USA June 2011 SAT Critical Reading Thread

<p>Yeah, I didn’t understand the moralistic question</p>

<p>And for what question was extreme an answer?</p>

<p>the extreme was something along the lines of
extreme because the writer focuses on the limitations rather than their ability to make good choices</p>

<p>question was like:
how would writer 2 react to the characterization of “these rights” mentioned in passage 1 or sth lol</p>

<p>I’m at -7 right now =( Aiming for a 2100-2200. I think I got a 740 on math (-2 so far) and a 760 on writing (none wrong so far?). I need at least a 700+ in each section for my parents to take me on an East Coast trip to visit schools!! <em>crossing my fingers</em></p>

<p>Got -7 on March SAT. Was a 680. Hopefully that will translate to a 700 this month. Good luck!</p>

<p>Hey someone please tell me why for the Indian passage you chose hopeful?</p>

<p>I chose joyous, because the tears shed toward the end have a sort of feeling of reconciliation - that mother and daughter have been united and joy is coming out of it?</p>

<p>I don’t see where a lot of people ascertained hopeful from…but if you did can you explain it?</p>

<p>The final sentence: It’s a start.</p>

<p>can someone please tell my about why “moralistic” was an answer in the censorship passage? I believe the question asked what the author of the Passage 2 think about the censorship… I can’t think of any reason why I had to choose moralistic… I picked intellectual, and no other choices made much sense at the time…</p>

<p>anyone ??</p>

<p>It’s funny that we are all trying to justify our wrong answers…</p>

<p>I agree, haha. At this point just accept your losses and wait until the 23rd to find out the score :P</p>

<p>It was moralistic because the passage concerned morals, and the negative influences of works.</p>

<p>Ahh well I guess I may have missed 2 or 3 CR the whole test!</p>

<p>I distinctly remember there being a sentence in the second passage that completely voided the moralistic answer. It was very brief but it was hidden in there somewhere.</p>

<p>Was there an agreement on the actual/heartfelt, melancholy/debate/interrogation questions?</p>

<p>@Brolex I believe the consensus is heartfelt and melancholy.</p>

<p>Actual vs. Heartfelt I still feel like can go either way.</p>

<p>And apparently nobody is interested in discussing the Drudge question…</p>

<p>Are you guys accepting the consolidated answers posted several pages before as the answers? It not like I am super hot at CR, but those answers contain a few answers that I didn’t even consider as possible answers, and that doesn’t happen too often…
Just sad that I might have f ed up this test…</p>

<p>@ CB700</p>

<p>I had problem with that one too… I don’t even remember the complexity as one of the answer choice so I don’t have too much to offer…It sounds like an answer
I was looking for a clear answer, and I couldn’t spot one that really seemed like an answer at the time;;; probably because I was running out of time and panicked</p>

<p>this list has a lot more uncertainty than usual (or at least january). nobody has really nailed down and proved controversial questions 100%. hopefully everything on it is right, though.</p>

<p>@ pdawggy</p>

<p>yeah… may test thread was freaking awesome and I could make right judgment regarding canceling the score thanks to the list. </p>

<p>I just don’t want to keep the score when there is no chance of doing better than what I already have, and the list we have in this thread isn’t as hot as May one…</p>

<p>Do you think the curve will be harsh this time?</p>

<p>based on this thread, no. People seemed to have a lot of difficulty, and in reflection, I could see how some of the questions could be seen as ambiguous.</p>

<p>Going back to the list: I think that “favorite books” is wrong, and “non-controversial books” is right. I think this was implicit in the first author’s discussion of how parents would tag books they saw unfit, and the second passage’s discussion of how books that were negative influences would be weeded out.</p>

<p>Also, I saw literally nothing that indicated that it was their favorite books.</p>

<p>^what was the question?</p>