foreign we're going to do the grammar because well you guys asked for it so as you guys know new digital sat content every single day um glad you guys are coming onto the channel asking for more content so I am pumping these out and here we have a grammar question and as you guys know for watching all the other videos right guys that um they have combined the reading and writing into one section they are literally just calling it reading and writing although I think English would be more concise but that's what they're doing so today we're going to do a little bit of penetration today's question type is you could call the punctuation yeah I think punctuation would be fine but moreover it is sentence connector run-on sentences um I'm giving a lot of terms so that you can recognize what this is even if you see a variety of questions okay so number one thing I do so I have always noticed that this is the type of question first so you see all this text here what do I do with that text you guys should know at this point what I do without text I don't read it right I don't read that at all for now what do I do I go to the question itself so I noticed that it is a grammar question because this wording right here the convention is a standard English and I noticed that the answer choices here are the same words pretty much they just have different punctuation okay so I know this is a punctuation question pretty simple right I just look at a question first the answer choices differ by fluctuations it's a punctuation question okay so now let's look at the sentence with that this first sentence doesn't matter at all because it's just a punctuation question I don't care about the meaning okay so let's look at the second sentence and this may not look like I'm saving much but I am literally saving half of the time because I'm not reading half the text and that adds up over the course of an exam Confucius Define priority is acting according to one's blank that all of life's virtues stem from the Fulfillment of one's responsibilities okay so this is indicator guys so when I see punctuation differs with comma colon semicolon period and all that that is a either a run-on or compound sentence question in other words I'm asking how do I connect these two sentences together properly okay so I don't really actually have to look at the content here so those of you who know your grammar pretty well without even reading the text out of a b c and d i could eliminate three of them which obviously means I know what the answer is right so if you guys can do that do it now yeah so I don't even really care whether these should be two sentences or whether there should be one sentence why is that let's look at answer Choice D so we have a period and then I have a new thing so that means it should be a new sentence right that's two sentences that's the most basic one right when you prepare as a new sentence when I put a semicolon that is also two sentences okay so C and D are wrong right away and you guys know this why because with one answer Choice it makes another answer choice true that's wrong you can't have two correct answers on the SAT so because C and D would both make for two sentences they are out okay and for the same reason which one is out B's out and that's our answer a okay so for this one I don't even have to get into how come this is a sentence what's a complete sentence I didn't care okay so I have four options here comma which is not a sentence semicolon sentence colon sentence period sentence pick the answer choice that sticks out I have covered this idea many many times and that's how you would do this uh grammar question in the quick and dirty and easy way okay so normally people go through the grammatical ideas of what's a complete uh clause independent clause all of that I don't care about that for this question at all so that's it for today's quick and dirty video guys so what is it first um identify the question is as I do in every single video right so punctuation question I noticed a three-day answer choices are the same because they're all about making two sentences so I picked the one that stands out which is just this is one sentence and that's it for today guys study everyday with sexy J and keep leaving the comments guys I will get to all of them the comments are picking up a little bit so you know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna pick up my speed and replying it as well and it's been really really helpful all of your um input and all of your questions so please keep them going I appreciate you guys see you guys next time bye-bye hi hey sexy Jay quick and dirty time today is going to be really really quick and dirty it's going to well it's not going to be extra dirty but it's gonna be really quick so this is again grammar on the new digital sat there's not really a new question but why am I going over it because you guys wanted me to right and it's also a pretty good indicator of the new test because as I told you guys before in terms of the grammar they're very much more simplified much more simplified than the traditional paper sat so this is a very uh common type of question already on the test and it has a very simple structure so going forward on the digital City it's going to be even more common they're not really testing you anymore on the more difficult Concepts so what is today's concept subject verb agreement because I know how to do that it comes up a lot on regular sat so what am I going to give you guys that's a little bit extra well how to do it quickly right I said that before okay so this object verb agreement so the answer to this thing is going to be well I'm not going to tell you the answer yeah we'll get there okay so um as always what's the first step guys yeah you skipped a text right and you go to the question like yeah you told me that last video I Know I Know It Good okay and the reason I remind you each time guys is like number one maybe it's your first time watching the video number two in my um group losses it took seven weeks seven weeks for the students to actually listen to me and start reading the blurb I told them Kevin did you read the blurb sorry Kevin I'm calling you out Kevin did you read the blurb he always said no until week seven you know what Kevin said on week seven oh my God Jay I read the blurb it really has everything it's so helpful why didn't you dance weeks one through six I don't know Okay Kevin here are pretty cool though I was gonna say I love you Kevin I don't love you but like you're pretty cool okay anyway I don't think he watches my videos so um as I was saying I'm gonna keep saying this guys okay because you really need to skip the text right go to the question so you can see what kind of question it is and then you'll be like oh yeah this is what Jay told me um so my students go like oh yeah this was sexy Jay told me what do you think about me and your head you can just call me Jay okay so a little bit pressure to call me sexy J all the time although I guess that's better for Branding so maybe okay so this one um the convention Standard English that uh broadly lets you know that this is grammar but provides are providing have provided provide all of these things differ in terms of well not all of them so this is singular versus plural okay they do differ in tense but you see here that a is singular and B B is plural and C is plural and D is plural it's all just right P okay so from here uh seasoned viewers of secretary child we'll probably be able to guess what the answer is from here right away very similar content as last time okay so let's actually go to the text and let's write here as before for most of the grammar focused questions the text itself doesn't matter and I say every time it kind of pains me to Cross all this out because I have to write it but it's okay just focus on the last sentence here literally the last sentence the practice of giving the less skilled player additional pieces blanket advantage that can be calibrated by the players okay I don't need to know what that means so this is the verb where is the subject okay this is the number one place you should look guys you should look as far away from The Verve as possible okay that means at the very beginning of the sentence the practice so the practice that's the subject practice no there's a reason I'm writing it in like this okay so the subject of practice is singular practice is singular but you see over here we have the word pieces right next to the verb which sounds plural I mean it is plural this is probably the most repeated common trick thing on the entire sat in terms it's very very um on every single test and all multiple questions on a singular subject verb agreement thing they will put in a plural sounding thing right next to the verb about the subject that's actually far away and singular or the other way around they do this all the time guys super common trick don't fall for it okay so the practice the practice is singular so we just go okay practice it so it would be it provides that's it that's the answer okay so that's the actual grammatical way of doing it is there a quicker way of doing it of course there is guys so what I noticed here the BCD AR plural and a singular the answer is a singular okay just like in my last video right if I have one answer choice that sticks out from the other ones like that's the answer because b c and d they're all plural so B is right then C is right then D's right can they all be right no they can't you can't have multiple correct answers on the SAT and lastly um b c and d this is I'm just also going through what kind of problems with the um do students have with this because it's a pretty simple concept well so what's your speed up they also ask um Jay couldn't this be like a tense question so couldn't there be a difference between R providing and how provided and provide the present tense sure does the SAT do that not really okay they are much more like 99.99 whatever percent more likely to ask you the singular um plural subject or agreement then they are to ask about tenses I will make now that I brought it up on a a video uh dedicated to tenses and be like these are the specific and limited ways they test the test is but overall it's not going to be the tons it's going to be the subject verb agreement okay so the actual strategy here is very simple you either notice that uh the one answer is singular or the rest are plural so the singular one's the answer or you actually look at the text and go oh the beginning of the sentence has a subject that's the verb so it should be singular and that's pretty much it and make sure to just focus on the question type and to ignore the rest of the text that doesn't matter that's it for today's quick and dirty guys so the actual strategy is pretty quick right that is probably one of the quickest ones we have and let me know in the comments um especially if it's grammar related as well because I did the reading first because honestly there's nobody better at reading than I am probably in the world if you guys find the guy let me know I would like to like collab with him learn from them it's always nice to learn but in the grammar I haven't been doing that because there are a lot of good grammar resources out there but if you guys want me to do it I'll do it so you know leave comments all of that love you guys see you guys next time study every day with who sexy J bye bye foreign quick and dirty guys today new digital sat as always and I'm doing something that honestly a lot of people can't do which is the literature specialty so today's question type is literary characterization does that sound difficult it could be if it wasn't for this video Honestly though guys on the digital sat the literary stuff is not going to be as hard as on the AP Lang or the AP Lit as you guys already know because you guys already watched my other videos right thank you and so today's question is again the glittery um characterization so how do I know that you guys know to drill at this point right skip the text just go to the question so the question asked according to the text how could mother be characterized uh one thing here guys if I have the word mother being capitalized like that that means that's like her name that's her title okay that's a proper noun but that doesn't really matter for this question but you should know that anyway so let's um look at these things before I go into the text um let's do a little drill which answer choices here would you say are unlikely none of them are terrible per se which one would be unlikely so pause the screen whatever as you do I don't know I keep pausing myself when I do that right but anyway so which ones are bad answer Choice a and B are bad they're really really unlikely why are they really really unlikely because yeah they are extreme okay I feel like a little bit like Dora the Explorer pretending I can hear you guys but yeah they're extreme answers because this one says crucial and this one says favorite okay so it feels like religious piety is important to her maybe right things could be important to a person but what does crucial mean it's absolutely essential indispensable that they cannot live without it would I get something that extreme as evidence on the SAT text pretty unlikely and if that were the case it should be a really easy question like oh yeah for sure that's the number one thing second um We're Not