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Effective Strategies for SAT Reading

SAT reading is where most students lose. Not because they're not smart, but because no one ever taught them how to actually beat the test. And this free 2.5 hour master class is completely different. We will cover real strategies that work even if you've struggled with reading your whole life. And in the next 3.5 hours, I will show you exactly how to read faster, find answers quicker, and avoids the traps that the SAT sets for you. And this could be the most valuable video or lesson that you will ever watch before your exam. So, without further ado, let's get started. We all know a feeling when a vocab question pops up with a word you've never seen before. What if you still could answer it without ever memorizing thousands of words? Today, I will show you five methods that don't rely knowing the words, but on tricks top scorers use. Stick around because this could change how you handle SAT vocabulary questions, even if you haven't studied a single word. So, let's talk about Sam, a student just like you. He put in the hours. He crammed worth lists. He felt prepared. Buds on test day. Total blank. The vocap questions came up and he felt that he was looking at a wheel words like temper, moderate, and balance all sounded close enough. But how do you choose? Sam felt stuck. But then he learned a system that chased the game for him. And today you will get the same advantage. Trust me, even strong students fall for this trap. Think about phrases like not uncommon or never impossible. The SAT loves these little tricks because they're just confusing enough under pressure. So, here's the move. Whenever you see a double negative, flip it. Make not uncommon to common and never impossible to possible. A simple adjustments, but under time pressure, it's a gamecher. Keep this in your mental toolkit, and you will avoid some of the SAT's trickiest traps. But Sam had even a bigger realization. Even though he knew a few tricks, it still felt like guessing. So, here's what he did, and it's a game changer. Before even glancing at the answer choices, predict what might fits the sentence, imagine the word in your head. When you finally look at the options, you are matching your idea with the right word. It's no longer about guessing, but it's about finding the best fits. Okay, so what if you don't know the word at all? You're not alone. And this is where prefixes become your secret weapon. The SAT is built on patterns and prefixes give you clues so that you can break down unfamiliar words. Let's have a look at an example. Subarion. So in this case, sub means under and terra means earth. Even if you don't know the exact meaning, you can guess it's related to something under the earth. Instead of memorizing every single word, you're learning to decode. And because you've been watching so far, I've got a special gift for you. A PDF list of essential SAT prefixes to help you reach that dream score. Grab it through the link in the description. Now, once Sam started using these techniques, she realized the SAT felt different. It wasn't about gramming. It was about his sister. But he knew he needed to master one last skill so that he can see his last score improve. And this is where elimination becomes your best friend. Here's a hidden truth. Most SAT vocabulary questions have two answers that are totally wrong. So instead of looking for the right answer, just start spotting the wrong ones. And you have to ask yourself some questions like, does this word fits the context? Does it match the sentence tone? If it feels off, cross it out. Now, here is where even the sharpest SAT students stumble. There are three massive mistakes that nearly everyone makes. Have you ever chosen a word that just looks impressive? You thought it might score you extra points. Here's a little secret. The SAT sets a trap for students who fall for this. You will often see sophisticated looking word and it's tempting to pick it, right? But here's the trick. Nine times out of 10, that word is designed to mislead you. It's not about sounding fancy. It's about fitting the sentence correctly. Let's talk about the song. Have you ever picked a word that seemed like a perfect match and you find out that it was way off? It was It's easy to miss, but each sentence on the SAT carries a tone, a feeling, and ignoring this tone can flip the meaning entirely. For example, if a sentence is light-hearted and you pick a series word, you've fallen into the tone trap. Finally, let's talk about Oink. Have you ever narrowed down your choices to to answers only to start sec second guessing yourself? Maybe you wonder, am I missing something? Overthinking is where most students trip up. And here's why. The SAT rewards instincts. If you're leaning towards an answer choice, trust it. Your gut's feeling is often spoton. The more you second guess, the more likely you are to go for the wrong choice. I want to give you a complete system to master digital inference questions. The exact approach that stop scores use to get every inference question right on the exam. So, let's dive in. So as you can see from this whiteboard uh there are two easy questions, two medium questions and there are two three hard questions and I got these questions from SAT question bank and the most important thing I excluded active questions which is uh the any of these questions are not from blue book practice tests and uh they're only available in question bank and uh we not spoiling any of your blue book exams or anything. So without further ado, let's get into it. So firstly, uh easy questions. You may be thinking, well, I don't need easy questions, but still to warm yourself up, it's really important to solve these easy ones first. Then we will move on to medium then hard questions. So here's the first question. You can try out on your own first and you can watch my explanations after that. So we need to complete the text uh which is inference question. One aspect of in-person shopping that online shopping can now replicate is the opportunity to touch a product before buying it. Doesn't this difference matter? So they're talking about this difference touching versus not touching. Uh in an experiment researchers asked one group of participants to touch a mouth and a toy while another group was prohibited from touching the two items. The participants were then asked how much money they would pay for the items. People who got to touch the items were willing to pay much more money for them than were people who weren't allowed to touch the items. This finally suggest that uh so there was group one, they touched the items and they paid more. There was group number two, they didn't touch, they paid less. So the key takeaway here is that physical touch increases the perceived value. Uh now we can move on to the answer choices. Choice A. People who mainly shop online probably spend more money every month than people who mainly shop in person. Uh well they're they're not comparing shopping in person and online. uh and they're not uh tracking total spending a monthly total spending. That's why choice A is wrong. Choice V in person shopping may make products seem more valuable than they seem if only view it's online. Uh yes, that is the exact same thing that we thought about which is uh touching which is uh touching usually occurs in person. So touching equals higher value. So that's why we can keep choice D. Choice C retailers with inerson and online stores should charge the same price for a given product in both places. Well, this experiments doesn't suggest pricing strategy. So that's why you can eliminate it. Uh choice D online retailers may be able to raise the prices they charge for products when they're only available online. This isn't about exclusivity and it's only about touch versus no touch. And uh we could have inferred that inerson retailers may be able to rate but here they're telling online which is completely the opposite of what you think. So that's why B is the best choice here. Now let's move on uh to the next question and you can pause the video now if you want to and solve it. Uh let's read it. Uh author Kenan Doyles stories about detective films were published between these dates. They have inspired countless successful adaptations including comic strips, movies and Italian series directed by that person who is celebrated for his animated movies until 2014. These stories were copyrighted. The right to adapt was only available to those who could afford the copyright fee and gain approval from the the strict copyright holders of uh Doila's estate. Some journalists predicts that the number of annotations is likely to increase since the end of copyright means that so let's break this down uh break down this passage. So before 1219 uh 12 uh 2014 the copyright restricted adaptations they needed money and approval uh but after 2014 copyrights expired so that that means there were no fees no approval needed so yeah and uh now let's predict so I believe that because copyright ending removes those barriers there's no cost. There's no permission. Uh people can freely adapt the stories without any cost. Uh now let's move on to answer choices. Doula's original stories still become hard to find. Well, the passage doesn't talks about whether it's easy to find or hard to find. So we can eliminate truth a people will become more interested in detective stories than were in the 1800. There's nothing about the number of people becoming more interested or less interested. That's why you can of nature be as well. Producing uh adaptations will become easier and less expensive. Well, that's a choice that I really like because it directly connects to no fees, no permission required um prediction. That's why I believe choice C is the best choice here. Now, choice D, the former copyright holders of Duelist Estate will return the fees they collected. Well, there's nothing about refund here. That's why choice D is wrong. So, the best choice here is choice C. Now, let's move on to medium questions. Here's the first question, and you can pause the video right now. If you want, you can solve it. Uh, so let's read the passage. Astronomers investigated the region of Mars because it appears to contain irregularly shaped craters. It may have been caused by massive volcanic explosions. In the investigations of Arabia Terra, the researchers uh found remnants of ash deposits in an amount in thickness that would result from a massive volcanic eruption. However, here you have a shift in the passage. erosion and past resurfacing events could have modifies the surface of the planet. Therefore, blank. Uh so let's kind of try to break this down. Uh so this person has uh so this area sorry this region has irregular craters. Uh yep. And it's some sort of linkage to massive volcanic eruptions. And there is a problem. erosion and resurfacing could have changed the surface over time. So that's our problem. Uh so the key kind of main or takeaway that I would get is that the current evidence might not perfectly reflect the Mars volcanic uh history due to its modifications right because they've modified right uh let's kind of try to predict here you have a however and that signals that the original volcanic evidence might be distorted the answer should highlight that the current uh surface might not show its true. It's like you might it might not show its true past activity. Uh so analysis want to choices. Choose a the current makeup of the Arabia Terra region might not accurately reflect the volcanic activity of Mars past. Uh well yeah directly connected uh erosion and it says that uh it's not really reflecting the its true past self. So, let's keep a ch eruptions from Mars volcanoes were likely not as massive as astronomers previously believed. Well, we don't really uh and in addition to that, the text doesn't even challenge previous beliefs about those eruption size, right? That's why and Trish B is wrong because there's nothing about size. We don't know whether it's massive or small. as Tracy ash was most likely expelled from multiple different volcanoes on a Mars surface. Well, the passage doesn't focus on multiple sources. It focuses on one massive eruption. That's why he's also wrong. The craters found in Arabia Terra region were necessarily created by events other than volcanic eruption. Well, nothing about like other uh events. That's why ID is wrong. So the best choice here is choice A. Uh so yep always my tip is looking out for words