SAT January 2012 - Critical Reading

<p>Local to global
Small to big
Regional to state</p>

<p>I really don’t know how to make the analogy simpler; I mean, I’ve done so many practice tests that I don’t know how else to explain this.</p>

<p>Edit: Also, can you explain why it’s important for him to be a social engineer? What was the answer choice that you chose?</p>

<p>@DA
HE WENT TO SOLVE LOCAL… INSTANTLY SAYS THAT HE WENT SOMEWHERE SMALLER. In fact, the traffic guy became a celebrity and gained global recognition and if i am correct the government official was a well known or accomplished man who went to a local cause. That is completely parallel it is in the referenced text that he went local although he was well known</p>

<p>and please…we are all capable, I myself have done some practice tests. In my opinion, that question was obvious to me too, we attacked it differently obviously.</p>

<p>Even after ignoring what Divy is saying about going from big to local or whatever, you must be able to acknowledge that the lines referenced state that he was a traffic engineer. However, it says that he was as much a social engineer than anything, teaching people against their will.</p>

<p>The answer that both divy and I chose was the one about the government official who works with energy (traffic) becoming a science (social) teacher.</p>

<p>To be honest, I think my logic makes a crapload of sense. It is just a matter of interpretation.</p>

<p>and social engineer shows a different field he also was involved in in addition to traffic. the recycling guy wasnt teaching recycling and in the process teaching how people should live. The teacher was a well known government guy and went to help young people.</p>

<p>The traffic guy BECAME a celebrity and gained global recognition. How? Because he traveled globally to accomplish the deed of teaching social/educational whatever you want to call it. You’re saying that the government official(who is nationally known and already accomplished) went to a local scale(you’re getting to hung up on the word local; they are not logically comparable to the local provinces that the traffic guy went to and the transition from a government official to the local cause) </p>

<p>The transition of the traffic guy is from local provinces to a global celebrity status.
The government official is ALREADY a nationally known and accomplished man who goes to the local level to help his cause.</p>

<p>The test was trying to test if you could pick out the ANALAGOUS situation(NOT a literal comparison of educational, social, or local transition.)</p>

<p>Yes, you can even ignore my statement but I feel like that question is up in the air purely for the field of expertise. If the SAT didnt want you to take out of it the fact that he was teaching people socially it wouldnt have referenced it. Although the sat is to trick, it tricks by the line reference. THe line referenced the social portion for a region, had it restricted that line reference to only the fact that he boated to paris for traffic laws then it would undeniably have been recycling, but that was the trick, it referenced social so people could analyze the career change, to an extent. The other is two narrow to the lines referenced.</p>

<p>@oo00oo
I agree about that traffic question, I think I remember answering “lack of traffic laws” for something or sometin like that
As for the others in debate:
I think it was phenomenon and not theory. This is because the internal clock itself was a phenomenon. At the beginning of the passage, there was no THEORY about it. The whole point was that it was confusing and nobody knew how to explain it. Later on in the passage, the tests/experiments were not to prove or disprove a theory, but rather come to conclusions and learn more about the mysterious phenomenon. There was no concrete theory in the first place.</p>

<p>The philosophy/methodology one is really hard to debate. I think we might be incorrectly remembering what the choices were. I chose philosophy, and I’m pretty sure that the other parts of the answer made sense.</p>

<p>Fine ignore that, only go with what magenta said. He was a great energy (=traffic) guy who went somewhere else (=paris) to teach (=social) something different.</p>

<p>Just to clear things up, i DO understand what you guys are saying; that was my first answer. I will play along and try to explain why it’s wrong.
"But Eno, who became a global celebrity of sorts, boating off to Paris and S</p>

<p>@evil
You chose exactly my opposites! Haha! I think it was the theory that outside things affected this internal clock, and it was obviously tested. the Phenommenon is too narrow to the whole passage and if I remember correctly there was supposed to be a resolution but nothing was solved, how do you solve a natural phenommenon that was not an issue to begin with?
I agree the other is really tough to debate. The methodology, in my opinion, was right because the other passage acted it out. The philosophy part is right, but I dont think it was as much described in detail as he acted it out with the camera.</p>

<p>@Divy what do you usually score on cr</p>

<p>@evilla </p>

<p>Thanks I really feel that it was the lack not the need…can anyone else corroborate our conjecture?</p>