Gonna really even have religious characters on these SATs religion is not a topic that is okay to come up if you guys watch my other videos you could say oh wasn't that in historical passage blah blah blah forget the historical passage they don't exist anymore on the new digital sat okay so that's out because it were crucial and also religion if you guys care about the vocab which you should it's fun to learn words uh piety religious party is being holy and doing what you're supposed to do according to your religion which for most of the time is Christianity but again religion is not going to be part of the new digital sat so we'll move on next one I don't like the word favorite here why because that means it's number one so as you guys know what is a super super common trap or a tactic they put in something that is a more extreme version of what was in the text so could it be that she likes tea sure right I really I yeah I like tea right could you say that uh tea is my favorite beverage even if you saw me drinking tea every day for let's say a week would you still know if to use my favorite beverage probably not because I actually prefer beer and you guys just probably wouldn't catch me drinking beer because you guys should be studying yeah so those two things are out and what is the answer let's go to the text now and the likely answer here is D because like that's just like a nothing statement but we'll check if it is okay let's start from line one having no patience for tea okay so she doesn't like tea so this is doubly out mother often claim that she simply had no desire to drink boiled leaf water although I saw her savoring a cup almost every day you see this here the word saver and that's why the answer tree C is here because it's just lifting the words straight from the text which I ask you guys no very likely indicator of a trap answer it was the company which tired her as she did not wish to entertain so she does not like to entertain answer tree sees also so you see they put in the word saver they put in the word entertain why because they were in the passage what they just mismatched him and saber means she likes it but what do we have here she doesn't like being entertained so by elimination you could be like oh could I just go with d and move on well let's be a little bit more sure than that with uh nor be entertained by the ladies at the time was oh she had boundless patients like a saint to the Boundless Energy like a child so this is what I want to point out guys as I say in almost every video in the recent like I would say 10 videos do not get bogged down by details you don't understand that's a weird phrase I know it because I wrote the phrase I wrote a 2B weird so what does that even mean I don't care because I just want to answer the question she made us see helped us with figures bended our clothes and so here people also get stuck up like what does it mean to help us with figures an older language help us with figures help with math does that matter no not at all men that are closed and even accompanied Us in making sure we got our time out in the sun daily so got time out in the sun that is in regular language what she went outside with us because guys the sun's outside the sun is not inside okay so this is a very very good answer for the SAT because it doesn't say the word outside in the passage it's not there it has to be inferred reasonably inferred or paraphrased from what was in the text which was out in the sun so out in the sun becomes outside so does she go outside yeah she does she goes she actually goes every day okay so this is the last note this is a much more likely direction that they're going to do we're not going to have something mild becoming extreme in the answer Choice that's wrong however in the answer we have she does this every day but the answer is just says she does it okay it becomes less extreme that is much much more likely okay so if the passage says like this um key lime pie is my absolute favorite dessert in the world then the answer is going to be like he's okay with key lime pie like it's that level of weakening of evidence that's more likely okay so that's um today is quick and dirty I know that the question type I said today was literary characterization but all of these um Concepts you guys are hopefully applying across all of the questions because getting rid of the extreme answers right and looking for the paraphrase that is like the core tenets of the SAT and also the ACT if you guys are going to take that and every standardized reading test okay and as you guys been doing leave in the questions whatever you guys want to see covered okay and thank you for leaving so many comments lately love you guys see you guys next time study every day with sexy J that's the way bye-bye foreign welcome to the round of quick and dirty guys I have a fractured wrist so my handwriting is going to be the same as always terrible but yeah I'm here to make a clean clean dirty for you guys on the digital sat you exclusive question as you guys been asking for so this is the claiming the data right that supports the claim okay so let me put that in simpler words it is the finding the data that's forced to claim what does that find the data let's call find the data that sounds easy enough yeah okay so look at all of this text guys let's see if my right hand works right now it does cool that's a lot okay and that is a huge amount of text I what do you guys know right don't I don't want you to read it please don't read it okay I mean I made it so if you want if you guys read it after that's cool okay so if I see something like this and also pay attention to the number guys this will probably come up in like number 15 13 14 ish these are all pretty much in the same order so here all of those words I have the question itself you guys know this right if you do this all the time I jump to the question itself Which choice best describes the data from the table that supports the researcher's claim okay so I need data that supports the claim so I only need to look at the claim I don't I was about to curse I don't give up whatever about anything else so let's look at where is the claim guys yeah I lost paragraph yeah okay y'all knew that okay so let's look here comparing these numbers to the expectations set from random distribution the researchers claim that caterpillars are feeding thorny trees gained an advantage of protection and are thus more fit through this Behavior wow that sounds like a lot of science right so if you guys paid attention to biology class good and you guys know about natural selection also good if you didn't well that might be why you're here okay so the key here is just okay uh discards the date I just want okay either this is what I want you guys to focus oh I can write pretty well data higher or lower that's it so I'm gonna say my claim is valid because the numbers here are higher or my claim is valid because the numbers are lower that's it guys okay I don't care about the details so it's higher or lower so what am I looking for the caterpillar is a feed and thorny trees gain an advantage and are thus more fit through this Behavior I use this wording and purpose okay guys think about it if people gain an advantage does that mean the number is going to go up or low let's see uh millionaires gain an advantage in American economy so they make more money even though they have money right they make more if you have an advantage it's going to go up okay so just run the word advantage you know it's going to go up so from here well you if you were to guess it would be probably C or D because it says higher and higher but I'm not going to give it away at the moment okay so let's see let's try to figure this out I want if you feed on thorny trees it's better if it's better you would do more of it right okay so let's look here let's look at the data what backs up the fact that they like feeding on thorny trees I do not care at all about these okay so this is another clue guys when you get this huge table in the data focus on the right column okay I don't care about totals I don't care about whatever it only matters the percent let me tell you a little bit about the background stage and why because it's going to be very important for not just this question but a lot of database questions on science I only care how much is something better or worse than the other thing okay let's give you a drastic example I gave 20 people medicine 15 of them got better the medicine work some of you might say yeah some of them say might know you guys have to look at the comparison 20 people 15 survive with the medicine there's another group I didn't give them medicine all of them died then you can say yeah the medicine probably works why comparatively it works let's look here and this is the other clue guys if it's random you guys should know this right okay there are two events if it's random what's the percentage of each thing 50 right 50 50. so you see here that it's above 50 for all of them okay so the evidence for Thorns are good is Thorns are higher than fifty percent if you guys just forget everything I just said if you just memorize it like this this should still work okay evidence for it something is good why because it's over 50 turn it around evidence for it something is bad why because it's below 50 good enough okay therefore Thorns are good because Thorns are over 50 percent what is close to that what do you guys think it is D okay notice how the wording for C and D are pretty much the same because that's what I say teammates that's why I need to block that okay and if you look at the wording here that's a lot of words right higher than would be expected of caterpillar feeding Behavior randomly distributed that was hard to say even for me that just means if it didn't matter okay so um oh look at all of this stuff over here again does not matter so if I'm looking for the data that's supposed to claim I just have to check one are they saying something's good or bad if it's good then do I have to check is it higher or lower okay and you have to use a little bit of Common Sense okay so if I'm saying for example that um medicine is good what is that people who lived would be higher people who've died would be lower a little bit of common sense like that and that's it guys hope you guys can save a lot of time on these questions look at all that text I can't even fit the whole thing and even if I try to zoom in I have to hold it like here yeah so this was one of the things that you guys been asking about for a while well now for a few of you have been asking so I did it okay my handwriting is atrocious as always but I don't think that should have battered so um please keep leaving the comments whether you want to see questions on this I've also seen some questions on the regular sat so I'll get to that probably in my next video or so leave me the comments I'll get back to you guys love you guys see you soon um hope you guys are doing better than me and see you guys next time bye thank you welcome guys to quick and dirty let's get right to it guys look at this question what kind of question is it where do you go to the question duh right it's getting pretty repetitive hopefully which means you guys probably you know remember act actually actually to do these things when you do the test okay so let's just jump right to the question which one to give true would most directly support the researchers hypothesis so what kind of question is this support the hypothesis okay so my previous video was about probably about supporting hypothesis through data how is this one different because it's on text textual evidence for hypothesis but if you guys want to take notes it's just support the hypothesis question on the digital sat okay what do we do with all this text Dad I I took such a pain to write you ignore it right okay so let's go to the last sentence or two because if I want to look up what's a personal hypothesis then I need to know what is the hypothesis pretty simple right where is the hypothesis right here in the last sentence or two sometimes you have to read the last two sentences but I see the word hypothesized that means hypothesis okay okay so let's look at here based on this observation the ecologists have hypothesized there we go that the plants break down the rocks with these enzymes as this makes the Rocks not only easier to burrow through and create room for further growth but also aids with nitrogen fixation that results in the vital nutrients of nitrates and ammonia okay just based on that can you guys look at ABCD and try which one you guys might think because when I was making this as you guys know I make this base off of the blue book test I actually had like a moment I was like is this gonna be this or that so I have to pause a little bit so let's see what do you guys think as always I pause myself even though I don't need to okay so you guys might have been soccer team to answer choices and I do think in regular life you could argue for both what is sat regular app no sat just sat yeah so what is my actual answer going to be I only care about this part okay this part over here I'm gonna be very bold here because I've been living very bold you know I broke this wrist with a different store I'm telling everybody right I let's say I fought like I don't know 17 people at once yeah no I didn't but yeah I'll leave it a mystery guys so look at