[Video] Q1: No change or oftentimes or repeatedly or delete the underlined portion.

Explanation for Question 1 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

This first passage is about NASA. And question one reads the 2 national aeronautics and space administration. 3 NASA is a us government agency whose budget is frequently 4 many times contested. So there's nothing grammatically 5 wrong with the sentence it's structured. 6 Just fine. The punctuation is fine. So let's look at our answer choices. 7 Let's see what's going on here. We have many times often 8 times and repeatedly let's ignore D for now, 9 but what do you notice about these three options? 10 They all mean the same thing. Right? 11 Many times oftentimes and repeatedly. 12 Those are just different ways of saying that something happens a lot. 13 And we'll notice that right before it says many times in the sentence, 14 it says frequently, which means the same thing as many times oftentimes 15 or repeatedly. So we don't need to include two of those in the same 16 sentence. We only need one because if we repeat 17 two different phrases, that mean the same thing. 18 That's just redundant and redundancy comes up pretty often on the sat. 19 It's when you repeat different words, 20 that mean the same thing. And we want to avoid that. 21 So, because we can't change this word frequently, 22 right? We can only change the underlined portion. 23 This has just got to go, right? 24 So we can't use many times. It makes it redundant. 25 Can't use. Oftentimes we can't use repeatedly. 26 So the only way to make the sentence not redundant is to just 27 delete the underlined portion. So your correct answer for this one is D.