Explanation for Question 31 From the Writing Section on the 2017 May Sat
Let's take a look at question 31. So question 31 assets to state the 2 correct form of the underlying section, which is well known, 3 calm of payments. Now we have a couple of different options, 4 well known and famous famously well-known and then famous the, 5 I think ti places, a huge importance on concision, 6 concision or conciseness is essentially, 7 um, saying the same thing in the least amount of words possible. 8 And by that you want to rule out any repetition, 9 any redundancy and keep it as simple, 10 as sweet as possible. Um, 11 based on this, a lot of times we think just choose the shortest answer. 12 How about we have to make sure that we're choosing the shortest answer, 13 that doesn't omit any information that we don't lose any information from the text 14 reading our underlying section, well known and famous. 15 We know that those were two adjectives. That mean the same things. 16 Oh, well-known art critic or a famous art critic. 17 You're not changing anything. So you don't need to have both of those. 18 So we can cancel out a B is the same thing. 19 Well known and famous. We can't solve be famously well-known same 20 thing that, that one even just sounds wrong. But if they're famous they're well-known 21 so we choose D famous. 22 We don't lose any information. We still know that they're famous or they're well 23 known because they mean the same thing. And it still makes sense. 24 So after hearing a lineup of famous art critics, 25 that that's concise, and that's what the sat really, 26 really likes.