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SAT Question of the Day Explained – February 10, 2014 – Sentence Completion

salesToday’s SAT question of the day is a sentence completion that requires precise reading (yes, moreso than usual).  There seems to be a certain store manager who felt…something…when sales dropped, so she did…something…to a department for its lack of effort. Continue reading

ACT Question of the Day Explained – January 19, 2014 – Reading, Social Sciences

This cat will show you how it's done here on the reading section.Today’s ACT question of the day comes from the same social sciences passage about the medieval court system that we read a few days ago.  (Sorry that the ACT doesn’t publish a permanent link to its questions of the day like the SAT does!  I’m looking for an online link to their questions, but the general principles still apply to the questions that you will see on test day – and those principles are more important than solving specific questions, since you won’t see these exact questions on your test, anyhow!)

We have a detail question that asks about a specific term from the passage: when was this specific kind of trial used?  Let’s start by finding that term in the passage.

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