<p>i see in all sat prep. books on ways to eliminate choices and the most conman is avoiding extream language. can someone post some extream words to avoid like every,most, and perfect</p>
<p>Don’t believe that stuff. It’s not a rule of thumb that whenever a choice has every/most/all/none means it’s wrong. But yes, whenever you see a choice making a very broad generalization (as in saying “the passage states that all people are stupid”), then you should take a second to rethink your answer.</p>
<p>Also, extreme not extream, and common not conman. :)</p>
<p>“Why does the author say this in lines 12-14”</p>
<p>If one of the options is “to express his hatred for all idiots”, that probably won’t be an answer.</p>
<p>Watch out for things like contempt, animosity, rancor, etc. words that have very serious connotations.</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>My take on this “avoid choices with extreme language” thing was always to see it as a specialization of a more general phenomenon: Don’t choose the answer you like the most, choose the answer that would be the easiest to defend against a mob of skeptics.</p>
<p>So if the author says something like “Tony, irritated by Barb’s rejection of his project proposal, decided to start kicking puppies on his way home from work” and then you get a question such as “Based on the passage, it is most accurate to say that Tony is…”
[A.] A jerk
[B.] Frustrated
[C.] A sociopath"
then [B.] is a better answer than [A.] and [C.], even though those choices are more tempting. Could we really prove that Tony is a jerk? That he’s a sociopath? We’ve really only observed his behavior on one day. It’s much easier to defend the idea that Tony was frustrated.</p>
<p>Avoiding extreme language is, I think, a special case of this sort of thing. It’s harder to defend extreme statements than it is to defend modest ones.</p>
<p>I hope that helps! Just my $.02, of course.</p>