Answer Choices
discuss recent findings concerning scientific studies and dispute a widely held belief about the publication of social science research.
explain a common practice in the reporting of research studies and summarize a study that provides support for a change to that practice.
describe the shortcomings in current approaches to medical trials and recommend the implementation of a government database.
provide context as part of a call for stricter controls on social science research and challenge publishers to alter their mindsets.
Explanation for Question 11 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay, so it says, um, what does this passage primarily serve to do? 2 Um, essentially this is the same thing as immune idea question is just phrased 3 in different way, and it's more focused on the purpose of the passage rather 4 than just like S plainly stating like what happened in the passage as the 5 main idea. So, um, 6 we don't really need to go back into the passage to get this answer. 7 We kind of just have to review the main ideas that we wrote down. 8 So we know that this passage talks about why no results aren't used 9 or published. We kind of find out why, 10 and then the author kind of responds to that and says why that matters. 11 Right? So I guess the purpose of the passage is to teach us the 12 importance, uh, that no results actually have in the scientific field and 13 how we can kind of rectify that or solve that. 14 So let's see here, um, 15 it starts to do what discuss recent findings concerning scientific studies and dispute 16 a widely held belief, be explained a common practice in 17 the reporting of research studies and summarize a study that provides support for a 18 change to that practice. I already liked this one better because it's just explaining 19 at the beginning, right? It's explaining a current practice, 20 whereas a doesn't talk about how it explains the practice. 21 It says that it's just solely explaining the study or the results of the 22 study, but there, the entire first half of the passage actually just explains the 23 practice before...