[Video] Q6: No change or evolved or developed or progressed

Explanation for Question 6 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 7

Question six. This sentence says a short list of inventions elaborated 2 by NASA includes communication, 3 satellites, invisible braces, and cordless tools. 4 All right. Our job is to see if there's anything we can replace 5 this underlined word with any of these words to make the sentence 6 makes sense. So, 7 in order to do that, we need to figure out what message is the 8 sentence trying to convey. What are they trying to say here? 9 So let's look at it again. Short list of inventions, 10 something by NASA includes these. 11 Okay. So it sounds like NASA is making all these inventions. 12 So the good strategy to use for this type of question is ignore 13 the answer choices, ignore the original word and see if you can 14 come up with your own word to make the sentence make sense. 15 So for instance, I would probably swap in the word created 16 by NASA. So I would probably write created right here 17 could also say made by NASA produced stuff 18 along those lines, right? They're making inventions. 19 Okay. Now let's back at our answer traces and look through all of them. 20 So a no change says elaborated. 21 I wouldn't really use the word elaborated to talk about making inventions. 22 We always want to think about the connotation of words or which situations you 23 would use those words. So for elaborated, 24 I think we normally use that to talk about, 25 you can elaborate on an idea or elaborate or answer it more so 26 means to expand something, not necessarily to create 27 s...