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Attached. It is a scientific passage, and even after [#permalink] New post 24 Sep 2004, 17:03
Attached. It is a scientific passage, and even after checking answers,iam not convinced with couple of them. Please tell the time taken for this RC
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 [#permalink] New post 24 Sep 2004, 22:13
I decided to do it under 12 minutes. However took 13.43 minutes to complete. I think I have still rushed on this one and I can be totally off on my answers..
My answers are
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. E
5. C
6. E
7. B (changed it from C)
8. D
9. E
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 [#permalink] New post 24 Sep 2004, 23:21
Thanks venksune for participating. I hope some other people also participate. Yes..this RC will take atleast 12 minutes I guess. I finished it in just under 12 minutes ..but not without my share of wrong answers.:(
Happy solving guys..I will post the answers tommorow.
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 [#permalink] New post 25 Sep 2004, 09:05
I will wait for some more hours before I post the answers.
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 [#permalink] New post 25 Sep 2004, 21:39
It seems not many are interested in solving RC's in this forum. Well venksune, here are the answers.

1. B
2.C
3.A
4 E
5.C
6.D
7 C
8. E
9. E

I completed this RC in 12 minutes..and had 3 questions incorrect. 3rd ,6th and 9th.
As you can see venksune, we both had 3rd and 6th question incorrect..can you find any reasons for the correct answers for these questions? I , atleast, could not come up with plausible reaons to choose A for 3rd and D for 6th. For instance in 3rd question..no where in passage it mentions that some other species of firefly was also tested.
Similarly in 6th, i dont find any reason that why C is incorrect.
You did 9th correct..can you please try to explain me how you came up with E?
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 [#permalink] New post 25 Sep 2004, 22:28
9th E.

My thought was, if the female can emit a the pattern of a different female -it can be a interesting study for the future. Also, one may never know as to which species the female actually belong. The authors technically cannot have a baseline - in which case their initial observation of connecting them to a 'specific species type' itself would be wrong. This truly broadens the behaviorial plasticity theory.

6th question.
I actually contemplated C. I thought C is too specific and choose d which is the more generic version of C. Looks like the specific version C is right.

3rd question
I actually had a hard time understanding the question and spent most time on this question only. I knew my answer of C is terrible. But reading the question and the answer now, they look ok though naive.

7th question:
I still dont get it as to why Ichanged it to B. But I did it for some reason, that Iam unable torecall now.

this one was tough. I would have lost all confidence on this one on test day.
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 [#permalink] New post 25 Sep 2004, 22:36
Guys

All this practice with SC /CR is good, but we do this under the assumption that we will eventually come across the hardest SC's or CR's.. but if you dont do well in the 10-15 questions, you will not even come close to seeing the most difficult questions in CR/SC..... if you are not keeping a balance in your prep, its not going to help you score high in verbal. Performance on RC and CR will make the difference between a 40+ Verbal and a 30-35V.


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