Sat 2015 Practice Test #1 Answer Explanations

Choice C is the best answer
because it provides a transition that 
logically connects the information in the previous sentence to the 
information in this one. Both sentences provide evidence of colleges’ 
lack of support of philosophy programs, so the adverb “Moreover,” 
which means “In addition,” accurately captures the relationship 
between the two sentences. 
Choices A, B, and D are incorrect because each presents a transition 
that does not accurately depict or support the relationship between 
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(“Therefore,” “Thus”), and the sentences do not provide a contrast 
(“However”). 
QUESTION 39 
Choice A is the best answer
because it succinctly expresses the 
idea that “students who major in philosophy often do better . . . as 
measured by standardized test scores.” 

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Choices B and D are incorrect because they introduce a redundancy 
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“results,” so it is confusing to refer to “these results” and indicate that 
they “can be” or “are measured by standardized test scores.” The best 
way to express the idea is simply to say that some students “often 
do better” than some other students “in both verbal reasoning and 
analytical writing as measured by standardized test scores.” Choice 
C is incorrect because there is no indication that multiple criteria are 
used to evaluate students’ “verbal reasoning and analytical writing”: 
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Choice B is the best answer
because it provides subject-verb agreement 
and thus creates a grammatically correct and coherent sentence. 
Choice A is incorrect because the verb “has scored” does not 
correspond with the plural subject “students.” Similarly, Choice C is 
incorrect because the verb “scores” would correspond with a singular 
subject, but not the plural subject present in this sentence. Choice D 
is incorrect because it results in a grammatically incomplete and 
incoherent sentence. 
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