 good afternoon or good evening. Welcome to the SCORE channel. I'm Meacham. I'm your college counselor and today we're going to be looking at some SAT review and Q&A for November. I know it's a little early compared to like when other people might do this stuff, but I got things going on. Okay. I'm busy. I got a, I'm going to Columbia in two days, so I got to get stuff done now. And yeah, so I wanted to make sure we got to talk a little bit more about the SAT for y'all and just gave you another chance because this November test is really like the real last chance to get some extra good grades before you finish your early applications. You know, a lot of universities will allow you to send your November test results to the university even though the November deadline is like considered the end of early action, early decision. There's a lot of times, you know, because you still have to send the official results and that still takes time. So once you do that application by November 1st, which you should do days before, by the way, you should do that like October 28th at the latest. So then you're going to get access to their platform and then they're going to ask you to send official stuff. And by the time you have that access, honestly, like you could probably be doing the November test and then you could just send those results along with your other ones. And so that's an option. Not every university gives you that option, but a lot of them do. So just, you know, because of that and because I know a lot of people are going to be trying to apply early, hopefully this month, then let's talk about this now, you know, on the 18th and also before I go to Columbia. And also wanted to give a shout out to the SAT crash course because they really liked, you know, what the response from y'all from last time we did this because we did a little review. I went through their first test live and they, you know, made that test for free to give to everybody, which was really cool of them. And then they said, Hey, listen, we got a lot of people to sign up and we thought that was really great. And we want to give them something extra. So they're going to give 20% off the site until November 4th, I think it is for the test, right? So until the November SAT, you can get 20% off if you just use the code score, check out. Also a couple people had written to me with like minor technical problems that they had. Guys, if you do ever have any issues with their stuff, like just send them an email and they'll address it right away. Like we fixed the problem in 15 minutes. I'm in constant touch with them too, but it's their site. So like they can fix it faster than I can, honestly. And I may not be like sitting here looking at my messages. So if you hit me up, it could take longer. So definitely just go straight to them. But actually, so what we're going to look at today, what we're going to have a, you know, look see here. October SAT results should be coming out by the way. That question is a good question. They should be coming out like in two days, I think, because it's still usually about like, what is it 14 days, typically it's still taking two weeks. They said they would be coming out faster, but they lied. But yeah, what we're going to do today is go through. I want to, I'm going to use the second test from the SAT crash course to kind of like show you just again, some techniques and tips and kind of go through some of the questions and explain some of those answers. And then also obviously, if you have questions about the SAT by all means, please throw them out there and we'll just like take a look at those as we go through. So yeah, the, I think though, nobody's, I haven't seen any test results really come out yet, at least not internally, not at score. I had some people take in the October test. So I haven't seen anything, but usually I think it's going to take two weeks and change, which again, they said it would take less. They were like, yeah, you'll get your results faster. It's still two weeks. I mean, it's not as bad as some of the cases where it used to take three or four weeks. If your school took a while to send something back, but it's like, this isn't faster. So yeah, you got, wow, you got 1480. That's awesome. Well, what advice I have? I think you're good, man. I think my advice would be just relax. You got 1480. That's fine. You can send that pretty much everywhere. But if you want to get a better grade, try again. I mean, sometimes it's luck. Sometimes it's which questions you miss, which determine the lower grade. Like you could do the same exact performance another day and get a higher score. So 1480 is fine, dude. It's more than good enough for just about anything you want. Remember, it's not the most important factor these days. I'd rather you sit down and focus on an essay than sweat over the SAT after a 1480. So yeah, first and last, dingy. Good luck with that. I hope you get it. So yeah, for your test, by the way, remember, you can always adjust the size of these things. And I recommend you do that, like, you know, to adapt your test to your screen so that you can see all the answers and process them quickly. That's really important. You don't like, if you're like this, like, then I can't see D. And now I got to go over here. And that takes a couple seconds. Those seconds add up. So I like to have everything visible so that I don't have to scroll really. I can still see all the answers. That's that's important for me. I'm using the online SAT crash course thing. It's the same as Blue Book, as you can see. It's exactly the same. But I already went through this test. And so I'm going to show you guys kind of like, you know, what this is what I marked and why. And again, the first run of the test is usually vocabulary, you're going to get like a good handful of questions. You know, I've seen like eight to 12, like quite a good number of questions, actually, like six or eight questions usually related to vocabulary in the first part. And then there's some more in the back half for transition words. So, you know, usually there's going to be a lot of vocabulary questions. And you always want to think about how you can like do these quickly. So for me, and I did this lightning fast, because the thing is like, I look at the question, I see most logical and precise word. And I know that it's a vocabulary question. And so what I need to do is just look at this sentence really. And so in this case, like I'm looking at other words that could indicate what this word should be, right? I want to try to kind of match with something else. And when I see precision and economy, I think, okay, that gives me a clue. Let me look at these words. So with these options, you know, precision and economy immediately point me to succinct, you know, that that implies that it's using as few words as possible. It's very efficient, you know, so succinct, that that would be the best choice here, prolific and extraneous would actually be like, too much to be the opposite direction, terse, kind of like, but at the same time, that usually implies a bit of negativity or mood, or something like it's not usually good to be terse. It's kind of rude or kind of, you know, short in a negative way. And I know that I shouldn't choose something kind of negative because it says praised by critics. So again, there's, there's clues in the text that are going to tell you more or less what direction to take. And then you can use those clues to kind of figure out your best choice and eliminate others. So I'm able to eliminate very quickly prolific because pro is going to mean more and we're looking for less extra same deal. That means more. I'm looking for less. Terse, I know that has a more negative meaning and we have something that's praised. So that's not going to work. So that's basically the approach you want to take to all these vocabulary questions because like same deal, I got another logical precise word of phrase. Okay, so just demonstrated a blank dedication, right? I need to maybe keep reading forward to find a little bit more about that dedication. I'm looking for an adjective. And that's something else to keep in mind. Think about what kind of word you're dealing with. If I have blank dedication, I know I'm dealing with an adjective. So I'm trying to describe that dedication. And if I want to describe dedication, I need to look then for other words that would help me like, you know, figure that out. So seeing that the next sentence says his relentless pursuit, I kind of know that I'm looking almost for like a synonym of relentless because the pursuit is connected to the dedication, right? If you pursue something, you're dedicated to it. So I can look for one that kind of is similar to relentless like never stopping. And right away, unwavering stands out as a good choice. And so I would mark that and I would move on. Now, in this case, we got a sentence sort of function question. Again, with these ones, I think it's always important that, you know, first of all, you take a good look at the sentence itself. And then you might want to read the sentence before and the sentence after when you deal with those sentence function questions. I don't really need to go all the way up here and read, you know. So like, right, if I start from like here, in a nutshell, machine learning is a method for training computers to recognize patterns and data, make predictions. Okay, cool. Alright, so they just explained what machine learning is. But understanding the language of AI is like learning a new foreign language. It requires time, patience and a willingness. Okay, so they're making like a comparison to help me understand, you know, that first of all, machine learning requires this AI language. And obviously it's tricky. They're trying to let me know that it's kind of difficult. And comparing it to something I can maybe understand a little more easily. And then once you've cracked the code, the potential applications are limitless. Okay, so they're just explaining kind of like what is sort of the, you know, they're helping me understand this problem by comparing it to something that I would be more familiar with. And that's exactly what that third option tells me, because it's not telling me why it's complex. You know, it's not about the complex field. It doesn't really, I mean, it does say, okay, you got to delve into complexities. Like there is some complexity there, but that's not the whole thing. Like that's, that's only a part of the sentence. And then it's not a detailed explanation of how it works, because it's not detailed. It's just a comparison. And so by seeing compares right away, that's the main thing here. That's what I'm looking for. And it's, it doesn't introduce, introduce. And you can also rule out some of these things a lot of times by where they are. Like the option that says it introduces is probably not going to be the second to last sentence. Like that just doesn't really make sense. Usually things are going to be introduced at the beginning of a paragraph. So I mean, I could be wrong. They could introduce something