all this stuff here I know we've already crossed all this stuff in the beginning right like Ah that's how well you're saying oh then doesn't that mean I have to focus on this no because I need to support the hypothesis right the only part that's actually the hypothesis is from here to here okay it's getting a little bit messy but my wrist is broken guys bear with me I'm not gonna read this okay I don't care about this stuff that is there to what distract you kind of hope to make you fail does that sound mean yes college board I hope you guys are okay with my channel but you guys not very nice okay you guys are not all right you guys are nice yeah yeah I say you'll say you're nice okay so that stuff if you guys are looking at that you guys might have put C let me cross that out for you guys okay so don't get distracted let's just focus on exactly exactly the words plants break down the rocks with these enzymes that's hypothesis plants Break Down rocks with enzymes do you know what enzymes are if you do great if you don't we'll look it up it's important yeah but not for sat they break down rocks with enzymes which one says they break down rocks D why is that does it use the word breakdown no because as you guys know from probably at least 30 of my videos you guys have to paraphrase you guys have to paraphrase so it said they break down the Rocks so they say it in the correct answer choice no of course not because that'd be too easy that'd be a nice thing to do create new pathways through rocks that is a stupid way to phrase that I know because I made that phrase but they break down rocks can be turned into they create new pathways through rocks what does that mean they make holes in the Rocks that's breaking down the rocks okay the rest of it I don't really care I don't even care about that at all so if I summarize this in actually solving this it sounds stupidly simple and short and if I'm doing that I'm probably on the right track that's the explanation so what is it the hypothesis was they break down rocks what supports the fact that they break down rocks they make holes in the Rocks there we go that's it so that my answer is d so to sum up what do you do the things that you always do these things you should know by heart tattoo it or something okay you do not read the text right you read the question you identify it is support hypothesis what do you do you find a hypothesis and then you ignore everything but the hypothesis all of these things sound like common sense right so do the common sense okay so notice I crossed out everything else you can do that on the actual test as well this would be easier if I had a highlighter well you don't get a highlighter and test so I'm not going to do that so that's it for finding the evidence to support hypothesis a lot of you guys have been asking on various types of supporting the blank questions so I'm doing a good variety I think I recently did a table one I'm doing the text one if there are other varieties that I've missed leave a comment right or you can even shoot me a DM that's fine DMS are fun if you guys track down my Instagram it's a fun place yeah I did like a Korean spa thing recently I recommend call Spa Club Manhattan shout out okay 30 second Street K-Town guys you guys you might might see my face might see my face on the street okay uh enough so promotion not really this whole Channel self-promotion why so I can help more of you people because I really actually enjoy doing this see you guys next week oh yeah my arm is like this this little you guys will see this really I don't know next six to eight weeks probably so God used it I don't know I'll see you guys next time study every day with who me sexy J the best way see you guys next time bye-bye today we have a lot of subscriber viewer requested questions and the topic here is um research notes familiar topic research notes familiar topic what the heck is that that sounds weird right there's actually requested by hope I say your username right correct me if I'm saying that wrong guys um so he literally said those are so weird yeah in capital letters and I got a sample and I made this for you guys so very new to the digital sat is at the end of the reading writing section we have a few questions that is like the student um took some notes while researching a topic and we have a variety of questions out of those specifically we have as you guys can see here introduce familiar okay so the last like three to four questions are on the notes and in the notes we have familiar introduction type question so to specifically asked and like you know he even DM me the sample the question so thank you uh so we're going to get right to this and as always these are pretty quick and easy they are weird though they are pretty weird I don't know why they even made these okay so I made all of these references if you guys recognize the watch reference is good for you fellow watch nerds so we have all these bullet points do I care about those bullet points no I never do right as you guys know very very well at this point just go to the question as I said before you notice that it's introduced familiar familiar introduction well I'm emphasizing familiar introduction there's also unfamiliar introduction okay so we're gonna do that soon so familiar introduction Which choice most effectively uses okay this part doesn't matter it's always the same okay so what am I doing I'm introducing John Miner's book okay so where is the John miners book third bullet point this is the book so I need to first introduce John Miner's book so I need to get rid of all the choices that don't have with the book so a is out because it doesn't have the book so the title of the book is it sounds dumb because I made it up famous wrists and brzinki so that's not in a so we take it out and so we have b c and d left the next familiar with brozinki watch familiar with brzinki watch so that means I don't need to describe what brazinki watch is okay so see is just telling us what was the um launching of brazinki watch I don't need to know anything about it okay so if I say familiar with whatever that means I don't want any information on that thing okay so it sounds a little bit counterintuitive but just follow along if it says familiar with blank that my answer true should have as little information on that blank as possible okay so the answer is either b or d okay let's see which one would be better as always guessing time you know a little door at Explorer time I did not pause I did pile myself I always do that okay so what do you guys think it is B and D they both kind of sound like kind of introduced um the book right so how can we differentiate between the two well ah you're like oh Jay didn't you say you could obey yes why because what does d have again guys I really wish I could hear a guess oh we should go live soon we should do a live soon thousand subscribers are coming up we're gonna do something I'm trying to figure out what we're gonna do but maybe you're live something you got some suggestions what you guys want to see let me know okay so back to this question how can we can eliminate D based on what I just taught you today yeah it's telling us about the blog I don't want to learn about the blog why because I'm already familiar okay so if I were to do okay guys today we're going to learn about the SAT which is a test you have to take to get into college I don't need to say that you guys all already know that that's her on the channel right so the answer here is B okay so notice I didn't actually have to look at what is a proper introduction of the book why because we got rid of a didn't talk about the book okay we got rid of c and d y because it talked about stuff that was already familiar so that's it guys so the familiar introduction even though it is super weird all caps is pretty easy to do so you just need to get rid of all the stuff that has stuff about familiar things and then get rid of things that doesn't introduce so the answer here is B John Miner's famous wrists and brazinki cover celebrities whose watch collections were featured on the blog during the pandemic none of these things actually exist I made them up but doesn't really matter okay guys so we're going to just keep going through these types of questions and we're also going to do cross-sex questions pretty soon why because you guys asked for them so what does that mean you guys you should keep asking so I can cover it exactly what you guys dude okay I'll see you guys next time study every day with sexy J my wrist is still fractured but I'm still working on these things for you guys see you next time foreign as promised on what are we doing today yes we are doing the listen carefully it sounds almost the same as the previous one right this is the unfamiliar introduction question unfamiliar okay unfamiliar it's the opposite of the one from before okay so as you guys know this is on the research notes which are at the end of the new digital sat right these are very unique to the digital City I haven't really found any other tests that does questions like this so these are weird that's why we're doing them because a lot of people have asked about them okay let's get right to it so um the beginning of it is the same as what we always do which is we're going to read the text no we never read the text right we always read the question itself and pretty easy to recognize introduce unfamiliar so this is unfamiliarintroduction question dot okay next it's the same as the previous one up to this point we have to introduce John Miner's book okay so do any of these not mention John Miner's book let's see ah it looks like this mentions it but notice it doesn't have the word book okay well nsat says introduce the book you have to say this guy's book blah blah it's that straightforward so answer Choice C is immediately out okay and the second part of it is now it's literally the opposite so it's I would recommend you guys watch this video and the familiar introduction video kind of back to back and compare them to each other so uh to make sure that you don't mix these up okay I need unfamiliar okay so if the audience is unfamiliar with this I need to tell them about it right so if I were to all of a sudden talk about epigenetics in this um video I will probably have to tell you guys what epigenetics are because my channel doesn't cover epigenetics not a biology Channel okay and if you guys know epigenetics good it's a good topic to write about in college essays if you want to be research based anyway going back to here if it's unfamiliar it needs to tell us about it okay so look at answer Choice a it just says the blog if it says the blog okay what's on the blog so for this unfamiliar one this actually takes a little bit more strategy if I'm unfamiliar with the brzinki watch what I need to do find out about brazinki watch which one of these bullet points talks about brazinki watch these two okay so it needs to have something of those two bullet points okay my wrist is fractured I'm not too good at using this thing got it okay I need something from those two bullet points okay so this one just says the blog this one doesn't have any of those points from here okay so I kind of actually let's go back to comparing AMD that's probably a better strategy A and D I made them on purpose because well I make all of these on purpose right they sound super similar like what is even the difference between a and d a is the information in D out of order out of order is a very common trap that you guys should be looking for okay so um let's look at this one oh and this other thing Fred Sheeran which sounds like a real person that you know right this does it all the time guys um if you guys look at the research notes question because I also want to cover research those in general because this is very unique okay one of these bullet points right one of these bullet points will be totally irrelevant okay so be very very willing and even looking for this just disregarding one of the bullet points okay so this thing is like this one of the things was blank these don't really matter okay so let's get to what is the answer and the answer here is D why is that well number one does it introduce the book the book famous wrist and brzinki by John Miner cover celebrities who featured in brazinki watch okay what does this book do it covers celebrities cool okay and what is the blog on it is focused on watch brands watchmaking and market trends now if I put it together like that you may like oh that all makes sense when you say it like that but how would I really know for sure this is the answer but all of these things kind of sound alike okay so please work uh I'm kind of yelling at my bones for not healing faster I am taking calcium supplements but I don't know if they're working right okay I've erased the whole thing okay so we need to have brzinki watch and also need book right so then I need these things okay again I am getting rid of Fred Sheeran sorry Fred yeah so I need something that encompasses all four of those things why do I need all of them because they're unfamiliar okay so I give you many strategies to do this but this is the last thing I'm going to leave you with okay if the question is unfamiliar introduction it should use minimum three out of the five bullet points most likely it'll use four of the bullet points four out of the five is that always five bullet points yes okay