Explanation for Question 30 From the Writing Section on the 2020 October Sat
So, if we look at question 30, it's asking us, 2 which is the best transition from the previous paragraph to the new paragraph. 3 Right? And so first thing we can do is look at the previous paragraph. 4 And so we see that the point of this research, 5 right? We're describing some research and the point was to test the importance of 6 incentives and reputation on, 7 um, getting people to sign up for something. 8 Right? And then we can see that we talk about in the next paragraph, 9 the strength is varying. The strength is varying. 10 And so we want to choose an answer choice of the best shows that 11 we're talking about reputation, but the reputation has varying strengths. 12 It's not always one strength. It's not always super strong. 13 Now, if we look at a, it says reputation fails to promote good deeds. 14 Now we didn't talk about that in the last paragraph. 15 And we don't talk about this in the next paragraph, 16 right? Not being able to promote good deeds. 17 So A's is off topic. If we look at B, 18 it tells us, although reputation can be a powerful motivator. 19 This is true, right? In this study, we did talk about how it was 20 powerful and how it could be a really strong incentive. 21 So, B sounds good with what we talked about in the previous paragraph now 22 C says reputation is the single most important. 23 We never said definitively that reputation is the most important thing, 24 right? So a is a little too specific. 25 It's a little too strong. It was just a tad ...