[Video] Q38: No change or thus, or moreover, or however,

Explanation for Question 38 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

So 38 is a transitional word question. 2 So let's start by reading the sentence before the transition, 3 which says a 1994 study concluded that 18% of American 4 colleges required at least one philosophy course only required at least 5 one philosophy course. Right? So here, what we're saying is that colleges do not 6 have a lot of philosophy requirements. Most students are going to get out of 7 college and not have taken a philosophy course. 8 Now, afterwards we say between 1992 and 1996, 9 more than 400 independent philosophy departments were eliminated from institutions. 10 So now we've gone on to say that not only are the course offerings, 11 um, very limited students are required, 12 but we're also getting rid of the whole department, 13 right? If you eliminate the department student can't students can't take philosophy courses. 14 So therefore, even though these are connected, 15 therefore is not going to make the most sense, 16 right? 17 Because if students aren't, 18 um, required to take courses that doesn't necessarily cause the department 19 to eliminate, um, or the school to eliminate the department, 20 therefore shows cause and effect. And there's not necessarily a cause and effect 21 here, thus is the kind of the same thing as therefore it's also cause 22 and effect. And so since we know that requirements don't cause the department to 23 be eliminated B is also going to be wrong. Now, 24 C however, however is not going to work here because these two sentences 25 r...