so that's my answer because it uses four out of bullet points is the quickest way to do it okay now if you want to be really really certain then you go okay does it introduce the book yes it does because it refers to these two does it talk about the blog yes it does because it talks about those two and that's my answer so we're gonna keep going with the series on the student research notes why because these are unique to the digital sat so they are more on the way if you guys would prefer to see a different type of question sooner then let me know in the comments and thank you for watching and subscribing and I've been pretty excited about the channel because we're nearing a thousand subscribers I know I said this is the last video but I'll let you guys know something special can make the works I haven't figured out yet see you guys next time study every day with sexy J that's the best way you already know bye-bye all right new digital SCT question time and this is the cross text question why as always because y'all been asking for it right so I've actually looked through every cross sex question that's in the blue book so far as well as some uh Khan Academy questions and I have dissected the pattern for you guys so this is the most common type of pattern so let me give you a little bit of background on these because I haven't done them before okay number one if you are coming from paper sat and you guys remember doing double passage do apply those principles to these questions what are those principles I'll get to them in a second and number two these are going to be not that many in a test so so far I've only seen this come up once on the entire test okay so not in module one and module two it'll just be on one of them and it'll be either number eight nine or ten so like that range-ish that's why I made this number nine okay so the most common type of this um cross-text question is drum roll okay that wasn't that dramatic okay so it's going to be response okay I'll write that somewhere excuse my already atrocious handwriting okay so there are many wordings that could let you know this is a response which is what would he say how would he respond how would he characterize and almost all of these are pretty much this what would text to say about text one okay that's it that's the most common type of cross-text question okay and if you guys are familiar with paper sat or even if you're not I'll just tell you guys this the most common actually so far on every single response question it's been this I disagree okay now what is it oh what about agreement questions literally if it's an agreement question it'll say what would they agree on okay so unless they say what do they agree on they disagree okay the default setting is a text to disagrees with something about text one he just doesn't like something about it he's hating okay so as always we read through all of this world of text that I typed through my broken fingers no I don't I don't care okay so let's go here how would the author of Texas to most like a characterize text once blah blah blah blah okay what would text two say about text one again it's disagreement okay so what can I immediately immediately eliminate yeah big it is reasonable but no I don't agree okay if I'm saying it's reasonable that means I agree okay I have to disagree I have to find some fault flaw Problem whatever with it okay so that's out okay and D it's surprising is a little too weak okay so this is I'm gonna give you guys the probability you could leave surprising I was like well I don't know if that's a game or a disagreement but the pattern I've seen so far in every Bula book blue book and Khan Academy question is there has to be a stronger disagreement okay no if College Board uh decides to throw us a curveball or if you guys take the June test or the future tests and you guys see something that breaks up pattern please let me know and I'll make sure to tackle that but so far it has been very clear-cut disagreement okay so the answer is either a or C it is unreasonably blah blah blah it is excessively blah blah blah now I actually have to read but as you guys already know these quick and dirty videos are also allowing you to save time and also when you guys are panicking so let's say you're running out of time or you understood nothing about this passage you just go okay it's a response question they have to disagree I'm down to ANC I can just move on okay now let's actually look at the main point so passage one says blah blah blah blah okay the main point of all of these texts are going to be closer to the conclusion than in the beginning okay let's look here uh right here the very last sentence an exciting Discovery has been made I don't care about the rest okay so passage one or text one says there's an exciting Discovery what is text two gonna say before we've been looking at Discovery is actually not that exciting or maybe it's just bad okay doesn't have to be um that level of disagreement it could be either one it's not that exciting or it's actually a stupid Discovery whatever okay so text two what does this say about the discovery let's see the word still as you guys know from my other videos right when I have a contrast on the other hand however yet or still my main my main point Main coin main point comes after right so like oh yeah that dress looks lovely but yeah I don't think that's for you what's that you should not buy an address that's my main point that's the one after okay the team cautions that the compound most likely behaves quite differently in humans than it does in protests okay so it's quite different and it is unclear okay so text one says there's some type of exciting Discovery text two says but it's probably different and it's also unclear what is this now if I get deeper into this it says science more work to be done that's a very common sentiment in the research passages okay so which one of these questions says text two things text one Discovery is not that exciting okay it's not that exciting the answer here is not a it is unreasonably dismissive text one is not dismissive a text one is excited so let's see it is excessively optimistic why because they thought it was exciting okay so and then the rest of it you guys can read through I would appreciate if you guys actually read these passages because I write them but this is what you can do to kind of break down let me give you guys like an algebra kind of formula way of doing it okay so when it's text to responds to text one it's this okay text one thinks blah okay text two says it's wrong that's it okay so what is that text one thinks this is exciting Texas says it's not exciting that's it okay so that just gets what is it paraphrase right paraphrase that could almost be my catchphrase for sat because we do it every single test right so yeah the exciting discern is optimistic and we are just denying that we are hating we're generational haters and that's what we have on the cross-text question on the SAT okay so the next video is going to be on the exception to this which is more rare that's going to be on the cross-text agreement but again that is the exception the crosstalk questions are going to by default to be called response that could be called uh what would he say how would he characterize um what would he respond with all of those are going to be he's going to disagree okay so that's it for today's question guys and thank you for letting me know you guys want the cross sex questions because who else is going to do these but B probably nobody else okay see you guys next time study every day with sexy J that's the best way you already know bye-bye we're back at it with what I told you guys we would do cross-text question agreement okay and these are the exception not the rule as I said at the end of last class is this lost yeah sure well we'll call these classes okay so let me adjust my no that's not how you do this there we go yeah okay so this one is again cross-text and you guys might say I've never seen this type of question because the crosstalk questions are very rare they're only one protest and on the blue book test they haven't done this yet but you guys know digital sat college board has teamed up with Khan Academy right so these are in the Khan Academy questions and I have to dig a little bit to kind of get um access and an idea what these are about but you guys wanted it so I'll do it right so this is text one text two again this is not very common how do you know it's an agreement question you guys watched my last video right thank you because it says agree right that's it okay so if they ask about what what would they agree on that's an agreement question cool and the identification of the question should be that simple really so these are going to be let me try writing not the main point okay so if you guys remember from paper sat when I have double passages right they mostly disagree on stuff okay so what is the little thing they have in common not their main argument okay so for instance if I have one passer just says we should not have any more slave states the second passage says we should have more sleep States then what do they agree on slave states exist that type of nothing statement and as you guys know nothing statements are great for sat answers right but that type of nothing statement is especially likely and almost always the answer for agreement questions so after that point is the same as the paper sat now I would argue this is even easier why because these are so much shorter look at this all right it's like oh did you just get lazy and only know this is actually the length of the questions that I've seen text one it's like what two three sentences okay and text two is a little bit more yeah yeah so I'm not going to look at those two okay I actually let's then you guys already know extreme answers are bad right and I just said extreme answers are especially bad for this I have to go to nothing answer and so as I've been doing what do you guys think is the wrong answer what can we eliminate right away what's terrible atrocious unbearable see why because of the word most it's the most iconic that's a very strong statement I don't like strong statements okay so that's up yeah so I want to get rid of any type of judgmental opinion in these okay and as you guys know as always these are the quickest way to do it if you want to actually read through the text understand everything and do the questions you could do that and in fact I would recommend you guys do that in your daily life to get your reading up well when you're really taking the test and you want to make sure you're doing it the most efficient way this is the way I would recommend okay so the answer here is going to be not C because it has the word most that's too extreme okay and let's see um all of these things out of these which ones do you think is most likely you guys could probably guess if you guys are a seasoned Watchers of sexy J okay so for this let's just look at text one what is sex one saying this one is saying that um his mythical good okay well pretty much these are saying something is good something is bad okay my handwriting is atrocious but I don't really care okay this one is saying that uh what is oh mundane good okay those are the summaries of the passage mythical good mundane good for a second one okay so let's look at the answer choices and let's look at the traps okay mythical figures have a story tradition in the art of painting that's wrong and how do they later traps guys as you guys always know they took their words from the passage that seemed related like did I talk about mythical figures in them yeah um do we have the order painting yes what's missing do I have any mention of tradition in either of these sex no it just sounds like it's vaguely related that's out okay so this you can just use your regular elimination tips that you guys know from watching I don't know hopefully all my videos right and then let's look at answer choices B and D okay D this is also very common guys they will um this is a reverse a statement so D is a very good illustration of two principles here and also this is okay so if you look at the false paintings of mundane life overshadow his other paintings that is the reverse of the main argument in text too therefore number one Tech if it's the reverse of text two then text would disagree right DOT number two it is an argument I don't like arguments so the answer here is just B false Works possess a degree of diversity in the subjects depicted you guys are picking up on that how unnatural does that sound well so what does B mean in regular speech his Works have a bunch of stuff okay so I just need a bunch of stuff so I have Heroes and I have he also other stuff cool and this one same thing we have um we have uh the demigods and we have one day in tasks okay so let's focus a little bit on how to do this really quickly okay so I said um what do they agree on these are going to be again the nothing statements passage one in summary says his mythical paintings are amazing he has other stuff but the mythical paintings are good Passage 2 says the opposite he has the normal paintings they're better in the mythical what do they both agree on he does mythical and the normal right for example Michael Jordan played basketball and you played baseball obviously who's better at basketball than baseball right but everybody would agree he