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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 3
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- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
- Product Type / SAT Reading
- Expository Texts / Logical Connections
- Complex Inferences / Persuasive
- Reading Informational Text / Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text
- Reading Informational Text / Evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text
- Rhetoric / Analyzing purpose
Transcript
- 00:03
Here's an unshmoopy question you'll find on the exam...
- 00:06
Tired of this passage yet? One more read-through should do it...
- 00:37
The third paragraph, which details the sales of Nirvana's records, accomplishes which of
- 00:42
the following?
- 00:43
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:55
The passage compares the Godzilla-sized sale of Nevermind, Nirvana's first major-label release...
- 01:00
To the much smaller sales of their first album, Bleach, which was released on an indie label.
- 01:06
The paragraph calls the sales of Bleach "respectable," so (B) isn't the right answer.
- 01:11
It's clear that the passage claims that releasing on a major label was responsible
- 01:16
for the jump in sales, so (C) isn't right either.
- 01:19
(D) jumps the gun a little bit.
- 01:21
The next paragraph does mention that Nirvana changed their sound for the major label release,
- 01:27
but the paragraph we're focused on doesn't say anything about that.
- 01:30
The passage only points out that Nirvana knocked Michael from number one to number two, so
- 01:35
we can bump (E) off the list.
- 01:36
It took more than a few grunge rockers to totally defeat the King of Pop.
- 01:41
The passage zeroes in on the huge jump in sales Nirvana experienced after they made
- 01:45
friends with the big monster...
- 01:47
So (A) is the correct answer.
- 01:49
We can't help but feel a little bad for the tiny monster left behind.
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