uh like that show contrast however and this signals the shift in the main point of another. And yeah now we can move on to the next question. Uh you can pause the video right now if you want to. So, yep. So, let's read the text. Uh, so here we have a declaration of independence and there was an end of the revolution against France that began in 1791. Britain in French, which is not the first language of most uh haters, but which was uses throughout Europe as a language of international diplomacy. The declaration notes that Hayeting will not bring rebellion to other Caribbean nations, promises to respect these sovereignty of its neighbors, widely understood as a reassurance to the United States and sets up Haiti as an example for future struggles against colonizers and implicit reference to the many colonies than found in the Americas. So even though the declaration is explicitly addressed to the haten people, it's reasonable to conclude that's blank. Uh so let's kind of try to break it down. So French it was international language for diplomacy and it was not the first language of haters and the promises to neighbors uh and it positions hate as an example of kind of anti-colonial movement and here we have a key contrast and it says explicitly for haters but includes messages for others right uh so let's try to predict Even so here we have as you can see the contrast although it was addressed to these hatened people it the declaration was aimed at multiple audiences not just hate people I believe that's what I what my prediction is it might be addressed also to international observers it might also be um uh address it or aim it to uh neighbors of France so yeah now let's move on to choices aspects of the declaration were modeled on similar documents from other countries. Well, there's no inspiration from other declarations and there are no documents there. So, A is wrong. Choice B. Uh the French government may have been surprised by the declaration. Well, nothing about reaction, right? There's nothing about surprise. That's why B is also right. Many hidden people oppose the evolution and the declaration. Well, there's nothing but opposing in the passage. Uh that's why choice C is also wrong. Choice D, the declaration actually had several intended audiences. Well, yeah. Uh it might have been addressed for international readers, uh for neighbors, for neighbor countries. Uh so these are the best choice here. Uh, now we can move on to hard questions and I'm sure that you will learn a ton from solving these and as you solve more as you analyze more of these types of questions, you will gain more knowledge on how to answer these. Uh, so you can pause the video right now and try out this hard SAT question uh, and this inference question type. Uh, so now let's read the text. So here we have Laura movie and uh has movie has theorized that in narrative film shot issuing from a protagonist point of view compel viewers to identify with a character. Such identification is heightened by invisible editing. Okay, that's interesting. Or editing so in uh incaspicuous that it renders cuts between shots almost unnoticeable. Conversely, movie proposes that conspicuous editing or the absence of point of view shot would induce a more critical stance toward a protagonist. Consider for example the attic scene uh in the bird's conspicuously edited sequence of tons of shots. Few of these correspond to the protagonist to your point of view. According to Mul logic, this scene should affect viewers by length. So uh let's kind of try to break this down break down this passage. Uh so there is point of view shots uh and there's also invisible editing and so those when we blend both two and both of these uh viewers identify with the protagonist. Uh if there is conspicuous editing plus no point of view shots, viewers take a critical stance towards a protagonist and then it's giving giving an example. Uh so yep. So my prediction would be in this case uh it was at a scene right it uh those scene should might uh reduce viewer identification with protess and it could kind of create some sort of a different distance or yeah distance I believe. Uh so now we can move on to choices. Choice A obscuring the awareness of the high degree of uh artifice involved in constructing the montage. Well, conspicuous editing means viewers notice the cuts. They don't ignore them. That's why choice be choice A is right. Choice B, lessening their identification with the protagonist if not uh alignating them from the character altogether. Well, yeah, let's keep the script because there's no problem here to see compelling them to identify with the film's director whose proxy is the camera and not with a protagonist. Well, text never says something about shifting identification. That's why uh C is one because of that because there's no shift. Uh choice Z diverting the attention away from the film's content and towards it stylistic attributes. Well, it might be true, but the question focuses on identification, not that general attention. That's why D is wrong. And the best choice here is truth B. And in these types of SAT questions, uh your understanding of the passage might not be 100% but looking at the answer choices by eliminating them, you can find your answer. Like choices h have a lot more to sell than the passage. Um now let's move on to the next question. If you want you can pause here and like solve this question and you can test your SAT uh skills. So without further ado, let's read the text. So here we have telescope HST and it's projected to maintain operation until at least 2030. But it has already revolutionized high resolution imaging of stellar system bodies in a visible and ultraviolet UV lights wavelengths. Not with DNA that only about 6% of the bodies imaged by the HST are within the solar system. NASA researchers Dindi Al Young and colleagues assert that a new space telescope dedicated exclusively to stellar system observations would permit an extensive survey of minor solar system bodies and light UV observation to discern how taller system bodies change over time. So the recommendation therefore implies that the HST so let's kind of break it down. Uh so there is current role of HST here uh which is it operates and until at least 2013 and it's so good at visible and ultravoid image like that lights wavelength imaging of them. Um but there is a contrast here. Uh only about 6% of the bodies are within the solar system. Uh then there is uh this person young and he he or she proposes that a new telescope a new one brand new one uh yeah dedicated to the solar system which HSD couldn't right only about 6% of each SD couldn't do that uh yep so it's kind of the new health scope like addresses at those gaps in HSD's capabilities or its usage Uh so we can now predict right uh so Y's team wants a dedicated tool I believe for solar system because HST could only about 6% of the bodies in HSD could do those solar systems. Uh yep now let's move on to choices. You can analyze those choices. H uh HSC here uh will likely continue to be used primarily to observe object outside the solar system. Well, that's a good choice. Um we can keep this choice will no longer be use it to observe solar system objects if the telescope recommended recommended by young and colleagues deployed. Well, the text says HSC operates until 2030 and there's no mention of stopping existing tasks. So you literally eliminate USB uh can be modified to observe the features a solid system object that ear of interest to young and colleagues. Well, HT can be modified. Uh, but it uh implying that HST can be easily modified that that's why we can eliminate this choice as well because we can't modify it, right? Uh, HS lacks the sensors to observe the wavelengths of lights needed to discern how solar system bodies change over time. Well, the text says HST revolutionized UV imaging. Uh and Yun wants more UV studies not different sensors like we don't need tensor at all that's why these is also brought and the best choice here is choice A. Uh so now if we can move on to the last but not least hard question. Uh if you want you can literally pause this video right now and like solve it on your own first then uh you could listen to my explanation. So yep let's read it. During the restoration in France the right to vote required in part that a person paid at least 300 France in direct taxes to the governments. The four most common taxes were leites on real estate, the doors and windows and the businesses. Uh foreign investors were exempt from the taxation. Although relatively few people pays the taxes on real estate, it was the main means of voter qualification and accounted for over 23 of government's receipts during this period. Uh suggest that during warming restoration. Uh so there was votic qualification and they relied on paying those taxes and there were foreign investors they were not part of those taxes and it was like little or no contribution to eligibility and uh like people relying on those foreign uh investment likely didn't really qualify to votes because they weren't paying enough taxes. Uh so yeah, let's predict now. Uh so I guess people with those foreign investments are a little bit of they're not going to means that they're not going to pay taxes. Uh that's why they can't vote I guess. So yeah. Now let's move on to choices. Let's choices help us. Those people who had the right to vote most likely had substantial holdings of French real estate. Uh real estate was one of those tax areas. But the text doesn't really prioritize it over others. So it's kind of right, but it's not fully right, right? It's only partially right. And that's a type of a trap that the college board wants you fall want you to fall into. But you're not going to do that because you know that it's partial partially right in uh the voting habits of French art and merchants were affected in reducing tax burdens on businesses. Well, the text never discusses voting uh habits in influencing those tax policy. That's why B is also around to see the number of doors and windows in French residences was kept to a minimum but increased after 1830. Well, uh text doesn't even uh yes text mentions those doors and windows but he doesn't discuss trends, right? There are no trends there. So that's why T is also wrong. uh chose the people with foreign investments were unlikely to have the right to vote. Uh yes, because foreign investors weren't taxes. Uh so the people couldn't meet that 300 uh frame tax threshold. So that's the right choice, right? So the best risk here is choice D. you have a whiteboard where I will show you so many SAT strategies and SAT questions so that you can ace your exam. So without further ado, let's get into it. So this is a 2hour SAT reading master class and you will going to learn so much in this master class and there are two things that we will do which is firstly you will explore one strategy for that can be applied for most SAT reading questions and we will also do some practice with different question types on the SAT reading section and I will also give you tips in order to solve those questions. So firstly uh let's explore that one strategy and it's so simple reading the question first identifying the question type reading the passage carefully predicting and selecting the right answer choice and it was something that I should have said uh even though it's a little basic but now let's dive in so you will start off with practice with question types and I will give it so firstly let's explore main idea questions Well, main idea questions require you to have a bit of a unique strategy which is firstly you need to identify the general topic first. That is the number one thing that you're going to do. Next up you will go broad, you will go specific and uh your kind of prediction for answer choices is going to be way more specific. And here's the thing, you should look for contrast, arguments or position. And when you do uh practice with this question tab, you will understand uh how to apply this thing like identifying whether it's a contrast or whether there is an argument or position. Uh and here's the SAT question. Uh now like before we go into this SAT question I should tell you one important thing which is one trap that a lot of students fall into and that's is choosing an answer just because it has words that are in the passage. Don't be confused by that. Now let's move on to the question. So here you have it. Here's the passage and here are the answer choices. