Answer Choices
A list of several ways in which salt’s properties differ from researchers’ expectations
A presentation of a hypothesis regarding salt behavior, description of an associated experiment, and explanation of why the results weaken the hypothesis
A description of two salt crystal experiments, the apparent disagreement in their results, and the resolution by more sensitive equipment
An introduction to an interesting salt property, description of its discovery, and speculation regarding its application
Explanation for Question 23 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
Okay. So now we're looking at 23, which again is a question that's asking 2 about the entire thing as a whole. 3 It's not asking you about a specific detail. So honestly, 4 what you're gonna be using for this is either your memory, 5 or you can use like the main idea summaries that you wrote, 6 but you don't need to like go deep into detail into the weeds here. 7 Um, it's an overall big picture type of thing. 8 Right? So, um, it says which choice best describes the overall structure of the 9 passage. Well, how are the passage start out? 10 Um, how did it end up is kind of what it's asking here? 11 Um, well the first part of the past talks about how salt is typically 12 inflexible, right? Salt is like, not like goal. 13 It's not like other types of, um, 14 metals or chemicals. Don't even know what salt is. 15 Honestly, it's a, it's a chemical. Yeah. It's chemical. Um, 16 I have not taken chemistry in a long time. So yeah, 17 we, we, we learned about the properties of salt, the properties that we expected. 18 So we then discover something new, but discover that it's actually flexible. 19 And then what do we end up doing at the end? We end up 20 saying why that matters and kind of how we can apply that to the 21 real world. So we talk about the traditional property 22 of something we discovered in the news and then contrary to our beliefs. 23 And then we apply it to the real world and we say, 24 okay, why is this important? Um, 25 how can this be used in further science and furt...