Explanation for Question 12 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat
So question number 12 asks us which choice best introduces the topic of the 2 passage is if we're looking for the topic of the passage, 3 the first thing that we can do is look at the title. We see 4 that the title says remix reuse repurpose. 5 So maybe it's about something like recycling, 6 right? Like reuse, repurpose, um, 7 remix is usually something associated with music. 8 So maybe it's about music. And from here is always a good idea to 9 look on into the first paragraph. So title and first paragraph, 10 if you're just trying to get a quick sense of what the passenger's about 11 as a whole. Now, if we scan along here, 12 we can see the words, different songs. 13 We see music genre, right? We see remixing. 14 And so these are all associated with music, 15 right? And remixes as a music genre. 16 And so the answer choice that says that explicitly is the right. 17 We actually say music and D. And so that's why D is going to 18 be our best answer. And if we look at a, 19 it just says, no matter the art form, now we're not talking about multiple 20 art forms, right. We're just talking about music. 21 So a is too general and B is wrong for the same reason. 22 Artists can be in the traditional sense that we think about like painters and 23 sculptors, but also musicians. Right? So B is also too general. 24 It's not necessarily talking about music and it seems perhaps the most obviously 25 wrong, right? Cause even though we say the word software right here, 26 we're not talking about software developers. We're not talking about the people who make 27 software music words, right. 28 Come up much more often than software does. 29 And so for that reason, our best answer is going to be D.