@kentonpalmer
dictionary.reference.com: Dainty=“overly particular; finicky”
Merriam-Webster: Dainty=“marked by fastidious discrimination or finicky taste”
thefreedictionary.com=Dainty=“Fastidious or finicky”
@123awefafwe the author says “the most striking thing”
beside, for the same reason, it’s hard to say the author EXPLICITLY indicates an “dismissive” attitude.
I think for SAT attitude questions, mostly you just consider negative/positive, then the extent.
I dont think he was skeptical btw, we was certain so much so he thought that pundits were being manipulative. My reasoning was because hes so certain he didnt even have a shred of faith he just completely brushed it off, so i chose dismissive
It could still be correct, yes. Small differences in reasoning in questions like this always frustrated me the most. I would argue more about the reasoning, but without the two passages in front of me and the question I think I would end up making up false memories from what I “thought” I saw on the test so it would support my answer more. I can’t be sure.
So this is my list of controversial CR questions lol:
Rationale
Dismissive
Analytical
Sophisticated but fundamentally flawed
Popular appeal due to discussion
Ominous
Finicky
Hopeless and like a giant when handling the organisms because of the sheer size difference
Counterparts
Casts doubt
Details relatively unimportant
Jeez! there were a lot of debated questions!
By that definition i believe dainty means overly choosy not stubborn but eclectic but im not sureee
@kentonpalmer well… for the P1&P2 relationship question … did you put “P2 disproves P1” or “P2 casts doubt on P1” … that might be our dissent
for “fussy”=?
I think it’s “finicky”… since “fussy=finicky” according to barron, best SAT prep book ever…
The CR experimental was on Abraham Lincoln, and it was really easy.
@ekl2498 i have every single questionable the same as you except that i didnt answer counterparts. I think you should add the zen one to that list
To those that said rationale… you win. I now (regretfully) see that rationale is the most justifiable answer. So far I have missed dainty (but I will fight the college board over that one lol) and rationale. I’m praying by some miracle that I was correct about the teacher being determined to help her kids, but if I was wrong on that then my 800 is down the drain.
@ekl2498 Did you put disproves or casts doubt on the relationship between the teo paras? And yeah I think I chose the same answers as you did for the “controversial” questions
@kentonpalmer Yeah we have been agreeing on a lot of answers. I know for a fact I got slothful/conscientious wrong and supplement wrong which is so disappointing…I just wasn’t thinking.
I got a 730 on the unreliable June 6th test but I’ve gotten 780s on recent practice tests. CR was never my thing until recently before this test and idk why. I guess I just had the wrong approach.
Did no one get 4 Ds in a row for math??
@ScienceGeekGirl I put casts doubt (I edited that in there). What did you put?
@ScienceGeekGirl Casts doubt. It is known that because of the short length of a passage and because the author would risk his/her credibility by saying something is definitely wrong, the answer will never be “disproves”. At least that’s Erica Meltzer’s logic.
@elk2498 btw why do you still think it’s dismissive not incredulous if you put “cast doubts”
@ekl2498 Yay! I also put casts doubt.
Right now i have one blank one (questionable wrong). If someone i pull i high score ill be ecstatic. Criticalreading has always been something ive lacked in
@ScienceGeekGirl Yay!
@supercalif good point…I’m not 100% sure about dismissive. What was the exact question?
is the sunday sat the same thing