Explanation for Question 37 From the Writing Section on the 2017 April Sat
Question number 37. What we're doing here is kind of linking two sentences 2 together and merging them and combining them at the underlined portion. 3 So looking at our first sentence for Levine and Rocco, 4 who are compensated at 80% of their full-time salaries and benefits, 5 job sharing was a way of continuing to climb the career ladder. 6 This sentence works perfectly well on its own. 7 Um, and it establishes kind of the main idea of the end of this 8 paragraph that we're hoping to merge the idea here is that job sharing was 9 a good way of continuing their careers. 10 Um, at the same time though, we also see the second sentence. 11 They didn't have to work the long hours, usually demanded of an employee in 12 a high level position. So the sentence kind of provides a complimentary 13 meaning. So it's always important when we combine these sentences to kind of evaluate 14 what the relationship between these two sentences is here. 15 We see that they're, they're expressing this idea of having the best of both 16 worlds. They were able to continue to climb the career ladder, 17 but they didn't have to work the long hours, usually demanded of an employee 18 in a high level position. So we kind of have that contrasting meaning there, 19 I, I kind of combined them using the word, but, 20 but another word to that effect would work as well. 21 In this case, our best answer is going to be, 22 um, answer choice C without having, 23 so this merges the two sentences effectively witho...