Command of EvidenceThe College Board’s name for SAT Reading and Writing questions that ask which quotation, finding, or data from a table or graph best supports, illustrates, or weakens a claim.
You’ll leave with these skills
01Tell whether a finding strengthens a claim, weakens it, or changes nothingTreat each answer choice as true and ask whether it makes the claim more believable, less believable, or no different.
02Find whose claim the question asks you to strengthen or weakenUnderline whose claim the question names and whether it says “support” or “weaken” before you read the answer choices.
03Weaken a claim that one thing caused another by finding the same result without itPick the finding that shows the same improvement happened in a group that never used the new routine.
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