DSAT R&W: Determining the Function of the Underlined Sentence (Pt. 1)

In this video, I go over the basic approach to questions that ask you to describe or state the function of a particular (underlined) sentence within a passage. I explain the basic strategy using one example and then go through a couple of additional examples, all of them from official practice tests.

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Full text of example questions:

(1) Some bird species don’t raise their own chicks. Instead, adult females lay their eggs in other nests, next to another bird species’ own eggs. Female cuckoos have been seen quickly laying eggs in the nests of other bird species when those birds are out looking for food. After the eggs hatch, the noncuckoo parents will typically raise the cuckoo chicks as if they were their own offspring, even if the cuckoos look very different from the other chicks.

Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?"

(2) "A study by a team including finance professor Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts
to the actual earnings later reported by those companies. The team found that the greater the
exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager’s forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year.

Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the
text?"