I restarted my computer and everything.

if anything, does someone know where else to practice bluebook practice tests, cause this is on my pc not the laptop I'll take to the exam.

ok, so for these types of questions, how I would solve them is by reading the passage MUTLIPLE times. I read this passage thrice. And this was skim reading each, so reading it like that didn't take long. I do this to ensure I understand what the passage is about. Step 0: Read the question and underlined sentence. I don't need to understand the context just yet. We just wanna be able to emphasise this and read the passage BASED on the question. We want the correct mindset. Step 1 (first pass): I skim read it. Don't know what municipalities means (I move on but try to guess a possible meaning based on the context of the passage). The passage is about water wastage, pricing and techniques to stop water wastage. Step 2: I reread this again. Now I see muncipalities is this thing that is responsible for charging people for water usage (i get this after reading the first couple of lines again). They want to decrease water wastage, so are using a system of tiers, and moving from one tier to another increases rate. This has helped decrease wastage. However, this person in the passage says that most households are in the bottom tier anyway. The ier limits are based on historical values and are a bit generous. They should be changed to accurately reflect the use of water today. (I summarise this in my head. This is faster) Step 3: I reread the question and the underlined portion again. Now I see that the underlined portion explains WHY the current system used to charge people for water is not effective. A bit after I see that this underlined portion is used as justification for a change in the system. Step 4: read the options. Now with a proper understanding it should be easy to eliminate options. 1. You chose the option A. Now, LOGICALLY, A makes sense. HOWEVER, does the passage actually say that households are charged more when usage increases. Ik this is a logical inference, that as usage decreases, the amount charge decreases. However, the passage DOES NOT refer to increase in charge anywhere. Eliminate this. (You have to make sure u pick options the passage DIRECTLY states. This is not a passage where u predict the continuation of the pasage.)

@Sarah Chan alr, so I do English with my mother (she's an English teacher), and she tells me to first read the question (that includes the underlined part), then read the passage. It doesn't really matter if u understood the underlined sentence or not, cause what that sentence MEANS is dependent on the passage, and u only understand that when u properly read the passage. To me, a perk of reading this way is that it is VERY easy to eliminate options. From what I've seen, the sat loves to add stuff not mentioned in the passage, but are similar to topics discussed in the passage. For me, if I didn't properly read the passage I'd always get confused. This method when typed out seems very long but it really isn't. After about 10-15 questions u get used to the method and speed picks up. Sometimes, u may not even need to read as many times as I did here. What u choose to do depends entirely on how ur brain works. Ik that I'd be more confident making decisions working the way I do above.

@Junior Pazzam I have a question. When do u use "x1 = random (40)", cause sometimes using that gives the right ans and sometimes not. Here I didn't use it and got the wrong ans, but in other questions when I use regression and I don't use it my ans is correct

@Junior Pazzam ahh, I was asking that, when deciding if the clause after the blank is dependent or independent, do we include the blanks contents? If I took the second clause as "dropping an extra stress into the fourth line makes the speaker’s hesitation audible" it's an independnet clause. However, if I tool it as "which dropping an extra stress into the fourth line makes the speaker’s hesitation audible" it's dependent. Do we ignore the content of the blanks when determining if the clause is dependent or independet?

@Junior Pazzam ahh ty so much