<p>@ nelky I agree, I argued the same thing more or less earlier.</p>
<p>pedantic (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic)
Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner.
Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language.</p>
<p>So this is basically describes a teacher that would be like a stickler for the rules. Like someone who obsesses over trivial little points of grammar or someone who deducts points for not showing the 100% exact work for a math problem. I don’t feel like this applies to teachers who want to help students “develop virtues such as racial tolerance, honesty, and social responsibility”</p>
<p>I feel like pedantic means overly concerned with rules or the “right” way of doing things</p>
<p>Does anyone know what the OTHER answer choices to the following questions were?</p>
<p>reflective but informative
systematically discredits</p>
<p>what was trifling the answer too?</p>
<p>@onlyshallow, thanks! :3</p>
<p>For the library passage, was one of the answers like…“he doesn’t realize that the book he just bought is on one of the shelves?”</p>
<p>that wasnt it</p>
<p>@mckenax yeah I think so, It was something similar to that</p>
<p>“he doesn’t realize that the book he just bought is on one of the shelves?”</p>
<p>I thought that was the right answer?</p>
<p>I thought it was something like he bought the book electronically when it was in the library…honestly I’m just hoping to superscore above 2150, I’ve missed 3 CR’s so far, and I still think both passages talked about professional development with children.</p>
<p>^ Isn’t that the same thing?</p>
<p>@bannedhero, that wasn’t the answer. it was that he realized he just bought a book electronically while sitting in the library</p>
<p>^ Swoony is right. There was nothing to indicate that the book he had purchased was in the library, and the point of the question was the irony of the action he had just performed.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s what I thought.</p>
<p>For the question about the relationship between the two passages on college education, I think one of the choices was “the author of Passage 2 systematically discredits the FINDINGS in Passage 1.” The word findings threw me off because passage one wasn’t telling us anything about any findings, was it?</p>
<p>Do you remember the other answer choices on that question? I agree with you, but I don’t remember what my answer was.</p>
<p>The choice that has been debated alongside “the author of Passage 2 systematically discredits the FINDINGS in Passage 1” is that “the author of Passage 2 presents a view Passage 1 finds objectionable.”</p>
<p>I agree that Passage 2 does discredit Passage 1, however, I don’t know if there were actual findings in Passage 1 that would make both parts of that choice correct. The second choice makes a bit more sense only in the fact that both parts of it are applicable to both passages.</p>
<p>Also, one of the answers is definitely " passage 2 systematically discredits passage one" …
The author of passage one was Fish… look at this evidence directly from passage 2 </p>
<p>“In making this argument, Fish commits one of the basic errors identified in the previous chapter: he equates what an undergraduate education should accomplish with what professors can achieve in their classrooms. This is a cramped and excessively faculty-entered point of view.”</p>
<p>“Fish overlooks all that admissions policies, residential living arrangements, and extracurricular life can contribute to an undergraduate’s development/”</p>
<p>“Rather than deal with these findings, Fish commits another error common to faculty debates about undergraduate education.”</p>
<p>Ok, so the answer is definitely “systematically discredits”… cased close</p>
<p>“By ignoring the evidence entirely however, Fish ultimately renders his arguments unconvincing.”</p>
<p>In the CR passage, I think that they took out “Fish” and put something else in its place, and they didn’t say what the author of passage one’s name was… because that would make the answer too obvious</p>
<p>Maybe I’m crazy, but I remember I was stuck between the choice that I mentioned and the choice about buying a book electronically in a library. But I think it said specifically in the passage that he bought a physical copy electronically, while the answer choice said that he bought an electronic book. Is my memory just failing me or does anyone else remember that?</p>