While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: Maya Patel creates dance performances for theater productions. Patel...
GMAT Expression of Ideas : (Expression) Questions
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Maya Patel creates dance performances for theater productions.
- Patel specializes in designing movement sequences that tell stories through physical expression.
- A person who creates dance performances for theater is called a choreographer.
- Ballet, modern dance, and jazz are common styles used in theatrical choreography.
The student wants to identify Patel's professional role. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Patel is a choreographer.
Ballet and modern dance are styles used in theater.
There are people who create dance performances.
Some professionals work in theatrical productions.
Step 1: Decode and Map the Passage
Create Passage Analysis Table
| Text from Passage | Analysis |
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| Maya Patel creates dance performances for theater productions. |
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| Patel specializes in designing movement sequences that tell stories through physical expression. |
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| A person who creates dance performances for theater is called a choreographer. |
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| Ballet, modern dance, and jazz are common styles used in theatrical choreography. |
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Provide Passage Architecture & Core Elements
Main Point: The notes provide information about Maya Patel's work creating dance performances for theater and define the professional term for this role.
Argument Flow: The notes first establish what Patel does (creates theater dance performances), then provide more detail about her specialty (storytelling through movement), then define the professional term for this role (choreographer), and finally provide context about the field (common dance styles used).
Step 2: Interpret the Question Precisely
This is a fill-in-the-blank question asking us to choose the best logical connector. The answer must create the right relationship between what comes before and after the blank.
Step 3: Prethink the Answer
- Looking at our notes, we know Patel creates dance performances for theater productions, and we're explicitly told that "a person who creates dance performances for theater is called a choreographer."
- So the right answer should directly identify Patel as a choreographer, using the definition provided in the notes.
Patel is a choreographer.
- This directly identifies Patel's professional role as a choreographer.
- It perfectly matches our notes: Patel creates dance performances for theater, and the notes define this role as "choreographer".
Ballet and modern dance are styles used in theater.
- This is about dance styles used in theater, not about Patel's professional role.
- While this information is in the notes, it doesn't accomplish the goal of identifying what Patel's profession is.
There are people who create dance performances.
- This is a general statement about people who create dance performances.
- It doesn't specifically identify Patel's professional role.
Some professionals work in theatrical productions.
- This is an extremely vague statement about professionals in theater.
- It doesn't identify Patel's specific role at all.