<p>Before we begin, if anyone remembers quotes that we can use to find passages online, that’d be cool.</p>
<p>CR :</p>
<p>Harsh Judgement VS Mild Criticism</p>
<p>Girl and her doll tied to a rope question</p>
<p>The scientist who said : “We do live in this world” or something along those lines.</p>
<p>(About the Name of the Book) — Was it satirical or a witty broad remark?</p>
<p>Writing :</p>
<p>“In particular” vs “Broadly Speaking” vs “Nevertheless”</p>
<p>I just thought I’d make a thread for those who want to know where the general consensus lands on these debatable topics — although i dont see a consensus forming any time soon unless someone finds the passages.</p>
<p>Haha good idea. I’ll start off. Harsh Criticism. To not fall off the tree. Something beyond the astrophysical.
Broadly Speaking.</p>
<p>mild criticism, to please her mother, astrophysical, in particular</p>
<p>I don’t see it being mild, personally. She was sarcastic. I find that to be strong. Also, I think I remember saying for safety’s sake I tied it up there. I think we are putting two questions together. We need the passage for that.</p>
<p>@Divy, I think you’re right. If an answer choice was “to keep her from falling”, I think we would have all jumped to that answer (Nothing seems wrong with it). BUT, i think these were 2 different questions actually :D</p>
<p>I’m still going to stand by my point and say that harsh judgement is too extreme for collegeboard to put on the SAT especially when looking at what one daughter thinks of her father. I felt like she didn’t care too much — maybe slightly annoyed, but that’s all.</p>
<p>The astrophysical question…hm… I need the passage, but I don’t recall being able to infer that he was specifically talking about the astrophysical characteristics — I remember…the question referred to 2 lines and nothing more. Looking at that context only, I went with the answer about “not listening to them” even though it seems kinda extreme now that i think about it.</p>
<p>Yeah cause I remember putting to not fall and to please her mom. I think they are two different one pertaining to bringing the doll up and tying the doll. Haha.
I see what you’re saying I just didn’t like the first part of the other answer. I didn’t find it to be a common expression. I hate that question!</p>
<p>I dont know but I felt “Be Happy” fell in the same group as “Have fun”, “Don’t Worry” , “It’s gonna be ok”.</p>
<p>These are all common expressions considering I can name them off the back of my head :D</p>
<p>Just my thoughts on it. We’ll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>I see where you’re coming from. I just see it as more of a blunt command, and I think the sarcasm made of harsh, because thats what sarcasm is by definition (to tear flesh literally)… I agree let’s wait and see on it.</p>
<p>I see it as mild criticism, SAT does not like extreme word like harsh, also the earth one, i picked the the earth something is ultimately insignificant, because it says right after that the planet we live in is something insignificant right after the sentence, and the girl tied the doll to please her mom, since she thinks to play with a doll externally makes mom happy, and it was definitly satirical on its intentional misuse, other choices did not make sense at all</p>
<p>@wpftj , actually it was intentional mis-use of diction — i dont think satire was an option</p>
<p>@wpftj,
I think the criticism one is just so difficult to debate. But i think the extreme thingnpertains more to words like something never or always happens. Not an extreme tone, often a tone or wording is actually extreme because some passages argue things that warrant extreme tones. According to the lines for the astronaut question though I think it mainly refers to the “we live on earth” and “looking past the dust”… I’m pretty sure the doll one is two different questions, so we’re all right!!!</p>
<p>I think the girl’s use of sarcasm implies a more mild action. Sarcasm is passive-aggressive, so a criticism would be less biting than if she bluntly stated how she hated the phrase. The latter, in my opinion, would be harsh.</p>
<p>I put broadly speaking because the sentence before made no mention of people in broad, so in particular is out. Broadly speaking recognizes a generalization made, namely college students don’t need books. Nonetheless is out because it is similar to words like however, it doesn’t fit in context.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how the question about the doll is so debatable – the passage made it very clear. She brought the doll up, in the first place, to please the mother. She tied it up so she wouldn’t fall. The passage literally presented it that simply. I think it may have said something along the lines of, “I, on a number of occasions, nearly fell out of the tree while trying to read with the doll, so i devised a plan…blabla”</p>
<p>I put “in particular” because I felt that it narrowed down the focus of the passage. It went from broad (why libraries don’t want others to use their old books) and narrowed it down to university students, which were the focus of the rest of the passage, rather than just people in general.</p>
<p>I think nevertheless is out. The rest of the first paragraph is why librarians don’t want to take out old books, and the last sentence just supports that - nevertheless would imply a contrast, but there is no contrast, so it doesn’t fit.</p>
<p>At that time I thought there was some mention of people - something like librarians thought people would destroy the pages or something of that sort - but now that it’s been a few days and I haven’t seen the passage, I’m not quite sure anymore.</p>
<p>same lol^ </p>
<p>I don’t see how “university students” is broad, can they get more specific? lol</p>
<p>True, but I am thinking I got that one right. In particular was correct. I cant wait to get my scores back and see that gleaming 800 on writing.</p>