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So let's read the text. So it asks for the main idea. Observations of distant galaxies reveal that the light emitted from them is often redshifted. So now we know the general topic which is a light like redshifted light. That's the general topic. meaning the wavelengths of the lights are stretched, making them appear redder than they should be. And there's also this Doppler effect where the sound of an ambulance siren lowers in pitch as it moves away from an observer. Astronomers use the amount of red uh red shift in a galaxy's light to estimate its velocity relative to Earth. uh galaxies with larger red shifts are moving away from us at higher speeds providing evidence for the expansion of the universe. Uh so my prediction is that uh those uh red shift can allow those distant galaxies to expand on the universe. So that is my uh prediction. Now let's move on to choices. Choice A. Red shift is a phenomenon that affects the color of light emitted from distant galaxies. Well, it's partially correct, but it's a little too narrow. Uh, yes, that is true. The the thing that is true is that red shift makes light appear redder. That is exactly true. But the passage isn't just about color changes. It's about using uh red shift as evidence for uh the expansion of the universe. So this is not the best choice here because it has some parts that are a little bit off. So that's why A is wrong. Choice B. Astronomers use the Doppler effect to estimate the distance of galaxies from Earth. Uh well the passage yes said that astronomers use red shift but uh it doesn't say that astronomers use the Doppler effect to estimate velocity. Uh the Doppler effect is mentioned only as a comparison here. It's not the main focus. So it shifts the main focus of the passage. That's a lie. B is also wrong. Choice C. The amount of red shift in a galaxy's light provides evidence for the expansion of the universe. That's a perfect choice. Like this is the main idea of the passage. Uh red shifts helps prove that the universe is expanding. So it covers the most important part of the passage. That's why C is a correct answer. Choice D. The sound of an ambulance siren changes pitch as it moves away from an observer due to the Doppler effect. Well, it's something that is completely off topic. The ambulance siren is just an example to help explain red shift and it's not the main uh focus of the passage here. That's why D is also wrong. Now uh let's move on to the so in this case the general topic was red shift and our prediction as I told was red shift is important because it helps astronomers understand that the universe is is spanning. Uh now let's move on to the next type of a main idea question and in this type we have a poem and sometimes you might actually expect a poem on your exam. So firstly let's uh read the poem. I wish I had paid attention to the first signs the first whispers of change in the air. If the skies were darker or the rivers rain dry, it might have been subtle for all I can say. So unnoticed did it slip away. So blind was I to the shifts around me. So dull to mark the falling of the leaves that warned of storms in coming days. Well, the pass uh the poem here shows or describes how the uh how the speaker failed to notice early signs of that environmental change. As you can see storms here that means there is environmental uh change. They also mentioned that those uh signs are subtle were subtle and but they were really significant and they they regret not realizing the importance of those changes earlier. uh and I believe that the speaker is kind of reflecting uh on how those environmental warning sign uh warning signs uh go unnoticed until it's too late. So yeah, so they're regretting over those over noticing environmental changes earlier. Now let's look at choices. Choice A. The speaker reflects on how changes in nature often go unnoticed until their consequences become severe. Well, that's a great choice. I like this choice uh because this matches our prediction and the speaker talks about missing early warning signs. Uh that is exactly what the point was about. So I guess that's the correct answer choice. But still let's have a look at others. to speak because the speaker was unaware of the early signs of environmental change. They now struggle to understand the impact. I guess it's too specific for this main idea question and the speaker regrets not noticing the signs, but the passage doesn't say they struggle to understand the impact now like they Yeah. So that's why B is wrong. Choice C is a new environmental crisis looms. The speaker debates the best way to respond and take action. Well, it's completely off topic, right? That's an example of a choice that which is off topic. And you can literally eliminate these choices really easily. Uh it doesn't mention a future uh crisis and nothing taking action. So C is completely wrong. Choice D. After years of disregarding the environments, the speaker worries it may be too late to reverse the damage. Well, I guess it's too extreme. That's an example of a choice that shows a too extreme trap. The passage doesn't say the speaker uh actively disregarded the environments and uh just that they didn't notice the changes. So that's why D is drawing because of that. Now let's move on uh to the next question type which is main purpose. Well something that I should tell you is that main purpose is not a main idea. Um so yeah that is something that you should definitely understand. And here we have a question that I've created and you can pause the video now you can solve it. So now uh they're asking for the main purpose. Let's read the passage. In the early 19 uh hundreds, pioneering filmmaker began creating movies that depicted the experiences of black Americans challenging prevailing stereotypes in mainstream Hollywood. So there is a filmmaker and a and he makes movies. uh to show the experiences of black Americans. Yep. His films including those addressed issues. So what are those issues? Such as racial injustice, economic struggles and migration. Um so his work pave uh paves the way for future generations of black filmmakers and remain a subject of scholarly study. Uh so this passage talks about that filmmaker, his films and his impact on black American cinema I guess. Yeah. Now let's move on to answer choices. Choice A to discuss the impact of an influential filmmaker. Um I guess that's a great answer choice because that was the exact same thing that the passive attack bat. uh the attackb is his impact. Uh as you can see it also remained a subject of scholarly study. So let's keep a choice B to explain how silent films were made. Well this passage isn't about the process of making those silent films. So we can literally eliminate this choice. Choice C to compare the works of two early black directors. Well, uh there is only one filmmaker uh discuss it in this passage. So, we can literally eliminate it to describe the difficulties of filming on location. Well, the passage doesn't even mention it. So, we can literally eliminate B as well. So, A is the best choice here. And now, let's move on to the next question type here, uh which is function questions. As you can see uh I should tell you most common uh like before doing that let's move on uh let's look at this question. This is how function questions look like. There is a one sentence that is underlined and you should uh identify the function of that underlying portion. Before we go into that question you need to know common function types. So the first type is meaning or explanation. uh that is there might be some claim and there could the next sentence the underlying part could explain it. So that's an example of meaning or explanation function type. Uh next up we have study structure. Uh and if the underlying part talks about the structure how they like did that study then that uh it could be a study structure function state. It could also be clarification of a prior concept. It could clarify. It could firstly take tell that concept the a brand new concept and then it it could clarify it. It could explain it. Uh it could also link concept. It could also show results. It could illustrate or it could give examples. Uh it could also summarize or conclude. Now let's move on to the question. So yep, let's read this passage. uh architectural theorists so have examined how postmodern architecture and now the underlined part begins a design movements that emerged as a reaction against the rigid simplicity of modernist architecture emphasizing complexity historical references and playful ornamentation challenges the dominant architectural trends of that century. Meanwhile, uh so that person has explored how architects blended modern ideals with regional influences to create diverse uh designs. However, so here we have a shift in the passage. The extent uh to which postmodern architecture opposite modernist versus adapted it principles remains debated leading him to analyze both perspectives in his book. Uh so the underlying portion here defines post-modern architecture and it it uh kind of describes its key characteristics and the rest of the passage is like kind of discusses how scholars um studied those postmodern architecture and it also has a shift here and it says there is an ongoing uh debate about its relationship to modern modernism. Um, so yeah, and we can now move on to answer choices. Choice A, it provides examples of how a movement was studied by scholars before uh that person's work. Well, the underlying portion doesn't even mention previous studies. So that's why we can eliminate choice A. Choice B, it gives a basic uh description of a movement that is central to the discussion that follows. Well, yeah, the RN portion provides an overview of postmodern architecture and that's the main topic of the passage. So, I guess that's true. Let's keep B to see it clarifies a concept that the author implies was unclear in the studies mentioned in the text. Well, the passage doesn't say that postmodernism was unclear or misunderstood. It doesn't say that. So, we can eliminate your C. It introduces a method of architectural analysis that is discussed in greater detail later in the text. The underlined part defines a movement. It doesn't talk about a method like nothing about the method here. That's why choice D is also wrong. And the best choice here is choice B. Uh so yep, always before looking at the answer choices, you can ask yourself questions. what was that underlying portion was about and it's gonna help you uh choose the the answer and the other thing that I see not many people think about is how does this underlying parts connect to the rest of the passage like connecting those dots is also something that is important and in this case it provides a background for the uh studies of scholars right yep Uh now let's move on to the next question type which is quotation questions. Sometimes these questions are a little hard and it's really important for us to practice on this question as well. So here the question that I've created and it asks for the claim which should illustrate uh illustrating a claim. Okay. Uh so now let's read the short passage. The diversity of trees is a 2015 batonic study by Daxure some uh in one section uh that person discusses how certain tree species are more adaptable more adaptable to climate change than others. emphasizing that some species thrived in various environmental conditions while others struggle. She writes here we have a blank. Uh so it says some tree species are adaptable to climate change than other tree species. So the correct answer choice should illustrate this idea, right? Meaning it should describe tree species that could thrive even though there are environmental challenges like climate uh that like environmental conditions for example it could be climate change as well. So now let's move on to choices. The towering of redwoods of California once dominant now facing growing threats from rising temperatures and prolonged droughts. This talks about trees struggling with climate change. But uh the claim isn't about species that adapt uh but like what we want is the claim that should say species should adapt well to change. That is the claim that should be added. That's why choice A is wrong because it doesn't include that part. It doesn't say uh there are some species that adapt well to change as well. So that's by Acerron. Choice B. The resilient uh sycamore capable of withstanding both urban pollution and seasonal flooding continues