<p>What’d everyone think of the test?
I don’t think it was as hard as June’s and I noticed that we had the same passage about Grief.</p>
<p>Also, it looks like this was the same test as the November 2006 one: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/257185-official-literature-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/257185-official-literature-thread.html</a> and the June 2007 one: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/352474-june-2-sat-ii-literature.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-subject-tests-preparation/352474-june-2-sat-ii-literature.html</a></p>
<p>Passages from the test:</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.bartleby.com/101/681.html]681”>681. Grief - Collection at Bartleby.com]681</a>. Grief. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The Oxford Book of English Verse<a href=“Grief,%20Passionless%20Despair”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Berryman.14.html]John”>http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/Berryman.14.html]John</a> Berryman, “Life, friends, is boring”<a href=“Life%20is%20boring”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.online-literature.com/donne/718/]In”>In Memoriam A.H.H. by Lord Alfred Tennyson]In</a> Memoriam A.H.H. by Lord Alfred Tennyson<a href=“There%20rolls%20the%20deep,%20CXXIII%20on%20webpage”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“LISTSERV 16.0 - Archives - Error”>LISTSERV 16.0 - Archives - Error]LISTSERV</a> 16.0 - WOM-PO Archives<a href=“Women,%20writing,%20copying%20men”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Jazz - Toni Morrison - Google Books”>Jazz - Toni Morrison - Google Books]Jazz</a> - Toni Morrison - Google Books<a href=“Violet%20and%20Joe%20on%20Train”>/url</a></p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/bleakhouse/2/]Bleak”>Bleak House by Charles Dickens: Chapter 1]Bleak</a> House by Charles Dickens: Chapter 1<a href=“Fog,%20mud,%20soot”>/url</a></p>
<p>I think the only one I can’t find is the geese passage.</p>
<p>Found the geese passage: <a href=“http://nomadism.org/pdf/bluehigh.pdf[/url]”>http://nomadism.org/pdf/bluehigh.pdf</a> (Starts at “Beware”)</p>
<p>I actually recall the grief passage from one of the english APs from last year, I think english lit. It made for an interesting juxtaposition between the two tests; My take away is that the SAT2 questions were a little harder.</p>
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<li><p>For the geese passage, what was the answer to the question about the explosion?</p></li>
<li><p>In the “There rolls the deep” passage, how are lines 3 and 4 different from line 1?</p></li>
<li><p>For the “Life is boring” passage, was the answer ‘disillusionment’ or something like that? I think I put something else, was this the first question of the passage. I think I had ‘scholar’ something for that one.</p></li>
<li><p>Can someone jog my memory on the “Fog, mud, soot passage” about what the purpose of the layers of soot compounding is? Is it something along the lines of linking commercial and natural?</p></li>
<li><p>Is the primary purpose of the “Fog, mud, soot passage” to to show gross ineptitude of legal system?</p></li>
<li><p>What was the answer to the roman numeral question in the “Fog, mud, soot passage” about the first 3 paragraphs? I think I put 1 and 2. I know the choices were I) emblematic of urban conditions II) something about the urban poor and III) corrupt judicial system.</p></li>
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<p>Does anyone have information on past Literature curves?</p>
<p>for the life is boring one, i said that he sounded like an informal lecturer or something… i don’t think i did so well :(</p>
<p>@highlyedumacated
Do you remember what the other options were? I didn’t put lecturer because he addresses ‘friends’ and not students. I think I put something like ‘scholar’ because he talks about literature and art.</p>
<p>For that particular question of the Berryman poem, I put (someone) who “pretends to be negative.” I don’t know if that’s the scholar. And also for the speaker’s tone or attitude I put “wry descriptions”…I don’t remember disillusionment as one of the choices. </p>
<p>The Tennyson poem. I put “reverse order” or something like that for the first question. </p>
<p>I put “gross ineptitude of the legal system,” but I feel like it could’ve been “decaying London”…I really don’t know. For the roman numerals question I put all three.</p>
<p>^ I’m almost certain it’s the “gross ineptitude of the legal system,” for that question. I remember it being fairly obvious.</p>
