concision and wordiness
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summary
the lesson focuses on the importance of concision and avoiding wordiness in the act exam, emphasizing that shorter, clearer answers are preferable if they retain the essential information.
- concision means being concise, and on the act, succinct answers are usually better as long as they are clear and do not omit significant details.
- when faced with multiple answer choices, the shortest one that does not lose any essential information is often the correct choice.
- the lesson provides examples to illustrate how to choose more concise answer options without sacrificing content clarity or meaning.
- words like 'being' are almost always unnecessary and can make an answer choice wrong due to added wordiness.
- identifying and eliminating wordy answer choices can lead to selecting the most concise and accurate responses.
chapters
00:00
understanding concision
00:51
applying concision to test examples
02:28
identifying common pitfalls