new, sometimes in a scientific text, they could do that. Maybe they're showing like two variables. But most of the time I can assume that if I'm this far into the text, I don't have to think about that. So I think that's something to keep in mind. Like you, you should remember that as well. Like these are paragraphs that you're working with paragraphs, follow a certain structure. They tend to follow certain rules. And if you know that in your mind, it's, it's easy for you to eliminate some choices and then focus your efforts on the choices that have the most likely chance of success, you know. So I could quickly focus on C because that's like, I know this is a comparison. That's the main thing it is. So that's probably going to be my choice. And I know it's not going to be D because of where it is. And so I can kind of quickly rule out A and B and just focus on C there as well, because I can see that this is just a really solid answer for it. So sometimes it's good to look at those verbs in the, in the responses here. The verbs can give you a good clue. I know it's not explaining. It's, it's also not really, you know, providing an explanation. It's not introducing anything here. It's comparing. Compares. Easy peasy. Don't overthink it. You know, we got another one here like this. So third sentence in the text. Now again, I want to go back a little bit in 18, 20 electric yields were first brought to Europe for research far from their native habitat. Okay. And certain traits evolved can have long lasting implications even in alien environments. Okay. So here they're letting me know that like they brought these eels to another place, but some characteristics of animals can still make a big impact further away. And I think they're trying to kind of give me this general statement to help me understand that like something is going to happen. They're setting up something negative that's going to happen, right? They're kind of like foreshadowing something here through this sort of general statement. It's not specifically about the eels, but it's like applying to the eels. I'm looking at these options right away. The first one says presents a generalization. And I just said the word general statement because that's what this is. Like notice that it takes away the electric eels and it says evolved in a species. So if it's involved in a species, then it's like we've gone from something specific to something more general. That's a sign that I probably want to mark that generalization answer. I still want to be smart and take a quick look. It doesn't state a hypothesis or offer an alternative explanation. There is like a little bit of context for science, but not why they were brought to Europe specifically. So my initial instinct here is good. This is where we want to be. Yeah. So yeah, welcome to party people. Appreciate y'all. Thanks for checking things out. Yeah. Now we got a paired passage situation. How would the researchers at Michigan respond? All right. So what I like to do here is again, the people that respond, I like to look at the other one first, okay? I want to look at what they are responding to. So I'm going to start with text one, which is that self-driving cars have drawbacks. Cyber attacks is a problem. They're vulnerable to hacking. Okay. So self-driving cars are cool, but they can be hacked. Cool. All right. These guys were addressing security concerns with self-driving cars and they developed a system which monitors and detects bad behavior. Okay. So these guys right away would agree. Yeah. That's a problem. They're on the same page. They're actually working to solve the problem. It presented in text one. So then I want to look for an answer that acknowledges that concern of maybe these cars being hacked and maybe mentions a possible solution, right? So that's kind of what we're looking for here. My squint and answer. I know, I, it's funny. My, my friends used to always joke that I was Chinese because like when I would get my like squinty face on it, my eyes disappear. I don't know what it is. You know, I'm nice eyes, but they just, that my eyelids are huge or something. I don't know. It's kind of funny. Um, yeah. So you're in public entertainment. So I don't, I don't have like, I don't have a way to put captions on MFR like straight up. Like I think they're auto-generated on YouTube, but I'm not sure. You might, I mean, they will be there later because definitely when you rewatch this, it has them. All right. So if you don't know the meaning or of a word to fill the gap, Ingy, you're not necessarily going to know every word, but again, try to use process of elimination with vocabulary. Like if I take a break from this one real quick and just go back to number two, like I can use some process of elimination here in that I know I'm looking at a synonym for relentless. If I know what that word means, I know that you don't relent. I know that you don't stop. So it's something that continues. And I know like incidental and intermittent would not be something that continues. Those would be things that, you know, like probably only happen once or twice or just infrequently. So I could eliminate B and C. Now I would then be between A and D and I could then try to eliminate D. I could say, well, look, okay, does it make sense to call it an obligatory dedication? Like does someone really force you to be dedicated to something? And what do you think Albert Einstein was really being forced by anyone else obligated? I don't think so. I don't think anyone told Albert Einstein what to do. And I think if they tried, he would have told him to leave him alone because he was busy figuring out the universe. Like, so I can use process of elimination to take away words, you know. Now, if I don't know a lot of the words, then that gets difficult. And that's a sign I need to start practicing more vocabulary. Because if I don't know one word, okay, maybe I can work around that. If I don't know two, it's going to be tougher. I'm going to have to make some educated guesses, maybe look at the parts of the words, you know, if I don't know three or four, then I need to start practicing vocabulary hard, because I'm not able to resolve the question, even with those strategies. Okay, ideally, you should just identify the word instantly, click it and move on. Like that would be the best situation, you know, when that happens, it's good, you're doing great. Okay, which I often can do as a former English teacher and literature professor, and like I spent four seconds on it, like immediately I saw that connection, and I just clicked this and moved on. Like, I could tell right away that was the closest word to relentless. And that's what I was looking for. So, you know, the faster you can recognize those words, the faster you can move on and resolve other questions. So getting back to this number five here, like, Oh, yeah, why can't you see the D option? Sorry. Yeah. Say again, I got to zoom out for that. I zoomed in, I think to show people better. And I'm in the way. Maybe maybe I'll move my dude over here. Hang on. Wait, why doesn't want to move? Come here. Yeah, I could go over here. I'll be in the paragraph instead of instead of in the way of the question, answer responses and stuff. That might be better. It might be more efficient for you all. So these guys acknowledge a problem with self driving cars. These guys have a solution for it. And so I want to look for an answer that acknowledges that risk. They say the A1 says it's overblown. No, like they clearly cared enough to address it. So that's wrong. That it is a serious concern. That sounds good that that checks out and that there's measures necessary. That seems like a good answer. At this point, I would be looking to see if maybe there's a more specific answer that like, you know, addresses exactly how they solve the problem or what they propose to solve the problem. They would recommend that self driving cars be equipped with manual overrides. That's not what they were proposing. That would be an assumption here that we could make, but that's not the answer. And then be taken off the road. That's too extreme. I don't think they advocated for removing the cars until they could be completely secure. So yeah, B is the best answer here. All right, some literature. Mary in the secret garden. Again, I'm just looking for something about her in this garden. And now let's see. She found she quite liked being noticed. All right, that's something I guess. I don't know if that applies to the garden though. Take pleasure in the garden. Okay, that's good. She liked the flowers and plants and the animals. It sounds nice. She could be herself. Okay, she has good feelings, good vibes in the garden. I just need to make sure I have a response that's attached to the garden idea. This one's pretty obvious because I think C just makes it clear. She enjoys spending time in the garden. Yeah. I could maybe argue some of these other things in the garden. It's true that in the garden, she's able to have different feelings here. But she is happy in the garden. She isn't burdened by the expectations of others. And she says she likes the attention that I think she's getting from the plants and animals. So I think we're good to see. Crowd react to the man's exclamation. Yeah. So let's see. Crowd's exclamation. Now, this is a good term to use as well that can help you kind of zero in on the text. An exclamation should point me in the direction of exclamation points. And I might want to take a look at those. So it says like, of course, the voices responded some agreeing and others dissenting with various cries of Copperfield and no, not Copperfield. And so I see that there's like a divided response to something here. And that gives me a clue as to maybe what I should mark here because I wouldn't say they unanimously support or all vehemently oppose. Clearly those first two answers are wrong. They're both too extreme. They display a mixture of agreement and disagreement. Now that sounds correct. And they don't ignore the exclamation. So using this term was like a way for me to kind of cut into the middle of the text and just get the information I needed quickly. And this C answer looks pretty good to me. So that's what I'm going to go with. So Samir, important vocabulary might be useful. Look up like there's tons of just look up like SAT vocab list, Google it. Like there's tons of people who've made lists that are smarter than me. Go ahead and just do that. Like you'll find stuff. Google's your friend. Like there, there are schools that publish lists. There's like websites that have lists. I often have recommended using the TOEFL very hard words on Magooche. Magooche is a website that has like TOEFL flashcards, but the very hard words from TOEFL overlap pretty well with the SAT. And so you can use those. They also have a GRE deck, which is like even higher level than SAT. So sometimes that can be good to practice. Like if you go into those GRE words, if you can handle a lot of those, like you're going to be really set for the SAT because the GRE is like the master's version of the SAT. It might be