did play both of those sports that type of thing is going to be on these sat passages on the cross text okay so did he um paint punches stuff yes Tech Swan and two they disagree on which stuff was better but they do agree he painted soft because he's a painter he paints stuff that's his job yeah okay so that is it for um today's quick and dirty on the cross text agreement and I did make this video because it is a very unique type of question but don't worry about this question too too much in terms of devoting your time to practice why because one I'm good at this so this would be all the practice you need number two this only comes up once per test okay so as always leave in the comments what you guys want to see covered next and if you guys want to see anything non-sat related that's also welcome I just started writing some poetry and non-fiction and fiction so anything literature nerd would also be cool because I want to nerd out on stuff okay uh see you guys next time study every day with sexyj that's the best way bye-bye hi hey sexy J quick and dirty time digital sat what did you guys want Central ID a lot of people have been asking the central idea so I'm actually going to do a series on central idea because central idea depends on what type of Passage it is so today's is going to be as you guys can maybe see on the screen central idea important person that is the terminology I made up central idea important person what does that that means a point of this little paragraph is to say this person did an important job in something yeah so here is the text and as always we're not going to be needing all of the text and what we're going to be focusing on is the Trap answers how do they formulate that so when I recognize that a central idea all the central idea questions are like this the Trap answers even more so than the other types of questions will have exact wording from the passage that is true but just because something is true doesn't mean it is a central idea of the text right so um let's look at this if you look at answer Choice B for instance finland's Seasons allowed to beldius to be the Pioneer political resistance through music that is totally true that's literally what the first sentence says yeah so that is the number one trap I would say to look out for they really like to do they put in the first sentence and put it into the Trap answer because the first sentence is the first thing so it's about to catch your eye so they know that okay so for these types of things guys and actually you guys should know where is the main idea to text right you guys have seen my other videos in the old SAT or the paper sat or the act when you do reading the main idea is going to be in the conclusion paragraph you may say well Jay isn't this one paragraph same idea applies my central idea is much much much much more likely to be at the end than in the beginning so the beginning thing that is exactly from the text very very likely to be to trap okay so um my main idea is going to be probably here okay so yeah I'm kind of giving you guys hints here and as I was saying before this is about an individual when I have people's names it's going to be this person was important and they did a good job never ever this is on my previous videos this was like you have to be nice to real people or something like that right never ever will we have an SAT passage just trashes on an individual they're not going to be like this person's artwork was mid and they should get punished for how terrible they are they don't do that okay so let's look at these things and answer Choice D therefore okay first of all it's not even in the passage right nowhere in the passage but they still do that um because these are based on actual College Board Blue Book Questions look at this uh the primary contributor is debated that doesn't say look how good I am at writing with a broken wrist doesn't say anything positive okay if it's a central idea important person it has to take something positive about a person wow good job that person is amazing okay so what's up so it's going to be either a or C A says you played a central role and C says the majority was done by this guy so which one is it guys well as always I need exact textual evidence is C said in the text even with paraphrase do I have a synonym for the word majority no I don't So my answer here is I now where did it come from well it came from Central role crucial okay so that's where it comes from so let me give you guys this a further breakdown we're approaching the end of this um concept when I have an important person central idea question on the digital sat the important person is going to be the second half of the text and it's going to be this person made a very major contribution to whatever field it could be R it could be music it could be science I don't care but that's what it is and that's answer Choice a let's check played a central role and influence the content and popularization of Finland Seasons notice it doesn't even say what that person did it just says the person is important and as you guys know the weaker the answer the better it is okay so that's the central idea question as you guys have many of you been asking for and stay tuned for more central idea questions we're going to be covering science central idea and Discovery research a whole bunch of things just because this is the advanced question you guys have been asking for and we just hit 1000 subscribers so yay thank you guys I just want to say thank you good love you guys study every day with who with me sexy J the best fight you guys already know bye bye what is today's about this one is about scientific discovery scientific discovery okay so this runs very similar to if you guys have been watching my other videos of Just scientific discoveries in the paper sat as well so let's look at this format first so I know normally we jump right to the questions right but you notice here that this is a main idea question and now I have to actually identify what type of passages it is so if I start with this is very very key if I start with four decades for centuries for years or the popular idea has been so this beginning thing is the old idea so this thing is what people used to believe and in my scientific discovery passage and question my main point is this is what people used to think but here is some new information obviously there is no point in telling you what people already know and like yeah that's correct like if you go if you shoot a chicken in the head it will die well yes right that's there's no point in that but there was a chicken that was uh it had its head chopped off but it survived and it got its own museum right there's all that chicken before I don't know but so you that chicken survived right so that was contrary to expectation so that's why you talk about it right or we might have things like people think dinosaurs are stupid and dumb actually they're smart and they're fast and whatever okay so this here is going to be for decades of blah blah blah that stuff is not the main main idea if it's included Mania it's gonna be yeah they thought that but it's something else so let's look here what is the main idea of the text so it's going to be this key right here now so my main idea is going to combine both of these okay for decades people used to think blank now we discover it blank something else okay so take a second as always I'm not going to pause myself but take a second to look through the answer choices and see which one you guys might guess you guys tried it right and you guys you know just press space pause it okay so let's look at these things the recent identification with connection between endothermia and etz confirms I hate that phrase I hate that phrase I mean I don't hate it in real life but as you guys know in the SAT especially in science science and confirms is a terrible answer Choice also the word proves but they don't even use that because they know that's terrible confirm and prove that is way too strong and way too certain for example we have things that support our theory of gravity but evil with gravity gravity exists right like can I drop this not my pencil but okay you know that works right it happens gravity is real but even with that we don't say gravity is proven we just don't use that language okay so that one is out um and then this one looks like an uh digital sat has actually gotten a little bit more cunning and tricky than the paper sat because they know that b look at our word like recent discoveries of challenged widely accepted theories they know that we know that's usually how these passages go right so this format is very very good trap answer okay so but what's missing here well what the discovery so I'm not even going to get into whether this answer choice is corrected on in terms of the text but again it has to be we used to think a but we discovered B it doesn't say what we discovered you have to say what we discovered Okay so bisa so now we're between C and D okay and C is also not bad in terms again the formatting of it it traditionally was this but recent progress has led to Greater Insight two things one we are not told what the greater Insight is number two it says procedural limitations was that in the passage no it wasn't in there at all not even in terms of paraphrase so what do they do digital I say t is a little bit trickier than paper sat because are they watching my videos I hope not maybe I don't really care okay but they know that people know these patterns because of people like me I don't know who else is out there like me but you know the patterns are there to be analyzed so they're making answer choices B and C that are exactly like the pattern they used to use for the right answer so be extra careful on those guys so how do I eliminate it again progress of procedures or procedural limitations not in the passage at all even when we take into account synonyms or paraphrase so that leaves us with D look how long this is so endothermia has primarily been thought of as so that's what we used to think and is this the correcting activity levels yes right here okay then but new findings show that it may also have other benefits okay which are immune response and learning whereas that mean response and learning and some Correctional regulation hormonal regulation right here yeah so that looks like a lot of marking and a lot of work but this is even by college board they admit this is an advanced question this is an advanced section of the reading and writing on Khan Academy officially you know collaborating college board so with these central idea questions you have to identify what passage it is and this one is a science research passage so the main idea of the text is going to be we used to think blank but now thanks to recent discoveries we have found out something else and something else and that's it so that's it for today's quick and dirty as I've been saying guys we will continue with the central ideas thank you so much for letting us know in the comments you guys wanted this done and keep the comments coming whatever you guys want to see covered I will get on it digital sat or whatever it is that pertains to college admissions for the United States okay thanks for watching guys study every day with sexyj that's the best way you already know bye-bye today's topic is the inference question why because you guys have been asking for and it is also one of the more difficult questions so today's passage is made by Yours Truly as always and this is inference question and the SAT does not actually use the word inference anymore so um those of you have been doing the paper sat you would know it can reasonably be inferred was a language they use for infants they used to but they don't do that anymore but they used to call it inference so what do they say instead as you guys know do you read this first of course not right you go right to the directions it says Which choice most logically completes the text most logically completes the text it doesn't have the word inference but that's what SAT is calling it with their official language this is the inference question on the digital sat okay so what should we do this is again up to you guys if you guys are okay with the timing on the digital sat you could read through the whole thing and that's not a bad idea but if you're a rush for time this stuff here you can skim and it's really right here and maybe the sentence before so as we've been doing with these digital SCP questions you want to look at the last sentence of the passage and maybe the sentence before and let's see uh how much you guys have been keeping up the videos where do we see a really important indicator in the last sentence dramatic pause okay it's however yeah whenever I say however but or in contrast you guys are familiar with this right I'm saying my main point afterward right like when I was in high school I went to this girl's house to ask her for prom blah blah blah right and she said oh Jay this is really sweet blah blah however I'm going with somebody else it's okay I think she's married to somebody else now anyway so like the however the stuff comes after is my main point so right here rabbit induced soil displacement can promote loss all I want to figure out is okay is this a good thing or a bad thing because they don't actually need you to know real science on Sat reading they really don't okay