Reading Comprehension

PT159 · S4 · P4 · Q22 Predicting Behavior of Complicated Systems

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The success of modern physics has consisted primarily in the analysis of physical reality into its fundamental components.

Your task

Pin down exactly what the question asks about the passage — a detail, the author's view, the structure, or the main point — before looking at the choices.

Common trap

Answers that restate a true detail from the passage but don't answer the specific question being asked.

Winning move

Anticipate the answer in your own words from the passage, then find the choice that matches that prediction.

22.

In the passage, the author is primarily concerned with doing which one of the following?

  1. Correct

    introducing a scientific theory with

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

    Skill tested: Primary Purpose · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

    51% picked this

  2. delineating contradictory assumptions of modern

    Bad Match: contradictory assumptions

    Bad Match: contradictory assumptions

    7% picked this

  3. reconciling two divergent theories concerning

    Wrong Verb: reconciling

    Bad Match: two divergent theories

    10% picked this

  4. arguing for the impossibility of

    Opposite: author raises a promising explanation

    Opposite: author raises a promising explanation

    23% picked this

  5. demonstrating the need to improve

    Word Salad

    Word Salad

    9% picked this

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