Explanation for Question 43 From the Writing Section on the 2019 October Sat
Now for number 43 were asked, which of the following supports the overall point 2 of the paragraph. So let's scan back through the paragraph to see what it 3 was about right here. We're talking about open access publications being too expensive, 4 right? So if something's too expensive, 5 um, online publishing is cheaper than traditional publishing because you don't have physical 6 production costs. So, so far it seems to be all about cost and making 7 money. And then we say the online publisher data space database, 8 so spends only $10. So again, we're talking about costs and looking at 43, 9 right. As it's written, we say that we're talking about an expense covered by 10 donations. So this seems to be on topic, 11 right? Because we're talking about the costs associated with one of the databases. 12 Now, the reason that fee is going to be incorrect is because it says 13 each of which is revised in order to, um, 14 ensure scholarly standards. 15 Right? And so throughout the paragraph, have we talked once about scholarly standards? 16 No. Right. So if scholarly standards haven't been talked about, 17 then they're off topic and we don't want to choose answer choice B. 18 Now looking at C, it says through those submissions are limited to math and 19 science topics. Now, have we talked about topics right throughout, 20 uh, this paragraph? No. We strictly talked about costs, 21 not the topics of the articles. So C is also off topic. 22 And then finally, D um, users are getting signed up to be notified when 23 papers are posted. Right. And so notifications about papers. 24 Again, this has nothing to do with the money, right? 25 Nothing to do with the costs and the profits. 26 The only one that has anything to do with our costs is a, 27 and so that's going to be our correct answer.