Official US November SAT Discussion II (Test with Negative Campaigns)

<p>@strom “wild or excessive” might also disqualify fanaticism. Is it really “wild or excessive” because some penguins decided to stay where they were. The devotion part does fit, which is why I’m leaning more towards it. </p>

<p>We have to think about how the CB thinks about it though. Would they use fanaticism or pluralism? I know that in the passages, extremes like fanaticism wouldn’t fit but I’m not sure if that rule applies to SC. Pluralism doesn’t fit as well either but it seems like something the CB would use.</p>

<p>Oh, I just remembered a really simple math one… If a triangle has angles 80, x, and x, solve for x. Answer is 50 degrees (180 - 80) /2.</p>

<p>i picked pluralism because the penguins appeared more to be wanting to stick together than anything else mentioned in the sentence completion… if there were so many birds, and the tendency was that very few left the island… i don’t see where the wild zeal or obsession is although we personally might draw that from our own conclusions? i also don’t see the argument for atavism because if it has to do with going back to ancestral habits/characteristics, there was no mention of ancestors at all?</p>

<p>EDIT: what was the math problem with the answer of 4.8?
it was the third grid-in</p>

<p>also, for negative campaining
what did the word “loaded” most likely mean?
charged
abundant</p>

<p>Fraction of test takers that scored above 10 on the first test and above (or below?) 40 on the second: 1/2 or 0.5
Number of books bought from the poet: 200
Perimeter of Hexagon: 144
350% greater question: 5/21
Subset question with factors of 36 and 3: (2,4,9) - debated on but this seems to be the general consensus
Circles A,B,C share radius r question: 2 radical 2 r
Year that 1996 was 16x: 1980
If a=3, b=6: “a” cannot be 2 - debated on, no unequivocal answer
3 in digits number, four numbers to the 7th power: 7
(1/2)^X graph: ?? always decreasing/ always increased and decreasing
75 (angle of double bisect)
9<n^2<40 what is n: 4, 5, or 6 acceptable
4 (undefined at what positive number because 4-4 is 0)
easy MC question: angle is x,x,80. what is x? 50</p>

<p>Boyfriend and girlfriend article can be found: Consequences - Penelope Lively - Google Books (first page of book)</p>

<p>The author would agree that politicians should: talk more about their own qualifications
Jigsaw: Make the idea more accessible
Dermis question: Pun vs Defining a term - minor debate (more for defining a term)
How the friend treated the boyfriend: Apathy
How did the father feel (cool touch): Reserved
Support a previous claim. Small passage.
The magnitude of her memory
Figurative language.
Positive italicized: unexpected way
Main idea: Describe the origin of the marriage
Point of the painting: Memorialize their encounter
Tectonic plates nuance question (tectus): explain the nature of plates actions?
Ads: Potentially misleading
Ad passage- what was the meaning of loaded: charged</p>

<p>officious
portended
fanaticism.
ostracized… unwitting
sanctuary
coagulate
articulate
rational… intuitive
appetite… enormous
delinquent
unanticipated…placating
verve (experimental?)
patrician (experimental?) </p>

<p>DEBATES:
Question about construction hats: sincere or humorous? (more support for sincere)</p>

<p>How did her friend feel about the situation: Agitated or Jubilant? key words in passage: excited anxiety, “I don’t know what your parents are going to say”, twittering</p>

<p>Penguin question: Pluralism vs. Fanaticism vs. Atavism -debate primarily between pluralism and fanaticism</p>

<p>Capacity vs. preference</p>

<p>Peregrination: Movement v. exploration</p>

<p>i put petrified but looking back, i should’ve put agitated
matches context way more than jubilant or petrified do</p>

<p>I fixed it. I don’t remember what I put for the nuance thing :(</p>

<p>and did you get jubilant or agitated?</p>

<p>It was def jubilant
The only choices for that one i remember are jubilant, suspicious
Was the zora hurston experimental? thats the one with verve</p>

<p>zora hurston was not experimental but verve is the right answer for
what did the author say zora neal hurston’s last letters lacked?</p>

<p>i was stuck between verve and fortitude on that one, but i put verve</p>

<p>Added two new debates: (5 in total now)
DEBATES:
Question about construction hats: sincere or humorous? (more support for sincere)</p>

<p>How did her friend feel about the situation: Agitated or Jubilant? key words in passage: excited anxiety, “I don’t know what your parents are going to say”, twittering</p>

<p>Penguin question: Pluralism vs. Fanaticism vs. Atavism -debate primarily between pluralism and fanaticism</p>

<p>Capacity vs. preference</p>

<p>Peregrination: Movement v. exploration</p>

<p>I put preference because it wasn’t about her capacity of friends but her preference of friends (choosing people she wanted to be friends with and using her skills to deny people who weren’t up to par).</p>

<p>I put exploration because it is a course of travel/ journey. From the context, I remember the way “movement” was used, it didn’t suggest that the tectonic plates “moved” but rather the scientists were trying to start a movement to convince others that their theory was valid. I put exploration because a journey is similar to exploring and would fit the context because they were exploring the theory of tectonic plates. I could be wrong but someone should try to find the passage.</p>

<p>edit: passage found here: <a href=“The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science - Natalie Angier - Google Books”>The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science - Natalie Angier - Google Books;

<p>even though hypothesis and conjecture were used, I feel it’s more like movement now :(</p>

<p>the words before the blank in the penguin was something like " almost to the point of_____"</p>

<p>capacity vs preference? i put capacity then switched to suitability because it said it should her generousness as well as her prickliness she was capable of dropping her friends<br>
i thought capacity was put there as a trick for “capable of” – it didn’t seem right to me
for peregrination i put movement because they interchanged the word drift in continental drift with continental peregrination so i assumed it had something to do with drifting or moving</p>

<p>after reading the techtonics passage it’s definitely movement</p>

<p>omg lol i don’t know how you guys remember the articles enough to find the articles that they used. i don’t even read the entire article</p>

<p>Yeah, I don’t want to admit defeat but I’m 90% sure it’s movement now.</p>

<p>Did you look at the passage for the boyfriend/girlfriend agitated/jubilant and capacity/preference one yet?</p>

<p>It can be found: <a href=“Consequences - Penelope Lively - Google Books”>Consequences - Penelope Lively - Google Books; first page</p>

<p>agitated seems to be better now</p>

<p>For peregrinations, why is transformation wrong?</p>

<p>For the Lorna Passage:</p>

<p>“In due course, she brought him to the house ad presented him to her parents, who were initially gracious, if a touch cool.”</p>

<p>*** it is reserved.</p>

<p>“They were married at Finsbury Town Hall. The witnesses were Matt’s friend Lucas Talbott and Lorna’s old school friend Elaine, who was in a lather of excited anxiety and kept repeating, “I don’t know what your parents are going to say</p>

<p>“She was in a lather of excited anxiety” (lather means an agitated state!!!) so it is clearly the correct answer</p>

<p>for transformation, i marked it wrong because nothing was transforming :s
the whole layout of pangaea was being moved around but nothing was physically being morphed into something else</p>

<p>I put " preference" since the character talking about different attitudes put forth to different friends. </p>

<ul>
<li>I put “movement” since the passage or that certain paragraph was talking about the movement of the land masses - so I thought exploring the land masses was awkward</li>
</ul>