[Video] Q31: No change or in other words, or therefore, or consequently,

Explanation for Question 31 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question number 31 is a transition question, 2 transition where question. And if we look at the sentence before the transition word, 3 it says, because there's because digital systems record indiscriminately, 4 they can not discern important parts of the proceedings from other noises. 5 And then if we look at the sentence after that, it says a digital 6 device does indeed record everything that includes loud noises, 7 such as the book dropping, they can make actual words impossible to hear. 8 And what we can notice is that these two sentences essentially say the same 9 thing and the blue, we say record and discriminately, 10 which is another way to say, record everything. 11 We also talk about, um, other noises, 12 which are also the loud noises, such as the book dropping. 13 So since they're both saying the same thing, just in a different way, 14 using different words, B is going to be our best answer, 15 but we can also eliminate the other answers despite this as wrong. 16 Because despite this is like saying, even though, 17 and if we're using, even though there would have to be a contradiction between 18 our two sentences and these two sentences say the same thing. 19 So there's no contradiction. And despite this won't make sense. 20 Now both therefore and consequently are cause and effect transitions, 21 right? And there's nothing in the blue sentence that's causing an effect in the 22 yellow sentence, right? The blue doesn't cause the yellow, 23 because they both say the same thing. So C and D don't work. 24 And that leaves us with B.