Explanation for Question 32 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
So question number 32 access, 2 which answer choice most effectively uses information from the graph to support the main 3 idea of the paragraph. And so to refresh our minds, 4 let's see that the main idea of the paragraph is indicated to us in 5 the topic sentence and kind of in the second sentence where we say that 6 Vista helps people prepare for their future careers. 7 And then it also helps them, um, build various career specific skills. 8 And so now, if we look at answer choice a, it does make a 9 claim about, um, a worthwhile experience and furthering professional goals, 10 right? So that's what we want to talk about here was, 11 um, Vista a worthwhile experience. 12 And so that means that we need to look down here at the second 13 graph where we also see, uh, you know, 14 the topic being a worthwhile experience. And as it's written, 15 it says that most of us, that alumni surveyed three fourths agreed that it 16 was a worthwhile experience. 17 Right? And so that's going to be this part of the graph, 18 the strongly agree and the agree, um, 19 which show the percentage who either agreed or strongly agreed. 20 Right? And so this is about 50, and this is about 25. 21 And when you add those together, you would get about 75%, 22 which is in fact three fourths. So a is correct information from the 23 graph. And it's also on topic with the, 24 um, with what the paragraph is talking about. 25 Um, now what is wrong with answer choice B? 26 Is that the math isn't right, because...