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SAT Reading Long Passages Drill 1, Problem 8

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00:03

Analyzing text. It's good for the soul. No worries if you need to pause to skim the

00:09

passage again. Not everyone has a photographic memory.

00:22

The main point of the passage is to...what?

00:25

Here are the potential answers...

00:29

To figure this one out, we just need to go

00:30

down the list and start eliminating.

00:32

(A) is easy to cross off our list, because the passage doesn't comment on the quality

00:38

of Nirvana's music at all.

00:40

Early on, the passage does mention some of the other bands from the Seattle scene...

00:44

However, the bulk of the article focuses on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, so (B) doesn't

00:51

make the cut.

00:54

(E) claims that the passage is all about statistics.

01:00

It does give us some numbers, but there's a lot more to this passage than a bunch of numbers.

01:05

Each remaining choice is attractive in its own special way.

01:08

Since the passage focuses more on how success—not music—played a role in Cobain's eventual

01:14

deterioration, (D) misses the ball, leaving us with (C).

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