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Analyzing text. It's good for the soul. No worries if you need to pause to skim the

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passage again. Not everyone has a photographic memory.

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The main point of the passage is to...what?

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Here are the potential answers...

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To figure this one out, we just need to go

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down the list and start eliminating.

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(A) is easy to cross off our list, because the passage doesn't comment on the quality

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of Nirvana's music at all.

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Early on, the passage does mention some of the other bands from the Seattle scene...

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However, the bulk of the article focuses on Nirvana and Kurt Cobain, so (B) doesn't

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make the cut.

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(E) claims that the passage is all about statistics.

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It does give us some numbers, but there's a lot more to this passage than a bunch of numbers.

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Each remaining choice is attractive in its own special way.

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Since the passage focuses more on how success—not music—played a role in Cobain's eventual

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deterioration, (D) misses the ball, leaving us with (C).

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