to flourish in diverse landscapes. Um yeah, this supports the idea that some tree species are more adaptable than others because it describes how does uh sycamores survive in those challenging conditions. That's why B is the great answer choice. Joyce the ancient uh dinko relic from the time of the dinosaur stands as a testament to the hindrance of certain tree species. Well, it talks about species suring for a long time, but it doesn't directly discuss its adaptability. It doesn't say it adapts well or not. That's why CS is why choose deep beneath the shifting canopy trees can pet the sunlight their branches stretching towards the sky in an illustrial for survival. Well, this is a very general statement about tree growth and competition and there's nothing about adaptation to climate change. That's why D is also wrong. So the best choice here is choice B because it mentions a tree that could withstand uh pollution and flooding uh which shows adaptability to climate change. So that's the best choice here. Now let's move on to the uh next question type uh which is support and weaken. So here we have a question. Which finding if true would most directly supports the conclusion? Okay. So now let's read the text. So here we have something is which is a widely cultivated species known for its sensitivity to climate temperature changes as global temperatures rise. Researchers are investigating how shifting climate uh patterns impact grape ripening in harvest timing. So they're uh researching how that climate change could affect two things. First one, grape ripening and harvest time. The second one, uh, one hypothesis suggests that warmer autumn temperatures extend the growing season potentially leading to higher sugar content in grapes and earlier uh, harvest to evaluate this claim. Here we have viticulturists. Uh, they monitored uh, vines across multiple vine yards for several years concluding that here we have a conclusion. Grape vines benefit from extended warmth in the fall resulting in earlier ripening. So the passive stat says that warmer ottoman uh help those grape wines ripen earlier. So that's the main thing right we and it is which results in earlier ripening. Now let's we can move on to choices. Choice A. Uh although grape plants in cooler regions also showed some increase in sugar content in years with warmers, the includes was much greater in vine located in traditionally warm climates. Well, yeah, this seems correct. Uh because it says warmers lead to more ripening and also shows sugar content which affects ripening increases especially in warm region. So let's keep A for now. Trust B. Although significant year-to-year variations in temperature were recorded during the study, no noticeable trend in harvest timing was observed across the wine yards monitored. If no trend in harvest timing was observed, then it contradicts the conclusion of researches. That's why B is wrong. See, although grape vines in warm temperatures ripened earlier on average, those grown in higher altitudes ripens later than those in lower altitude regions regardless of temperature patterns. Well, this choice introduces altitude as a factor which will affect. Well, there was nothing about altitude in the passage. That's why we can eliminate choice as well. Chis. Although great mines in years with warmer ornuts tended to produce more fruit over all those years also had unusually cool springs making it unclear whether Ottoman worms alone was responsible for early ripening. Uh this choice raises some doubts about whether Ottoman worms is the sole cause and it's literally going to weaken our conclusion and we don't want that right. That's why D is wrong. And the best choice here is choice A. And always look for an answer that literally tells you direct evidence of this trend of this conclusion here. Uh so yep, next up we have text completion question type. So here we have a question. You can pause the video right now and solve it on your own first. And so this question asked for te uh completing the text. Let's read the text now. The eastern hellburn uh is the largest species in North America and a key indicator of freshwater ecosystem health due to habitat destruction and water pollution. Uh populations have declined significantly. So that's an important thing. population have declined. Uh conservation biologists Dr. Rachel Simmons and her team tested whether a method called headstarting raising jonads in captivity before releasing them into the wild could improve survival rates. Working in two river systems, they released both juveniles and wildborn uh juveniles to compare survival rates. Uh Simmons and her team found that head started individuals showed a much higher survival rates than did wildorn juvenile suggesting that like so the passage suggests that head starting increases survival rates. So that head starting in the method as you can as you saw in this text and it just improves survival rate and the correct answer to show that choice A. Uh providing young individuals with a controlled environment before releasing may allow them to develop stronger survival skills that help them persist in the wild. Uh yeah, it supports that idea which is head starting improves survival and says stronger survival skills. Uh yep. So I guess we can keep choice A for now. Choice B, salamanders that grow in polluted environments are inherently less likely to survive to adulthood than those in pristine habitats. Well, this discusses pollution, but the experiment uh focuses on head starting uh non-environmental conditions here. That's why B is one. Choice C. He hating is more likely to improve survival rates for river dwelling species than for land dwelling species. Well, the passage never compares uh river dwelling versus land dwelling species. That's why choice C is also wrong. Choice D, some uh amphibians naturally experience high mortality rates in the wild regardless of consummation efforts. So what are they? So central idea is the main point or purpose of the passage or a paragraph. Whereas details are specific information supporting or illustrating the central idea. So you may be thinking how to identify these questions and there are four common phrases. What is the main purpose of the passage? What are the author mainly focus on? Or what is the author's main idea? The passage suggests dot dot. So mainly there are three skills that you need to have in order to get questions right uh in this question type. So the first skill is summarizing the passage. Uh so what you want to do is to skim the passage to understand its topic. So this is the first thing that you want to do when you uh read the passage. You want to identify the topic. what is the passage about? And then you want to identify the purpose if the question is asking why is it actually written. Uh you can also look for repetition of key words or ideas. So repeated ideas are kind of main ideas. And the second skill that you need is spotting key sentences. So you in some passages you can find topic sentences of each paragraph and I'm not telling that you you can find the topic uh topic sentence of each paragraph all the time but sometimes you might find it and it's usually going to be in the first or last sentences and you can also identify shifts in tone or direction. So the words uh that you we see a lot on the SAT that can shift the tone is however. Uh and this is the most common one that I've seen in past exams in digital SAT. Thus is also um I've seen thus as well. So the third skill is using context clues for details. You also have to be able to find specific evidence in the passage to support the central idea. So that's also important. So now let's go through a stepbystep process. So the first step is reading the question. Determine if it's asking for a central idea, main point or a detail. So that's the first thing that you want to do. You have to identify what is what is the question asking for. And then the second step is skimming the passage. Uh and during this step, you have to note key phrases in the introduction and conclusion. Next up, you have to find the editors. Uh for questions that ask details, you have to locate the specific line or paragraph. So yeah, you have to identify the specific line. And the next step is eliminating wrong answer choices. And you might have heard this so many times uh but you a lot of people don't actually teach you how to eliminate certain choices. So usually wrong choices are the one that are irrelevant or extreme answers. And you may be thinking what do you mean by extreme answer choices? What I mean here is that there are some answer choices that include words like every time, e, always, or never. And those answer choices include those extreme phrases that are usually wrong. But I'm not saying 100% of the sun, but they are usually wrong. Answers based on personal assumptions or unrelated details. So this is also uh kind of a type of wrong answer choices where they give some sort of assumptions um that are not actually uh exist in the passage or they might also uh include unrelated details. So the final step to answering the question right is verifying the answer. You have to match it with the passes key ideas or specific evidence. So now I'm going to tell you three common traps and then we will solve questions related to them. So the first type is the ones that are too broad or too narrow. Uh central idea questions often trick students with overly general or overly s uh specific answer choices. So you have to keep that in mind. So the second common trap that I see a lot of students make is nleating details. For detailed questions, irrelevant information can appear correct. For example, in the passage uh there the answer choice might be true, but is it actually relevant to the question they are asking? So you have to ask that question and in the questions that you're going to solve you will see those types of common threats as well. So the third type is assumptions. So you have to avoid answer that that are not directly supported by the passage. So now here we'll be solving questions and uh to uh not to spoil the blue book practice tests what I did was I excluded active questions. I excluded questions from uh uh from full lens practice tests uh and there is a tuto like that in college board question bank. So I excluded all these questions so that I will not be spoiling those um practice tests and viewer will be solving those things because I personally believe the college board resources are the best ones to prepare. I've seen some third party questions and they're not as good as you may think. So now without further ado, let's get into it. So here we have the first question. So go back and the first step is reading the question. Now let's read the question. Which choice best states the main idea? Let me change the color of the thing the main idea of the text. So they are asking about the main idea. So this second step is killing the passage. So, let's read the passage. The following text is from We don't care about people's names. For now, five children and it five young siblings have just moved with their parents from London to a house in the countryside that they called the White House. It was not really a pretty house at all. It was quite ordinary and mother that thought is was rather inconvenience. Not pretty ordinary inconvenient and was quite annoyed at there being no shelves to speak of and hardly a cupboard in the place. Father used to say the iron work on the roof and coping was like the architect's nightmare. But so here we have a word that that is changing the tone of the passage or let's say paragraph. So you always have to keep those types of um phrases in your mind and they change a lot of things. But the house was deep in the countryside with no other house inside. And the children had been in London for the two years without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train. And so the White House seemed to them a sort of fairy palace set down in an earthly paradise. So now let's think about uh let's kind of predict or uh think about what's the main idea uh could be. So in the first part they are talking about uh the house being inconvenient, not pretty and like they're telling it was a nightmare. So it's more of a bad thing and then we are the passage is shifting the tone and is talking about children uh loving the place. So the main idea I believe should be kind of related to this. So now let's have a look at answer choices. Choice A. Although their parents believe the house has several