Explanation for Question 11 From the Reading Section on the 2021 March Sat
Looking now at our second passage of this March, 2021 2 reading exam, the main purpose of the passage is to what? 3 So taking a look back at our passage, we see that the author 4 is presenting us with a policy issue that is answered kind of through 5 a unusual set of experiments. 6 Um, they describe how the experiments were done and 7 kind of what was taking place, measuring the number of tweets about the policy 8 stories when they were introduced. Um, 9 and then they described the results of this, 10 um, this study, as well as kind of some of the additional considerations of 11 the researchers who did that study. So our best answer choice here is 12 going to be choice D describing a study as novel way of assessing the 13 impact of news media on public opinion, 14 and then reporting the findings. That's exactly what we see here. 15 The author describes the, the way the research, 16 um, the way the researchers designed the study and then what the findings actually 17 were. 18 Um, our other answer choices are incorrect choice. 19 A says summarizing an open question and proposing study. 20 The main purpose of the passage is not to propose a study. 21 It's actually to explain what the study uncovered and how it worked. 22 Choice B says, introduce a common misunderstanding. 23 It's not clear upon reading the passage, what that misunderstanding would be. 24 Um, so this answer isn't really correct. It's not the case that a misunderstanding 25 is presented. It's more, um, an area for a future study or where there's 26 kind of a lack of understanding and answer choice C outline a study that 27 compares trends and social media use among different demographic groups. 28 It's not the case here that different demographic groups are being compared. 29 So we can eliminate C as well and select answer choice D for the.