Reading & WritingChapter 3: Command of Evidence
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3-4: What should you read before table values?
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Title, caption, row labels, column labels, units, and notes.
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3-4: How do you locate a table value?
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Trace the requested row and column to their intersection.
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3-4: Correct number, wrong row is what?
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A wrong-category distractor.
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3-4: Correct row, wrong column is what?
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A wrong-measure or wrong-time-period distractor.
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3-4: Why keep the unit attached?
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The same number can represent different quantities; unit mismatch invalidates the evidence.
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3-4: A claim says ‘highest.’ What values are needed?
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The target value and all relevant alternatives needed to establish the maximum.
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3-4: Why are tables semantic HTML in this platform?
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Headers, captions, and cells remain readable and navigable by assistive technology.
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3-4: Percentages total 99%. Is that always an error?
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Not necessarily; stated rounding can explain 99% or 101%, but accidental invalid totals must be fixed.
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3-4: Direct lookup versus evidence reasoning?
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Lookup finds a cell; evidence reasoning decides whether that cell or comparison evaluates the claim.
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3-4: What is the final numeric check?
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Verify every value in the chosen sentence against its exact source cell.
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3-4: 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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3-4: Is this Textual or Quantitative practice?
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Primarily Command of Evidence—Quantitative.
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3-4: What is the central focus?
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locating exact cells and combining them into comparisons that bear on a supplied claim
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3-4: What does relevant evidence look like?
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Values from the correct rows, columns, units, and time periods needed by the claim.
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3-4: Give an irrelevant-evidence pattern.
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A prominent number from the wrong row or a total when the claim requires a subgroup.
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3-4: What scope rule matters most?
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A comparison claim normally requires more than one cell.
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3-4: What verification step prevents errors?
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Trace row → column → cell, then reread the header and unit before using the value.
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3-4: 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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3-4: 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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3-4: 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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