so let's say I don't know what biodiversity is although you should you should it's important right but even if I don't it's loss of diversity and also it's accelerating disease wow that's really bad right so my answer here is I'm suggesting that the kicking action habits rabbits is bad but we're not done there okay because we noticed the word however and also the word but because I've gone through the Khan Academy inference questions right they always use the word butt a lot right that means I have to have a contrast so if I say something is bad what's a contrast good so good is bad that sounds dumb but it's going to be something good but sometimes bad that's my main idea okay so from again two things from the fact that we had negatives in the last sentence and from the fact that we had the word however that means it must be a contrast I'd have a contrast or a negative these things were good these things are bad that's my contrast okay um if you want you guys can read through this I would appreciate if you did because I typed this up with my broken wrist it's getting better thanks guys oh thanks for the well wishes by the way okay but let's just jump right to the questions Okay so you can immediately immediately eliminate which ones C and D that's right guys good job why because I just said it has to be these things are good however these things are bad I don't have good or bad in these to answer choices so C and D are out and sexy J subscribers you guys probably already were on top of that so now we have to choose between A and B Okay so is it the small but large or is it the location that causes the Badness okay this is now when I finally decide to read the passage you do not need to read the passage beforehand so now I will let me uh get rid of some of this for you clean it up now I will figure out and go back and see what's the thing that causes things to be good or bad is it the small diversity versus large diversity or is it a location well right here at the edges of the fields it's bad so at the edges of the fields it's bad it's when is it bad when it's at the edge is that a location yes it is so my answer here is uh B again and as I say this like every single passage right you didn't really need any of these words at all okay so you guys can read them if you feel more comfortable having uh more of a sense what's going on but I also want to advise you guys if I read this and I don't understand what's going on because I don't know the science that's perfectly fine guys you don't have to know science for sat uh reading and writing okay so that's our inference question guys so to sum up we can tell it's an inference question when my voice excuse me you can tell it's an inference question when when you see the phrase most logically completes the text then you look at the last sentence up to here same thing right and then you look for what is the relationship with the rest of the passage most typically it'll be a however in contrast or a bot so you're looking for it was good but it was bad or it was busy but it was fine you know some type of contrast right that's it guys um that's it for today's quick and dirty and again and again do not be intimidated by the uh digital sat passages seeming like they're difficult or fancy or scientific don't worry about that okay and the next few videos are coming up especially targeted for August sat takers only from the advanced section of the SAT Regan writing as determined by college board see you guys next time thank you all the time and study every day with who sexy J that's the best way bye bye hi hey sexy quick and dirty time on yet another essential idea question why are there so many because there are so many on the sat right so this is especially for you guys who are taking the test in August because y'all been studying all summer so you want to get the score you want that's why you're here right so I have many more videos coming your way on the most advanced questions on the SAT Reading Writing why do I call them events because that's what college board and cod Academy call them okay so these are straight from their classification so today's central idea question is and this is going back to my other central idea questions as well so with the central idea what you have to do is you need to recognize what type of Passage is this so we've had Central ideas on scientific discovery we've had Central ideas on important person this one a central idea culture okay culture is my terminology that I'm using because my terminologies work okay so as you guys probably are able to tell sat will not say things that are controversial at all so if I mention any aspect of culture it doesn't matter what it is it could be jazz music it could be country music it could be the Opera it could be um Chinese uh lion dancing doesn't matter every single time we mention something cultural we're going to admire that culture okay we are never ever ever going to criticize any type of cultural thing okay any type of art any type of statue any type of dance doesn't matter we love it okay we will never offend any culture from any Heritage on s.a.t never Okay so so you look here country is often ridiculed music genre so notice here I am actually looking at the first line which we rarely do but from here I know that this is about culture okay so we start with country is often ridiculed so we know we're gonna do a 180 okay it's often ridiculed but it's actually really good so that's how these culture ones go guys it might not be the most celebrated by some people but actually the smart people AKA the scholars the people we should listen to they think this thing is amazing okay so let's look here um Scholars have argued that the genre is far more complex than many people think so this one should be country music is really really good okay so let's look here the last sentence which as always is actually the most important what does the text most strongly suggest about country music genre going back to the last sentence let's see the genre's greatest songs have deep meaning so the actual actual central idea of this passage is country music has deep meaning does that mean sat is going to give that to you as an answer probably not because they want things to be difficult because they want people to get things wrong so let's look through here and eliminate anything that says bad stuff about country music Okay so a it has fallen off it has not fallen off and we know that from background they're not going to say something bad also lasting popularity it's popular still okay so that's out something like d it changed real time from a shallow uh We're not gonna say it was bad in the past either okay so in real life it could be oh this wasn't that good in the beginning but now it's great but on the SAT when I mentioned a culture nope it's always been good since the beginning of time it's been the almost amazing thing ever okay so eight D is out because it said it used to be shallow uh can't say that okay so B and C look at these wordings guys these are super super super super likely for a culture question it's which is going to be people have said it's bad and people were wrong okay so it's been wrongly criticized unjustly criticized unduly criticized all mean the same thing okay so that's my main key if it's culture it's been unduly unjustly wrongly criticized okay so let's look at these two and out of these two which one do you guys think is better I don't know I keep pausing myself but it's a habit find out you guys get used to it okay it's going to be not b why because first of all we have the word most why is the word most bad yeah right because it's over half over half that's extremely extreme answers are bad you guys already know that okay second it's been dismissed by most Scholars that is a pretty harsh this to the genre country music's been dismissed by over half of the scholars out there that's a pretty strong attack so even if I say oh that's being wrongly dismissed no it's going to be Scholars like it okay let me erase some of that so you guys can see them more easily okay what do we have from the text Scholars have argued that the genre is far more complex than people think so it's people might think it's not good but Scholars the people we respect the authority the guys who know best quote unquote they think it's good okay so my answer here is C it's been unjustly criticized for inclusion of subjects that are not unique to the genre where is that that's coming from let me erase a lot of that right here and at this point I haven't said this today but I say this every single time right what is the most important skill you need for sat reading paraphrase paraphrase paraphrase paraphrase yeah so subjects that are present in other genres as well by the way so subjects that are present in other genres just get paraphrased into subjects that are not unique to the genre okay so I have the first part it's been unfairly criticized that's almost there that's almost always there for the culture second one subjects that are unique to the genre is just a paraphrase of the this phrase right here okay so to sum up these questions are harder yes that's why they're in the advanced question category according to college board and Khan Academy so this one I can't do like I normally do by just reading the last two lines so what do I have to do I have to first recognize that it's a culture passage and then also know that they're going to say something very positive about it and it's usually going to go into a line of it's been unfairly criticized for this but Scholars actually think it's good because of this okay so I get rid of anything that's negative and that leaves us with C okay thanks for watching guys I have more videos coming for you August test takers and everybody else whatever tests you guys are gonna take I'll be here guys thank you for coming on the channel study every day with sexy J that's the best way you already know bye bye quick and dirty time yet another central idea question again for August SAT test takers so why are we going through so many of these because these are more advanced and you guys want them and you guys need to know this for the test that's everything on the channel right so how do I recognize the central idea question let's look at as always what the question asks what is the test most strongly suggest about whatever any of the questions that are pretty much what does the text say about something that's central idea what does the text say about blank that is central idea okay and now about ants that produce a strong pheromone we know from that that this is a science phenomenon question okay so this is central idea science phenomenon question that's what it is central idea science phenomenon so this is a little bit different from science Discovery Science Discovery is they find out something that we didn't know before okay so it's like oh we didn't notice recent discovery wow good job this one science phenomenon is a little bit more boring it's just what you would find in a textbook this is what happens in nature okay so for the science phenomenon question this is going to be one of the questions that really really carries this principle to the fullest Which is less extreme the answer the better the less extreme the answer the better that means they will really want to do the wrong answers being a little bit too extreme and that's why they're wrong okay because these science passages the science phenomenon there isn't that many uh there isn't a lot of like complexity to them it's just information that's being delivered to you straightforward this is why once I recognize scientific scientific phenomenon I have to watch out the most the simpler the passage the more trickier the uh answer choices are likely to be okay so take a second to read through this y'all read through it right you can pause the screen and read okay so what are we asking about we're asking about ants that produce a strong pheromone now my actual answer would be and produce a strong pheromone I try to bring back the aphids they're trying to provide defense blah blah blah just like in the other central idea questions the actual central idea is probably not going to be the answer because that's how College Board is love you guys so let's look here these ants are more likely to thrive than darker ants or well what happened so the word however is important in case of environmental disturbance so I know all the stuff here is happening because there was some type of trouble if there's some type of trouble why would they be thriving yeah okay so that one is out and let's see um also this one because so this they do a lot okay attempt to recover is not the same thing as recovered okay so in the text we had these ants are trying to recover from some type of bad thing does that mean that they succeed in doing that well you know I broke my wrist like eight weeks ago or something like that right I'm attempting to recover but it still doesn't Bend you see that like supposed to bend it doesn't Bend okay or you know I'm attempting to get I don't know guys what's our goal 50 000 subscribers something like that maybe I don't know okay we're attempting to get there are we there no we're just a humble Channel at the moment right my brother is attempting to be a millionaire hope he gets there you know he said he'll buy me a car anyway attempt to recover it's not the same thing as recovered right any attempt