SAT Practice Honors 10/3

An Employee Benefit That Benefits Employers

According to a 2014 report from the Society for Human Resource Management, 54 percent of surveyed companies provide tuition assistance to employees pursuing an undergraduate degree, and 50 percent do so for employees working toward a graduate degree. Despite these findings, more companies should consider helping employees pay for education because doing so helps increase customer satisfaction and improve the quality of the companies’ business.

Which choice provides the most effective transition from the previous sentence to the information that immediately follows in this sentence?

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• In addition to the 2014 report

• Although these levels are impressive,

• Whether they want to or not,

An Employee Benefit That Benefits Employers

According to a 2014 report from the Society for Human Resource Management, 54 percent of surveyed companies provide tuition assistance to employees pursuing an undergraduate degree, and 50 percent do so for employees working toward a graduate degree. Despite these findings, more companies should consider helping employees pay for education because doing so helps increase customer satisfaction and improve the quality of the companies’ business.

Which choice most effectively establishes the main idea of the passage?

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• solve the problem of rising tuition costs

• strengthen the US economy

• attract and retain employees

Tuition-reimbursement programs signal that employers offer their workers’ opportunities for personal and professional development.

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• workers opportunities’

• workers opportunities

• worker’s opportunity’s