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SAT Reading: Which Answer Choice Accurately Represents Information in the Passage?
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How are Volcanos tied to the moon? Tidal Lunacy is more about Hawaii and surfing than were wolves but don't take our word for it...find out more by...

SAT Reading: Using Context Clues in a Scientific Passage to Define "Fortnight"
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Want to know what fortnight means? Spoiler alert: no, it isn't when you build a fort in your living room out of cushions.

SAT Reading: Citing Quantitative Information in a Graphic as Supporting Evidence for a Claim
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Analyzing texts and volcanos...it's the last video in this short but sweet SAT Reading volcano series.

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SAT Reading: Analyzing the Purpose of a Scientific Passage's Conclusion 10 Views


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What is the purpose of a paragraph? What is the purpose of life? Jk, but this SAT Reading video will at least help you analyze the purpose of the former.


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Irish bumpers next question this is an easy one the purpose of paragraph 7 is

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do with what alright so we go through 1 then 2 then 3 then 4 then 5 and 6 then 7 [text on screen]

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look if you wanna rush into they can do or is it great know what everything Rob

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think I'm gonna information about both the right answers gotta be to dismiss

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the significance of the tides and volcanoes theories it's all pretty much [ocean tide]

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kind of comes out and say that neener neener so how does that work well [text on screen]

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like grandma shmoop used to say correlation is - causation as a turkey [turkey and asteroid]

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is - an asteroid it isn't the correlation with tidal maximums while

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significant doesn't mean that title maximums are guaranteed to cause [text on screen]

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eruptions the explanation suggests that volcano must be primed to burst for a [smoke coming out of volcano]

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title squeezing to have an effect like that it's got to be right there kind of

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crustal e on the surface just waiting for a trigger well the whole article is [zit on person's cheek]

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dedicated to the tides and volcanoes theory perhaps unsurprisingly the author

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does not dismiss her theory in the final paragraph so I'll give her the a minimal

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tides are left out of final paragraph entirely get rid of C and the passage [volcanic landscape]

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does suggest that there are other factors involve AR so get rid of D and

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that's it the main purpose of the paragraph well just to dismiss class

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dismissed [students walking on campus]

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