{"id":"cb_practice_pdf:t8-english-m2-q32","source_id":"cb_practice_pdf","source_item_id":"t8-english-m2-q32","external_id":null,"ibn":null,"question_id":null,"program":"SAT","module":"english","domain_code":null,"domain":null,"skill_code":null,"skill":null,"difficulty":null,"score_band":null,"answer_type":"mcq","answer_source":"rationale","layout_warning":null,"form_id":"cb_practice_pdf:test-8","module_number":2,"position":32,"stem":"While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Some sandstone arches in Utah’s Arches National Park have been defaced by tourists’ carvings. • Park rangers can smooth away some carvings using power grinders. • For deep carvings, power grinding is not always feasible because it can greatly alter or damage the rock. • Park rangers can use an infilling technique, which involves filling in carvings with ground sandstone and a bonding agent. • This technique is minimally invasive. The student wants to explain an advantage of the infilling technique. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?","stimulus":"","stimulus_html":null,"stem_html":"<p>While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Some sandstone arches in Utah’s Arches National Park have been defaced by tourists’ carvings. • Park rangers can smooth away some carvings using power grinders. • For deep carvings, power grinding is not always feasible because it can greatly alter or damage the rock. • Park rangers can use an infilling technique, which involves filling in carvings with ground sandstone and a bonding agent. • This technique is minimally invasive. The student wants to explain an advantage of the infilling technique. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?</p>","rationale_html":"<p>Choice B is the best answer. The sentence effectively explains an advantage of infilling: it’s less invasive than using a power grinder. Choice A is incorrect. The sentence identifies a disadvantage of power grinding; it doesn’t explain an advantage of infilling. Choice C is incorrect. The sentence identifies the two techniques park rangers use; it doesn’t explain an advantage of infilling. Choice D is incorrect. The sentence indicates that power grinding and infilling are different in one aspect; it fails to explain an advantage of infilling.</p>","correct_answer":["B"],"has_media":false,"has_mathml":false,"has_table":false,"source_created_at":null,"source_updated_at":null,"options":[{"label":"A","content_html":"<p>To remove carvings from sandstone arches in Utah’s Arches National Park, power grinding is not always feasible.</p>","ord":0},{"label":"B","content_html":"<p>Filling in carvings with ground sandstone and a bonding agent is less invasive than smoothing them away with a power grinder, which can greatly alter or damage the sandstone arches.</p>","ord":1},{"label":"C","content_html":"<p>Park rangers can use a power grinding technique to smooth away carvings or fill them in with ground sandstone and a bonding agent.</p>","ord":2},{"label":"D","content_html":"<p>As methods for removing carvings from sandstone, power grinding and infilling differ in their level of invasiveness. STO</p>","ord":3}],"attribution":{"source_id":"cb_practice_pdf","source_name":"College Board full-length SAT practice tests (PDF)","rights_holder":"College Board","canonical_url":"https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/practice/practice-tests/paper","retrieved_from":"https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/practice/practice-tests/paper","attribution":"Full-length SAT practice tests 4–11 © College Board, published free at satsuite.collegeboard.org.","disclaimer":"Extracted from PDF layout: equations, figures and tables do not survive intact. Use the original PDFs for anything the text renders poorly. SAT® is a trademark registered by the College Board, which is not affiliated with and does not endorse this project.","license":"College Board copyright. Free to download; not licensed for redistribution.","redistributable":false,"item_count":905}}