2009 GAT Questions and Suggested Solutions

[EvangelionZeta]

Urban Relaxation=Ironic in that there is no such thing given the realities of an ambitious life; in being ambitious one is constantly lusting for more "power" even in their "relaxation" as the people in the picture show.

Something like that.  I just don't think "misconception" is as applicable, given that it's more to do with a false belief, and I think it's a bit of a long stretch to say that the picture is about people who simply don't understand something...

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We shall see at the end of the year.    I'm still not convinced that "misconception" is the most relevant.

[costargh]

Costargh provide some sample essays for the 2 writing tasks ? ^.^

jk jk

Ok, give me the questions and I'll do them

[wombifat]

But...what the fuck is being misconceived?

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man who cares watever ITS THE FRIKEN GAT GEEZ LIFE GOES ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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For the air-inflow crap which I didn't fully understand:
47: C
48: D
49: C
Anyone who understood the question want to confirm it?

I got
47: C
48: C
49: D

here's my reasoning, but I'm not 100% sure of it

For 48
Look at Figure 1, if you are pushing in and P and Q are both closed, then the air can't go into Room 1, so it must be forced up, and if you have R open and S closed, the air will go through R and back up the inlet, since it can't go through S.
Figure 2 is pretty the same as figure 1, but with everything reversed. Therefore, by similarity, you would need T and U closed, S open and R closed.
So summing it all up, P, Q, R, S, T and U must be reversed from what they are in the digrams.

For 49
The only way air can get to room 1 is if it goes through R so it can be pushed through P and Q. The only other option, going through S is no good because the Rubber Seal prevents the air from ever getting past and going into Room 1.

[wombifat]

man who cares watever ITS THE FRIKEN GAT GEEZ LIFE GOES ONNNNNNNNNNNNNN

then don't read this thread

[tripz]

Nah I doubt its misconception. The artist 'uses' misconception for his drawing, but the cartoon's true meaning in itself is probs ambition...even tho i chose misconception

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Urban Relaxation=Ironic in that there is no such thing given the realities of an ambitious life; in being ambitious one is constantly lusting for more "power" even in their "relaxation" as the people in the picture show.

Something like that.  I just don't think "misconception" is as applicable, given that it's more to do with a false belief, and I think it's a bit of a long stretch to say that the picture is about people who simply don't understand something...

Isn't the misconception that having a stroll in the park would be relaxing?

[Mao]

If your destiny is to change your destiny, then what is your destiny?

[wombifat]

Urban Relaxation=Ironic in that there is no such thing given the realities of an ambitious life; in being ambitious one is constantly lusting for more "power" even in their "relaxation" as the people in the picture show.

Something like that.  I just don't think "misconception" is as applicable, given that it's more to do with a false belief, and I think it's a bit of a long stretch to say that the picture is about people who simply don't understand something...

but what evidence is there to suggest that the people think that a stroll in the park would be relaxing? And I'm pretty sure it was a road, not a park

Isn't the misconception that having a stroll in the park would be relaxing?

[dejan91]

Urban Relaxation=Ironic in that there is no such thing given the realities of an ambitious life; in being ambitious one is constantly lusting for more "power" even in their "relaxation" as the people in the picture show.

Something like that.  I just don't think "misconception" is as applicable, given that it's more to do with a false belief, and I think it's a bit of a long stretch to say that the picture is about people who simply don't understand something...

Isn't the misconception that having a stroll in the park would be relaxing?

That was my reasoning.

[EvangelionZeta]

Nah I doubt its misconception. The artist 'uses' misconception for his drawing, but the cartoon's true meaning in itself is probs ambition...even tho i chose misconception

QFT

Urban Relaxation=Ironic in that there is no such thing given the realities of an ambitious life; in being ambitious one is constantly lusting for more "power" even in their "relaxation" as the people in the picture show.

Something like that.  I just don't think "misconception" is as applicable, given that it's more to do with a false belief, and I think it's a bit of a long stretch to say that the picture is about people who simply don't understand something...

Isn't the misconception that having a stroll in the park would be relaxing?

You have to look beyond the obvious.  Yes, those people are not "relaxing" as the subtitle suggests.  However, to say that a critical cartoon would be about people having a mistaken idea of relaxing is absurd at best.  Rather, you have to look at the dialogue itself - the cause for their inability to "relax" is due to their attitudes, or as the answers would suggest, the ambition which is slowly becoming more prolific within a "dog eat dog" society.  On a superficial level then, it might be about misconception, but on a deeper, more metaphorical one, it's all about how ambitious people lead their lives...

That's my interpretation, anyway.  Just throwing it out there that all of the humanities students at my school agree with me.  :3

[jess3254]

oh my god lol
it's the GAT

[EvangelionZeta]

It's an internet debate.  Doesn't have to be over anything significant.  :3

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oh my god lol
it's the GAT

ditto