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PSAT 1.16 Writing Diagnostic
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PSAT 1.16 Writing Diagnostic. How would you change the underlined portion of the passage, if at all?

PSAT 1.17 Writing Diagnostic
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Check out this PSAT Writing Diagnostic question and determine whether the sentence in question is fine as is, or needs a change.

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and here's your schmuck du jour brought to you by the naked mole-rat

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hopefully one day it'll remember to start blocking that bathroom door our [naked mole rat taking a shower]

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check of the passage we're just gonna skim this thing because it's really long [text on screen]

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really chemical so we're skimming or skimming all right now we're on the

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passage to ahead we're skimming through my skin all right

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one difference between the species described in passage one and a species

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described in passage two is that the species in passage to what and your

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vigilance alrighty so last question asked what's the two passages had in

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common now it wants to know what's different but we could almost have [pensive man]

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guessed that this was coming sometimes it's like we're inside the test makers [man walking inside brain]

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heads [packman]

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all right so on to the answer choices first up option a you the species in

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both passages share scarce resources well yeah

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vampire bats are basically Blood Brothers and that well duh gladly share [vampire bats in tree]

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blood with their brothers and wolves are just as generous with one another in pack of wolves]

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fact we have a cousin who was raised by wolves and she's always talking about [cavewoman with wolves]

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how they never finish a moose carcass without first offering for a bite he

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doesn't miss those big well ok how about see do they have the whole working

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communally thing in common well yes they do the species that shares together [animals working together]

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works together see not a lot of antagonism happening in the OL mole rat

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colony and we're happy to report they're just one big a happy naked family mole

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rats though it's not see either deep are they all helping they're closely related

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kin yeah well this is almost six and one half a dozen of the other

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it's the whole shebang with these animals they share food work together to

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help those in need the only thing that is different is the division of [cavewoman working with wolves]

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reproductive responsibilities here's where the mole rat puts its personal [naked mole rat stamping documents]

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unique stamp on things according to the passage only a few of the members of the

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colony breed passing on their DNA to future generations [naked mole rats getting a room together]

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we're not sure how you get to be a designated breeder maybe you have to win

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some sort of mole rat sweepstakes or something like that well that would

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explain why so many mole rats have a gambling problem [naked moler at gambling]

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