Sunday December 2010 SAT

<p>Wearing multiple hats had to do with distinguishing between the science and activism. The question asked for an example of a person wearing two hats, who (from the context referred to in the passage) did not carefully to distinguish between the truth underlying science and the fallibility underlying policy.</p>

<p>The answer I chose seemed consistent with the question, because the congress implied the efficacy of his legislation, without sufficient scientific background or knowledge to support it. In other words, the scientist mixed up the certitude of science with the impreciseness of perception.</p>

<p>Can you expand on your reasoning for the biologist as the answer?</p>

<p>[Goodbye</a> Tsugumi - Google Books](<a href=“Goodbye Tsugumi: A Novel - Banana Yoshimoto - Google Books”>Goodbye Tsugumi: A Novel - Banana Yoshimoto - Google Books)</p>

<p>page 22 is the maria and tsunami passage. :D</p>

<p>SC:
1.hubris
2.seminal
3.intransigent
4.given to…platitude
5.antithetical…adulatory
6.embezzlement question: complicity in
7.maya angelou: versatile
8.an island!
9.calm guy=measured
10.innovative…beneficial
11.immobility for spider
12discredit
13.impetus
14.compassion/perfection</p>

<p>Reading Passage
15.rainy day reading: author used words playfully
16.author valued reading more than her sisters did</p>

<p>Daddy with the French name job Passage
17.creative recombiner</p>

<p>Double Short Passage Walking
18.tone of walking passage: contrary
19.interconnectedness
20.use of scenery
21.ONE THAT WAS LIKE WHAT DO BOTH OF THESE PASSAGES DO??? </p>

<p>Japanese Girls Passage
22.characterization of Maria: extremely naive
23.The primary focus of the passage -Changed perception
24.what does it mean by ocean-She sees herself losing something that is irrreplaceable
25.why does Maria mention the times- to articulate a meaningful point across
26.Tsumugi’s tone when she talks to maria-indigant rebuke
27.maria feels something for Tsumugi-she finally understands tsumugi
28.previous thought of tsumugi: never exprienced loss/sadness.
29.losing something and gaining something is central for exchange/change
30.tsumugi has vulnerability
31.honest=frank
32.continuity under apparent contrasts
33.assumption of shared feelings of ocean</p>

<p>Art Forger Passage
34.mantle=appearance
35.special techiniques of forger are attributes
36.historian had “admiration and disdain” for forger
37.historian was detective
38.forger had great ability and productivity
39.other forgers were caught for following the masterpieces too closely</p>

<p>TV, Reading Passage
40.fifth, seventh, and ninth grade ==> different experience
41.hard to deny TV to children
42.“literature attitude”=the ability to think critically about what you read/skepticism
43.countering the author’s point: skills needed to understand programs geared towards children are different from the skills needed for adult
44.barrier between children and adult: demarcation between readers who can think critically
45.reading is a hierarchy
46.Communication is going back to old times before reading</p>

<p>Political Scientists Passage
47.environmentalist activism motivated by anger
48.first environmental passage “accepting a trend”
49.“two hatters” biologist and monkeys
50.Passage 1 consistent with civic textbooks
51.Some scientists are political
52.farmers accidently plowing rare wildflowers</p>

<p>To amnc11,</p>

<p>If it said the congressperson was an enviromental activist, I would agree. However it’s saying that he enacted legislation in regard to an enviromental problem. This isn’t wearing 2 hats, that’s his job. Thus, the bioloist going out to help monkeys isn’t doing his job as a scientific thinker, but rather as an activist. The Biologist was wearing 2 hats.
This is almost one of those questions where you have to eliminate the 4 wrong answer choiches.</p>

<p>Also, does anyone know anything about the SC with the word seminal?</p>

<p>I think you are right jrazi123. Thank you very much for clarifying that for me.</p>

<p>The SC looked something like this:</p>

<p>Edgar Allen Poe’s work on a novel was “seminal” to detective writing.</p>

<p>does anyone remeber anymore math problems</p>

<p>The definition of Seminal is either “original” or “having possibilities of future development”. Are you sure it was seminal? I can’t remember the question…AHHH. What were the other answer choiches? amnc11 or anyone else who remembers?</p>

<p>Also, Question 20 of section #5 was very difficult. Does anyone remember what they got?? It was math. The question had a graph labled like a, b,d,x, and then it asked you which of the following are true. It then made you do painstaking calculations. I got both II and III were correct. Anyone else???</p>

<p>yes II and III were correct. Does anyone know which math was experimental</p>

<p>Seminal means highly original and influential to the development of future events or works. A seminal moment is is formative and of consequence. If you google “seminal,” “poe,” and “detective,” you find thousands of websites that use seminal in the same way as the SC.</p>

<p>I am wondering why you don’t think seminal makes sense in context?</p>

<p>seminal is correct</p>

<p>Does any1 else remember anything from math or anything else??</p>

<p>wow this curve fo rmath was horrrible!</p>

<p>54- 800
53 - 760
52 - 740
51 - 720
50 - 710
49 - 700</p>

<p>how do you know that is the math curve???</p>

<p>how do you know that is the math curve???</p>

<p>how do you know that is the math curve???</p>

<p>because sunday tests are old saturday tests so the curves are all predetermined. </p>

<p>This was the curve for that test</p>

<p>which test was this exactly? where did you find that exact curve?</p>