[Video] Q21: No change or itself, or itself, with damage and or itself possibly,

Explanation for Question 21 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So question 21, we're going to be looking at the sentence right here. 2 And it says the pattern box observed in 2012 may repeat itself again with 3 harmful effects on the Arctic ecosystem. 4 And what we notice about this, um, 5 these answer choices is that they all kind of say the same thing with 6 different numbers of words. And that should be a big hint to you. 7 That what we're trying to do here is choose the most concise. 8 Nope, can't spell that one, concise and non repetitive 9 answer choice. And we look at the question or the sentence as it is. 10 We see it tells us that it repeats again, 11 this again is definitely repetitive because we already know if something's repeating itself, 12 it's happening again. So there's no need to actually say the word again. 13 So a has too much extra information, 14 too many repeated ideas and words. 15 Now, if we look at C, it says with damage right 16 with damage. And if we look further along in the sentence, 17 we see harmful effects, right? 18 And damage and harmful effects. Again, say the same thing. 19 So C is also a little too repetitive. 20 Now finally, D D says the word possibly, 21 right? And now if you look earlier in the sentence again, 22 like we did an a, we see the word may possibly may show 23 the same thing, right? Uncertainty. We're not sure this would happen, 24 but it might happen. And so since we're getting that idea twice, 25 once from the word may, and what's from the word possibly D is also 26 repetitive. Now, i...