drawbacks that the children are enchanted by it. So I believe that this answer might be true because as we can as you can see in the first part we talked about parents believing that there are some several drawbacks and in the second part we're talking about children being happy. So I believe a could be correct but still we will read the other answer choices. The children don't like the house nearly as much as their parents do. So it's kind of shifting uh the uh focus and uh B is actually the opposite of what the passage told. So choice C each member of the family admires a different character characteristic of the house. I mean I don't think that each member of the family it kind of likes one characteristics because uh for example in the passage there was nothing about what uh parents like it about the house so that's why she's also wrong. Choice D. The house is beautiful and wellbuilt but the children miss their old home in London. No, children did not actually miss. It was like a theory palace event. Children really like at least. So he's also wrong. So the best choice here is a. So now let's move on to the next question. So now we will read the question. According to the text, what is significant about cotlet's use of lina cut printing? So what is significant? So here we have uh they're asking for kind of a specific detail I believe. Uh yeah. So let's read the passage to make her art more available. Uh graphic artists graphic artists turn it to lina cuts. In lin printing, an artist carves an image into a sheet of uh lenolium to create a stem that is used to mass-produce prints. Uh in those series, uh she or he uh depicts the everyday experiences of black women alongside the achievements of well-known black woman. This painting invites the viewer to draw connections among the women. The lonet process enables uh her work to reach a wide audience and supported her aim to unite black woman through her arts. Uh so the passage is talking about the that type of printing and it's telling that uh this is use it for connecting for drawing connections among the women and uniting those black women. So as you can see uh it's more about drawing connection and uniting. So now let's have a look at the answer choices. Choice A. Uh, it involved using materials that were w readily available. I mean, there was nothing about those materials. So, A is wrong cuz it's irrelevant. Choice B, uh, it helps her use art to connect people, especially black woman. Yes. So as you can see draw connections means connecting people and it helped her use that art to connect uh black woman. So I guess B is kind of correct but still let's have a look let's have a look at other answer choices. She became commercially successful once she started using it. I don't think it's that important and it's that relevant. So she's wrong. Choice D. She was one of the first black artists to use. I mean, the passage wasn't really about her being the first black artist. So, this is wrong. So, B is the correct answer. Now, let's have a look at the next question. So, the question is asking about the main idea of the text. Now, let's read the text. Scrapbooks of sed fabric pieces were commonly kept by women uh in the 19th century United States, but few are as meticulously detailed as uh someone's work. Alongside each piece of fabric, uh that person recorded intimate memories such as dress making with her sister. Additionally, she listed the prices and how she used the fabric. Historians knows that by representing 50 years of changing textures and patterns and dress styles, the scrapbook is a record of 19th century textiles and dress making as well as uh that person's life. So, as you can see, the passage was about uh scrapbooks of fabric pieces. And they're telling you that it contained almost everything. Uh almost 50 years of different textures, patterns, and dress styles. Uh so now let's have a look at the answer choices. Uh that person inspired other woman to save pieces of fabric in scrapbooks and provide historical records of 19th century fashions in the United States. So there was nothing about inspiration uh her being in like being inspiration to other women. Oh, ace rhyme. Truth be historians rely on fab scrapbooks to understand how fashions changed throughout the 19th century United States. Yes, we know how fashion changed throughout that century. But do we know that historians relied on those scrapbooks? No. And it's also not the main idea. You have to find the main idea is which has to be uh talked about throughout the passage. Fabric scrapbooks were a popular hobby for many women in the 19th century. You don't really know whether it was popular hobby or not. So she is wrong. Just D. That person's scrap uh scrapbook provides a detailed account of her life. Yes, that's true. And historical record of fashion trends. Yes, exactly. In the 19th century, United States. So, choice D is 100% correct because it's talking about the main idea of the passage. It was uh in the passage, it's all about intimate memories. Uh that means about her life. For examples, uh her life including dress making with her sister also it included uh the change of different textures, patterns, dress styles and everything. So, this is correct. Now let's move on to the next question. The main idea of the text. Let's read the passage. Psychologists wanted to test how young children think about rewards and fairness. So the two things that they wanted to test rewards and fairness. In an experiment, two teachers handed out rewards while children aged four to six watch it. Uhhuh. uh the two teacher uh the two the teachers gave out the same number of rewards but one of them counted the rewards out loud. So in this experiment there were teacher uh there were two teachers and they gave words and uh they gave the same number of words but one of those was counted uh allows the children were then asked it who was fairer. 93% chose the teacher who counted. The psychologists think that counting showed that children that the showed the children that the teacher wanted to be fair. The children may have believed that teacher who did not count did not care about fairness. So that's uh kind of the main idea you believe. So the thing is uh that uh well in that experiment counted was something that uh showed that the teacher wanted to be fair but if there is no counting it kind of means that the teacher did not care about fairness. So, choice A. Psychologists think children cannot understand the concept of fairness until they are six years old. No, the uh there's nothing about the age of them. For example, there's no limitation of age in the past. So, age wrong. An experiment found that counting out loud is the best way to teach mathematical concepts to children. Uh so this is an example of the choice that includes extreme phrases the best as you can see in this case. Uh let us see whether support this no the passage doesn't actually tells that. So B is wrong. Choice C. Psychologists think young children expect to be rewarded when the children show they that they care about fairness uh is kind of irrelevant and is not uh supported by the psyche. An experiment showed that the way rewards are given out may affect whether young children think the situation is fair. Yes. Why? because this answer choice is talking about uh whether the situation is fair uh whether it affects or not the way those rewards are given um if it's like given uh out loud that will definitely affect what children think whether the situation is fair or unfair. So this is 100% correct. So now let's move on to the next question. So you can also pause the video from now on and solve it yourself first and then play the video and watch the explanation. So the question is asking about the main idea of the text. Now let's read the text. Microlastics are pieces of plastic that are smaller than grain of rice. These small plastics can be found in large quantities in ocean waters. Ecologist and her team are studying the role reef building corals have in capturing uh microplastics from ocean waters. through research that her team has found that these corals may be storing up to 20 million kilograms of microplastics each year in their skeletons and tissues. So they're asking about the main idea. Uh so the passage first started off talking about microplastics being small but they told that they are found in large quantities in ocean waters and they're telling that corals have a great effect on it. So, so those corals are actually storing that many uh microlastics, large quantities of um microlastics like 20 million and even here at the beginning they're talking about them being large in large quantities. So as you can see you're you're seeing a lot of repeated ideas and in this case that repeated idea is them microlastics being in large quantities in corals. So that's our uh prediction I believe. Now let's read the choices. was a ecologists are interested in learning more about how certain corals built large trees. I mean this is not the main idea and we don't really know whether ecologists are interested about how those uh corals build large reefs. We don't care about how. So a is wrong choice. Questions remain around the impacts of corals have on ocean ecosystems. There was nothing about questions remaining and them being not confident. So B is wrong. So now let's have a look at choice C. Microplastics are small pieces of plastics. Microlastics are small pieces of plastic that can be found in ocean waters. So this choice is talking about them being small and this is actually not the main idea. It's just a detail that is talked about in the first sentence and that's it. But what was the main idea? So choice D ecologists predicts that corals store large amounts of microlastics from ocean waters and this is 100% right. Uh as you can see throughout the passage we have a lot of details about them being in large quantities and squaling them. So now let's move on to the next question. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own. So, uh let's read the question first. What is one advantage of attacking glass be to particles when using optical toers? Okay. a lot of things that I not really understand but still that's okay because we only need uh we only need to understand what advantage means here I believe so what is one advantage we have to find that advantage and that's it so we know what we're looking for now let's go to the passage so they are specialized uh tools uhhuh I'm kind of getting what that means particularly useful in biology and medicine that use high powered beams of light to shroud and manipulate uh particles for study. Use of the tool has led to several scientific and medical breakthroughs over the last few decades. Until now, we didn't have anything about that advantage, but the particles are often under prolonged exposure to the intense heat of the light beams. Okay. Uh to overcome the risk of overheating and thereby damage, researchers sometimes attack nanosized glass beads to particles allowing the light to focus on the beat instead of the particles. Okay. So researchers attack. So here we have attacking uh nailsized glass beads. So here we have glass beads. Two particles. Here we have two particles. uh when using optical tweezers I mean they already talk about it here so we have to buy one advantage so that advantage is uh talk about here to overcome the risk of overheating and therefore damage so I'm predicting that the the correct answer choice should talk about uh should talk about solving ing the problem of overheating. Avoiding overheating maybe. Yeah, I guess avoiding overheating is kind of a my prediction. Now, let's read the answer choices. Uh, it decreases the time it takes for the optical twizzers to locate and capture the particles. We don't care about the time. And this is also a common trap on the SAT, uh, which is talking about time to confuse some students. So A is wrong. Truth B, it facilitates the uh sounding of particles without directly heating the particles themselves. So yeah, I believe this uh might be true. Yeah, because they're talking about heating so that they avoid heating without directly heating the particles themselves. So I it might be right. Yeah. Stellais it allows researchers to use vehicle lights beams to manipulate particles. No, we don't have anything but light. So C is wrong. Choice D. It adds a material to which particles can transfer any heat absorbed from the optical tweezer slide beam. Now there's nothing about adding a material. So D is wrong. So the correct answer is B. Now, uh, let's have a look at the next question. