This paragraph fits a common pattern of sentences going from general to more specific.Ģ) After the first quick read, this paragraph appears to be about bluegrass music. The paragraph describes what is served at this type of meal, how the main dish is scooped up with a starch, and how the starch serves another purpose of cooling down the spicy food. Lets read through and make sure everything fits. U is more general and has more connection to T. R has no mention of the main course, so Q fits better after R because it is more specific to the starch. In TQRUS, U and S don’t follow as nicely from R. Trying both, we see TUSRQ works better because T and U both talk about the main course/ main dish, and together they work as a good overall description of the meal. Right now there are two possible orders: TQRUS and TUSRQ. All we need to know is which purpose comes first in the paragraph. Sentence Q is the other purpose: the starch cools the spicy food. One of those purposes is using the starch as a scoop, from U and S. This tells us that R is a connecting sentence that will come between two purposes for “the starch”. The other thing I underline right away is “another purpose as well” in sentence R. I draw an arrow from U to S to show that U comes right before S. First the people take some starch, then they use it as a scoop. U talks about taking starch from a communal plate. I underline “Diners then use” in sentence S because it tells us that something happens right before sentence S. it seems to make sense after the first sentence- it gives a general description of typical meals. That immediately tell us that T must come before Q, R, S and U, so T is the second sentence. They must explain what it is somewhere! They introduce the starch in sentence T. What is the starch? They don’t mention it in the first sentence.
In sentences Q, R, S and U they mention “the starch”. There are a few things in this paragraph I underline right away. We will do two examples: paragraphs 1 and 2 from Form A of the 2015-2016 Department of Education SHSAT handbook.ġ) After a quick read-through, it seems like this paragraph is describing meals in some traditional sub-Saharan Africa households. The purpose of this post is to give an idea of the thought process you should go through when you’re solving scrambled paragraphs.
#2015 2016 shsat handbook full#
I will not try to replicate that full lesson here. The scrambled paragraph section in the Barron’s SHSAT book gives you a pretty good idea of what to look for in these problems. Scrambled paragraphs are some of the trickiest problems on the SHSAT.
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