Explanation for Question 25 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
So question 25 is telling us that at this point, 2 the writer is thinking about adding this graph and we want to know whether 3 or not we should add it. So in order to do that, 4 we need to know what's happening in the, uh, paragraph. 5 Prior to that point, we see that we're talking about what the, 6 uh, what the court reporters do, write note taking and where they do it. 7 And then it talks about them playing a vital role, 8 even though technology is being increasingly used. 9 And now we can look at what's in our graph, in our graph, 10 talks about salary. And now in our paragraph, 11 we didn't talk about salary at all, right. We talked about the role or 12 the jobs of the courtroom reporters. 13 And so if we look at this graph and it's talking about salary is 14 kind of off topic, right? It's not consistent with what we talk about in 15 the passage. 16 It kind of goes in an opposite direction. So we know that we shouldn't 17 include it because it's off topic and it certainly doesn't support the claim. 18 Again, it doesn't have any relevant information about the claim and it also doesn't 19 offer a relevant counterpoint because it doesn't talk about digital recorders. 20 It just talks about salary. Now between seeing D D says that 21 it doesn't provide information about the pay scale of more experienced court reporters. 22 Now that would not be relevant to us, right? Even if the graph had 23 that information, it's still not on topic with the, 24 with the passage, with the paragraph, because we don't care about the pay scale 25 at this point. So D is really presenting irrelevant information. 26 Now C C is going to be our best answer because it says that 27 the graph presents info that is not directly related. 28 In other words, off topic to the main point about the role of courtroom 29 reporters. And that's true, that's what the passage is about. 30 Right? So our best answer is going to be C.