SAT R&W Örnek Soruları

The new manufacturing process reduced energy consumption by thirty percent. ______ initial production costs were significantly higher than those of the older method, which slowed industry-wide adoption. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Critic Diana Reyes's recent book on contemporary American poetry argues that the so-called New Formalist movement, which emerged in the 1980s as a return to traditional meter and rhyme, has been misread by both its supporters and its critics. According to Reyes, what unifies these poets is not formal allegiance but a shared skepticism toward the assumption that emotional authenticity requires the absence of artifice — a skepticism that, she argues, places them closer to the modernist tradition than to any reactionary one. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text?

Public health officials studying vaccine hesitancy have begun to question one of the field's most persistent assumptions: that hesitancy stems primarily from a deficit of accurate information. Recent research suggests that even people who hold scientifically accurate beliefs about vaccine safety and efficacy may still decline vaccination, while many people who initially express hesitancy adopt vaccines after building trust with a specific health worker over time — not after receiving more facts. The implication is that addressing hesitancy may require focusing less on information delivery and more on the relational and institutional contexts in which decisions are made. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

Historians of nineteenth-century science have traditionally divided the period's thinkers into two camps: those who advocated rigorous empirical observation and those who pursued grand theoretical synthesis. But this binary has begun to seem less useful than it once did, particularly as scholars have examined how individual scientists actually worked across the supposed divide, drawing on theoretical commitments to guide their observations and on observations to reshape their theories in ways that resist the tidy categories historians have imposed. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text?

Education researcher Dr. Lior Mansour has proposed that the strongest predictor of long-term academic achievement in students from low-income backgrounds is not standardized test scores in early grades — though these are routinely used for tracking and resource allocation — but the quality of student-teacher relationships, particularly the perception by students that at least one teacher knows them as individuals and believes in their capacity to succeed. Which finding, if true, would most strongly support Mansour's proposal?

Although the early studies seemed promising, none of the proposed mechanisms ______ consistent results across independent laboratories. Which choice completes the sentence with the most logical and grammatically correct form?

Climate adaptation researcher Dr. Imani Owusu has proposed that small-scale farmers in semi-arid regions adopt new water-conservation technologies most readily not when those technologies are subsidized — as donor agencies have long assumed — but when neighbors who are perceived as similar in farming conditions have already adopted them successfully. Which finding, if true, would most directly support Owusu's proposal?

Economist Dr. Aarav Patel has argued that the rise in part-time employment in many developed economies over the past two decades is not primarily a response by workers seeking flexibility, as has often been claimed, but a response by employers seeking to reduce benefit obligations and labor commitments under existing employment law. Which finding, if true, would most strongly support Patel's argument?

The historian's account of the conflict is unusually ______: rather than reducing the dispute to a single cause or assigning clear villainy, she traces a tangled web of contributing factors and partial responsibilities on every side. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word?

Researchers studying coral reef bleaching events have proposed that reefs at greater depths suffer less severe bleaching during heat waves than reefs in shallow water, because deeper water provides thermal buffering against surface temperature spikes. To test this, a 2022 study measured bleaching severity across four reef sites in the same region during a major heat wave. Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to support the researchers' proposal?