too hard in some cases, but like if you're running out of SAT practice, if you feel like you've got it all down, go ahead and start working on the next level. So, yeah. Grammar, I'll get to that when we get to that part of this. And any extra resources for the digital SAT, I mean, we're in it right now, man. The SAT crash course is like the next best thing. After you do the official practice tests, you can check out my material too if you haven't. But if you're looking for more practice tests, this is what I have found to be the best option available. And they're given a 20% discount to everybody here on the channel until November 4th if you use the code SCORE. So you can go to the SAT crash course.com and check this out. That's where I am right now. It's up here. You can see. And this is their test. And it works just like Blue Book. So honestly, I've gone through several tests with them to try to help improve some of the quality. I'm still working on that. But we've been fixing a lot of little things and making them even better. And I like what I see. So William Wordsworth, they like the poems from William Wordsworth. So main idea. We're looking for a main idea. Now, with poetry, main ideas, they're hard. Okay. I think most poetry has some kind of lesson or moral that you want to look for. But the thing about poetry is like it tends to be very indirect about its references. Like it doesn't usually refer to things very directly. So you need to keep that in mind. Here, okay, it says radiance, which was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. All right. So something that is gone forever. I try to rephrase, paraphrase the poem. Something that was great is now gone forever. Nothing can bring back the hour of splendor and the grass or glory and the flower. We will grieve not. Okay. So right here, I know the word grieve is usually associated when someone dies, right? It's the grief process. One goes through a process of grief. And so the verb of grieving suggests that this thing that was once so bright that is gone forever is probably a person who died. Like that's my assumption here at this point, somebody died. And then we'll find strength in what remains behind the primal sympathy, which having been must ever be. So there's something about like, he's trying to make a statement that there is something that still remains like, and that will keep us strong. There's something permanent that like is always there. Even when someone goes away, even when someone dies, there's something permanent, you know, and he does touch a little bit on like, you know, nature, providing some feelings. But the key thing here is like, we can't go back to the past, but we can like, appreciate the things that remain from the past, I guess. And like, there's certain things that are just, you know, still there for us to appreciate. So that's how I interpret this. So mourns the loss of a loved one and yearns for their return. See, I agree with that first part, but not that second part. Like I don't see this desire for that person to come back. It's more of an accepting this thing and like appreciating what's still there. Maybe the memories, maybe, I think it's memories. Like I think he's trying to say, I appreciate the memories of a person maybe. Nature's beauty is transient. No, it's not really about nature in this case, which is unusual for William Wordsworth. Speaker reminisces about the childhood. And no, it's not quite that either. Poem emphasizes an eternal and unchanging nature of human existence. Now, I think the eternal part makes sense here. There's something about like a person dying, but still leaving something behind. There is something eternal of human existence. And I think that's his point is like there's, you know, your existence isn't just gone when you die. Maybe. I think that's the closest interpretation I can get. So that's how I try to approach these questions when it's about like the main idea of a poem. I need to try to look for that lesson or that moral that he's trying to communicate and then like use some clues, some individual words to try to make sense of things, you know, and it's tricky sometimes to do that. Like I'll admit these are tough. Don't spend too much time on these. If you're sitting here, I had to look at this one longer, but like if you're sitting here staring at this question for a full minute, move on. Come back later. Okay. Market for review. You can do that. All right. So yeah. Can I open a private Zoom meeting impossible? No, I'm not doing that today. I'm afraid to be perfectly honest. Yeah. We're pretty tight on time around here. That's why I'm doing this early. So, okay, this one here, these are some big answers. These are some chunky boys. Okay, that zooms out a lot. Hang on, maybe I can scroll this down. All right. So what we, what finding would support their claim? Okay. So we got a lot here. I'm going to focus on the paragraph. I need to know what the claim is. Okay. So usually that's going to be towards the end of the paragraph. So I'm going to look there first. It says, propose that roasting hazelnuts can decrease these compounds, improving their nutritional value. Okay. So I need to know what these compounds refer to. So I'll go back. They're praised for something. However, so it must be after that. They also contain tannins, which can inhibit nutrient absorption and phytic acid and anti-nutrient. Okay. So those must be the compounds, the tannins and the phytic acid. And basically they're saying that if you roast the hazelnuts, there is less of this bad stuff and therefore it's better. So I just need to find evidence that would suggest that like that worked, that they tested these things and that was what happened. So the first one says roast that hazelnuts displayed significantly lower levels of tannins and phytic acid. Okay. That's what I want. And I want to make sure that that actually had the effect that they were hoping for. And it says enhancing their nutritional value. So that's definitely the best answer. That's the one we go through. I'm going to start over review November SAT. Well, no, because the November SAT hasn't come out yet, but this is our practice for it. This is our Q&A and review. So yeah, nobody knows what's going to be on the SAT. So don't waste your time with those videos. But we can talk about how to do things right. So that's the way. And at this point, this answer is so good, it would be a waste of my time to compare the rest, honestly. There's nothing else in there that could possibly beat that answer. Like that's dead on the nose. Okay. Some quantitative stuff uses data from the table to illustrate the claim. Again, I need to know what the claim is. So let's see here. Let's look at the last sentence. It says the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that IO psychology is still a relatively small field. Okay. So that sounds like the claim. Like I'm looking at psychology as a small field, IO psychology, whatever that is. And I just want to look at the table and see if I can figure out how to like justify that. And what I see here is that IO must be the second group, industrial organizational, because then there's like other and clinical on school. And I see that like, yeah, it is much smaller than the other groups, way smaller. It's a low number. So I probably want to pick something around there, you know, and says total numbers expected to increase. I wouldn't want to go for the total number of psychologists. I need to stay focused on the IO ones. So A is definitely wrong. All right, there will be about a thousand more jobs. That is about true, but I don't think I want to focus on the growth. I think I want to focus on the, the like actual number, because it's much smaller than the others. And then C says there were only about 1600. That seems good because that I would like it if it compared this, it would be nice if it compared to like another number to help contextualize that. But let's see the total number again. Okay. So again, I don't want total number of psychologists. So I can actually rule out A and D right away. So C is the best answer. Again, I think like, if there was another answer that was comparing to like the school psychologist number or giving me a percentage of total psychologists, then we would be, I would pick that over this, but given the options that I have, this is okay. So, all right, accurate interpretation of the chart. Okay. Now, with these ones, I also want to take a look at this sentence that I'm trying to complete here and take a look at the paragraph. So they say here, for example, the last sentence starts with four examples. So I actually probably want to go back one more to understand what this would be an example of a recent study comparing projected drivers, a bit prefer positive costs of these policies aren't largely offset by savings. Okay. So the idea is that these policies do cost money. You don't save more than you have to spend. So like, you know, there's, they're gonna point out, I guess at some point that you will be losing money on this deal. It says in San Francisco, California, fair free transit was projected to save 8.4 million per year. Okay. So I'm expecting a bigger number here. And if I look up at this chart, I know we're talking about now San Francisco, right? So I can ignore the first and the third row. And it says savings 8.4 million. That's exactly what the text just said. So I'm in the right place. But then we see cost. There are like these two other costs that are huge. So I think that's what we're going to use. We're going to use that data. So I just want to look for that information. Okay, create a deficit of 72 million in lost fares. That is, wait, is that true? No, it's not. Because this column is lost fares. And it says 112 million. So that number is incorrect. Save an additional 112. No, because that's a loss. That's not a savings. But result in a total increase of 184 million per year in operating costs on top of investments. Okay, I think that's right, because this total additional operating cost is 184, which is adding up these two numbers. So I think I want C. Save 70. Yeah, again, there's no more, there's no more savings. The only savings are in that first column. So it's got to be C. Okay, moving on up. Love it. Yeah, yeah, I know if you're not able to see the whole question again, you know, it's I'm trying to I'm trying to show you as much as I can, but I'm trying to go through the process too. So it's about the process here. Yeah, now my resources, yeah, hang on, I can send you guys the link to that folder. Give me one second. I'll paste it in the chat for you all. Yeah, if you want to go in here, this folder is open for everybody to view. You can just go in there. There's all my materials. Yeah, so thanks for our good question about essay samples. Most of them look like they were kind of bullied, pushed around, overcame that. That's not necessarily what universities look for. That's a fairly common experience. It's something that you can definitely talk about if it happened to you, but don't force it either. I don't think that that is the most