Last night I did a livestream on the second channel. Like usual, I did "SAT questions until I get one wrong." Ultimately, I lost on a hard Transitions question. It was a really niche question, where the word "thus" worked, but the sentence right BEFORE the blank was not a clean cause-and-effect, while the rest of the passage was. Therefore, "thus" or "nevertheless" could have both technically worked, and I (and the chat) chose wrong. Basically, it was weird. And the question made me realize something: This was a concept you NEVER could possibly understand from a YouTube video. (You probably didn't even understand my explanation of it above lol.) This was a mistake you could ONLY understand by actually GETTING A QUESTION WRONG and then examining it afterward. (Like I did lol.) It's just too ultra-specific and weird for someone to ever understand without trying it. These are two underrated benefits from doing practice questions: 1) You realize things you NEVER wouldn't learned otherwise 2) When you get questions wrong, the PAIN of missing the questions is actual encouragement to improve I (and the chat) experienced both of these last night. And you can experience it EVERY time you do practice questions. So, the next time you're doing questions on a website like Aniko, remember that this is the goal: Identifying niche concepts and making sure mistakes don't repeat. New stream tonight, too, by the way.

Answer to the previous question was 10. Not doing a livestream tonight. Will be back tomorrow night! Will still be doing an SAT Grind Session in Mission 1400+ though! Many studies of coral bleaching have relied on satellite measurements that show broad, averaged changes in sea-surface conditions across large areas. Those studies have helped researchers connect certain warm periods to later bleaching, but they often cannot determine whether the observed environmental patterns are driving bleaching or merely occurring alongside it. In addition, because satellite signals are averaged over relatively long time intervals, they can miss short-lived spikes in temperature or light that some scientists suspect are crucial for triggering bleaching. These limitations help explain why some researchers have begun using approaches that _____ Which choice most logically completes the text? A) capture short-lived spikes in temperature or light at reefs, even if they still cannot show whether those spikes actually trigger bleaching B) test whether temporarily cooling reef areas reduces bleaching, even if the measurements used are still too coarse to detect short spikes in conditions C) provide more detailed maps of where warming occurs and relate those patterns to bleaching reports, without directly altering reef conditions D) allow researchers to record rapid changes in reef conditions and test their importance by briefly reducing those changes and comparing later bleaching outcomes