Explanation for Question 30 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat
Not for number 30, our best. Answer's going to be a, 2 because if we look throughout this whole paragraph, we'll see that what we're really 3 talking about here is preparing people for their future careers. 4 And the first place that we see that is right here in the sense 5 where it says helping them build various career specific skills, 6 because building career specific skills is a way to help yourself prepare for what 7 you're going to work on in the future. And then we go on to 8 list some of these skills, right? These are work-related skills. 9 And then later on, we get some, some data about those skills. 10 And so overall, we're talking about preparing for a future career. 11 Now, if you couldn't immediately land on it, 12 you could also get to that answer by process of elimination. 13 First off, we can see that we don't talk about deadlines anywhere in the 14 paragraph. 15 And we also don't talk about public service, 16 right? Our focus here is really on careers. 17 Now, answers answer choice C brings up a career, 18 right, determining what you want to do for a living. 19 But the key difference between a and C is that a talks about preparing 20 for that career. And C talks about how you decide what career you want 21 to pursue. And now we don't talk about that decision process. 22 We only talk about the preparation, right? The building of skills, 23 and that has nothing to do with them, making a decision of what career 24 you want to pursue. So our best answer then is going to be a, 25 because it's on topic with the rest of that paragraph.