Explanation for Question 11 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
All right now looking at our second passage, 2 um, we were being asked, which choice best supports the claim in the first 3 sentence of the passage. 4 So we'll later refer to the first sentence of the passage to see what 5 claim we're referring to. And then look for some evidence of that claim that 6 the author presents us with. 7 So looking at lines, um, 8 the first bit of the paragraph, um, 9 the claim here is knowing your own reputation can be surprisingly difficult. 10 So that's the statement that we're looking for evidence for where we're looking for 11 a case where, um, it was difficult to know your own reputation or where 12 people failed to know their own reputation. 13 Um, looking at our answer choices, 14 uh, choice a is lines two to four. 15 Consider for instance, a study that analyzed a set of published experiments, 16 all sharing the same basic side that's answer choice a, 17 um, this section doesn't really speak to the findings. 18 It just introduces this, this study so we can eliminate choice a answer 19 choice. B is lines 21 to 23. 20 If people were clueless, then there would be no correspondence between the two. 21 Um, and then it goes on to describe seasonally speaking, 22 what this would look like in terms of their correlation. 23 Um, this again is sort of background information. 24 It doesn't really present us with any actual findings. 25 So choice B is eliminated as well. 26 We can say that we're talking about there would be. So this is sort 27 of a hypot...