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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic
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PSAT 1.1 Writing Diagnostic. How should the underlined portion be changed in the passage, if at all?

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PSAT 1.22 Writing Diagnostic. Which choice results in the passage having the most appropriate concluding sentence?

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by snowy regions You can tell which ones are younger

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because they were there Ice caps backwards All right check

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out passage are forming or have a champion everyone for

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green but evidence to clear rising living in the planet's

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ocean Pleasure that's ending with the lords of the coming

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decades All right the writer wants a conclusion that encourages

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readers to address the problem of climate change which choice

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results in the passage having the most appropriate concluding sense

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and hear potential answers Okay before we start shouting and

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throwing produce let's take a deep breath and realize this

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is not a political debate this question isn't asking you

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to believe in global warming you're perfectly welcome to argue

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against it as much as you like all the way

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up until the waters of the atlantic ocean rise up

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and submerge you complete remember to pack your school year

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so you can still get your point across in a

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safe In the meantime all we're being asked to do

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here is choose the most fitting closing sentence for the

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passage the one that most aptly summarizes the writer's opinion

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We don't see any that feature a hilarious mike dropping

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punchline Sadly so we'll just have to go with whatever

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is the most relevant What option a fit the bill

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in fact sea level rise has accelerated in in recent

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years averaging a sixteen millimeters per year This may be

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true in the writer may very well agree with it

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but it just seems like he had another factor throw

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out there At this point he probably wants to focus

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on bringing everything together not rattling off more statistics so

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let's keep our options Open what about c for those

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in coastal states like california climate change could create big

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problems like droughts and wildfires Well again not really a

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summation of points Instead sounds like he's getting ready to

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fight off a whole new chunk of cheese if he

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were to end the paragraph this way he's liable to

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leave his readers with unanswered questions especially his review living

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in california who are suddenly feeling panic attacks coming on

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Okay then with the work clearly climate change will continue

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to be a hot button issue in both political and

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scientific circles for years to come Now that's a good

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conclusion but is it the right one Well yeah climate

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change is a big deal But why the talk about

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the political ramifications all of a sudden Up until this

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point it seems as if the writer is trying to

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drive home the importance of reversing these trans kind of

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like he's a dark robed figure pointing a bony finger

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at us and delivering some ominous warning Oh okay well

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we were thinking more like the grim reaper But the

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bathroom works to anyway presenting the idea that climate change

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is controversial Seems to come a bit out of nowhere

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so we'll keep looking Thank you very much Fortunately option

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b hits the spot Unless immediate action is taken to

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counter the effects of climate change it will likely create

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problems for society Well there's that ominous warning we were

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hoping for The writer starts by explaining all the terrible

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things that are happening to our planet and then turns

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it into a call to action advising us that we'd

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better get our butts in gear if we want to

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have any but left it all a few decades down

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the road Oh yeah we're going with the year isn't

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but okay yeah we're done You can resume your screaming

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now make sure you swim away from the dark oily 00:03:06.61 --> [endTime] patches

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