Drill 22 · Reading & Writing · Hard Command of Evidence
SAT R&W Command of Evidence (Hard) — Drill 22 is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering Hard Command of Evidence. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Trees move water from soil to leaf against gravity, and these items probe how researchers separate competing explanations for a drought finding. Two of the five are data items -- one bar comparison, one table -- and the rest are finding items that ask which observation decides between rival mechanisms. As always, the trap distractors are true on their own terms but answer a slightly different question than the one posed.