is not the same thing as success okay so that's why answer Choice B is there because it says they're trying to recover right did they succeed I don't know okay so that's out okay so I took out both of them uh A and B now let's look at C and D which one of these is better you guys can probably guess at this point can you maybe yeah so the answer here is C because they have likely been subjected to stressful environmental conditions stressful environmental conditions just comes from environmental disturbance that's it right it doesn't add any more information than what was in the text that's it very minimum non-extreme nothing answer okay whereas the answer tree is D there are more susceptible to damage from strong acids okay we do have acid because I hear where do I have damage from acid nowhere okay so this is the thing that you want to watch out for it's like oh it had the word acid it had word defense so I thought maybe stop yourself there okay if I'm going I thought maybe you're going down the very trap that sat set for you okay don't do that okay all I want to do is just take this phrase just take it and put it together Choice okay take it put it in there yeah that was kind of painful anyway so it's a scientific phenomenon question like I said very little complexity to these questions you want to go with the answer choice that says at least information as possible okay so all I know is okay when bad stuff happens the ants do this how do I know it's bad stuff environmental disturbance that turns into stressful stressful environmental conditions that's it environmental disturbance stressful conditions that is it no more thinking that's it even though this is supposed to be an advanced question it's a central idea of science phenomenon okay so as you guys know make sure you identify what question it is and then adjust your approach accordingly according to my videos right our videos okay uh thanks for watching guys study every day with me sexy J that's the best way you all know bye-bye foreign sexy J quick and dirty time on digital SCT and we're using the wording.college board and Khan Academy use so this is going to be a boundary question okay so because that's what they call it so it's called boundary and so if you guys want additional um resources you can look that up but more specifically this is going to be boundary and dashes how do you use dashes College World Loves the Productions into questions like we do here and the issue is most schools that I ever interacted with they don't teach you how to use dashes because dashes are a little extra okay so I'm not going to say this is when you use the dash and this is when you use a comma or this one use something else because that's all literally style points okay it's just a stylistic preference so then how on Earth can College Board give you a question with ashes because all of the other ones are wrong okay so if you look at this problem here and you know this is grammar question because that's what this says right here and notice the four choices here we have a colon we have a call Mount we have the no punctuation and then we have the dash how would I be able to tell the difference between these you don't okay you don't when you read these and you see um semicolon colon and dash those types of punctuations that I am looking for parentheses okay parentheses you say Jay there are no parentheses in this problem but what I'm looking for is where could I put parentheses in the sentence when could I put parentheses so that I could take out this info and the sentence still works okay so what does that mean drawing cross from all over the world the Orson cross festival for cool people or a c f c p as the event became known as this stuff I could put parentheses around then I could take it out okay it's additional info it's extra info if you guys care about the grammatical terms it's called the positive a non-essential Clause a parenthetical Clause I don't really care okay so if I have those types of things then I'm just looking to take that out okay and the reason I'm using parentheses is everybody knows parentheses right like in math if I open the parentheses I have to close the parentheses it's the same exact deal with punctuation okay there are two ways of dealing with this so if I have this phrase I could put a comma here put the phrase and then put a comma here two commas around it okay or I could put a dash or I could put a dash it doesn't matter which one I do so how do I pick do I use a comma do I use a dash look right here guys the non-underly portion is correct you can't change that so what do they use here a dash so if they use a dash on the right side you have to use a dash on the left side done so when you're actually taking the test that's all you would do I don't know what should go here she's either Comic-Con or dash dash they put a dash so I put a dash that's it guys okay so again don't worry about is a dash better comma better bubble but they will never pick make you pick between the two it's already going to be in the sentence so in a boundary question notice that um there is parenthetical information put parentheses around it and finish the parentheses with whatever matches what was it the sentence indeed non-underline portion okay uh that's it for today's quick and dirty guys start every day with sexy J good luck in your test everybody thank you guys bye-bye hi hey sexy J quick and dirty time for August test Acres as we've been doing right and today's question type is also a boundary question but I'm going to today focus on punctuation because the schools don't really teach you how to use punctuation properly I myself I went to really good high school because I had to test to get into it and everything but we never learned grammar when did I learn grammar in seventh when I was teaching seventh graders okay so today's is punctuation specifically how to join sentences okay so technical um College Board term is boundary but I'm focusing on Boundary and punctuation okay so do you guys know how to use a colon do you know do you guys know how to use a semicolon and all of that kind of okay so before we get to the question here how do I use a colon okay so how do you guys use the colon 99 of you will say to start a list and that is wrong okay you do not use a colon necessarily to start a list a colon is like this okay so um ah I'll just I like pie colon it's my favorite dessert okay a colon requires a finished sentence on the left okay and then stuff to the right is stuff that adds to it that's how you use a colon okay so if I do like the listing that everybody thinks that a colon is for um this would be wrong I bought colon one two three wrong Terrible Bad why because I bought is not a finished sentence okay did I really just misspell sentence I did jeez okay so how do I say that I bought a lot of stuff colon and then you could start listing things one two three and so forth yeah okay so that's how we use a colon and a semicolon is for combining two separate sentences but you guys usually know what a semicolon is I'm not going to get too much into that if you guys are confused about it you could ask about it I'll make another video okay so let's look at the sentence here guys so we know it's a grammar question because that's the instruction right there okay this stuff over here I don't care at all okay I wrote it but yeah I don't care and also this is about basketball I think he's not going to give you anything as interesting as basketball they just don't okay so the actual sentence is here three level scorers do not have to excel at all three however they are simply capable in each area those are not limited one area of the Court okay I'm just gonna get rid of that to make it easier to read Okay so one thing I would I would recommend is you plug in a not because a is going to be correct necessarily it's one out of four chance right you plug in a and you figure out what's wrong with it okay so if I were to plug in a what's wrong with it that's a run-on sentence because that's one sentence up to here and you cannot do sentence with just comma you cannot okay so that's out and oh did I really make a and b both the same wrong thing yeah okay oh and one option is I should have made this no comma here they might just not put in any punctuation that's still wrong okay so the idea here is that I have two sentences how do I join them okay let me go through the list how do I join two sentences one put a period and start a new sentence easiest one will they test you on that yes because the 060 is actually easier okay another way you put a comma and Fanboys and we'll do another video on Fanboys but for and nor bought or yet so another one you put a semicolon another one you put a colon okay so out of all those options we have two sentences here what is the best option here well A and B are out because that's a comma and pretend this comma doesn't exist those are just run-ons they have nothing to fix the problem so we have C and D which one do you guys think it is you guys can probably guess it's going to be the golden one because that's what I've been talking on this video okay what's wrong with d though okay I put a semicolon that's two sentences College Board this I can say 100 College Board has never made the correct answer as semicolon with bought okay when you do semicolon you don't do a transition you just start a new sentence okay so you don't do any of the Fanboys So my answer here is C okay so how does that fit the definition of colon that we talked about three level scores do not have to excel at all three however they are simply Cable in each area those aren't so this stuff is added explanation for the first part yep well I wrote a lot today yeah because uh we're going through punctuation and grammar so I'm writing a little bit more okay guys so if you have any questions on any type of punctuation how to use it and you just never quite got it you don't know the difference between who versus whom you don't know when to put an apostrophe if you have any of those questions leave a comment in the video and I will tackle whatever grammar or punctuation usage question you guys have okay so let me know guys uh thank you for watching study every day with XJ that's the best way you already know bye bye today's digital sat topic is comma's essential Clause but before we get to that how did you guys do on the August sat you guys studied all summer for it let me know how it went and I did hear it was pretty hard from a lot of people which is actually good news because that means a better curve for you guys right so I've been teaching all summer for it so let me know if there were anything that was like weird uh something that you hadn't seen before leaving the comments so that if you guys could take it in October we have about six weeks I got you guys okay hope you did well especially you Rachel you made me pay you painted these nails because these are gonna make you do better I hope you did well I hope it was worth it my mom likes these by the way okay so um let me know guys in the comments I am really actually um as always looking forward to your feedback but I am pretty curious about this test as well okay so today's um topic is commas because there are so many things about commas that you just never taught in school and this is one of those things and what did I say the topic was today yes essential Clause did you learn that in school because I didn't thanks okay essential Clause I don't know how to spell anymore okay so you see how a b c and d they're literally exactly the same words the commas are just in different places okay I do not want you guys to look through these answer choices because if you're rushing through they can all look the same like I was making this and I was like wait are A and D the same thing they are not there is a difference of this comma right here okay so ignore the answer choices guys well I want to look at them as a whole like broadly oh it's like different because of the placement of the commas okay it's a comma question okay so this is really the main question we're going to ask with this do I need this info or not okay so long story short if I need the information then no commas okay if I could take it out then you put combos around it those are the only options you either put two commas around the phrase or if you don't commas okay therefore if you look at this phrase here a there's only one comma on that side so you guys all know how to use parentheses right if you don't I guess I could make a video on that too but when you make a parenthesis you have the stuff right extra info and naturally if I open the parentheses over here I have to close the parentheses over here you never just put like this you know that bothers me right now I can't even have that on there gross okay so that's the same thing a just has parentheses or comma on one side this is also grammatically called a parenthetical phrase so parentheses okay so A's out and uh for the same reason oh what is this C that's out let's look at so this is based on the um June International sat uh because you guys have sent me this sat to kind of work on so I made my own questions but this is exactly the type of formatting they're using why would you put a comma between two people and an and you just never do that in order to do that how when do I do that exactly right yeah when you have one two comma and okay and three you guys can count right