rain forest thing, malaria, can’t cultivate the soil. –> pristine/deterred
-Exaggerated gloom–>Lugubrious
-Malaise
-Automaton
-Topography
-Avarice/beneficial
-Innocuous
-Venturesome
-Ravenous
-Placate
-monotony/droll
-tutelage/evidenced</p>
<p>** Chinese origin **
-author’s “equanimity” –> mother’s manner of speaking
-why did the author not ask until she was an adult –> the mother successfully made her not care much
-what was the reaction of the author to her mother’s indifference (1st question from that passage) –> E. The other choices were like she became curious about mother’s motivation, wanted to learn chinese/about relatives, etc
-Why did the mother not talk about her past –> coz didn’t wanna remember/past is painful (what’s the exact wording?)
-Why did the author say it’s like a “map” etc (referring to the list of names and phone numbers her mother gave her before she died)–> road to help her figure out her mother’s “essence” (there was a word essence…)
-Quoted a line about “my mother probably felt bad…”, why did the author assume that the mother felt bad –> points to mother’s efforts to help? Is this final?
-Quoted “I started answering/returning the calls of my mother’s past” –> started contacting
-Detached <a href=“what’s%20the%20question??”>u</a>
-new appreciation –> “motivation…unforthcoming”
-the first question, about what the author is doing in the passage –> describe a difficult undertaking
-quoted “describe her past like going to a supermarket”, what does the author assume about the act of going to the supermarket –> everyday occurence</p>
<p>** Byzantine passage **
-close knit
-what did the author think of those stuff she enumerated that the other kids thought were weird/different –> prosaic</p>
<p>** Biography **
-difference between the 2 passages –> subjects of biographies and one is about the biographies
-first author of one would respond to the other’s question –> Biographers do not attempt to make exact recreations of their subjects’ lives
-second author of one would respond to the other’s question –> may distort the truth
-was there a question asking what the lives of writers are like?? Can’t remember the exact question for this answer… –> 'life is not the right material for good fiction?</p>
<p>** Encyclopedia **
<p>** Motorcycle **
<p>** Squid **
<p>i am really not sure about the biography one
coz i thought passage 1 is about biography in general as it talks about life is not easily turned into good fiction (paraphrased)
and passage 2 it says writer’ lives are dull and biographers did blahblahblah to organize it</p>
<p>so i chose E
erm what is the anwser for supermarket thing?</p>
<p>I don’t think I chose E … from what I remember (and my memory’s extremely hazy now … ) I chose something near the middle/on top… I’m guessing B? I think it says something about one is more specific/about a certain subset or subject (I really don’t remember seeing a difference… :() while the other is more general.</p>
<p>about the supermarket … i can’t remember the wording, but i know it was an easy question. answer was pretty obvious</p>