[Video] Q1: The passage is primarily focused on the

Answer Choices

  • A) influence of a professor on one of his students.

  • struggles of a young artist conflicted about his values.

  • descent of a character into hopelessness and madness.

  • personal life of a young painter in relation to his art.

Explanation for Question 1 From the Reading Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So a question one of the first passage asks us the 2 passage is primarily focused on the blank. 3 Now this is a pretty common question. Are you gonna get, you're gonna get 4 at the start of sat question lists. 5 So, you know, we need to have obviously read the passage by now. 6 And me thinking about as a whole, what is it talking about and what 7 is it primarily focused on? So let's run through our answer choices here, 8 based on the passage, that passage we just read and think through them and 9 try and figure out what to put option a says that the passage is 10 primarily focused on the influence of a professor. 11 I'm one of his students. Now, part of the issue with this is, 12 yes, the professor here is talking to the student. 13 He is discussing, you know, what he believes the student should do, 14 but it's not really about the influence of the professor on the student. 15 In fact, the student seems to be disregarding much of the professors influences he's 16 actually seems to be pushing back against what the professor is saying. 17 Not just being influenced automatically by him. 18 It's mostly about the artist's struggle on his own outside of what's going on 19 with the professor. So that's not going to be the primary focus of this 20 passage. Option B says the struggles of a young artists conflicted 21 about his values, that this does seem to fall line what we read, 22 because it's this young artist, because I have an issues of figuring out like 23 all these o...

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