significant part of my experience growing up. I was bullied and made fun of quite a bit for being an overweight kid in middle school and high school. That did encourage me to take my health more seriously and like make changes. But that wasn't, if I were to write a story about my life for college, it's not the topic I would pick. And the reason is for me, and I don't mean to judge anybody else's experience, but for me, that didn't have that profound of an impact on who I am as a person. I didn't like being made fun of. Yeah, it was sad and made me come home and kind of feeling like crap most days. And that did affect me in some ways, but you know what? I also wasn't that obsessed with it. It didn't bother me that much. It was also like it sucked, but it was just like whatever. This is kind of like not that big of a deal. And you can change that pretty easily. If they're making fun of you because of your weight, then just lose weight. It's an easy solution. It wasn't like an existential crisis. For me, there's other events that have been more impactful, like my religious upbringing that has much more impact on who I am today in many ways. Still, I wrote an essay about my house burning down because that had a big profound impact on my life and on my academics and like on how I see the world today. So for me, my thoughts are what would I share with you that would say the most about who I am today? And I don't want to focus too much on who I was in the past. So for me, yeah, living more healthily, eating better, doing some exercise, that's stuff that I do now because of that childhood stuff, but that's stuff I should have been doing anyway. It's not like a grand accomplishment for me. I don't feel like I did anything special. I feel like I just did what I should do. But then there's other situations where I had to overcome some really significant difficulties that most people don't have to. Most people don't have their house burned down two weeks before Christmas. Most people don't grow up in a borderline religious cult. So those are things that have had a bigger impact and things that I would rather talk about. And I would encourage everybody to think about what really has been the biggest transformative thing in your life and try to talk about that or just focus more on who you are now. Because I see some of these essays and a lot of people have sent me their essays to look at and I have tried to get through a lot. And I think the big mistake sometimes is like focusing too much on that negative past. They want to know who you are today. And it's okay to talk about how you got there and where you come from, but you want to focus more on the present and the future. Not so much on the negative past. Just some thoughts. If you want to cancel your November digital S&T, how much will you get in a refund? The policies are sometimes different in every country. Don't cancel it. Why would you want to cancel it? Go take your test. Boss up. You might be able to move it to another date, but I think there is a fee for changing the test. I don't know the answer to that question because I always tell people to take the damn test. Don't change your plans. Stick to your plan. So, all right. Going back to our thing here. Data from the table, another data question. Okay. So, on this one here, I need to look at their hypothesis. They hypothesized the magic word. Use the magic word. They hypothesized that children of authoritative parents might have less screen time and more physical activity than those of permissive parents. That makes a lot of sense. I just want to look at the data and see if I can see that. And sure enough, yeah, screen time less physical activity, more authoritative parents will beat you if you don't go outside and play like my dad, you know? So, okay, children of both have less than 20. So, no, I'm trying to compare these two. I would never choose the option that talks about both if I'm trying to compare based on this hypothesis. Authoritative parents have fewer hours of screen time, more hours. Yeah. I mean, this is true. Is there a better answer that has the data in it? That's the question. And I don't see another one that has that data. So, this is exactly what they're trying to say. Again, if I saw another answer that had like the exact numbers, I would probably choose that first. So, be careful with that because like, you could get enticed by an answer that is correct, but is it necessarily correct with enough data? In this case, it is the best answer. So, I'm going to go with it. But I would be looking for that data, except from Turkey. Hi, Turkey. Yeah, I'd like to visit Turkey one day. It's not about a game of sympathy change maker. It's not, forget about sympathy. They're not there to sympathize with you. And if you're looking for sympathy, they're not the kind of people that they don't want you. It's not a pity party. Colleges are not a charity. This is a business. And you want to think like a business person. These universities, if they decide to admit you with a lot of financial aid, they're making an investment in you. And they're hoping that that investment turns into, eventually in the future, more recognition, more prestige, more investments. Okay? This may sound cynical, but it's facts. Harvard isn't admitting people just out of the goodness of their hearts. If that was the case, they could give full ride scholarships to every single student every single year and still have billions of dollars in the bank. Harvard's endowment is ridiculous. They have more money than some countries. Okay? So, they could easily, if it was just a question of like, we just want to help people. We sympathize with your situation. They could totally go ahead and like do that. They could expand the size of the university. They could do more, but they don't. Why not? Because they like that air of prestige and they want their place to be like Narnia, like some fantasy world far, far away. And because, you know, okay, if they invest in you, then what do you do? Maybe you do some amazing research at the university under their name. Maybe you get super rich and you become a big donor. Maybe you go back to your country and you help a bunch of people out and they all associate Harvard with that, you know? And those people aspire to get there and maybe one of them does the other things of donating or researching or becoming somebody important that they can put on their notable alumni website. So, that's what this is about. If you're playing the sympathy card, that's not going to work. I mean, don't get me wrong, they can sympathize with like your plight and your condition, but if it feels like you're just looking for that sympathy and you don't actually have much to offer, I mean, they want to see what you contribute and they want to try to get an idea of how much you can provide for them later on. They're looking long term. They're thinking long, okay? So, these are facts. Think about it. So, yeah, mock to evaluate your level. Newby, the first test on theSATcrashCourse.com is free. They made it free for everybody here. So, if you want to check that out, you could use that as well besides the blue book test. They've got a free digital SAT test that I have like reviewed with them to make sure it's all excellent. So, you could totally use that. Anyway, yeah. So, this graph, all right, this one here, I'm looking at the paragraph here. It says financial benefits of trees exceeded costs. Fort Collins, Colorado, for instance. Okay. So, basically, I'm looking at an example where trees produced more economically than they cost. And it specifically asks about Fort Collins. And I see here that the costs were around 30 something and the benefits were about 70. So, yeah, that checks out and I just want to find the example or the choice that says that. And sure enough, over here, it says 32 in cost per tree, but each one produced about 70 in benefits. That's, that seems like an excellent answer. It uses numbers. It's exactly right. I don't see any other choice that would work for Fort Collins, Colorado. So, we're moving on. Logically, it completes the text. Let's go. Okay. So, coastal wetlands can absorb and store large amounts of carbon dioxide contributing to climate change mitigation efforts. Therefore, it is crucial that. Okay. So, coastal wetlands seem like a good thing. And I would want to make sure that nothing bad happens to them. Let's take a look at these choices. Coastal development is focused on constructing artificial barriers. Okay. So, protect shore lines. Like, I don't know that this is about the same thing. In fact, if I go back to the first sentence, it says coastal wetlands play a critical role in protecting shorelines. So, the coastal wetlands do that job. I don't think that I necessarily need artificial barriers for that. Coastal wetlands are preserved and restored to maintain their, okay, that seems like a good answer because we just said these are really good things. So, we should protect them. I don't think we would try to convert all areas into wetlands. And I don't think the change of topic to climate change makes sense here either. I mean, we did just mention it, but I wouldn't necessarily focus on this aspect of it to close out this paragraph because this paragraph is about coastal wetlands. So, B is a good answer. Yeah. So, if you have a couple of questions in here, feel free to leave them in the chat people and I'll try to get into you. Desmos shortcuts. I have no math skills, NG. I'm sorry. I am, you have come to the wrong person for math. There are other channels I've seen that are good for math. You might want to check them out. I'm kind of useless in that regards. I have no idea what to tell you, but maybe someone else in the chat can be a bro or a lady bro and tell them what to do or a non-binary bro. I don't know. There's all sorts of bros these days. Okay, conventions of standard English. We've gotten to the grammar stuff. I like these because they're faster. Okay, I'm going to zoom in a little bit more and just move these down. All right. So, but blank influenced by blank. All right. So, we have all the words are some. I need to choose an answer that has some but is like the right punctuation or the right connection. So, it says most people who heard the broadcast understood they were listening to a piece of fiction but some. Now, because there's this influenced with a comma after it, I know this is probably like extra information and so I'm probably going to use the comma after some and that'll be that because if I say some influenced by it, like, there would need to be more after this and does it like it doesn't work without the comma and I don't need the extra words. So, C is good. Standard English again. All right. The statues torch is a beacon shining brightly but it is or it was. It needs to be it something because it would be the torch and then we even have it is. So, we have something here to kind of give us a clue with grammar. It's good to look at the context clues because sometimes you could get an answer that's like in past tense or present tense and you might not be sure