PSAT Wednesday CR Discussion

<p>^^^To what does question does ‘a breakthrough is going to happen’ refer?</p>

<p>Yeah the answer for the one writer had ‘contemporaries’ in the answer</p>

<p>Black writer:

  1. the answer about contemporaries praising him
  2. “wit…cutting through trees with ax…” I put “warm and sentimental”. not sure about that one though.</p>

<p>anyone remember the cosmology questions? i was totally demolished on that little paragraph.</p>

<p>the first CR section was, in my opinion, just HARD.</p>

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<p>I agree…I don’t remember any of my answers saying anything about the accomplishments of the brain o_o</p>

<p>the ax referred to his penetrating style or something like that.</p>

<p>@Student1111 - Agreed, it was something about “penetrating” or “piercing” or something, which fit the axe metaphor.</p>

<p>An axe doesn’t sound warm and sentimental to me. :p</p>

<p>lol iwantthis</p>

<p>“I agree…I don’t remember any of my answers saying anything about the accomplishments of the brain o_o”</p>

<p>There were two questions. One referred to passage 1 and referred to the section where passage one was talking about the things that the mind can do or something like that. The answer was to show the complexity of the mind or something along those lines</p>

<p>The other question talked about those scientist (copernicus, dalton…) to which the answer was to show place of humans in the world</p>

<p>^I don’t remember actually. Too many hours ago…</p>

<p>Dang, I put disrupt/quantify (i think?) for the blood pressure one…I also got the question about historical anecdotes wrong (I put vociferous instead of apocryphal).
At least I’m a sophomore :D, there’s always next year.</p>

<p>^^^Yeah, the answer to the first questions was something about the unique abilities of the mind.</p>

<p>Does anyone recall the any of the other potential answers for the questions about:</p>

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<li>the repetition of “showed”</li>
<li>the benefits of the French court systems</li>
<li>what the court systems in NY and somewhere else were doing</li>
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<p>Thank you!!</p>

<p>So is December the absolute earliest that we get our scores??
Don’t think that I can wait that long</p>

<p>@elfinjarro</p>

<p>-the repetition of “showed”: we humans are not as special as we think we are in the grand scheme of things (eg, all the discoveries made by the scientists)
-French court system: doesn’t suppress evidence/truth can be brought to light or something
-court systems in NY: I don’t remember, sorry</p>

<p>The court systems in NY and somewhere else were attempting to combat a problem, I believe.</p>

<p>Yes, exactly</p>

<p>Jw. when does the Collegeboard release this test for sale on its website?</p>

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<p>It was something in DC, I think, but I agree that it was giving an example of how they’ve attempted to “curb the effects” of the problem or something. Unless I’m thinking of another question…</p>

<p>SENTENCE COMPLETION:
Placid
Sleep
Apocryphal
Foreboding… Elation
Profound
Curtail
Impair…minimize</p>

<h2>Exemplary…commendable</h2>

<p>JUDICIAL SYSTEM
Lawyer’s tone = affronted
“very understandable” = sympathetic
Overall a critical of law system
French system less likely to manipulate facts
The quote at the end infers that left at its current state, people will stop trusting social system</p>

<h2>NY Judiciary Court was example of efforts at curbing the problem</h2>

<p>MEXICAN MARTA
Father is sociable… reserved
Daughter asks in an “earnest” tone
Egypt = shows fathers breadth of knowledge
Daughter kept her promise
Daughter didn’t want father to be distracted</p>

<h2>The fisherman’s quote qualified a previous statement</h2>

<p>DESCARTES AND DUALISM…
cautionary… stirred up
Humans overemphasize their distinctiveness
Bunch of atoms = less appealing</p>

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Why buy the test when you get your booklet back for free along with your scores in December?</p>