Explanation for Question 2 From the Writing Section on the 2019 April Sat
Now for number two, we're looking down here at this question, 2 which says that we're considering adding the following sentence and the sentence 3 says the university was established by Royal charter in 1948. 4 Right? So should we make that addition? 5 We put it in here. The key with these questions is that you need 6 to look at the context. You need to see if the sentences fit in 7 the space that they've been put in. And so beforehand, 8 we said, um, that in 1965, 9 murmurs of excitement filled at Kingston, 10 Jamaica auditorium, where, 11 um, an, uh, an unusually large crowd gathered for commencement services 12 at the west Indies, along with 400 graduates, 13 many people came to hear the words of Martin Luther king, 14 Jr. So we're talking about a space in Jamaica seems to be a 15 graduation, right? Talk about how many people are there, 16 who's coming to speak. And then this is some information about the university right 17 now, background information about the university is not necessarily relevant to a discussion 18 of the graduation ceremony that they were having. 19 So the sentence here is a little bit off topic because 20 it's not related to the particular graduation. 21 So anything that says, yes, we can eliminate because you never want to choose 22 an off-topic answer. And, 23 um, more specifically, this sure is historical context, 24 but it's definitely not necessary. And it's not about the passenger's narrative. 25 It's about some little information about the uni...