[Video] Q30: No change or leisurely meals with friends and family. or eating slowly and in the company of loved ones such as friends and family. or joining friends as well as family for time-consuming meals.

Explanation for Question 30 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Number 30. This one says during their early years, 2 the movement also focused on the value of spending lots of time with friends 3 and family during long meals. And specifically we're looking at the underlined and bracket 4 port bracketed portion. So looking at the answers, 5 they're all trying to get the same message across. 6 They're just phrasing it differently. Right? So for these types of questions, 7 usually the shorter answer will be the correct one, 8 but that's not true a hundred percent of the time, 9 but because that's usually true. My strategy is to look at the shortest answer 10 first, after that, 11 compare it to the other longer answers and see if there's anything missing 12 from the short answer. Like, is there anything that you really need those extra 13 words for in the longer answers or is it possible to boil it down 14 to the simple, concise answer? So let's do that. 15 The shortest answer would be B, which just says leisurely meals with friends 16 and family. Leisurely is a really good word to use here because leisure 17 leisurely means you're more relaxed. 18 And if you look back at the no change option, 19 it's saying spending lots of time with that can 20 be summed up by saying leisurely meals. 21 And same thing goes for during long meals. 22 You can boil that all down to just saying leisurely meals and 23 they keep that friends and family part. So be it looking Rick, 24 a really good simplified version of this huge wordy answer 25 we have to begin wi...