which one to choose. So, you need to look for context clues in those situations. In this case, it's definitely it was like I don't have a present tense option so that's good. It's not it's without the apostrophe that would be possessive. So, just process of elimination says it was but it makes sense. It was not originally gold as it is today. Perfect. All right. We have again Lake 227 and then we're trying to combine it with like the next sentence somehow. So, okay, scientist David poured nitrates and phosphates into Lake 227. One of the fresh. Okay. So, they're describing what Lake 227 is. So, I don't want to make a full stop. So, B and C are wrong and then the question is do I need this is one or just one? I don't need that. You know, if this said which is one that would be correct but I still don't even need it because I just could use the most simplest form of expression here. Anytime you get these situations, make sure you remember to like the shortest answers are often the right answers because the question is like you want to write without adding extra words for no good reason. So, if you know you get these kinds of questions and you maybe you see another way that is right but uses more words then you have to ask yourself like did any of those words add meaning to the sentence that I absolutely have to keep and saying this is one versus one. It doesn't add anything. It doesn't contribute at all. So, I can just eliminate that go with D move on and smile. Let me take a look at some of these questions y'all got here. Let me see. How are you using AI to remove legal code literacy? I have no idea what you're asking about there brother. I have doubt regarding the boundaries questions, linking clause, the question is dependent clause always follow. So, dependent clauses do not always follow the independent clauses. Like a lot of times the dependent clause goes first if I start with like a word like when or while or although like essentially I'm making a dependent clause with that like if I say when you know when we go out to eat like I'm making an independent clause by adding the word when or sorry a dependent clause by adding the word when. So, the dependent clause can definitely come first. It doesn't necessarily have to be after. It just depends on how you put the words out there. What's up Nepal and also Kyrgyzstan, holler at y'all. Love to see it and then yeah 1470 on SAT should you go optional. Give that a square and Princeton. I mean honestly 1470 is great. You can send a 1470 wherever you want truthfully. You really can. Like it's up to you at that point. I would probably send it to be honest. I think that's a great score and like are there are there higher average scores at those universities? Yeah, but a lot of those people don't get in anyway. It's not like that is required just because everybody else is doing it doesn't mean you have to too. Like they don't care that much about it. So, you can send a 1470 and it's going to look great. Like you don't I honestly tell people anything over 1400 you can send it wherever you want. And don't worry about it. Like I've had people get admitted to Ivy League schools with 1400 SATs. Like you don't have to send a 15 something to be impressive. So, just relax and send your test. If you got more than 1400 you're fine. So, all right, let me see here. Okay, that's interesting. Suleiman, your connected net. All right, that's cool. A little legal but that's interesting. I'm not sure what that's how we can use that. But that sounds cool. I think that's a neat project. You should share that on your application for sure. So, I think that's interesting. And yeah, you probably could get a lot of people to use that if it works well. Careful with that because AI has made mistakes with legal stuff. And there have even been lawyers that got in trouble in the US for using chat GPT and getting like fake citations. So, there's that. All right. And then Sulaar is asking about saying the thing is you can't manage the time. If you can't manage the time then you need to get good at managing time. You need to stop overthinking stuff. Use the right strategies for the right kinds of questions. Read more in English so that you can read faster. That's huge. Okay, you've got to be able to read faster. I think that people overlook general reading practice. And general reading practice means you just read. Read articles, read books, read stories, read everything you can. Because as you read more, you get better at reading. You get faster. You learn to break apart paragraphs more efficiently. You develop an instinct as well for good grammar, good punctuation, good vocabulary. And that will help you answer questions quickly with instinct rather than analysis. Okay? A lot of the vocabulary and grammar stuff, I just do them instantly. And it's not because I'm processing it. I'm explaining to you today the process. But I'm doing that process in seconds because of all the time I've spent reading and teaching English. Like I just know my rules. I know what goes with what. I can feel if an answer is wrong. So, I can rely on that feeling usually. Now, to be fair, I've also let that feeling give me a mistake or two. Because sometimes there's a better answer. And maybe that first one feels good, but then there's actually a better one. So, at the same time, the key is not to go too fast. But if you're having trouble managing time, it's probably because you're not going through the questions either the right way or you're reading more than you need to or you're reading too slowly. So, improving your reading skills and really applying those like strategies for each kind of question will make it faster. And that will help a lot. So, here like right away, instinctually, I know A is correct because it says throughout history, human beings have used. Throughout history implies a period of time and we typically use have used, we use present perfect with a period of time. And so, I just, I know that that'll work because I know it's still true today. It's throughout history, including now. All right. We've got punctuation question here. All right, let's take a look at what we have. So, I have a high fat, low fiber diet, blank can lead to. Okay. So, I've got four instance and I should use a comma here because I wouldn't use an M dash with connectors. M dashes are only really to replace commas for extra information. So, I can use it to add extra information in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a sentence, but I would not use it after a connector like however, for example or all, you know, any of those like I would never want to use that because that's not how it's supposed to replace commas. It doesn't replace every comma. It just replaces extra information commas. So, I'm going to go with D. There's, is the answer picked here because I think that's usually what we're looking at here with this situation when we have all the, although this concept is fascinating, there's no definitive evidence, right? We're trying to say there is no evidence, right? Obviously, since I have the noun after, I'm not going to use it, right? So, looking at that sentence very quickly, you can see the evidence, the noun comes after this blank and so there is would be better than it is, right? It is no evidence. Like it has to refer to something before and so the evidence is after. So, that's why it doesn't work. All right. Again, we're asking about punctuation here. I see what's changing. So, we have a, we're trying to figure out where to put a comma or how many commas to put. Now, let's go back here. While deliberately adding chemical compounds to a lake may seem something, okay, because of while there needs to be a comma after I finish this clause and this clause is incomplete because it says seem, but there should like seems what. So, I need the comma after what it seems and so looking at these answers, destructive and irresponsible would be the finishing part of that clause. So, I would have a comma after that, right? And I don't need anything else. I don't think so. This method of experimenting. Yeah. So, I would just say this method of we would not want a comma after that like we have in D and we need the comma here. Hey, oh, no, wait. I was going to say I thought C was the same, but no, there's an extra comma and no, that would be unnecessary. So, yeah, A is the right answer. Let's move. Okay. Cool beans. All right. So, I get confused in two choice how to overcome. If you're getting confused in two choices, like if you have two options and you're not sure what to do, again, like I think it's important to sometimes take a moment and, you know, try to apply the process of elimination more strictly. One of the things that I will do in some cases is count like how many connections do I see to the paragraph? Sometimes you might get two answers that are both kind of correct, but maybe one of them is only correct because it talks about like one point. Whereas another answer has two or three points, you know, if the paragraph mentions a few different points and then the answer connects more to those points, that could be a better answer. With certain types of questions like data, I need to choose, you know, based on which one maybe gives me the best data or the most accurate data from the charts, the graphs. So, if you're stuck between two choices, you want to try to see which one maybe has more, you know, support from the paragraph, more connections to the rest. Okay. All right. So, this one, another transition. All right, now we got transition vocabulary. So, this is the help me investigate project comma blank. So, I would be looking for something that would present a project. For example, obviously seems like a good choice here, but I would want to maybe make sure that the previous sentence is mentioning those in general and that this would be a more specific example. So, I do want to look at the previous sentence here and it says that funded by nonprofits, you know, for us, okay. So, like there's nonprofits, it mentions nonprofits and so to help me investigate project, I would imagine as like an example of this kind of project, you know, so that makes sense. That would work. Okay. We have, all right. Again, I want to look at the previous sentence to make sure I can understand how to transition between the two. So, it says mudskippers spend a portion of their life on land and they can, like they have physical adaptations that are not generally observed in other fish. So, I would look for maybe an example also here, like I'm probably going to get one of those physical adaptations. Maybe it says the usage of bimodal respiration, the ability to acquire oxygen using gills or through wet skin says some part, okay. So, they give me an example. They give me a specific case of one of those physical adaptations and out of all these, the only one that kind of suggests that we're specifying or getting more specific is in particular. So, that's the one I would go with here because these other ones are not focusing on a specific point. Nevertheless, and by contrast would be going in an opposite direction and similarly