<p>Was the math question with the order of like 7 people, 2 sitting next to each other, 5!*6 or something like that?</p>
<p>I know what you’re talking about severed. It’s about the gel, I believe.</p>
<p>For the aloe vera, it’s definitely “is.”</p>
<p>“from whose leaves IS extracted a gel.” If you mess around with the syntax, this sentence could also read, “A gel is extracted from the leaves.”</p>
<p>“The author was a writer seeking a subject.”
i think thats the rite answer, there was really nothing bout the mother’s attitude, even before the girl wanted to kno because her mother’s stifled attitude, but she defiently wanted itt now, i agree with bschenkel</p>
<p>bschenkel speaks truth.</p>
<p>nmehta4-
I got the feeling from the passage that the writer was curious throughout childhood but was discouraged due to her mom’s matter-of-fact attitude, etc.</p>
<p>I had it narrowed down to this answer and the one you put and ended up putting the “attitude stifled her” due to the above reason.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Aw shucks, guys! <em>Virtual blush</em></p>
<p>i agree with the chinese mother question. the mother’s attitude “stifled her interest” because as a child, the author didn’t think that her mother’s stories were a big deal because her mother kinda told the stories in a “no big deal” kind of way</p>
<p>Mrniceguy, I had the same rationale initially, but then I realized that nothing in the passage supports that childhood curiosity. On the contrary, the author even states, at one point, that she was blase about her mother’s past, and not necessarily because her mother stifled that curiosity.</p>
<p>does anyone have a breakdown of some questions that have been discussed in the math section and what sections they were actually in, like maybe which were experimental…?</p>
<p>That reminds me of the question about why she didn’t question her mother as a child. She divulged information in such a resolute manner that it discouraged questioning.</p>
<p>does anyone remember the answer choices to the two short biography passages?</p>
<p>^ Oh…I thought I had found something but maybe when I was going through the passage, I misinterpreted certain statements. I remember that the first half of the passage seemed to reveal that the child was blase; however, the second half seemed to show that she would have been interested had her mother been more open about it.</p>
<p>I dunno.</p>
<p>I remember a question about what the second passage writer would say to the first about embellishing biographies. I said something like Writer 2 would say that it was neccessary.</p>
<p>I agree to a certain extent with blackdragon, but here’s the gist of that question: What changed the author’s attitude as an adult?</p>
<p>I would argue that, although the mother did stifle her curiosity and yadda-yadda-yadda, we’re supposed to determine what liberated the author from her earlier mindset–not what caused it per se.</p>
<p>And I agree with ALTRUIST about the “matter-of-fact tone” answer.</p>
<p>yea by putting “mother stifled interest” you are implying that some attitude cahnged, no attitude changed, she was interested in the very begginning, she wouldnt talk bout she put it aside, then what, something had to have occured,</p>
<p>Ah…I see what you guys are saying…</p>
<p>Darn, that may be another missed CR question.</p>
<p>I was about to make another choice about that, but I caught a glimpse about how the mother divulged some information in a FINAL manner inviting no further question. </p>
<p>It’s a good thing that I saw that. I never read the passages. I just go straight to the questions and scan for the answers. I guess I end up reading 45% of the passage just checking my answers. It works out well and I finish 10 minutes ahead of everyone else.</p>
<p>She was interested in her mother’s past. Near the middle of the passage, she discussed how she felt alien growing up and could not relate to her relatives or her family friends at all. She felt like a bird hitting a glass (or something like that). This showed a desire for her to know her mother’s past, which her mother successfully stifled for some time until she started writing her book. Therefore, the correct answer to that question is “her mother’s attitude.”</p>
<p>I believe the “disadvantaged” question did have an error. Of course, I don’t remember the exact sentence now, so I can’t tell you precisely what the error was. I agree with jadore that there were only 5 Es among the Identifying Sentence Errors.</p>
<p>And the “gel” question was “is,” since the subject of “is” is “gel,” not “leaves.” (ETS inverted the normal order of the subject and verb to confuse test-takers.)</p>
<p>I do have a question about the Improving Paragraphs question (the very last one) that concerned which sentence to delete from the passage. Most people chose sentence 5, but I still haven’t seen any good reasoning for choosing that sentence yet. Sentence 4 mentioned her multi-colored bands on her braces, implying that they adorn her smile. And Sentence 5 discusses how braces can improve one’s health as well as one’s appearance. Sentence 5 seems to follow from Sentence 4. Can someone explain why he or she chose to delete Sentence 5??</p>