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http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-question-of-the-day?questionId=20131104&oq=1 (This link takes you to today’s question. If you use my archive, you will see the question related to my SAT explanation for that date.)
The answer is C. The topic of the sentence is about how through the centuries a rudimentary apparatus has become so sophisticated. That topic led me to predict a word like changed or improved before looking at the answers. The synonym for my prediction is “evolved” although “developed” is also a possibility. When I looked at the second word for answers A and C, only Answer C makes sense because intricate means sophisticated which indicates there has been no change or improvement. Eliminate A.
Notice what my strategy is for Sentence Completion questions with two blanks. I use one blank to eliminate as many answers as possible and then check out the words for the second blank for the remaining answers. Doing so eliminates some of the answers in a hurry and saves a lot of time because I never even have to read the second words for the eliminated answers. In this case, I eliminated B, D, and E without even looking at the second words for those answers. I love saving time!
Let’s see what the ACT folks have for us today.
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The answer is J. You can see from both tables that the shadows are long in the morning, get shorter during the middle of the day, and then lengthen again in the afternoon. I’ll bet you knew that anyway! Sometimes you can use what you know (Pillar IV in my program) to answer the science questions. The data in the charts will never defy scientific facts. For example, shadows are always long as the sun rises and sets with short shadows in the middle of the day as the sun gets high in the sky.
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The SAT & ACT Wizard