would like, I would expect that to compare to a different kind of animal and we didn't do that. So, doesn't make sense. All right. Same transition thing here. Okay. So, all right. This previous sentence has a however. So, I also want to go back one more. Again, I go to the blank for transitions. I go backwards to try to understand the previous sentence and if that sentence also has like some kind of transition word, then I actually need to keep going. So, it says, today they wear wetsuits for protection from the cold and swimming fins for increased speed and water. They do not, however, use oxygen in tanks. Okay. So, they're telling me about the gear that some people use to like go underwater, but they don't use oxygen tanks. So, this would imply that maybe they're going to tell me what they do use instead or how they deal with that problem because obviously if you're going underwater because you have a wetsuit and fins, you need oxygen somehow. So, I would expect something to kind of explain that to me. It says, behind your train to hold their breath for minutes at a time. Okay. So, they don't use oxygen tanks. Instead is the best answer here. Instead, we're telling me what they do instead. They train to hold their breath for a really long time. Pretty cool. All right. I know the transition here. Okay. Transcribers need no expertise. Directions on the history website. It's easy. Okay. The ingredients, ring on root and measurements, a ditto can be puzzling. All right. So, it sounds like they're trying to tell me that this is pretty simple. It says it's easy. And then on the other hand, it says it can be puzzling. So, we have kind of two opposites. Like a however could go in here. On the other hand, I actually just said that would actually work better. So, that would work just fine. Like I would use on the other hand. I need something that kind of goes in the opposite direction here. Okay. We got some note taking stuff. This is kind of an easy one with just four. Again, I just want to focus on the key terms. Highlight the size and biodiversity of the Amazon. So, I'm just going to look for the answer that gives me the most information about those two aspects. Size and biodiversity. A covers the size, but nothing about biodiversity. B talks about trees and says it's large. I mean, that's kind of okay. C says that it talks about biodiversity and has trees again, but it doesn't talk about the size. D says it's the world's largest, spans nine countries, covers 5.5 million square kilometers, and is home to a wide variety. All right. That one's the best. It's actually using like data and information from the notes because I can see those numbers over here. So, we'll go with that. And then, all right. Tigris and Euphrates rivers. I'm looking for a difference between the Tigris and Euphrates. Simple as that. Where do I see a difference? I would expect them to be compared, you know, directly in my answer. I would make a comparison. And if I think about rivers, what things could I compare? It's always good to be predicting. You know, when you are actively predicting in your brain, it makes it easier for you to find the right answers, to like get the information that you need. So, in this case, I would expect rivers to be compared probably by their size. Maybe like the populations living on them. Maybe like the amount of water that flows could be the species that live in it. Like I would probably be comparing though those details. I would think physical details first if we're talking about rivers. So, that's kind of like what I'm thinking I should look for. But we'll see if that's actually correct. So, it says they both flow through. So, if they're saying both, it's not a difference. Euphrates is the longest in Western Asia and it surpasses the Tigris in length. Okay, that's a good comparison. That's a difference. We got one that is much longer than the other. Okay. They both facilitated growth. That would be wrong and they're both important to the economy. So, again, all the other three options don't focus on differences. They focus on similarities. 27 is B. We're good. All right. That brings us to module 2. Okay. We'll take a look at your questions before I jump into some of these. And again, if you have any questions about any specific types of questions or any strategies or anything, let me know. So, yeah, we got a lot of debate about the law bot, which is interesting to me. Yeah. Strength and weaken questions. Strengthen and weaken questions. Like the ones about, okay, those are like about the arguments. So, when they ask about like strengthen or weaken an argument or a claim or something like that, what you're looking at there is just usually those are scientific texts. They usually have some kind of claim in the paragraph. So, what I want to do is find that claim. Okay. What is the hypothesis? What is the claim? What is the idea that the author has? That's step one. And then, once I understand that, I can look and see, okay, what would be like good evidence or bad evidence? What, if I was running that experiment or conducting that research, what would I want to see and what would I not want to see? Okay. And that's usually how those questions work. So, if it's strengthen, I'm looking for something that supports the claim, supports the hypothesis. If it's weakened, then I want to look at things that undermine or, you know, detract from that hypothesis. That's the key. Okay. So, that's what you want to look for. Amit, how long will this go? I'm thinking about another like half hour to an hour. We'll see how I'm doing. I'm speaking of that. I will be right back. I'm going to grab a little more coffee and I will be back in like one minute. Okay. So, we'll continue with the second module in just a second. Thank you very much. Okay, we're back. All right. We're doing module two. We're going to jump into it. Let's go. Okay. Let me see what you got. A couple other questions here. All right. So, wondering if it's not worth it to take the risk of play. Oh, yeah. I'm not a fan of restrictive early actions personally. I don't agree with them. I mean, it's like an early decision, but worse because I can't apply early at other places. Personally, I disagree with those policies. And because I disagree with them, personally, I would encourage people just not to do them. I think universities should understand that like, it's not fair to students to do that. Like, I don't think it's, I mean, early decision is fine. I think we've all agreed that it's fine if people can choose one university, but then still make the effort to apply early to other places. And by doing restrictive early action, you are essentially telling other students like, no, you can only have a dream with me. And I personally find that to be a little bit unethical. I disagree with that approach. I don't think it's fair to force people to make those tough decisions, especially knowing that like, your chances of getting in are better in general when you apply early action at other places. And when you're applying to places like that, your chances are always low. And so like, if it were, you know, a state school or something, I would look at it way differently. It would be like, okay, this is helpful for the state school. You know, you're probably going to get in. They could help, you know, manage their numbers better. But it's like, you don't have to do that Stanford and you know, and Harvard, you know, they don't have to. Yeah. So anyway, I don't know. It's up to you how you feel about it. All right. So module two here again, we start out with some vocabulary. And again, now this one is tough because I don't have a ton of context here, but I want to try to get like, again, an idea of what answers could work here. So I see we have self portraits, artistic expressions, I would probably look for a word that has some connection to that. Now intermittent is probably not going to be the right word because truthfully, like that doesn't make any sense. It's not going to be a word like that that doesn't really have any impact intermittent just sort of off and on. No, evocative. Okay. Like something that's artistic could be evocative, something that produces a reaction produces an emotion. sporadic is the same as a and so is haphazard. So another strategy with vocabulary is like, if you see three words that have similar meanings, it's not any of those words. And you can kind of stop worrying about the paragraph. So even if you get a short paragraph that doesn't give you a lot of context, like the previous module, I was showing you did like use the context of the paragraph here. I don't have a lot. I have very little context. So I need to kind of work around that lack of context. I need to say, okay, let's see what the other answers are saying. All three of those other answers are saying that something doesn't happen regularly. So it's probably none of those answers. They're all the same, you know, so that's one of the ways you can do things. And I can kind of see something similar with this, like preserved and maintained or the same, hindered would be reduced and usurped would be replaced. So I can tell B and D are wrong because they're basically the same thing. So it's got to be either A or C and I can reduce my idea a little bit there. And then I see, okay, creative destruction would suggest usurped because you destroy something but create something else. You remove the king, replace him, you usurp whoever is already there or whatever is already there. So that would be good. So again, process of elimination with vocabulary is really effective before you start focusing on the paragraph. I often recommend that especially for short paragraphs, you want to look at like the other options because you might be able to find a couple that are similar and then you can always get rid of both of those, you know. So that's always good. Live stream schedule, there really isn't one. There isn't a class every day at the same time. I don't have time for that, to be honest. I try to get like one or two live streams about the SAT in before each test in the year. And then like, I try to do, I mean, during this time of year, I've done a couple of essay streams. I did a Saturday supplemental stream. I'm going to try to do another one this weekend in Columbia. I did, you know, personal statement streams as well. So like, I don't have a regular schedule because my life is anything but regular running a company that helps 200 people study abroad takes a lot of time and work. And I am often traveling and often doing a lot of things not just for the channel but for the company. But I try to make some time for everybody here in whatever I can. I was, I mean, I used to post weekly uploads. I did that for two and a half years and the business has just gotten too big for me to do that now. I don't have time for that sucks. I wish I did. I wish I had more because I like doing this stuff with y'all. So again, choosing the right word. Now, there are some here that I do not know right away. I can tell you there are words I don't know here. I do not know what obdurate is. I didn't, I've