<p>Usually 700-750. This was my stronger showing, in my opinion, -1 on CS and right now between -2- -5 I think on Passages.</p>

<p>@ooo000oooo000
I can corroborate, I think it said “lack”…</p>

<p>@evil
Those answers sound perfect to me</p>

<p>I don’t think the point is that he transferred occupations completely, it’s that despite having knowledge for one particular area of a general field, they expanded outwards. Eno, was a traffic engineer, yet he managed to stretch what he did into social as well.</p>

<p>The energy official does the same thing. Energy falls under science, and he decides to teach science. However, knowing energy doesn’t necessarily constitute knowing science. Similarly, Eno knows traffic stuff, but does not necessarily know social stuff. Yet they both do whatever they do.</p>

<p>I compiled a final list of everything I saw on here, but it’s not too organized, but hope it helps! :)</p>

<p>Actors histrionic—overexaggerated or w/e?
The aging thing – quackery, forestall
Alexanders- speaker drank her in because they were captivated
Singing passage- in awe
Rides on—depend
Traffic-recycling
Internal clocks- b/c of sun
Keats- voluptuous
Speaker was adroit, erudition
Photographer- what the guy meant when he said, “oh you brought a camera”
Singing- dramatic
Alexanders- aloof/proud
Alexanders- police was being polite
Foreshadowing future stuff
Course = progression
Man was able to tell future- prescient
Stubborn girl- obdurate
Sleep cycle- describe phenomenon
Traffic- lack of agreed upon rules
Traffic- streets shared by motorists and vehicles
Ruminate
Alexanders- he was contented
Meticulous/aberrant
Sleep cycle- objective & instructive
Inclusive/selective
Docile- dog & vet
Traffic- resentment of limitations
Traffic- lot of influence
Traffic- people should take part in social change
Photography- Is photographer distorting ppl depicted?
Traffic- help both traffic and behavioral probs
Biological clocks- qualify statement
Traffic- cars going really slowly back in the day, entertaining fact
Cold-blooded = rational
Farming- trading with other villages
Farming- cultivated distant lands
Blogs- commenting on contemporary practices
Traffic- Morocco/Montana- standardization had occurred
Traffic- example of different traffic signals in diff areas- standardization necessary
Blogs- p1- benefits, p2- ambivalence
Blogs- both authors think private info is put in blogs
Biological clocks- half a century later, experiment done again B/C it gave scientific evidence
Blogs- strangers are examples of typical blog readers
Traffic- bicycle lanes- couldn’t reach consensus
Photography- skeptics, social injustice
Photography- technical skills not as important as experience photographer gets
Marie curie- unique
One of the sentence completions- cathartic
Biological clocks- long flights = internal clock adapts to surroundings
Photography- passage 1 lays out philosophy, p2 talks about it in detail.
Photography- job of author of p2- capture pics of people in certain moments
Journalist instead of writing notes, transcribes it. Transcribe- answer
Literary output- diverse
Traffic- what’s meaning of questions regarding diff. color lights and colorblindness? To highlight issues that needed to be solved
Biological clocks- get rid of independence
Alexanders- author has mixed feelings about going back
Penicillin- accidental…favorable
Photography- use of “works” – operate
Photography- methodology for p1, and p2 had some reservations/cautions</p>

<p>That is an entirely correct rationalization, yet its an interpretation. The problem I had with that answer was it went directly against the notion of a local beneficiary to a global celebrity. The government official was already so widely known, and becoming a local science teacher seemed non-analagous to the situation in the article. Sure, you can argue that the government official was exercising different areas of energy and science, but it still doesn’t change the fact that Eno was a GLOBAL celebrity who continued to shape the area of traffic regulations NATIONALLY beyond his initial social teachings. The governemnt official-now-gone-highschool-teacher is just a high school teacher; has his transition from government official to high school teacher enable him to teach more than just the field of energy? Yes. Has he become a nationally influential individual who became a global celebrity? No. Infact, he’s gone a step backwards.</p>

<p>Like I said before, you can easily argue the change in occupation. The problem is the direction of that change(where eno went from a no one to a global celebrity and the government official essentially stepped down from his pedestle to teacher of a smaller audience) is not ANALAGOUS to Eno.</p>

<p>Oh, and regarding my list above…just a couple may be repeats, sorry about that!</p>

<p>Sorry but does anyone remember what the question that the answer was ‘cathartic’ was about? I don’t remember it…</p>