PP1 (Shorter) Verbal Section 1 (Medium) Q12

<p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#27ae60;">The Right Answer</span></span></p> <p>This is an <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Author&#39;s Purpose</span>, or <span style="color:#8e44ad;">Function</span>, question as indicated by the phrase &quot;primarily in order to.&quot; In questions such as these, we have to identify WHY the author does something. As such, the answer will not be clearly stated in the passage.</p> <p>The good news is authors pretty much only mention something to support one of their points. So why would the author mention the &quot;classical conception of free will&quot;? To support one of their points. So the strategy is to look around that phrase and find out what point the author is trying to make.&nbsp;</p> <p><b>Point the author is trying to make:&nbsp;</b></p> <ul> <li>The author states, &quot;But researchers actually found a SURPRISING temporal relation between subjective experience and objectively measured neural events.&quot;</li> </ul> <p>The answer that most closely matches this &quot;surprising&quot; point is <span style="color:#27ae60;">E, indicate the reason that the results of the neuroscientists&#39; study were surprising.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#e74c3c;">The Wrong Answers</span></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">A</span>: The author is not &quot;arguing&quot; anything here. The author doesn&#39;t have a clear opinion either way.</li> <li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">B</span>: The author is not &quot;suggesting&quot; anything here. &quot;Suggest&quot; has two meanings: recommend and imply. The author is clearly not recommending anything. Likewise, the author is not implying anything either. He or she is quite clear with the information.</li> <li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">C</span>: The author is not giving an &quot;explanation,&quot; or reason, for the unexpected results.</li> <li><span style="color:#e74c3c;">D</span>: The author is not &quot;casting doubt,&quot; or discounting, any ideas in the passage.</li> </ul>