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beatitude:blissful::

euphoria:ecstatic
despair:fervid
apathy:disinterested
composure:distraught

doubles up as sat ii writing and sat i practice

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:10 pm: Edit

I'd choose A..Don't know why it just seems right. Might be wrong though...

How is this a SAT II Writing question?

By Aoe2guy (Aoe2guy) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:10 pm: Edit

dont know what beatitude means but A?

By Joel_Set (Joel_Set) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:34 pm: Edit

what's the answer anyways.. i chose c.. although a could work too.. these anologies are driving me insane

my exp: a blissful persons tends to be in a state of beatitude(bliss, happiness)... as a disinterested person tends to be in a state of apathy..

again this could work with choice a.. but.. ecstatic is a little bit more strong than euphoria... whereas beatitude and bliss ful is just about same as apathy and disinterested is just about the same

i dunno.. i am probably wrong.. we probably need like zerg or serene with their explanations.

By Fairyofwind (Fairyofwind) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:38 pm: Edit

It's not C, because disinterested does not mean uninterested--it means unbiased. SAT II writing diction errors. =P

By Atpchik (Atpchik) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:39 pm: Edit

My thought process since I don't know what Beatitude means so here's what I did:
d can not be correct because it is the only answer w/ the opposite relationship.
I made sentences for each one:
euphoria is the state of being ecstatic
despair is a lesser degree of fervid
apathy describes one who is disinterested

then I plugged in beatitude and blissful for each word and I got the following sentences:

beatitude is the state of being blissful
beatitude is a lesser degree of blissful
beatitude describes one who is blessful

Beatitde did not seem like a word you'd use to describe someone, and it didn't sound like it would be a lesser degree. So therefore A was the only answer left.

Now that would be a lot easier if I knew what fervid and beatitude meant!!!!!!

My Educated Guess: A!

By Joel_Set (Joel_Set) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:40 pm: Edit

••••.. ur right.. disinterested= not biased.. bah

By Joel_Set (Joel_Set) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:41 pm: Edit

and the thing is i knew what beatitude meant too.. when i get stuck between two choices like that.. i usually freak up somehow.. gotta work on that

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:43 pm: Edit

apathy describes one who is disinterested

You're thinking of uninterested too. Disinterested=unbiased. Thus, no relation. Instantly cross it off.

By Aoe2guy (Aoe2guy) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 10:46 pm: Edit

as i said before, i go with A, i dont know what one/two of those words actually mean but by sound it feels like A

By Atpchik (Atpchik) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:07 pm: Edit

Oh I never caught that difference Justin. Wow they wouldn't do something like that on the SAT's would they. That's cruel!

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:09 pm: Edit

*jason

By Canadian_Idol (Canadian_Idol) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:20 pm: Edit

collegeboard & the testmakers ARE cruel.

By Atpchik (Atpchik) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:23 pm: Edit

ACH! I'm soo sorry Jason! geeze must be late welll its only 11:24! Its stupid mistakes like that that get me low scores on standardized tests

By Jason817 (Jason817) on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 11:24 pm: Edit

lol

By Raindrops (Raindrops) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 09:32 am: Edit

Is the answer A?

By Drusba (Drusba) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 09:48 am: Edit

Beatitude is a state of upmost bliss; euphoria is a state of upmost ecstasy. It's A.

By Drlowgee (Drlowgee) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 12:50 pm: Edit

beatitude:blissful::

euphoria:ecstatic
despair:fervid
apathy:disinterested
composure:distraught

doubles up as sat ii writing and sat i practice

The above analogy will never appear on a SAT-1 practice. It's a total waste of time to post and discuss non-ETS questions.

By Serene (Serene) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 01:36 pm: Edit

Not really. Does GRE have analogies too? We're going to need to be prepared for that some time.

By Drlowgee (Drlowgee) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 03:21 pm: Edit

Not really. Does GRE have analogies too? We're going to need to be prepared for that some time.

GRE does have analogies and they are helpful for preparing the SAT-1. However, the key element is that GRE questions ARE produced by ETS.

Mr Fairofwind's analogies are confusing and extremely poorly constructed. The words are difficult and do not allow the development of a bridge. ETS will never write a question with difficult words AND a difficult bridge. It will be one of the two.

Writing extremely hard and incomprehensible analogies is as useful as writing mathematical questions that require the use of advanced calculus. When writing tests, knowing your audience is of paramount importance!

By Fairyofwind (Fairyofwind) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 03:51 pm: Edit

I appreciate the constructive criticism; however, I do not write these questions--they are from the vocabulary textbook I am studying from. The book, I feel, offers excellent practice for SAT I and standardized tests involving vocabulary and analogies. I believe that it is never wrong to overprepare for a test by doing questions that may be slightly more difficult than those on the actual test. Also, I don't feel it is appropriate to pompously propose that ETS will never write a question with difficult words and a difficult bridge--are you a member of the ETS question committee? If not, then you cannot say what ETS does and does not do.

By Drlowgee (Drlowgee) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 04:36 pm: Edit

I believe that it is never wrong to overprepare for a test by doing questions that may be slightly more difficult than those on the actual test.

Your statement is correct but irrelevant.

Your analogies are not "slightly" more difficult. The only correlation of your proposed questions and a SAT-1 actual verbal test is that they both use English words.

As far as my pompous proposal, I challenge you to find an example of an analogy -from a disclosed SAT-1 Test- that would contain extremely difficult words AS WELL AS an arcane and nebulous bridge.

You may find the exercise interesting. At a minimum, it will give you some well-needed experience.

By Fairyofwind (Fairyofwind) on Monday, August 11, 2003 - 05:33 pm: Edit

This will be my last post on this topic. At a minimum, these analogies help provide English vocabulary words which are VERY likely to appear on an SAT I or any other standardized test. At a minimum, you should refrain from negativity in this mutualistic community. I strongly suggest that you take some time and read a SAT word list--most of the words that are in my textbook's analogies are at the same time on the word list. In addition, the textbook that I use is widely acclaimed and used in numerous high schools across the nation. While criticism is always appreciated, a holier-than-thou attitude is not. Your attitude shows disrespect for the values which the College Confidential community stand for and is not welcome here. I am a firm believer that we are here in this forum to assist each other, and nothing will stop me from doing so.

By Delirious (Delirious) on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 01:32 pm: Edit

There are no difficult words in that analogy. Every single Christian knows what beatitude means. Euphoria is easy to figure out even if you don't know its meaning. Everything else is common every-day vocab. Stop complaining people.

By Najy (Najy) on Monday, April 05, 2004 - 01:18 pm: Edit

i was gonna say C but...maybe not...