Question 1Craft and Structure · Words in Context

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Meaning-in-context from behavior, not a synonym lookup

The current Tests 4–11 contain relatively few “As used in the text” items compared with standard blank-completion vocabulary. Here, “reserve” must be inferred from the narrator’s description of reluctance, so connotation and local behavior matter more than a memorized definition.

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Correct answer: Choice C

Question 2Craft and Structure · Words in Context

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Vocabulary as a logical relationship between variables

The blank controls the argument that follows: nuisance cost is largely independent of donation size, which explains why compensation favors fewer large gifts. This trains vocabulary through causal logic rather than dictionary matching.

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Correct answer: Choice C

Question 3Craft and Structure · Text Structure and Purpose

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Integrate three separate underlined details into one rhetorical function

I found no item in the current Tests 4–11 using this exact three-underlined-parts ‘taken together’ architecture. The student must synthesize several examples across the passage before naming their collective function.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 4Craft and Structure · Cross-Text Connections

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Distinguish the precise dimensions of two authors’ criticisms

Paired-text questions are sparse in the current full-test corpus. This item is especially useful because both authors criticize the same work, but for different reasons; the student must separate research scope from thesis quality.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 5Craft and Structure · Cross-Text Connections

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Qualified response: agree with the risk but reject an absolute generalization

The task is not simple agreement/disagreement. Text 2 accepts the concern in Text 1 while showing that conjugation can also reduce toxicity, requiring a calibrated ‘yes, but’ response.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice D

Question 6Craft and Structure · Cross-Text Connections

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Infer common ground from two experiments with different immediate goals

The two texts do not hand the student a shared claim. The student must bridge a pure-umami study and a soy-sauce chemistry study and identify what both teams could reasonably agree on.

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Correct answer: Choice D

Question 7Craft and Structure · Cross-Text Connections

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Use a later experiment to diagnose a gap in a theoretical account

This reverses the usual comparison task: Text 1 supplies the conceptual puzzle, while Text 2 supplies evidence that confirms the phenomenon but not its cause. The answer must explain what that evidence implies about the theory.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 8Craft and Structure · Cross-Text Connections

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Apply a model in Text 1 to explain different experimental outcomes in Text 2

This is one of the densest cross-text architectures in the bank. The student must transfer a size-advantage model into a two-tank experiment and explain why removing males changes the threshold at which sex change becomes advantageous.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 9Information and Ideas · Central Ideas and Details

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Evaluate a study’s validity by identifying a hidden confound

The current Tests 4–11 do not use this exact ‘which question would be most useful in determining validity’ frame. The student must notice that phone-retrieved information may already have been known, which could turn an apparent misattribution into accurate memory.

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Correct answer: Choice D

Question 10Information and Ideas · Command of Evidence

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Weaken a claim by showing the evidence is underdetermined

The best weakening evidence does not prove the rival classification; it shows the fossils are too poorly preserved to justify either classification. This trains the difference between refuting a claim and exposing insufficient evidence.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 11Information and Ideas · Command of Evidence

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Explain a cross-region discrepancy through an institutional mechanism

The answer must explain why Asian countries could herd while African countries did not. A policy-setting institution that prevents imitation directly accounts for the discrepancy; descriptive differences that do not affect the mechanism are traps.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 12Information and Ideas · Command of Evidence

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Interpret a moderation / interaction effect across two retail contexts

This is more demanding than choosing the highest bar or a simple directional result. The conclusion says inexpensive-store context moderates the spacing effect, so the student must compare the size of the spacing effect across stores.

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Correct answer: Choice A

Question 13Information and Ideas · Command of Evidence

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Match a two-part conclusion to a non-monotonic graph pattern

The conclusion distinguishes low anger from high anger: low anger need not hurt perceived helpfulness, while high anger does. The student must compare both treatment levels with the control rather than make a one-directional ‘more anger = worse’ assumption.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 14Information and Ideas · Command of Evidence

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Use a table to prove intermittency through change over time

The word ‘intermittently’ is the key. The correct evidence must show substantial fluctuation across repeated measurements at the same sites; a single high value or an across-site comparison does not establish intermittency.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice D

Question 15Information and Ideas · Inferences

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Resolve a large numerical discrepancy after alternative causes are partly ruled out

The passage excludes vertebrates, plants, algae, and much of the new-invertebrate explanation, then highlights uncertainty in microorganism classification. The student must infer how different classification decisions could generate the remaining gap.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 16Information and Ideas · Inferences

