SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 4)

About This Drill

SAT Reading & Writing: Hard Rhetorical Synthesis (Drill 4) is a Reading & Writing practice drill covering Hard Rhetorical Synthesis. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

Hard Rhetorical Synthesis questions present a set of research notes and a specific writing goal, then ask you to choose the sentence that best accomplishes that goal using only the notes. The wrong answers are usually accurate statements that serve a different purpose than the one asked for, or that subtly misstate the notes. Match the rhetorical task exactly.

Questions in This Drill

1. The student wants to explain a disadvantage of relying on a GPS hiking app to hikers heading into deep canyons. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
2. The student wants to make and support a generalization about how far these plants spread their seeds. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
3. The student wants to explain how freeze-drying preserves food. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
4. The student wants to use a quotation to challenge the old view that the lime lumps were a defect. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
5. The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two muralists' approaches. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?