never seen that word. In fact, like I kind of want to search. I'm confused. Recalcitrant, I think I know what I've heard that word. I think that's like, I think it's negative. I'm not sure though, to be honest, I don't know. So it can happen to me too. Okay, there's words that I don't always know. That may not be a problem. I can see if the other words I do know can work. You know, and if not, okay, I got to take a guess such as life. This artifact played a blank role. Now, I know that a lot of times we say pivotal role. That's a common combination of words. That's the kind of thing I can learn by reading a lot. So that common combination makes me think I think I should choose this answer and it is the right answer. I don't know maybe it is this obdurate role, but like I just know that I often hear pivotal role. So sometimes the right answer is that, again, instinct can help you. I just because I see words that I don't know, doesn't mean I should start doubting my instinct. Like, okay, there are words I don't know here, but I don't automatically assume that they must be the right answer because I see that mistake a lot with my students. You'll see words you don't know and go, oh, it must be one of those or it really could be, but maybe not. Maybe there's just a better choice and you're overthinking it and maybe they're putting that one really hard word in there to confuse you on purpose. So yeah, don't worry about it. All right. Symbolizes was the choice here because this is obvious. This is great Gatsby. It's literature. You should automatically gravitate towards a word like symbolizes green light represents or symbolizes something. So that's perfect. All right. Again, looking here a little bit at the we have undermined dissolve. Those are kind of negative reinvented is a little different dominated. Again, I'm probably going to lean away from A and D because they're both kind of similar. The feudal system dumb something the economic structure. Okay, dominated that makes sense. If we're talking about again, I know some historical context and it tells me more about it. So they wouldn't be telling me about it if it wasn't important in that time. So dominated does check out again. This is how we can approach those. This one did make me sit and think for a second. I actually marked this one. Now this one here, I think was similar to the great Gatsby one. Like I obviously don't have a ton of context here about Adam Smith's theories, right? I mean, because of that lack of context, I could interpret this in different ways. How could I best interpret it though? Understanding that they're telling me about the theory, usually in writing, you're going to tell people what something does, not what it doesn't do. You're going to focus on its role, not the role it doesn't have. You're going to try to tell me the details that are true before you tell me the things that are not true. So if I got a sentence like this, I'm going to start by saying what it does. It embodies the concept. I assume that you're trying to explain this theory by telling me about the concept behind it. And like, I wouldn't want to assume something negative before something positive in an explanation. And again, three words that are negative would exclude each other and probably indicate B. But this is how you can address these questions. Like if you make the mistake of trying to like guess a meaning that should be there without the context, you're going to have a bad time. So even though this is like a shorter paragraph than what you might see on the Real SID, I think it is a really good example of this kind of situation. Like sometimes you get bigger paragraphs that don't give you that context. And so I see people make the mistake of staring at this for a while and thinking like, okay, well, which one is it? I don't know. I can't figure it out. But then it's like, okay, just apply general writing rules. General writing rules tell you to say true things before false things, explain facts before you explain the absence of stuff, like use positive verbs before negative verbs. Like that's just generally good writing. So I can lean towards B or I could use process of elimination between the other three. There's a few ways to resolve these kinds of situations where you may not have context. Okay. But it doesn't mean that the question is wrong. It means that you got to try a different strategy in some of these cases. Okay. And the same kind of thing happens with number seven and like number eight. Basically, we have similar situations there. So I wanted to jump ahead to a couple other ones here actually, because there were a couple of good, so this was one, based on some of the questions that you guys have asked, I wanted to kind of like address some other questions before I wrap up today. This first one is a good example of what you were saying about strengthen or weaken the arguments. Here we have directly support the students argument. So I need to know what the argument is. A good trick is to look at the word argues. Like, can you find a similar word to argument in this paragraph? Because if you can, it'll be easier to find the right answer. A student argues that the findings have significant implications for the ecology. If coral reefs to continue to decline, it could lead to a substantial loss of marine dive. Okay. So basically, if coral reefs go away, it's bad. There's a loss of biodiversity. It negatively impacts the marine ecosystem. So I just need to look for an observation that would show this. So I don't need something that just talks about how important coral reefs are. I need to talk about the effect of their decline. Satellite imagery shows an increase in coral bleaching. Okay. I mean, that would be bad. That would be bad because that would be evidence of the decline of reefs. But again, what they're focusing on here is the implications if they decline. So I'm not looking for evidence about the decline. We're assuming already that that is happening. That if statement shows that it's an assumption. So I don't need to look for the evidence of the decline specifically. I want to look at the evidence of the effects of the implications of the consequences. C says researchers deserve or the depletion of coral reef leads to a decline in fish populations. Okay. Right there. That's a good example. That's a specific observation that could correlate to this idea of loss of marine biodiversity and negatively impacting the entire marine ecosystem. That would be the best answer. Surveys about communities. No, again, it's not about awareness. Like that doesn't matter. So C is really good evidence that supports the argument, the argument that like if coral reefs go away, we lose other things. That's the simplest way to express it. This is a good example. There's also sometimes these ones with like quotes, same kind of deal here with the journalist claim. I'm just going to look for what their claim is. This one says a tech journalist observes that like this mode of working, which I would have to go back and find it says open source software development programmers voluntarily. Okay. It can be challenging who are accustomed to having complete ownership of their project. So the idea is like it's open source, it's community based, multiple people work on things that can be difficult for some people who are used to working alone. I'm looking for a quote that just illustrates that. So this one says it was full of brilliant program as it was inspiring, but disagreements and that but tells me this is probably a good answer. Disagreements over the direction of the project led to its dissolution bingo. That's all I need right there. So again, we have more examples of these support the hypothesis questions and support the claims questions. And I think these are the ones that often make it difficult for people. So again, I need to know what the hypothesis is. Scientists proposed, there's my hypothesis that a decrease in arctic foxes led to an increase in the population of snowy owls. Okay. So less foxes equals more owls. The foxes do not typically prey on the owls, but they do prey on the lemmings. So what it suggests here is that the snowy owls normally eat lemmings. If the lemmings are gone because the foxes eat them, then there are less owls. That's basically the point here. So decrease in population of lemmings is associated with a decrease in foxes. That doesn't make sense because what we're looking at is the owls population. My answer needs to address that somehow. I don't think maybe not, but at the very least it needs to address the correct relationship because what we're saying here is the both have decreased. And what we're trying to say here is that there were less foxes, which made for, you know, less lemmings and then more, I don't know. Hang on. This is tricky. Actually, I'm looking at this again. Decrease of the population of lemmings is associated with a decrease in the population of foxes. No, it would be an increase in foxes. If you had more foxes, you would have less lemmings. Okay. So that's wrong. Snowy Owl population tends to be greater with both foxes and lemmings. Now, that could be because like if they have both, if they have the lemmings, then they have something to eat, but then it doesn't make a ton of sense that there would also be more foxes because if there's more foxes, there should be less lemmings because that's what they eat. So it's a little weird that that would be the case. Like that doesn't seem like a logical, that would make me ask more questions. I would have new hypotheses like what else are they eating? So I don't know that B is the best answer here. And then consumption of lemmings by snowy owls increased before the decline in octet. Okay. So that doesn't really make sense here because that's the opposite direction. That's not what we're looking for. Population of lemmings has increased as the foxes have decreased. Okay. That would check out because if there are less foxes, right, then that means that there are less, well, there would be more lemmings, which the owls could eat. And therefore, they would be doing better in their population, which does explain the gap between the decrease in the foxes and the increase in the owls. These are the tricky ones sometimes. We basically, what I try to do with these is categorize my variables. Like what are my variables? My variables are foxes, lemmings and owls. And think about the relationships between those variables. So if there are more foxes, there should be less lemmings. If there are less lemmings, there should also be less owls, right? Cause that's what they eat. So that's the, that's the math, right? If I have less foxes, I should have more lemmings. And if I have more lemmings, I should have more owls. And so I would just want to find the answer that kind of matches with that. You know, that's what I'm looking for. So that's how I kind of got to that, that one there. That was a good tricky one that made me stop and think, so there are a few other ones like this. And I think the complete the text ones are pretty straightforward as well. I don't know if there's