[Video] Q15: Which choice most effectively concludes the paragraph?

Explanation for Question 15 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question number 15 asks us, which of the following most effectively concludes the 2 paragraph, right? So in order to conclude the paragraph, 3 we need to know what the paragraph is officially about. 4 So in this paragraph, we see that it's talking about the lion dance and 5 where it originated in the Han dynasty. 6 The earliest version of the dance was an attempt to ward off an evil 7 spirit. So there's one theory. And then another theory. 8 So a competing theory, we have two explanations is that an emperor had a 9 dream about a lion, right? And so now it says the current function of 10 the dance is celebration. And so a isn't 11 a bad choice, right? But it doesn't talk about the theories. 12 So it's talking about the current function rather than the theories of how it 13 was originated and the origins or the main topic of the paragraph. 14 So a is probably not correct. Now B says, 15 it turns out that the origins of the lion dance are irrelevant. 16 So this one does talk about the origins, but if the origins are you 17 relevant, then why did we spend a paragraph talking about it? 18 Right. This irrelevant part is what makes be wrong because of if it was 19 irrelevant, it wouldn't have come up in the passage. 20 Now, as he says, whatever's origins today, the dance is a joyous spectacle, 21 a celebration. So C is the better version of a, 22 because it talks about the current function, but it also talks about its origins, 23 right? So that's the key. We need to talk about the oranges origins and 24 now C or D says that things are different these days. 25 Of course, again, this doesn't explicitly bring up the origins and it's very vague. 26 It doesn't tell us how things are different. 27 And so our best answer here is going to be C.