SAT Reading & Writing · Inferences
This pattern suggests that students' judgments about how well they are learning ______
Students often rate rereading their notes as a highly effective study method because the material feels familiar and easy to process during review, even though studies comparing study methods show that self-testing typically produces better long-term retention than rereading does. Which choice most logically completes the text?
This pattern suggests that students' judgments about how well they are learning ______
This pattern suggests that students' judgments about how well they are learning ______
Answer and explanation
Answer: D: can be influenced by how easy the material feels to process in the moment, which is not the same thing as how well it will be remembered later.
The passage's central tension, familiarity feels productive but produces worse retention than testing, is exactly the gap named in D: ease of processing right now is a different thing from durable memory later. A directly contradicts the passage, which shows subjective judgment diverging from actual outcomes. C overstates the finding into an absolute claim the passage doesn't make, since it only compares rereading unfavorably to testing, not to no studying at all. B introduces a factor, total time, that the passage never discusses.
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