Answer Choices
Yes, because it elaborates on the advantage the students gained from the flights.
Yes, because it reveals that the students did not actually go into space, a point that the previous paragraph does not address.
No, because it shifts focus away from the students’ experiences while on the flights.
No, because it restates what has already been said in the sentence.
Explanation for Question 41 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8
So question 41 is asking us, should we include a part of the sentence 2 that says that students could perform their experiment without traveling to space? 3 And so for this type of question, and we look at our answer choices 4 and we see that first, there's a yes. And there's a no. 5 And so you might be tempted to decide first on your own, 6 if you would want yes or no. And then only look at those two 7 answer choices, but I would like to suggest that we don't do that on 8 these types of questions, because it can be sometimes misleading and the better place 9 to get your information is rather from the second half of the question, 10 by only looking at the second half of the question, you're giving yourself more 11 better information to eliminate answer choices. 12 So really this yes, and this no part isn't so much important, 13 but what's more important is the second half. 14 So let's look at the second half here. If I add the sentence, 15 does it elaborate on the advantage gained? 16 And these are, that is yes, that's true. Right? 17 Because if the students has to go to space, 18 that would be very costly. It would take a lot of time, 19 a lot of money, but by going just into airplanes and just flying around 20 in Earth's atmosphere, rather than traveling to space, 21 that's an advantage. It's going to be way easier for them to do their 22 studies. So a is true. Now B says it reveals students than 23 not actually go to space. This is true. A point that the previous paragraph...