[Video] Q17: No change or address their deficiencies. or deal with their flaws and shortcomings. or allow them to meet their employers’ needs in terms of the knowledge they are supposed to have.

Explanation for Question 17 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Number 17. This sentence actually starts on the previous page 2 all the way up here. And even though on the original test, 3 this is split up into two. The correct answer for the previous question was 4 this one, making it all just one long sentence. 5 So with that out of the way, let's start reading the sentence. 6 If employees find themselves falling behind in the workplace, 7 these critics contend, then it is the duty of those employees to identify 8 and even pay for appropriate resources to show them how and why they're falling 9 behind and what they should do about it. All right. 10 That, and all the answer choices are very wordy and you might've 11 already caught on that. You've heard some repeating words already. 12 One thing I noticed was falling behind, 13 which we already said right here, falling behind. 14 So it's not very good writing if we repeat that phrase in the same 15 sentence, or even in a different sentence with, 16 with that close proximity to one another, 17 that's redundant and we want to avoid redundancy or repeating the same ideas when 18 we really don't need to. 19 So that's something that I already see wrong with no change it's redundant. 20 Now B says to address their deficiencies, 21 that is very concise and it has a much more 22 informative and formal tone than the rest of the answers. 23 If you skim through this entire passage, you'll see that it's very formal. 24 The tone of this passage, the talking about research and work 25 and all that over...