<p>On the critical reading passage, I kind of disagree that those are the only three that we have not reached a consensus on. I think that the diaries vs. clients question is still somewhat up in the air. (I have seen quite a few people say that diaries is correct). Additionally, neurological vs. rational analysis question is still, in my opinion, unresolved. I can’t say and debate them cuz ive got a bit a of HW, but just felt like giving my 2 cents on the issue.
For the other questions i think the answers are strenght of response, incomplete sensory data, and commerce all of which I am fairly sure about. (at least ALOT more sure than the questions mentioned above)</p>
<p>Rtgrove, I agree with your answers to the 3 questions I posted, but I don’t think anyone can really tell with those.</p>
<p>I feel completely confident in my correspondence with clients answer, I read the passage closely and it had nothing to do with his personal life. The main idea of the passage with was continually referenced was the fact that he was a great businessman but the secrets of his business were unknown, thus correspondence with clients would best fill that gap. There was plenty of evidence attesting to his personal qualities, but the passage lacked many facts about his business.</p>
<p>I guess I see what you’re saying about the neurological vs. rational q, but again I feel quite certain that neurological –> psychological need is correct. The second part of the passage told of the night sky as a huge expanse that humans simply can’t bear to look at without breaking it into sections in their minds with constellations. There really wasn’t anything rational about it, and I’ve seen people saying that they talked about naming the constellations rationally, but I felt the author was more making the point that the constellations were named rather arbitrarily, when he talked about one constellation being initially named some kind of bird, and after that people called it a bunch of different type of birds, but the original mindset stuck, even though it didn’t look like a bird. I like to think I read the passages really closely - and I read the brain passage especially close, given it’s confusing nature. I feel pretty sure in these two answers because the alternatives just don’t make sense given the context.</p>
<p>Sorry for writing a novel here…haha</p>
<p>Im pretty confident the answers to those are:
neurological to psychological need
incomplete sensory data
commerce
clients</p>
<p>AND WHAT WAS THE QUESTION AND other choices for the flexibility of mind/strength of response question? i dont remember</p>
<p>I think the question was something like, what is the author trying to show by explaining this phenomenon of the brain? I remember the answer choices were strength of response, flexibility of mind, origin of an impulse…etc? I’m not quite sure on the question though, don’t take my word for it :p</p>
<p>sorry to go back to rational/neurological question but wouldn’t it be intuitive for the brain to make a complete image and rational to simply see figures instead of scattered points? And plus then they talked about the Enlightenment, and naming constellations after rational ideas (not necessarily rational right now, but rational at that time)</p>
<p>He specifically said there was a need for humans to make order from the chaotic scatter of stars by creating constellations. THis was the sentence right after the “transition”</p>
<p>^ so making order would be rational?</p>
<p>I think it was more psychological need than rational. You said "wouldn’t it be intuitive for the brain to make a complete image and rational to simply see figures instead of scattered points? " But seeing figures instead of scattered points and the brain making a complete image are basically the same thing… They arent as different as intuitive vs. rational…</p>
<p>^you’re right the way I stated it made them seem more or less the same.</p>
<p>I picked intuitive because as humans have a “natural tendency” to make pictures out of dots and that transitions in to rational because instead of naming constellations being random, scientists after the Enlightenment started to name them after more rational ideas.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was neurological to psychologic need.</p>
<p>Toss Up Questions:
- Brain passage – strength of response
- Brain passage – incomplete sensory data
- Brain passage – Neurological -> psychological
- Forten passage – commerce
- Forten passage – correspondence with clients
- Forten passage – Massive Census – shows black population</p>
<p>Heres what I put, in retrospect, I’m pretty sure I got number 6 wrong. I remember I had complexity of brain originally as my answer, but I changed it to incomplete sensory data.</p>
<p>yea, i dont think number 6 is right. It wasnt just asking what was the importance of those words. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY it was like why does the author mention the “massive census”, so you had to look at what it was used for/context as well.</p>
<p>None of the constellations were named after rational ideas, I don’t know where you’re going with that. The author talked about how arbitrarily the constellations were named, and how none of them actually looked much like the things they were called. The brain is programmed to take dots and make them into full images - that’s neurological. I tend to connote intuitive as being more to do with hunches and gut feelings, which would make it a good “trick” word for the SAT to use. The second part of the passage explained again and again how the humans would look at the night sky and they had this need to map it out and make sense of it, they couldn’t just look at it otherwise. There’s nothing rational about that; it shows an inherent psychological need by the people to organize the stars, though.</p>
<p>Yeah, TSC, I don’t think that number 6 is right, but I put the same answers for the other 5. I still feel pretty good about the answer to the census Q being “shows how he had to balance his interests”</p>
<p>Balance of interests is right. But wasn’t there 1 other census question before that one?</p>
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Like I said before it was rational at the time…</p>
<p>But I see where you’re going…you’re probably right :/</p>
<p>And I agree with balance of interests…</p>
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<p>Yeah and the answer was a sense of discretion I believe.</p>
<p>Yeah, if it was rational at the time, though, you can bet it probably wasn’t what they were going for. Stupid SAT and their tricks. And those stupid Easter Island statue topplers who ruined my 80 on writing. Ugh. And that damn weatherman passage and “nonchalant yet reassuring” for ruining my CR score for sure.</p>
<p>And does anyone remember a question where there answer was “an inherent something or other”? Maybe on the brain passage? I can’t quite remember.</p>
<p>^essay?! What essay? This is the PSAT…</p>