October 2010 CR SAT Thread

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seems like this was a fairly hard test, so you may have a 780</p>

<p>^^i second that</p>

<p>agreed, user!</p>

<p>youcanttouchthis, no it wasn’t.</p>

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No, this questions was NOT experimental</p>

<p>Few disagreements… </p>

<p>36.Whom would it offend? - Discerning Moviegoers
I had nobody for that. It was a rhetorical question and then she explained the extremely small category of people, which she made sound very insignificant. Thinking about you’re answer though, it could go either way… hmm. </p>

<p>41.for question with 2 people, she wasn’t the only one that preferred less ornate writing
I said that she had followed in the footsteps of others but expanded on their works. Something like that, I don’t remember the exact wording. It made it sound like a spectrum with “waystations”, etc, so I interpreted as she was not the only one who wrote that way. </p>

<p>Do you remember what the options were for 64? I might have had something different, but maybe not. </p>

<p>The log cabin short passage was hard. I got the same answers as you, but it took awhile to come to those conclusions. </p>

<p>I’m ****ed that I had a few very stupid vocab errors that will probably knock be down to a -4 or so. I’d take a 770 or so, I guess… As long as my total is over 2200, I’ll be happy. I just need a solid score to back my ECs and I think I’ll be set for Brown/Harvard/Upenn. I mean, I’m taking these tests after a year spent speaking Spanish in Chile, that hurt my scores a bit, right? Hopefully they think so :)</p>

<p>You guys are making good points for the “probably not” answer. But what were the exact answer choices again? Does anyone remember? I think one of the reasons I chose probably may have to do with the fact that I was not particularly comfortable with the wordings of the probably not choices.</p>

<p>Antidote antidote antidote. I disagree.</p>

<p>Trojan War quote:
“It still remains a plausible model, DESPITE THE FACT that most scholars today doubt the existence of the Mycenaean empire, the Trojan War, and even Troy itself: plausible, but AS YET incapable of proof.”</p>

<p>That’s how i read into it. </p>

<p>it is a plausible MODEL. As in, it could have happened. That’s why it’s “probably not” not “definitely not.”
The sentence has a very sarcastic tone to it. It could be compared to, "The big bang could have not happened, despite the fact that all scientists think it did and all the evidence supports it, but of course there’s always an element of uncertainty.</p>

<p>@lonelywayfarer
I think you’re right. :frowning: Bye, bye 800.</p>

<p>Yea i understand what you are saying, but what were the exact answer choices?</p>

<p>(also “probably” always has an element of uncertainty as well)</p>

<p>what is the experimental section? could it be possible that there were two experimental reading sections? i had one with 23 questions.</p>

<p>i know i didn’t get a math one. i had the trojan, jump rope, newspaper, rewilding, kael…</p>

<p>i hope i didn’t get a writing experimental =(</p>

<p>how do you tell which ones were experimental and which ones werent?</p>

<p>I swear i got all the experimentals correct 100% and the movie critic passage screwed me over sooo badly.</p>

<p>a- probably not, because there’s no supporting evidence
b- probably not, because there’s not enough (something about literature)</p>

<p>Just figure out whatever everyone else had to determine which aren’t experimental. There may be a few different experimental CRs, but everyone will have the same scored sections.</p>

<p>okay, about Inevitable vs undesirable</p>

<p>the author clearly said/imply that we cannot avoid bad things but we should do rewielding because despite of disvantages, it’s still better than not doing it. He acknowledged that there are disadvantages that we would have to take. </p>

<p>Therefore, it should be inevitable. For those who are saying that it cannot be inevitable b.c that would contradict everything he says later(ex. why would he say we should do blahblah if it’s inevitable), well, “some disadvantages” are surely inevitable but this doesn’t mean we cant do anything.</p>

<p>it’s “undesirable”. i think the wording “DEFAULT scenario” made some people automatically think of “inevitable”.</p>

<p>but the question wasn’t asking if the AUTHOR thought the trojan war existed…it was asking in general if the public thought that it existed…and obviously it did cause thats what he/she said throughout the entire passage</p>

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I will refer to [a</a> post](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/760312-so-what-historically-easy-sat-administration-date-comments.html#12]a”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/760312-so-what-historically-easy-sat-administration-date-comments.html#12) from CC user fignewton who is very knowledgeable about the SAT and curves. The short answer is that the curve is not pre-determined. </p>

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<p>someone repost the consolidated list please !</p>

<p>the author clearly said/imply that we cannot avoid bad things but we should do rewielding because despite of disvantages, it’s still better than not doing it. He acknowledged that there are disadvantages that we would have to take.</p>

<p>there’s two different bad things. One was the extinction and such that would occur if we don’t rewild. The other was like maybe if we do rewild they may influence the environments, or something like that (some consequence of rewilding). The question was talking specifically about the bad things in lines something to something, which were the extinction ones, not bad things in general.</p>