<p>yup. i also put the gross “ineptitute of the legal system.” i felt that it wasn’t the “decaying london” choice, because that choice said something about the speaker also attack “english culture” or something, which i’m sure he wasn’t. </p>
<p>the “friends” part really struck me as informal, so i picked the answer choice with the work informal in it. i’m so sorry. i have no idea what the rest of the choice said. i swear, these memories are being repressed for a reason! LOL</p>
<p>i also believe that i put all three for all of the roman numeral questions on the test. perhaps i got overly zealous? or maybe there was one question for which i put I, II. someone please affirm my wild guesses!</p>
<p>@chippu i put “wry descriptions” too; it didn’t seem like a “sentimental statement / disillusionment about life” to me (or I am confusing questions/answer choices? haha) </p>
<p>for the “there rolls the deep” EXCEPT question, which of the following is not ‘the thing’: the physical world, hills, spirit, dream, or breath? this one confused me so much :/</p>
<p>overall i think it was a phenomenally difficult test… but i really quite enjoyed the poems ^^</p>
<p>@LiamNeeson
- I put that he took the advice Eddie Short Leaf seriously, maybe I took it too literally put I thought he was actually expecting trees to explode.</p>
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<li><p>Like chippu, I put reverse order because he says there is a sea where land was, and then land where a sea was.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t really remember this question, if it was the one about who we thought the author was, I agree with highlyedumacated about informal lecturer.</p></li>
<li><p>I agree about the compound interest relating nature and finance.</p></li>
<li><p>I think so.</p></li>
<li><p>I think it was I and III, the urban conditions and the justice system. The second choice was something about dissent amongst the poor or something to that nature, and it didn’t sound right in the passage.</p></li>
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<p>@VelvetVeins I’m fairly sure we’re right. If you read John Berryman’s signature poems in “Dream Song,” the speaker’s always poking fun at himself in a melodramatic way. I would suggest you read some of his other poems if you enjoy poetry c: they’re all quite funny!</p>
<p>exploding = losing sanity?</p>
<p>and the entire passage was about him wanting to escape responsibility by going on some kind of an adventure migrating along with the birds, right? i was really confused throughout the entire test…</p>
<p>i also have no opinions about the poetic passage about women</p>
<p>furthermore, i didn’t read too deeply into the passage about the african americans on the train… they were just excited to be heading towards the city. am i correct?
- while we’re on the topic of the train passage, what was the whole description about breakfast about? was it that they had unrealistic expectations? i forgot what i put for that one. my memories of the test are totally repressed right now…</p>
<p>I was the only one left in the test center for SAT IIs when I took Literature on Saturday (after Math and Chemistry), so the examiner let me read out the extracts to myself, which helped a lot. </p>
<p>I think it was okay, but with Lit you can never really be too sure.</p>
<p>@highlyedumacated: I think I said losing sanity as well. I didn’t like the literal “worried about explosions” answer.</p>
<p>I’m not really comfortable discussing the individual questions, but overall I thought the test wasn’t THAT hard. Still, I decided on the spot to take it and I hadn’t taken any practice ones before, though I’d looked one over a few months earlier. It was a lot like the reading section of the English Language AP, and I got a 4 on the AP, so who knows.</p>
<p>So how’d you guys do?</p>
<p>I thought I had done pretty well, maybe mid-700s but I surprised myself and got an 800. :)</p>
<p>I walked in never having taken a practice test and not knowing much of anything about what it’d be like. Consequently, I panicked when it started, afraid that I would fail it and that my parents would be so upset by my score that they wouldn’t let me take any more Subject Tests or apply to any competitive colleges. I doubted the hell out of every answer I marked down, and walked out of the testing center (after all three of my tests were done) convinced I’d only gotten a 500 or so, or maybe a 600 if I was lucky.</p>
<p>I got a 730.</p>
<p>I don’t even consider myself that good at English.</p>