[Video] Q33: Which choice provides the best supporting example for the main idea of the paragraph?

Explanation for Question 33 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 33 asks us which choice provides the best example of the main 2 idea of the paragraph. Now, 3 when we look at the paragraph, we spend a lot of time talking about 4 how digital, uh, note-taking makes more errors than people, 5 right? And then we go on to describe why people are better, 6 because they can distinguish between background noise in between actual words. 7 And so the main pair, or the main idea of this paragraph is that 8 there are some errors that, uh, technology makes that human recorders will not make. 9 And that's why human recorders might be better. And so if we look at 10 what we've said now, it says, makes it necessary for the judge to make 11 initial announcements at the beginning of the trial. 12 Now this sentence is really off topic, right? Cause we never talked about judges. 13 We didn't talk about like the, the segments of a trial at the beginning 14 of the middle of the end. 15 And so 33 a is off topic. 16 It doesn't talk about the distinction between human recorders and the technology recorders. 17 Now B says, requires a courtroom monitor to ensure the equipment is functioning properly. 18 This one might be a good or a decent distractor, 19 right? Because the equipment is something that might be necessary for the technology. 20 But we don't talk about the equipment. Really. 21 We're talking about why humans are, 22 might be better than the technology. And we don't talk about a monitor either. 23 And so the focus on the equipment here is wha...