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Infer a mistaken social assumption from a giver–recipient preference mismatch

Recipients prefer digital cards for usability, yet people judge physical cards more socially acceptable to give. The student must connect the opening norm—effort signals thoughtfulness—to the mismatch and infer the giver’s mistaken assumption.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice D

Question 17Information and Ideas · Inferences

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Weigh three competing causal mechanisms across time, habitat, and relatedness

This is a multi-source causal inference. Mother–daughter similarity fades, habitat correlation is modest, and nonmaternal relatives add no genetic signal. The correct answer must preserve what the evidence supports without overclaiming.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 18Standard English Conventions · Boundaries

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Restrictive relative clause: do not insert commas around essential information

The clause ‘that Palma Rodríguez uses in his art’ identifies which materials are being discussed, so it is essential to the noun phrase. This is a clean high-difficulty check against the habit of automatically bracketing every relative clause.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 19Standard English Conventions · Boundaries

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Colon introducing a complex list whose items contain internal punctuation

The sentence has to launch a list after a complete clause and then maintain clean boundaries inside the list. It is denser than the ordinary ‘colon before a list’ question because each example contains its own distance phrase.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 20Standard English Conventions · Boundaries

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Create a new sentence so a fronted participial phrase modifies the correct subject

‘Published from 1866 to 1899…’ must open a new sentence and attach to ‘this magazine.’ A comma or semicolon at the blank leaves the preceding syntax malformed or makes the modifier attach incorrectly.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 21Standard English Conventions · Boundaries

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Semicolons separate list items that already contain commas

This is a stress-test of list punctuation: each achievement carries date information, so semicolons are needed between major list items while commas remain inside them.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice C

Question 22Standard English Conventions · Form, Structure, and Sense

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Subject–verb agreement through a long interrupting relative clause

The grammatical head is singular ‘presence,’ even though several plural nouns intervene before the verb. The item punishes agreement by proximity instead of agreement with the true subject.

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Correct answer: Choice B

Question 23Standard English Conventions · Form, Structure, and Sense

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Dangling modifier: the noun after the opener must perform the described action

‘Fortifying soil…’ logically describes the biocrusts themselves. The correct clause therefore has to begin with ‘these crusts,’ not a study, estimate, or reduction.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice C

Question 24Standard English Conventions · Form, Structure, and Sense

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Comparison logic: compare an HHI score with another HHI score

The opener ‘Compared with that of…’ establishes that a score is the comparison target. Several choices are grammatically fluent but compare a market with a score, making this a sense-and-structure trap rather than a simple agreement item.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 25Standard English Conventions · Form, Structure, and Sense

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Parallel finite verbs after a shared introductory construction

‘It was there that Price premiered… and developed…’ requires two parallel finite verbs. The distractors break the shared grammatical frame with participial or infinitive forms.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 26Expression of Ideas · Transitions

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Replacement mechanism: lift stops working; velocity takes over instead

The relationship is not example, concession, or irrelevance. The second sentence replaces one flight mechanism with another past the Kármán line, making ‘Instead’ the exact logical bridge.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice B

Question 27Expression of Ideas · Transitions

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Sharp contrast between adherence to a form and deliberate subversion of it

The previous sentence emphasizes strict adherence to sonnet conventions; the next presents a twelve-line sonnet that breaks them. The transition must mark reversal, not similarity or example.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice D

Question 28Expression of Ideas · Rhetorical Synthesis

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Dual rhetorical goal: describe an approach and explain its significance

A merely accurate summary is insufficient. The answer has to describe Shanawdithit’s mapping of lived experiences and explicitly connect that approach to the broader significance of Indigenous ‘experienced space.’

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Correct answer: Choice D

Question 29Expression of Ideas · Rhetorical Synthesis

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Make and support a claim about whether a hypothesis applies to a specific country

The student must state a defensible claim about Thailand and support it with Promkhambut et al.’s evidence, while avoiding an overgeneralization about all Asian farming.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice C

Question 30Expression of Ideas · Rhetorical Synthesis

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Emphasize the significance of a similarity, not merely state shared numbers

The two kits are similar in the consequential sense that each fails to meet an effectiveness requirement and is therefore inferior to Pbact. The correct response must foreground why the similarity matters.

Official Question Bank explanation

Correct answer: Choice A

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