how many things is that two you never put comma which is two items in a list with an and okay so you don't do that so you're between B and D either I put no commas around the thing or I put two commas around it okay now if you're stuck here guys and you're like oh English is my second language as a lot of you guys are international students and you're not confident you're gonna have to feel for it well you should guess the no commas that's much much more true likely so that's just a you know probability thing now if I want to be sure that's why you're on the channel right you want to be sure about the grammatical concept it's a lot of people say it like this this is wrong they say if you take it out and the sentence still works no commas well what if I have a sentence like this the team with more points wins okay so in this sentence right the team with more points wins you there's no comma around it you guys can tell there shouldn't be a comma right and but if I take that out does that sentence still work grammatically yes it does you could say the team wins yes but you're losing the main point of the sentence what's the main point of the sentence to tell you how do you win well you have to score the most points okay so this is a better way to think about it if the information is and sat does not use this wording because that would make it too easier need this info that's almost always identifying info as in most commonly due to be who are those people that's the essential information because do you know who John Troy and Esther Kim are I mean I know John Troy and as to Kim because I'm Korean but like you know who are these people why are they important Etc I need to know as much information as I can get about them okay so it's identifying information that is necessary so the answer here is B okay because could you grammatically have a sentence to say cognitive scientists utilize techniques sure but then I'm not telling you who they are I am missing the identifying information okay so very very specifically and why am I getting so specific in this essential Clause question this is almost always how they do it okay like about 90 of the time it'll be you don't put commas around it because I need those people's names because it's identifying information okay so that's a lot of information I'm dumping on you guys but if you know that it's done okay these are people I need their names no commas done okay don't rethrall the answer choices that's too much thinking okay you want to do this simply and quickly quick and dirty as possible okay so um that's today's quick and dirty I am doing more and more grammar and punctuation questions exactly because you guys asked so as I said before leave it in the comments whatever you guys want me to cover I got you guys study every day with sexy J bye bye foreign guys think you guys have been asking for a lot of things command of evidence specifically command of evidence scientific okay and as you guys know I'm using the terminology dial Khan Academy and college world is using so you guys can find additional materials so if you guys remember I've already done a command of evidence question in terms of numbers so that'll be quantitative and I've also done it for poetry which would be literary so I'm doing the third type here which is uh the science okay so the first step is going to be once I recognize this as a command of evidence question which is you know which finding would do whatever okay I want to know is this science is this literary or is this numbers that's pretty easy right literary you know it's from a novel or from a poem or if it's numbers and you don't have numbers okay so this one is going to be the other category if it's not poetry or literature it's not numbers it's scientific okay so or you can just look at the phrase from the study so I'm trying to look at if true it moves directly weak into potential explanation so I'm going back to kind of the classic method that we've been using okay which is I don't give a darn about all the stuff at the beginning I really don't it doesn't matter okay so once I recognize as a command of evidence question and it's scientific I just need to look at well I want to weaken the potential explanation what is explanation the explanation is this okay so in the science my explanation goes like this uh okay um a causes B okay so let's say uh I say um eating popcorn raises SAT score I mean I wish right yeah so eating popcorn raises SAT score so what does that mean that means that more uh popcorn goes up my SAT goes up that's my hypothesis prob will be wrong right there's nothing related with awkward and SCT scores so how do I prove that to be wrong there are a number of ways you could say well I ate a lot of popcorn my scores didn't go out that's the normal way right or let's say somebody says oh my scores went up I had a lot of popcorn you were like well you also studied six hours a day you also watch sexy day YouTube right and your score is already high to begin with all of those things don't matter right it's whenever it's something else that's another way to weaken scientific explanations okay so that's the scientific background now let's care one possible reason is that holding physical money causes people to think of it differently than receiving money digitally okay so how would I weaken that so it's going to be either they didn't hold physical money or it's going to be it was something else okay so I'm writing a lot today but let me uh clarify this concept for you guys okay so when I am proving something to be wrong in a science passage it's going to be this they're saying that a causes B what are two ways to weaken that not a or something else so going back to my popcorn example yeah I had a bunch of popcorn my CT score went up dude you hate popcorn you never hate popcorn you hate popcorn you never hate popcorn right so that would be this one not a did an E power chord so that can't be true or it was something else which was the other example I gave you like you guys watched 6j whatever I mean not whatever thanks for coming guys okay so let's look here they want it holding physical money causes people to think differently okay I need something with holding physical money or not holding physical money okay what do you guys think here uh what we can do what weakens it okay so this is the Trap that people fall into this is why I don't even want you to you guys should read through it just in case right but I don't want you to pay attention to this because you see here the main idea is a former muddy made a difference and a lot of people go like okay made a difference how do you weaken that uh it's uh this one because they do the same thing that's a common trap okay the common trap comes from the middle of the paragraph so so often okay so um it's and then this one is uh going to be let's see so this one just goes up with the original idea that these people are different okay and then um and this one is also they are different okay so we're between B and D and you guys can probably guess since I said B is a common trap answer right so B is such a good trap answer because you just go oh because difference so to weaken it I want to do same and this is it that is a trap okay I know I'm saying it twice that as a trap I don't care about the stuff in the middle really it's just this they just said holding physical money makes you act different will we could it they didn't have physical money right or they had physical money what are the two so it's D okay almost all digital transfer recipients with due to entire receive money right after receiving the transfer why is that let me clear the board a little bit can I call this a board does that make me sound old okay so the idea was holding physical money makes you act different but that can't work if everybody had physical money does that make sense yeah so you can't be like oh I did worse on the SAT because it was in English sat is always in English right yeah so to summarize guys it was um why do I lose oh yeah there you go they said physical money made a difference was the claim none but this was not different and that's my thought process okay so my answer here is D that is a very well made trap answer I'm just saying I made it well this is based on what college World uses Khan Academy in the blue book right so when I have a scientific um command of evidence question don't get distracted by the stuff in the middle just go to the end and just look for what variable are they claiming makes a difference and then if it was the same then it can't make a difference okay my Eraser is going crazy but that's okay so um that's it for today guys and leave me in the comments if you guys want further explanation I'll try to get back to all the comments as fast as I can my wrist is almost healed I can type again so uh thanks for watching guys study every day with sexy J that's the best say you already know bye-bye foreign is the past tense now there are many many different types of past tenses so we're going to focus today on past perfect and how it's usually wrong okay not 100 but if I had to take the tally of how many times the past perfect has come up and how many times people have chosen wrongly it's 95 people get it wrong because they trusted it too much okay so if I see the past perfect do you guys know what that is when you see had and a participle so had eaten had gone had in this case studied when you see that answer Choice be suspicious okay because this is the tense that people don't really use in real life just like the word whom that we don't really use in real life okay so I've noticed a lot of students go I don't use that in real life so it sounds fancy and proper like proper grammar so I'm just gonna pick it because it seems correct S18 knows that they are in our heads to a degree it's kind of scary so they use it so so so so so so much as a trap answer in the tense problems I would say this is the most commonly done trap okay so Hadi and had gone had studied whom I would probably say if I'm guessing take that out now I don't want to be guessing though that's why you're on the channel right so when do I use this tense exactly well the past perfect works like this I need past event okay let's say time flows this way time flows to the right and the past perfect goes here okay so what does that mean well um my friend called my friend called that's in the past right um for dinner comma but I had eaten okay so how does the time flow go here my friend called me that somewhere in the past yeah but me eating dinner was already before that it's like oh sorry dude I already ate so I can't come out so when an idea is like already happened that's the past perfect and that we don't really use it in real life right it's like somebody goes oh did you watch this movie oh I already watched it right so you don't really go oh my friend asked but I had watched a movie already nobody talks like that right that's how they use it as a common trap answer okay so um that's out and that was the main tense I want to talk about today because uh one of you guys asked in the email and also in comments uh how do I do past perfect questions honestly it's usually to trap but this specific scenario is the only time you can use it and you can see why it'll be pretty difficult for it to be correct okay so the present perfect is also here has studied that one I'm gonna make a separate video about so we're not going to talk about it too much but um has studied is going to be continues to the present or a flexible time okay so I'll give you guys two examples for those two um definitions continues to the present means I have studied piano for five years what does that mean I started five years ago I am still studying now versus I studied piano for five years what is that I could have started in 2000 and ended in 2005 started in 2015 ended in 2020 doesn't matter okay it doesn't continue to the present okay or the other one flexible time let's say um I have been to the beach period I've been to the beach sometime in my past I've been to the beach okay now why am I saying flexible time because the past tense simple past I need a specific time or this is the better way to think about it if I have a specific time like here that's gonna be a simple past tense okay so if I say look like even sound this out guys okay let's say I say in 2015 I went to the beach makes sense right in 2015 I have gone to the beach it's weird and there's a reason it's weird that breaks the rule okay if I have a specific time in 2015 last Tuesday July 15 1994. whatever it is I have to just use the past tense simple past so that's this one was technically this is a past Progressive because the ing but do we care about that no why doesn't matter for sat okay they're not going to pick make you pick between while studying and studied because they both work here they're not going to give you two correct answers okay so um that's today's quick and dirty on the past tenses I will keep making grammar and punctuation videos because you guys are asking for them and when you guys ask for Concepts it'll help greatly if you have a link or a screenshot to the type of problem you're referring to so I can be sure that I I am getting exactly what you guys need help on right so help me help you guys thank you very much for watching I look forward to your comments and feedback study every day with sexy J it's the best way you already know bye-bye