[Video] Q42: No change or paramount or eminent or important

Explanation for Question 42 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Now number two is, or 42 rather is a word choice question. 2 And for these types of questions, we really need to be looking for context 3 within the sentences that are around the underlined portion. 4 So we read our sentence, it says, courses in psychology and human behavior help 5 you develop blank. Um, 6 collaboration skills, while courses in the humanities will give you background necessary for 7 effective, uh, narrative structures. 8 Right? So really we need to be talking about collaboration skills. 9 And if we looked around earlier in the passage, right, 10 which we should have read earlier in the passage, we could have seen how 11 important it is to collaborate, right? 12 Because it talks about, um, no matter how good the concept is, 13 it'll never be a video game unless it's communicated effectively. 14 So basically it's really necessary to be able to communicate effectively. 15 So we want to choose a word that similar to necessary. 16 Um, but also is in tone with the, 17 uh, or is in tune with the tone of the passage. 18 Right? And so if we look at our words, 19 first off eminence means, um, 20 is really in regards to time like something is happening now. 21 And it's really important, more kind of like an emergency, 22 right? If something is eminent, it's kind of bad and it's about to happen 23 at this very moment. Um, 24 and so we don't know that anything's about to happen at this very moment, 25 right? The collaboration skills aren't happening now. 26 Uh, they're re...