[Video] Q23: Which choice best fits with the tone of the rest of the passage?

Explanation for Question 23 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 23 is asking us which choice best fits the tone of the 2 passage. And if we look at what the passage is about, 3 right, we're talking about record keeping in the court. 4 It's a very formal passage, 5 so we don't want to use conversational colloquial or informal words. 6 And that's what we see here in BNC. Now, 7 super rigorous and spot on are probably good descriptions of the notes that are 8 taken during a court case. Right? We want those to be exact. 9 We want those to have all the right details, but these words are too 10 informal. There are things that you say in conversation, 11 right? So you use the word super spot on is as an informal phrase. 12 And so that's not what we want in a formal passage, 13 right? Even though the content is wrong, 14 the tone of the words is wrong, or the content is right. 15 The tone of the words is wrong. If we look at D this is 16 the opposite, right? But you told her the word is probably fine tense. 17 It's not something that you can only use in conversation. 18 It's also used in formal passages, but the content is what's wrong about intense. 19 The definition is what's wrong because intense means extreme. 20 It doesn't tell us really about the details of the notes. 21 We don't know that the notes are extreme, right? 22 We just know that they're very detail oriented. And when you think about intense, 23 it's also usually a physical description, right? 24 We say that maybe like intense exercise, 25 that's a phrase that we would use. And so for intense, 26 to be a physical, extreme word is not a good description of nos, 27 but you're just passing pieces of paper. And so that just leaves us 28 with scrupulous, right? Scrupulous, 29 not knowing this definition might get in the way a little bit, 30 but it just means exact or maybe meticulous to take you less. 31 And so we would expect notes from a court proceeding to be meticulous, 32 to be exact. And it's also a very formal word. 33 So our best answer is going to be a.