[Video] Q1: No change or defeat or outperform or outweigh

Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So question one reads that given the solutions, 2 as well as the many health benefits of the food, 3 the advantages of Greek yogurt out, 4 do the potential drawbacks of its production. 5 And so here, we're trying to figure out what word do we want to 6 put here? And so we'll, you know, 7 that what they're trying to say is that the Greek yogurt has many benefits 8 that are better than the drawbacks, right? 9 So the benefits are more substantial than the drawbacks are that if we 10 look at the word defeat, 11 the feet has a different connotation, right? 12 Defeat is kind of like if there's a conflict or a competition, 13 and we're not necessarily necessarily saying that there's a conflict or a competition between 14 the advantages and the drawbacks. We're just saying there's more advantages, 15 right? So defeat is wrong because of the connotation of a conflict or a 16 competition. 17 Now C says outperform, 18 right? And so here are the key part of this is the perform advantages 19 and drawbacks are not animate things, 20 right? They're not tangible. They aren't people or animals that could actually perform something 21 or do an action. And so since advantages and disadvantages can't perform, 22 they also can't outperform as an hour left without 23 do or outweigh. And so the key here is thinking about what 24 we're talking about. Again, advantages and disadvantages, 25 drawbacks. And so once more, these are inanimate things. 26 They aren't people that can actually complete an action now to do something, 27 you have to be able to do something to begin with and advantages can't 28 take action. So that's why AI is wrong. 29 And we're left with outweigh, which should make the most sense, 30 because what that is saying is that the advantages are more substantial or there's 31 more of them than the drawbacks. 32 And so the correct answer for number one is going to be de.