Reading comp PrepTest 101 · Section 1 · Question 9

Passage

Questions 7-13  .        In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea  . Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, Remaining source text redacted.
Passage walkthrough
Passage Summary

Topic: Social Sciences


Paragraph 1

  • Paragraph note
    • Background on Pico Korea Union (championed by Korean Americans, who were affected by PKU's dispute)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Author's view:
      • The Pico Korea Union's dispute was supported by an extraordinary collection of Korean-American groups and had a profound effect on the Korean-American community (last sentence)
    • Author's attitude: "championed" (last sentence); "deeply affected" (last sentence)

Paragraph 2

  • Paragraph note
    • How the PKU’s dispute affected KA community (increased young KAs' interest in politics/culture, expanded KA’s political base)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • List of ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute affected the Korean-American community, according to the author:
      • Unified a diverse Korean-American community (first sentence)
      • Increased the political awareness of second-generation Korean Americans (second sentence)
      • Promoted second-generation Korean American's interest in their cultural identity (third and fourth sentences)
      • Expanded the political base of the Korean-American community to include recent working-class immigrants, who gave the community a more global perspective on working conditions (fifth and sixth sentences)
      • Created new alliances between the Korean-American community and progressive labor and social justice groups (last sentence)
    • Author's attitude: "rallying focus for a diverse community often divided" (first sentence); "Most notably" (second sentence); "mobilized" (second sentence); "can help to globalize the perspective" (sixth sentence); "can help to establish international ties on a more personal level" (sixth sentence); "especially warm" (sixth sentence); "as evidenced" (last sentence)

Paragraph 3

  • Paragraph note
    • Why PKU dispute affected KA community (strong human component of PKU's demands)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Cause-and-effect relationship, according to the author:
      • The strong human component and a lack of an ideological bent to the Pico Korea Union's demands caused members of the Korean-American community to put aside their differences and focus on the Union's demands for social justice and workers' rights (first and second sentences)
    • Author's attitude: "strong human component" (second sentence); "larger concerns" (second sentence); "unencumbered" (third sentence); "economic exploitation" (last sentence); "underscored the common interests" (last sentence)

Paragraph 4

  • Paragraph note
    • Lesson of PKU's dispute (joining labor/social struggle in original country can unify immigrant community)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Author's view:
      • The Pico Korea Union's visit shows that the most effective way to unify and empower an immigrant community may be joining a fight for economic and social justice in their country of origin (first through last sentences)
    • Author's attitude: "offers an important lesson" (first sentence); "need more than just knowledge" (second sentence); "perhaps the most effective means" (last sentence); "may be" (last sentence)

Main Point: The Pico Korea Union's dispute over unpaid wages mobilized and unified the diverse Korean-American community against the economic exploitation of these workers and offers an important lesson on how to empower immigrant communities.

Key Lines?

Paragraph 1, Sentence 2 (P1, S2) - Author summarizes how PKU affected KA community

P4, S3 - Author summarizes lesson to take away from PKU's dispute

Meta-Structure?

Importance of Subject: This passage utilizes the Importance of Subject Meta-Structure. In this passage, the author describes why the Pico Korea Union's dispute over unpaid wages and eventual visit to the U.S. was historically significant, particularly in how it impacted the Korean-American community.

When a passage utilizes an Importance of Subject Meta-Structure, the main point is generally the author's opinions on why the subject is important. The author's has two takes on why the dispute was important, which the author describes at length in the second and fourth paragraphs. The author uses the second paragraph to enumerate the ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute and eventual visit to the U.S. mobilized and unified the Korean-American community. The author uses the fourth paragraph to describe what lessons we should take away from the Union's dispute. We summarized both of these points in our anticipated main point.

List: The most prominent minor Meta-Structure is the list of all the ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute and eventual visit to the U.S. affected the Korean-American community. We've listed each effect in the Passage Summary above. Expect this list to figure into at least one of the questions.

Last Thoughts?

This question has a balanced mixed of author’s attitude and minor Meta-Structures. Therefore, we should expect a balanced mix of Major Point, Minor Point, Argument Structure, and Tone questions.

Question prompt

Which one of the Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: B

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

Question Type

Social Science

Strategy Overview

Refer to notes or what you highlighted/underline to locate where the passage discusses recent developments in the Korean-American community, then head to the answers and refer to the relevant part of the passage as needed to eliminate answer choices that must be true

Answer Anticipation

For these Bizarro Must Be True questions, the incorrect answers will all be supported by the passage. The correct answer will either present a topic not discussed by the passage or assert a claim contradicted by the passage. Therefore, it can be difficult to predict what the correct answer will say. However, when the question stem provides some guidance as to where the textual support is located in the passage, we can predict what the incorrect answers will say. Taking a little bit of time to make this prediction can allow us to eliminate the incorrect answers very quickly.This question limits the topic to recent developments in the Korean American community. Our note for the second paragraph — "How the PKU’s dispute affected KA community (increased young KAs' interest in politics/culture, expanded KA’s political base)" — should help us anticipate what some of the wrong answers might say. If we highlighted the items that compose the list minor Meta-Structure in the second paragraph, we can make an even more precise anticipation. These changes include:The unification of a diverse Korean-American community (P2, S1)Increased political awareness among second-generation Korean Americans (P2, S2)Increased interest in cultural identity among second-generation Korean-American (P2, S2-3)Expanded political base of the Korean-American community, which recently welcomed recent working-class immigrants, who give the community a more global perspective on working conditions (P2, S5-6)New alliances between the Korean-American community and progressive labor and social justice groups (P2, S7) Let's use these anticipates to eliminate the wrong answers until we're left with one answer chioce.

Answer choices

  1. A
    Young second–generation Koran Americans Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited

    (A) Is this one of the changes listed in the second paragraph?

    Yes, this is the third item on that list. The second paragraph says that second-generation Korean Americans became more interested in their cultural identity (P2, S2-3). So we can eliminate (A).

  2. B
    Recent Korean American immigrants Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B matches the stem

    (B) Is this one of the changes listed in the second paragraph?

    No. Although we learn that the Korean-American community's political base expanded to include working-class immigrants (P2, S5-6), we didn't anticipate that Korean-American working-class immigrants have entered the "more privileged sectors of the Korean American community." They’re part of the same political team now, but that doesn’t mean they shop at the same stores.

    Rather than reviewing the passage to see if this is supported, let's see if we can use our anticipation to eliminate the remaining answer choices. Once we eliminate the field, we can select (B) confidently.

  3. C
    Korean Americans have developed Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C is not credited

    (C) Is this one of the changes listed in the second paragraph?

    Yes, this is the last item on that list. The second paragraph says the Korean-American community has forged new alliances with progressive labor and social justice groups (P2, S7). These groups can rightfully be called "activist groups from other sectors," so we can eliminate (C).

  4. D
    Previously nonpolitical members of Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D is not credited

    (D) Is this one of the changes listed in the second paragraph?

    Yes, this is the second item on that list. The second paragraph says that second-generation Korean Americans have become more politically active (P2, S2). Therefore, we can cross off (D).

  5. E
    The Korean American community Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited

    (E) Is this one of the changes listed in the second paragraph?

    Yes, this is the first item on that list. The second paragraph says the diverse Korean-American community has recently (P2, S1). The second paragraph confirms that these divisions are based on "generation, class, and political ideologies" (P2, S1). So, (E) is supported, and we can eliminate it.

What this tests

Question analytics

Based on historical answer selection rates for this question.

Answer choice distribution

  1. A 8%
  2. B Credited 68%
  3. C 7%
  4. D 9%
  5. E 8%

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