any other kinds of questions you guys want to look at in particular. But, you know, we got some of these. Getting to some of this punctuation stuff, this is like really straightforward because if you start parentheses, you have to finish them and vice versa. So B would definitely be, you know, using that. Again, we have verb forms. Just make sure you're using the right terms. We have in 1875, so we want to use past tense, and that should be the correct answer there with A. Again, we have a punctuation situation with dependent clauses. It's added when, remember that if I start the sentence with the independent, with the dependent clause words, the connector, then I would use the comma after. But if I have it after, I don't need to use the comma before. So in this case, when does not require a comma before as in the answer A, I can just go ahead and use it without the comma. Same deal as words. If I don't need to use it, I would avoid it. And that's the best way to write those situations. Choosing, again, here, no need, do not put punctuation around your prepositions. Generally speaking, prepositions do not need to have punctuation around them. So we'll just go with that. Again, another verb form situation. Those are pretty straightforward. Again, another punctuation deal here. Do I need, again, prepositions with, if I have a preposition, I'm probably not going to use any punctuation. So D is going to be a good answer because I could say draped with red banners and garlands. Good enough. Some transition words, I could kind of take a second on those. Now, here, they're talking about armor that gives mobility and was actually pretty light. And then it says they're less heavy than much of the equipment worn by soldiers today. So they're kind of like doubling down on the same idea. And so indeed is a really good answer for that. Like if I want to double down, if I want to kind of expand on that point and make it really, really clear, indeed is good for that. However, because we have, you know, we're going in the opposite directions, they talk about annoyance and sleep deprivation near wind farms. And then it says stricter regulation will lower those problems. So they're letting me know that, hey, right now there's a problem, but we're going to go in the other direction. However is good. Here they talk about professional development, benefiting employees and their employers. And so it says it's a shared responsibility. I would say here this is like saying so kind of like a therefore accordingly works well for that too. If I've got both employees and the employers who benefit from this, then it stands to reason that that combines them. Like this is the logical thing that follows. So accordingly can work kind of like a therefore get a couple of note taking questions. Relevant information about the aim of the research study. I'm looking for the goal of the research. They sought to explore the effects of climate change on insect migration. Perfect. That's the point. Like that's what I want to find here. I don't want to look at how they did it after collecting data. I don't want to look at the findings. And so I'm just looking at why they did it. What was their goal sought to explore the effects tells me the answer. And in 27 methodology of the research study. So methodology. I want to look at how they were doing their research here. And they aim to explore again. This is kind of like the previous one. That's the aim. That's why but that's not the method. This tells me what they found. This is kind of after I want to go before this explain that there's all right. This is more of like the theory behind it. Collected data and analyze this data using statistical models. That actually tells me how they did it. So that's going to be the right answer. Poetry. We talked about one of those poetry questions earlier in the first module with poetry questions. Again like it's tricky to get through poetry stuff. I like I said look at the lesson or the moral. What is the message of the poem? Like usually there's some kind of message some kind of like thing that it wants us to appreciate. Maybe I'll pull up an example. Let me let me see if I can find a good poetry example that could kind of illustrate that for you. I'm trying to think of some good ones for the SAT that tend to come up like Robert Frost comes up a lot. Wordsworth comes up a lot. William Blake comes up sometimes. I like William Blake's stuff. His stuff's pretty good. Maybe I maybe hang on. Let me see if I can find one from William from William Blake because William Blake is pretty good. And maybe a site like this would be beneficial for you all actually because you could use this. Yeah let me show you this. Okay I'm going to close this. Lit charts for those who do not know. I'm going to go over here for a second. Lit charts is great. They have really good explanations and like some of this in like more regular English. It could be good for you to practice with this site. Like I used to use this a lot when I taught poetry in school because I used to teach English literature. So like one of the things I would do is like try to explain to people okay here's how you can understand poetry and like look at these examples and try to put things in your own words. So this this is from Wordsworth actually not Blake. I got confused. Wrong William. So there's a message in this poem. There's like a thing he's trying to say or something that he's trying to persuade you to believe and he says the world is too much with us right. He says getting and spending we lay waste our powers little we see in nature that is ours. So he's making his point really clear from the beginning of the poem not even at the end like he's telling you right away. His message is really clear I think like he's saying the world is too much with us we are too much for this world like we we we're a problem. He was like the first dude to be like humanity sucks. Late and soon getting and spending what is that what is getting and spending think about that in your life getting like the new PlayStation and spending all your money on it like buying and selling working all day like these are the things that he's criticizing right materialism. We lay waste our powers there are better things we could be doing right little we see in nature that is ours so clearly we've gotten away from nature like he's lamenting the fact that we've become a more urbanized materialistic society because we're more focused on buying and things and we are away from nature and that has a detrimental impact on us and the planet according to him so like that's what he's trying to say and and I just all I'm doing is trying to paraphrase to try to put that in my own words and if you look at what they say here like this is exactly the point the material world our city jobs obligations controls our lives we're rushing from one thing to the next we earn money just to spend it and we've lost a part of our humanity as a result right we've given our hearts away we've given away our emotions like this is a really good way for you to practice poetry looking at these explanations like understand that a lot of times the messages are not that complex most of the time they're they're pretty clear messages but the way they're written is very abstract the way they're written can be difficult to process so so try to like you know try to break it down to understand what you can there are things that you do not need to worry about too much like here he has three lines that kind of talk about nature and stuff it this isn't something that I need to worry about too much his main point is in these first four lines right and then he goes back to that idea that we're like out of tune and you know we're not appreciating the things we should be that's it you know there's not a lot of room in a poem to get like more and more ideas the ideas are usually simple in and of themselves but understanding those ideas can be tricky so that's what I would suggest here but this you know so yeah all right I'm loving your debate back and forth by the way about this law thing idea I think it's an interesting idea and yeah there's definitely stuff that will be challenging on the way but I hope it works out for you I I think that is a field that will be pushed into the idea of AI and legal stuff because it law works on certain logic it can be processed by machines pretty well if if it's well interpreted and that's the key part now the other thing though is like is it well written for me because like language processing requires good language input garbage in garbage out if you got bad language input if the writers of the laws didn't do a good enough job then I could see there being gray areas where it doesn't know how to interpret things like that's an issue sometimes sometimes the law is broken and if that's the case then your AI bot is going to have issues but yeah anyway that's all the time I've got for today it's been a lot of fun appreciate everybody here just so you know as a reminder like if you're interested in checking out some more SAT practice material the SAT crash course has been sponsoring the channel for the last month or so I've been really cool working with them they've got they've doubled the discount so you can get 20% off anything on their site just use code score when you do it and there's still a free practice test available so you can use practice test one you know they're going to have this 20% off deal until the November test so if you're looking to get some more practice in before that last opportunity to send a grade for your early applications like this is the way to go really like working with these guys they've been super responsive super flexible with me and I like the material that they've been putting out there and I wanted to go through some stuff that maybe you haven't seen I didn't want to spoil a blue book test for example for people I wanted to go through some things that maybe would be new for you so you could see some new kinds of questions and kind of review for this SAT and they were gracious enough to let me have that test too because I said hey I know you're already giving away number one for free would you mind if I use test two for this and they said it was cool so a big shout out to them SAT crash course guys are really awesome and they've been doing really good stuff and I appreciate all of you for checking this out thanks so much for your participation in the comments for being here in the chat next I'm not going to be publishing much in the near future I will have some supplemental essay live streams I did one last weekend I plan on doing one this weekend if time allows in Columbia and if my internet works I don't know yet I will try we will see but I do want to do some more of those to help you with your supplemental essays for your applications and then we'll be getting into some more you know admission based topics in the couple coming months coming up here and planning on maybe doing a little bit of a university trip early next year so we'll see how that goes too so anyway thank you all for watching and I will see you later