Reading & WritingChapter 3: Command of Evidence
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3-8: What does the text usually supply?
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Context, claim, hypothesis, definition, or condition.
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3-8: What does the graphic usually supply?
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Measurements, categories, trends, and comparisons.
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3-8: What is true integration?
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Using the text to select and interpret the data needed to evaluate the claim.
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3-8: Claim says ‘older participants.’ What is excluded?
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Data only for younger participants or an all-participant aggregate that hides the older group.
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3-8: Claim says ‘after treatment.’ What is insufficient?
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Baseline values alone.
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3-8: Can correct numbers form a wrong answer?
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Yes, when they come from the wrong population, series, condition, or interval.
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3-8: What should you circle in the text?
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Population, condition, time, direction, and any limiting words.
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3-8: How do hard synthesis items work?
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Text identifies claim A; graph pattern B; comparison C determines whether B supports A.
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3-8: Graphic alone answers the item. Is it strong integration?
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Usually no; the text should meaningfully determine what data matter.
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3-8: Final integration sentence?
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Because the text limits the claim to ___, the relevant graphic values are ___, which support/challenge it by ___.
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3-8: What official SAT skill contains this topic?
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Information and Ideas → Command of Evidence. This topic is an internal teaching subdivision, not a separate official skill.
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3-8: Is this Textual or Quantitative practice?
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Primarily Command of Evidence—Quantitative.
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3-8: What is the central focus?
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carrying textual conditions into a graphic comparison so both sources are necessary
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3-8: What does relevant evidence look like?
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Data from the group, condition, measure, and time period defined by the text.
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3-8: Give an irrelevant-evidence pattern.
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Accurate values from a different population or baseline when the claim concerns post-treatment results.
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3-8: What scope rule matters most?
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Every qualifier in the passage acts as a filter on the graphic.
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3-8: What verification step prevents errors?
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Point to the exact phrase in text and exact values in data that the answer combines.
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3-8: Support means prove—true or false?
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False. Evidence may strengthen or be consistent with a claim without establishing certainty.
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3-8: What is the minimum-assumption rule?
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Prefer the evidence that reaches the supplied claim most directly with the fewest unstated bridges.
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3-8: Command of Evidence versus Inferences?
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Command of Evidence gives the claim and asks for evidence; Inferences gives evidence and asks for the conclusion.
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