Rhetorical SynthesisAn SAT question type that gives a student’s notes and a goal, then asks which sentence uses the notes to meet that goal.
You’ll leave with these skills
01Identify the relevant idea before applying an exampleExplain the idea the example illustrates and the conditions it depends on, then check whether those conditions hold in the new situation.
02Spot questions that ask you to judge something the passage never mentionsWhen the question says “most likely respond” or “if true,” use the passage’s reasoning on the new claim or finding it describes.
03Match the feature that could explain the original resultIdentify the relevant feature of the original example, then choose the change that reproduces that feature under comparable conditions.
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