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SAT Reading: Identifying the Main Purpose of a Scientific Passage 1 Views
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This sci-fi passage is about what? We pick out keywords and phrases and glean that it's about a single theory: Maximal tides squeeze Earth like it's a teenager's skin with a uh.. need for Oxy 10.
Transcript
- 00:02
all right SAT Shmoopers we're gonna keep going on our fine passage about
- 00:07
Hawaiian Volcano crap so here we go the question number two here in the series [text on screen]
- 00:12
the main purpose of the passage is to all right we're gonna quickly go back
- 00:17
and skim see what we missed your lack of integrating sup okay and note that when
- 00:21
we do these skim things we always go back and reread the first sentence of
Full Transcript
- 00:25
each paragraph and then pick out key words below it see if there's anything
- 00:28
major sticking out if you realize already the penalty payment level and
- 00:31
then the answers got to be a the author presents a single theory maximal tides
- 00:42
squeeze solid earth and can contribute to the likelihood of an eruption the
- 00:48
rest of the passage puts the theory in context telling it one small effect
- 00:51
among many but still notes that it's an important clue to how volcanoes work you [ocean tide and magma]
- 00:55
know think oxi five doing its business right excuse us a moment while we update
- 01:00
our baking soda volcano science fair project yeah those were cool the passage [kid's experiment explodes in his face]
- 01:04
suggests that many factors caused volcanic eruptions but it never explains
- 01:08
what the other factors are so give it a B other factors could include lifesavers
- 01:13
candies or pet dander for all we know there's only one geological force at [candy and cats]
- 01:17
work in this passage maximal tides right they're the ones squeezed in the zip [woman pops a zit]
- 01:22
well the passage presents a new idea here but it doesn't refute any old ones
- 01:26
like that kind of came out of nowhere so yeah it's got to be a present a
- 01:29
theory and explain its significance and well let's hope for a smoother skin and
- 01:33
sailing moving on [people paddleboarding]
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