Barron’s SAT I test Reading Items
Test 1/3: James Joyce The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Test 1/5: Thomas Hobbes and John Lock -philosophers
of the 17th century / Nature of medieval cities
Test 2/1: Medieval Cities
Test2/3: Frederick Douglas / Charles Darwin
and his expedition /
Test 2/5: Detective Story – W.H. Auden / Crime
and Punishment / Kafka-Trial and Metamorphosis
Test 3.1: Plato-Myths and Rituals / Golden
Bough-James Frazer /
Carpe Diem ('Seize the Day'),
an analysis of Rock & Roll and its Socio-political Impact
Test 3/5: Issues of “Back to Africa / Issues
regarding identity crisis
Test 4/1: The Duchess of Malfi – Bosola
[Scholar Assassin]
Test 4/5: Particle Physics and its
connection with dance and music
Test 5/1: Rewriting the Native American Population’s
history
Test 5/3: Archetype, Psychoanalytical Criticism,
Mickey Mouse, and Taboo and Totem (Carl Jung and collective unconscious)
Test 6.1: Gothic World
Test 6/5: American Philosophy- Plato and
Aristotle, George Santayana, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche [Thus Spake Zarathustra]
Art
[Realistic – Non-realistic, Surrealism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Gothic,
Rococo, Cubism]
·
Read and vocalize the words you collected from Official SAT [use the
printed list]
·
Princeton 11 tests
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SAT II Kaaplan Mathematics [finish it in 3 days]
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Sundry Topic
o Psychoanalysis [Freud, Jung]
o Behaviorism / Neurology
[Skinner]
o Evolution [Darwin, T. H. Huxley]
o Feminism [Mary Wolstencraft,
Simon de Beauvoir]
o Post-Colonialism [Heart of
Darkness, Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Jane Eyre, Things Fall Apart]
o Art Movements [renaissance
[Raphael], impressionism [Monet, Manet], surrealism [Dali], cubism [Picasso]
o Film – Lawrence of Arabia,
The Dictator, Monsieur Verdouix
o Music – Moonlight Sonata
o Why is/isn’t Monalisa a
Political Art
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Assignments given on 26/07/09
o My Antonia [read the PDF from
the net].
o Watch “Dr. Zhivago” and
consider 2 following questions
§ How much the individual is
crushed by the forces of history?
§ Are individuals pawns in the
hands of destiny or can individuals decide their lives?
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Assignments given on 28/07/09
o Modest Proposal
o Shooting an Elephant
o Politics and the English
Language
o How should one Read a Book –
Virginia Woolf
o Of Studies
Advice to the Youth / On the Decay of the Art of Lying
> Mark Twain
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