SAT® Reading & Writing Practice Question: Function
Today’s practice is a mock SAT® Function Question. For proper time management on test day, you should aim to answer this question correctly in a maximum of 45 seconds.
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Studies of workplace productivity have shown minimal impact from remote work arrangements, yet recent data from several companies during the pandemic indicate significant performance gains from working from home. Researcher James Sullivan and his team attribute this discrepancy to companies' typical practice—not followed during the pandemic—of limiting remote work to employees' least challenging projects (reserving complex collaborative work for in-office days), which has masked the true potential of remote work in the productivity data researchers have analyzed.
Which choice best describes the function of the bold sentence in the text as a whole?
A) It explains a discrepancy between productivity studies and workplace realities that the text goes on to state occurred because researchers failed to examine actual workplace conditions.
B) It identifies a conflict between research findings and pandemic-era data that the text goes on to demonstrate results from how remote work was typically implemented at companies included in the research data.
C) It presents ongoing disagreements among productivity researchers that the text goes on to explain stem from differences in how companies structure remote work programs.
D) It describes recent findings that contradict earlier research that the text goes on to explain is a result of researchers underestimating variations in their productivity measurements.
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