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all right people we're starting the SAT

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writing section of our SAT prep [Woman writing on school desk]

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lucky you yeah here we go so we got 11

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of these bad boys and for each question

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you're gonna choose the answer that best

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improves the writing quality or makes

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the writing adhere to standard written

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English conventions no Klingon from you

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Bob in the back there some questions

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include a no change choice and that's

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just fine if it's perfect the way it is

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so let's start by just kind of skimming

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this thing so we kind of get a sense for

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what they're doing here... [mumbling sped up]

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all right we're just gonna skip down to

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the question....

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Advanced composites

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such as carbon fiber are three times as

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strong in twice as light as the lightest

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metals currently they're used for

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expensive applications like satellites [Man opens car door]

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and luxury cars the first paragraph sets

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up the rest of the essay which is about

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a new Institute working on advanced

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composite whoo-hoo we're gonna need some

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context before we can care about these [Man browsing through book shelf]

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materials however the sentence that

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begins with currently tells us what's

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going on now right now in the world of

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advanced composites but be there read

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suggest a contrast there's no contrast

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nevertheless and though also implies

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some kind of opposition and it's not [Although and nevertheless wrestling]

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really like they're in that kind of

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fragmented and we really don't like

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fragments so that's it it looks like

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it's no change and yes the answer is a

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no change sort of like when you buy a

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hot dog from a street vendor and [5 dollar bill switching hands]

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