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own. To protect themselves when being attacked, hackfish, jawless marine animals that resemble eels will release large quantities of slimy uhhuh threads. Okay. Uh because these threads are unusually strong and elastic, scientists and her colleagues uh scientists and her colleagues have been trying to recreate them in a lab as an echofriendly alternative to petroleum based fibers that are often used in fabrics. The researchers want to reproduce the threats in the lab because farming hackfish for this lang would be expensive and potentially harmful to the hackfish. So, and they're and they're asking about the main idea. Uh so let's talk about what the passage actually is talking about. So uh so they're telling that animals producing uh so many those threats and because they're strong and elastic they they're kind of have been trying to recreate them in a lab and making them uh and making them more a friendly uh compared to petroleum invasive fibers. and they're telling that yeah they want to reproduce it because it uh because farming hackfish uh is expensive and harmful. So the kind of thing in this passage is uh those muslike threats. mucous like threads uh mites uh kind of scientists can use those those muslike threads to generate or recreate a new kind of fabric that can be uh alternative to those fibers. So I guess that could be kind of a my prediction. So now let's read the answer choices. The slimy thread said hackfish release might help researchers create a new kind of fabric. Exactly. Uh so A is correct. Choice B. Hackfish have inspired researchers to develop a new petroleum based fabric. No, this is wrong. So B is wrong. Hackfish are not well suited to being raised in captivity. nothing about them being uh suited or not in captivity. So C is wrong. The ability of hackfish to slam the attackers compensates for the jolus. Um nothing about that in the passage. So she's wrong. Now let's move on to the next question. The main idea of the text in a study of new techn technology adoption uh researchers and others examined negative disconformation which occurs when experiences fall short of one's expectations to determine whether it could lead to positive outcomes for users. So the team focuses on established users of smart home technology which uh presents inherent utilization challenges but tends to attract users with high expectation often uh leading to feelings of dissonance. So the researchers found that many users employ cognitive mechanisms to solve or mitigate those feelings ultimately reversing the initial sense of disappointments. Uh so they they're kind of examines one idea which is negative disconformation and they tested through smart home technology users. uh so they kind of attracted the people who have high expectations and it led to feelings of dissonance. So the researchers uh showed that many users employed those to solve those problems. So now let's have a look at answer choices. uh research suggests that most users of smart home technology will not achieve a feeling of satisfaction giving the utilization challenges of such technology. Now when using this uh terms just negative disisconfirmation uh they will actually feel satisfied. So this is wrong. Sh A's line chess B. Although most smart techn smart home technology is aimed at meeting or exceeding users high expectations, those expectations in general remain poorly understood. There is nothing about those expectations uh being poorly understood in the passage. So be is wrong and you don't want answer choices that uh kind of tell new ideas that haven't been talked about in the past. Choice research suggests that users with high expectations for a new technology can feel can feel content with that technology even after experiencing negative discom as as we told about this um first they had high expectations and that led to feelings of dissonance but then when they uh solved those issues and made it so good. They felt so uh kind of they reversed their initial sense of disappointment and they were happy. So C is 100% right. Choice D. Although negative disconformation has often been studied, little is known about the mechanisms she uses reactions to it in the context of new technology at nothing about that in the passage. It's 100% irrelevant. So now let's move on to the next question. So you can pause the video now and solve it on your own. Then you can play the video. So the question is asking about the discovery of the sandal. Interesting. Uh let's read the text. Uh, the ice the ice melted on a Norwegian mountain during a particularly warm summer in 2019, revealing a 1700year-old sandal to a mountaineer looking for artifacts. Uh, the sandal would normally have degraded quickly, but it was instead well preserved for centuries by the surrounding ice. According to archaeologist and his team, the sandal like those worn by Romance would have offered any protection from the cold in the mountains. So some kind of insulation like fabric or animal skin would have needed to be worn on the feet with the sandal. Uh so what are they talking about? the discovery of the sandal. They are telling that uh that sort of sandal would typically have degraded quickly but this one was well preserved. Why? Because of the surrounding ice and uh they're talking about if if that was like sandal worn by Imperial Romance, it wouldn't have offered any protection from the cold in the mountains. So they're telling that uh it wasn't also because of the animal skin. So it was because of the surrounding ice. Uh so now let's have a look at the answer choices. Choice A. Temperatures contributed to both protecting and revealing the sandal. So temperatures could be kind of ice. I believe uh being cold and like yeah I guess it might be true. But still, let's have a look at other answer choices. The discovery will reveal that Roman Empire had more influence on Norway than archaeologists previously assumed. No, this is there's nothing about that in the passage like being hading having more influence on Norway is like not me. Archaeologists would have found the the eventually without help from the general public. I mean nothing about whe the health matters from the general public or not in the P. So he's wrong. So see the sandal would have degraded using Thailand being removed from the ice. Nothing about that as well. So A is the correct answer choice. Now let's uh move on to the next question. You can pause the video now. So uh according to the text what is one reason they founded you recycle initiative Africa. So he wants uh the why behind them founding it. So they uh no she or she that person co-ounded uh it well she was only a teenager. uh they found this the organization to teach young people how their actions affect the environment and why recycling is important. So the reason why it was founded was because uh to teach those young people how it affects the environment and why recycling is importance. So now let's uh look at the answer choices. So bring attention to overlooked African artists. nothing about uh African artists. So A is wrong. Uh choice B to teach young people why recycling is important. So this uh might be true. Yeah, I guess it it is true. Maybe yeah, still let's have a look at this to help adults gain important outdoor skill. Nothing about outdoor skills. So she is wrong to give teenagers advice about starting business. Nothing about business about starting business. So she's wrong. So clearly choice B is 100% right. So now let's move on to the next question and pause the video now and solve it on your own. So they're asking about the main idea of the text. Let's read the text. Uh so shimmering is a collective defense behavior that researchers have observed in giant bee colonies. Okay. When shimmering, different groups of bees flip their eyes up and down in what looks like waves. This defense is initiated when hornets hover near a colony, serving to deter the hornets from approaching the bees. Researchers hypothesize this behavior is a specialized defense response to hornets as it is not observed when other larger predators approach the colony. Uh so the passage is about shmering and they're telling that shimmery is kind of defense against uh hornets as you can see hornets here. Uh, and they're telling that it is not observed when other larger predators froze them. So, I guess it's kind of more uh defense for hornets. So, choice A. Researchers are unsure how giants on bees defend against predators larger than hornets. I mean, then it's not the main idea. They might be unsure about them, but Leon's repeated ideas. So, A's wrong. Choice B. Researchers think that shimmering in giant honeybees is a specific defense against hornets. Yes, 100%. Uh, and our prediction was kind to be the main of giant honeybee. This could be the assumption, but this is not actually mentioned in the text. So, C is wrong. Choice D of several different species of insects use shimmering to defend against hornets. Uh, we don't really know about other species of insects and it's not talked about it in the path of also wrong. Now, let's move on to the next question. So, you can pause the video now and solve it on your own. So they're asking about the main idea. Let's read the text. So NASA's Cassini probe has detected an unusual wobble in the rotation of Mimas. Okay, there was an unusual wobble in the rotation of Saturn's smallest moon. So Mimas is Tetan's smallest moon. using a computer model to study its gravitational interactions with Saturn and tidal forces. Uh geoysicists and colleagues have proposed that this bubble wubble could be due to liquid ocean moving beneath the moon's ice surface. So they also found the reason why uh researchers believe other moons should be examined to see if they too might have oceans hidden beneath their surfaces. Uh so this passage is about uh that wobble unusual wobbin and uh they are telling that uh they studied its gravitational interactions and they're telling the reason why uh that wobble is exists. Yeah. and they're telling the that the researchers uh believe that other moons should also be tested. Now let's read the answer choices. Uh Roden and colleagues uh were the first people to confirm that uh several of those contain hidden oceans. Uh either the media or do they actually know that they were the first? So no. So A is wrong. Researcher has failed uh to identify signals that there is an ocean hidden beneath the surface of Neimas. No, they didn't fail. I believe so. B is wrong. Rhden and colleagues created a new uh computer model that identifies moons with hidden oceans without needing to analyze the moon's rotation. Is it a main idea? We can't say that because it's not the main idea. Research has revealed that an oddity in the rotation of Mimas could be explained by an ocean hidden beneath beneath its surface. So I think it's right because unusual means odyssey or being odd in the rotation of mimas. So it was talked about here as well in the rotation of those neas and they also told the reason why due to liquid ocean move moving beneath the its ice surface. Yes, it it is explained by an ocean hidden beneath it surface. Yes, 100% right. And it could be the mean idea. So it is 100% right. Correct. So now let's move on to the next question. Uh you can pause the video now and solve it on your own and then watch the explanation. So the question is asking about the main idea of the text. So this text is from someone's poem. Okay. Uh I wish I could remember that first day, first hour, first moment of your meeting me. If bright or dim the season, it might be summer or winter for all I can say. So unrecorded did I that it slid away. So blind was I to see and for foresee so dull to mark the budding of my tree that would not blossom yet for many a man. Uh so uh the poem was about uh the speaker uh kind of uh regretting that he or she was so blind and like it was so unreorded and so dull to mark that events and kind of the speaker is regretting um how to know what how she met like all of all those things and like Yeah. So I think it's about regretting. Yeah. So now let's read the choices. The speaker celebrates how the passage of time has strengthened a relationship that once seemed unimportant. Is there something about strengthening a relationship? And are they celebrating? Uh is the speaker celebrating how the passage of time? I'm not sure. It's kind of it could be right, but I don't know. like it has some elements