Answer Choices
unwritten over 50 percent of the time.
unpublished but written 50 percent of the time.
published in a top journal approximately 20 percent of the time.
published in a non-top journal almost 80 percent of the time.
Explanation for Question 19 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay. So now we have number 19. 2 It says according to the graph, which means we have to look at the 3 graph. It says, according to the answer will be found in the graph. 4 Social science studies yielding strong results work. 5 So we just, we don't want to read the question, the answer choices, 6 let's just read this stem and then we're going to go into the graph. 7 So we're looking for specifically social science studies that yielded strong results. 8 Um, so here we are, 9 here are the ones that yielded strong results we have. 10 Um, you want to look at the key, right? So we have a, 11 it seems like 20% were published in a top journal. 12 It seems like let's see 40% were published in a non-top journal. 13 So why don't we write this down? Um, 14 it seems like another five to 40, 15 um, that's like 30 ish percent, 35% were unpublished for written 16 and then 5% were unwritten. 17 So that's what we know so far. 18 Let's see if any of those numbers match up. 19 Um, and I see that letter C 20 does correspond. So basically it says here that, 21 um, social science studies that yielded strong results, 22 which is this bar, right? So we're looking at here, 23 um, published in a top journal at 20% of the time. 24 So top journal or member was, 25 um, this, this box right here. 26 I can highlight it. So it's easier to see. And it goes from 80 27 to a hundred, which means 20%. So clearly that is a true answer. 28 Whereas everything else here, you would actually be able to prove wrong based on 29 the graph. Um, so the answer is just going to be C.