that kind of make me not choose this answer choice. Let's look at other choices. Because the speaker did not anticipate how important a relationship would become, she cannot recall how the relationship began, which she regrets. Yes, she regrets and she didn't anticipate how important it was. Yes, because on that first date uh the speaker is saying I wish I could remember that. So I guess B is way better than A. So I guess there isn't reason to to eliminate A because there's no celebration about how the passage of time has trans. So B is way better than A. Uh still let's have a look at other choices. As the anniversary of the beginning of an important relationship approaches, the speaker feels conflicted about how best to commemorate it. Now there is nothing about the speaker feeling conflated about it since he's wrong. Trust the after years of neglecting. Neglecting. Neglect. Neglecting means ignoring a once valuable rel relationship. The speaker worries it may be too late for her to salvage the relationship. Nothing about being too late and those things is wrong. So the best choice here is B. Let's move on to the next question. Uh you can pause the video now and solve it on your own. So, let's read the question. According to the text, why does the narrator consult some family photographs? Why? So, that's important. Mhm. Let's read the passage. So, it's from an owl, funny boy. Uh sometimes reading the name of an owl is also kind of helps you to understand that piece. The 7-year-old narrator lives with his family in Sri Lanka. So this person is the narrator's aunt. Okay, this person she who was the youngest in my father's family had left for America four years ago when I was three and I could not remember what she looked like. I went into the corridor to look at the family photographs that were hung there, but all the pictures were old ones taken when Vladia auntie was a baby or young girl. Try as I might, I couldn't get an idea of what she looked like now. My imagination, however, was quick to fill in this void. Uh so, uh this kind of piece of analog is about uh the narrator uh kind of searching through the image and trying to get an idea of what she look like. uh what's her aunt looked like looks like now. Uh so now he has to answer the question why does the narrator consult some family photographs? Uh I believe it is uh it is because it is because to know how uh to know the appearance of his aunts to know his appearance of his aunts I believe. So that's kind of my application. Now let's read the choice. She wants to use the photographs as an inspiration for a story he's writing. Nothing about a story he's writing. So is wrong. Just be he is curious about how his father dressed a long time ago. Nothing about how his father dressed. So B is wrong. He hopes the photographs will help him recall what his aunt looked like. Exactly. I believe this is the right answer. Choice choice D. He wants to remind his aunt of an of an event that is shown in an old photograph. Uh no, there's nothing about an event is wrong. Choice C is 100% right. Now let's move on to the next question. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own. So the question is asking about why Bill regularly ask about seafaring men. So you have to define the reason why he asks about seafaring men. So the following text is adopted from someone's now treasure island. So he's a sailor staying at the at that place and in run by the narrator's parents. Every day when Bill came back from his stroll, he would ask if any CP man had gone by along the road. At first thought, at first we thought it was the wand of company of his own kind that made him ask this question. So they're talking about was they first thought was but it wasn't like that. At last he began to see he was desirous to avoid them. So they so he wanted to avoid them. That's why he asked. So, we don't even need to read the rest of the paragraph. So, we can look at the answer choices. Uh, he's hoping to find an old friend and fellow sailor. No, nothing but that. She just wants to avoid them. That's it. He's trying to secure a job as part of the crew on a new ship. No, nothing about a job. B's wrong, Jesse. He isn't sure that other guests at the inn will be welcoming sailors. No, nothing about other guests and nothing but welcoming them. Choice is deep. He doesn't want to encounter any other sailor unexpectedly. Yes, he wants to avoid any other sailor unexpectedly. So this uh the correct answer choice. See you in day two where uh I will give more explanations. So let's read the question. What challenge did the researchers have to overcome to examine the glyphs? So you need to find the specific detail which is a challenge that researchers has had to solve to examine the glyphs. Let's read the text. In 2022, uh, researchers discovered ancient indigenous glyphs or drawings on the walls of a cave in Alabama. The cave ceiling was only a few feet high, affording no position from which the glyphs being as wide as 10 ft could be viewed or photographed in their entirety. However, so here we have a phrase which uh which can change a lot of things. The SAT. However, the researchers used a technique called photoggramometry to uh assemble numerous photos of the walls into a 3D model. Then they worked with um these things to understand the significance. Okay. So because the ceiling was only a few feet high, there was no position uh and it could not be viewed or photographed in the entirety. So that's a problem and that's a challenge. And in order to solve or overcome that challenge, they use the technique this technique so that they could view it as a 3D model. So the problem is not being able to view or photograph it in the entirety. Um so we can't really uh view it uh in the entirety cuz the cave was so remote that the researchers could not use easily reach it. No, there was nothing about being so far away. So it is wrong. Choice B. Some of the glyphs were so fans they couldn't be photographed. Nothing was uh those glyphs being fans. So be is wrong. So I see researchers were unable to create a 3D model of the cave. I mean that's not a problem. Uh it's uh kind of the opposite of a solution. I I think maybe let's look at choice deep. The cave's dimensions prevented the researchers from fully viewing the glyphs. This is 100% right. Why? Because the problem as I told was viewing it in their entirety. In the entirety is fully viewing it. So choice D is 100% right. Let's move on to the next question. Uh you can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So the question is asking about the main idea about hunt. So in many of his sculptures artist uses broad forms rather than extreme accuracy raw forms rather than extreme accuracy to hint at specific people or ideas. In his first major work, uh, has constructed the mythical character, a beaver who was changed into a spider by welding bits of steel together into something that although vaguely human is strange and machine. and his large bronze sculpture uh commemorates activists and journalists using mainly flowing curved pieces of metal that creates stylized flame. So the main idea here is that uh he usually uh creates those or kind of shows those sculptures in a way that is strange machineike. Uh yeah, kind of those bra forms rather than a realistic ones. Yeah. So I think the main idea like my prediction is that the correct answer should look something like he usually creates those uh sculptures that are kind of machine life or strange maybe. Yeah. So let's look at instance. He often depicts the subjects of his sculptures using an unrealistic style. So this might be true. Yeah, this could be even the main idea. But still, you're going to look at other choices. He uses different kinds of materials depending on what kind of sculpture he plans to create. Know nothing about different kind of materials, choosing which material to use. So be is wrong. He tends to base his art on important historical figures rather than on fictional characters. No, it's not the main idea. He has altered his approach to sculpture over time and his works have become increasingly abstract. So it's not the main idea of the text. So A is the correct answer choice. So you have to find the main idea of the text. If you want, you can pause the video and solve it on your own first. So, let's read the text. Many intellectual histories of the black power movement of those centuries rely heavily on essays and other explicitly ideological works as primary sources. Interesting. a tendency that can over represent the repres uh perspectives of of a small number of thinkers most of whom were were male. Historian has shown expanding the area of primary sources to encompass more types of print material including political uh cartoons, advertisements and artwork leads to a much better understanding of the movement and the crucial diverse roles the black woman played in shaping it. So the main idea here is that their primary source is only essays and some ideological works and they're they kind of are ideas of a small number of thinkers and most of them are male and instead they kind of suggesting that they should use more resources as their primary source. For example, they also should use political cartoons, advertisements and art of work so that they can uh better understand the movement in the diverse roles there. So now let's look at answer choices. Farmers methods and research have enriched the historical understanding of the black power movements. Uhhuh. and black woman's contributions to it. Uhhuh. Farmers maybe let's keep this choice. Before farmers research historians had largely ignored the intellectual dimensions of nothing about intellectual dimensions of the movement. be wrong. Uh other historians of the black power movement have criticizes his use of unconventional. They're we can't say they unconventional I believe and it's not the main idea. So she's wrong. The figures in the black power movement whom historians tend to site would have agreed with far conclusions about women's role in the movement. If there's nothing like that, it's like completely new idea I believe. So A is the best choice here and it represents the main idea because in the text we have something about the historical understanding of the movements and their contribution. So let's move on. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So, let's read the question. What does the text most strongly suggest about the disco genre? Mhm. Let's read the text. Disco remains one of the most ridiculous popular music genres of the late 20th century. But so here we have a phrase that changes the tone or let's say the attitude of passage. But as scholars have argued it uh the genre is far less superficial than many people believe. So although people believe that it is like the most ridiculous popular music genre, it's actually not that popular. Although people believe like that seeing the kids a disco icon. So here we have icon disco icon. She may have been associated with popular songs about love and heartbreak. Sandre's hardly unique to this girl. By the way, like many black woman singers before her, much of her music reflects concerns about community and identity. These concerns are present in many of the genres's greatest songs and they generally don't require much digging to reveal. So the the passage is talking about this genre being kind of people believe that it's so popular but it's actually not. So yes, this is my prediction. Uh let's look at answer choices. It has been unjustly ignored by most scholars despite the importance of the themes addressed by many of its gen songs maybe. But uh is the importance of themes addressed by those gener songs relevant? I'm not really sure but still let's keep it. It evolved over the time from the superficial gener focus on romance to gener focus on more serious concerns. No, there is no host serious insurance like that shift. So be is wrong. It has been unfairly dismissed for the inclusion of such matter that is also found in other musical genres. Yes, 100% right. It gave rise to a black woman's musical tradition that has endured even though the genre itself faded in the late 20th century. I mean the passage isn't actually talking about that. It's not the main focus. So the correct answer is C. Now let's move on to the next question. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So let's uh read the question. What does the text mostly most strongly suggest about conventional ETL fabrication? Okay, let's read the text. In a paper about spin planner sky solar cells, one of several uh architectures designed to collect and store solar power. They describe a method for fabricating the cell's electronic transport layer which is ETL using a spray coating. Mhm. Conventional ETL fabrication. Now we have something about conventional ETA fabrication is accomplished using a solution of nanop particles. The process can result in a loss up to 80% of the solution increasing the cost of fabricating at scale an issue that may be obliated by spray curly fabrication which the researchers described as highly reproducible concise and practical. So conventional ETF fabrication is uh accomplished using a solution of nanop particles and it's it is so uh like it cost is so high and it's almost impossible to uh make it scalable because of the cost and that problem is uh that problem is solve it by spray coating fabrication and spray coating fabrication is highly reproducible, concise and practical. So now let's look at other uh answer choices. It is less suitable for manufacturing large volumes of planer PNP solar cells than an alternative fabrication method. Maybe yes 100% right. Why? Because it's talking about um it increasing the cost of manufacturing if it's done at scale. So if they produce large volumes then the cost is going to be so high and that's why it's less suitable. So A is correct I believe. Still let's have a look at other answer choices. It is more expensive than manufacturing at scale than other processes for fabricating ETLs used in other uh but it's kind of missing the parts about an alternative fabrication method and it's also talking about other those architectures now in that same architecture. So at least run it typically entails a greater loss of nanoparticle solution than do other established approaches. I mean the main problem is not loss of n particle solution. It's uh it's the kind of not being suitable because in the cost s is wrong. Uh it is what somewhat imprecise in there effectiveness. Uh, no it's wrong. So, let's move on to the next question. Uh, you can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So, let's read the question. According to the text, which piece of uh fabulous arts was on display in that place museum in 2017? So, which piece of her art? So, we have to find uh specific detail here. So, we're going to skim the passage quickly. Born create. So, uh, Favilla created an impressive life-size pinata sculpture of the car which was displayed at that museum in Los Angeles in 2017. So, so she like sculpture like pinata like sculpture of this car was displayed. So you want the answer choice tells A a painting? No, it's not a painting. It's a sculpture of a low ride car. Yes. So it's B is correct. Not a painting of Yeah, not a It's not a sculpture of Juius. So let's move on to the next one. Uh you can pause the video now and solve on your own first. So they're asking about the main idea of the text. Bicycles, the first mass produced in the late 19th century throughout Europe and North America, allowing individuals remarkable freedom to travel longer distances quickly and comfortably. This freedom coupled with the affordability of the vehicle made the bicycle immensely popular. Individuals were able to live further from their workplaces, easily visit neighboring towns, and participate in n leisure and sport activities. Bicycling quickly became a popular social endeavor with enthusiasts forming local cycling clubs to enjoy these new fans activities with others. So, and the main uh like my prediction is bicycles were useful because of freedom. uh being able to tr uh travel longer distances for uh new leisure and sport activities for social interior and all those things can be uh generalized into facilities. No, facilities is kind of like opportunities would be a great word I believe. Yeah, bicycles were useful for opportunities. So let's look at other uh let's look at answer choices because a the widespread adoption of the bicycle in the late 19th century provided new opportunities to the people. Yes, 100% right. It's exactly kind of my prediction. The affordability of the bicycle in the late 19th century made it the preferred way to travel. It's not the main idea. It it is true but it's not the it's just one detail in the passage. The popularity of the bicycle in the late 19th century gave rise to the first cycling clubs. It's not the mean. It's just a small detail. The mass production of the bicycle in the late 19th century made it safer for people to use. No, it's not the meaning here. Let's move on to the next one. You can pause the video now and solve it on your own first. So they're asking about the main idea of the text. Let's read the text to dye wool vaver uses plants and vegetables from Arizona where she lives. For example, she achieved the deep duvetses and browns featured in her rug by using Arizona dog roots that drying rinding them before mixing the powder with water to create a dye bath to intensify the appearance of serving colors. Taylor also sometimes mixes in clay obtained from nearby soil. So what is kind of the repeated idea here? Let me guess. So they're so they're telling to die wool. They are using plants and vegetables from Arizona and that's a place where she lives. She also uses Arizona dog wood. So we have like Arizona a lot here, right? Arizona, it's a place where she lives. And she also talking about nearby soil. That's interesting. So I guess um the repeated idea here is using those resources uh near to her. Yeah. So that's my prediction. Let's go to the answer choices. Reds and browns are now commonly featured in most I mean this is the peen idea. Taylor draws on local resources in the approach she uses to dye wool. Yes, exact is 100% right and that could be the main idea of the text. Taylor finds it difficult to locate. No like nothing about being difficult to locate it and it's not the main idea in the path of four students is why the acclaimment for it many colors in innovative viewing techniques is not the main idea. Let's move on to the next question. Uh you can pause the video now and solve on your own first. So having written the impassionate call to Arin's letter to the Spanish Americans in uh 1791 intellectual is often considered a forerunner for the independence of movements in Latin America. But uh that person's role in history would have remained insignificant were it not for revolutionary who was handed the unpublished letter after his death. Mwanda not only helped circulates the letter but his edits and put notes to the text position as a central figure in text creation. So uh so there was a person whose name was Viscado and that person would not be that popular if uh Miranda did not uh help it circulated the letter after his death and like she even edited and there some footnotes. So Miranda's help was useful for Viscada. I guess that's my prediction. Miranda's help was usable for Biscada. So choice A. The original authorship of letter to the Spanish Americans is disputed by contemporary his historians. I mean nothing about being disputed about who wrote it. So that's the here of the text choice be the majority of the most eloquently stated arguments in letter to the Spanish Americans were brilliant by Miranda. Is it saying that the majority of those arguments were brilliant by him? We don't even know it. So he's wrong. Miranda played a crucial uh role in influencing the content and distribution of Yes. 100% right. So my prediction was Miranda Haltz and it's it's not 100% like that but still uh it really helped me to uh find the correct answer. Letter to the Spanish Americans persuaded many people in Latin America to pursue national independence. Nothing about pursuing like persuading people. So these also are wrong. Now let's move on to the next question. You can pause the video now and solve your own first. So what did the text mostly suggest about corals that produce bright colors? So that's a specific question, right? Because it's asking you about corals that produce bright colors. Now let's go to the passage and read it. Algae living within the tissues of corals play a crucial role in keeping uh corals and the marine ecosystem. They are part of some species appear brown color when healthy due to algae uh tissip in the event of environmental stressor. The algaay can die or be expelless causing the corals to appear white. To recover the algay, the bleached corals that begin to produce then begin to produce bright colors which block intense sunlight encouraging the light sensitive algae to recognize the corals. So the passage is telling that if uh it's healthy then it's going to be brown. If uh there was environmental stressor it's going to be white. And to recover from that environmental stressor from that problem uh they produce bright colors. Those corals produce bright colors and uh they those bright colors block intense sunlight and they're used it uh to recover from environmental stress. So that's my prediction. Now let's go to the answer choices. Choice A. These corals have likely been subjected to stressful environmental conditions. Yeah, I believe this is right because yeah, but still I guess it's 100% right. But still, I'm going to explain why others are wrong. These corals are likely more vulnerable to exposure from intense sunlight than white corals are. There's no comparison of being vulnerable to intense sunlight than white corals are. Yes, we know that they are vulnerable to exposure from in that side. But beyond launch comparison, there's nothing uh there's nothing about the comparison. So that's also a type of a track answer that most uh answer choices incorrect answer choices are. They kind of include comparisons. This fact might be true, but there is no comparison in the passage. These corals have likely recovered from environmental events without the assistance of algy colonies. We don't really know that. So see is wrong. These corals are more likely to survive without algai colonies that than brown corals are. Uh no there's nothing better. So let's move on to the next question. So you can pause the video now and you can solve it on first. So this is asking about the main idea of the text. For centuries, the widespread acknowledgment in the involvement of cerebulum, a dense brain structure in uh vertebrates in coordinating mature control in humans has hindered recognition of other possible functions of this structure. uh neuroscience research from the last two decades now suggests now suggest this because uh until now they talk about what uh happened for centuries but now they're talking about what research uh suggests now uh so research now suggests that regulates emotion and social behavior in recent research by those people has identified a pathway connecting it to a sense of motivation and reward processing known as VTA. So the main idea here I believe is that uh though that sort of cerealum uh for centuries was kind of considered to control those mature functioning stuff because as you can see uh in coordinating mature control in human sub passengers they believe it was for those mature control. Uh but now they suggest that uh they also have some additional or like other uh regulations as you can regulations for example emotion, social behavior, motivation and reward processing and it's known as SNTA. So yes uh the current interest should kind of uh talk about both what happened for centuries what they thought and now or was it so let's look at answer choices the recent verification of a pathway between BTA and cerebulum confirms the cerebulum's long suspected role in maturation nothing but didn't confirm the lines is that rule. So A is wrong. Choice B. Recent advances in the field of neuroscience have challenged widely accepted claims about the function of a pathway connecting. So we want the main idea. Yes, it might be true. We can kind of infer but did nothing about that in the past. And again, it's not a repeated idea. So he's wrong. The cerebulon has primarily been thought to regulate mature functioning. Yes. Uh so it was thought for centuries that it regulates mature function. Correct. But in recent years but now researchers have been uncovering additional functions. Yes, additional patterns are emergent, motivation and all that stuff they pass to talk about. So C is the correct answer choice. Choice D technological limitation have historically hindered the study of I mean do we have anything about technological limitation in the passage? No, you don't have anything about this limitations uh related to psychology disease or