During a twenty-second triage scan, Talia records the following information.
Scan card for Set 1: Humanities | comparative pair | 6 questions | moderate prose. The opening suggests some abstraction but visible paragraph roles. Preview: Passage A attributes changes in regional storytelling to artists' choices; Passage B emphasizes institutions, patrons, and distribution networks. Practice-based estimate: about 6.5 minutes at roughly 94% accuracy.
Scan card for Set 2: Law | single passage | 8 questions | light prose. The opening suggests concrete examples and direct transitions. Preview: The passage evaluates whether reform of disability accommodation improves access or merely shifts administrative costs, concluding that outcomes depend on how review is structured. Practice-based estimate: about 7.0 minutes at roughly 82% accuracy.
Scan card for Set 3: Natural science | single passage | 5 questions | light prose. The opening suggests concrete examples and direct transitions. Preview: The author weighs whether a pattern in volcanic aerosols reflects adaptation or a by-product of physical conditions and concludes that the current evidence favors a mixed account. Practice-based estimate: about 5.5 minutes at roughly 93% accuracy.
Scan card for Set 4: Social science | single passage | 5 questions | very dense prose. The opening suggests nested claims, compressed transitions, and abstract vocabulary. Preview: The passage asks whether outcomes in food-label interpretation are driven mainly by network ties or institutional rules and argues that networks matter most when rules leave room for discretion. Practice-based estimate: about 7.5 minutes at roughly 82% accuracy.
Reader profile: Practice review for Talia ranks topic comfort from highest to lowest as Humanities, Social science, Natural science, then Law. Paired passages add little time as long as the viewpoints are clearly opposed.
Talia's first draft was Set 2 -> Set 1 -> Set 3 -> Set 4, chosen only from question counts. A better revision should integrate topic comfort, density, comparative format, and completion risk. Several factors point in different directions; the credited plan must distinguish a manageable warm-up from a set that is too large or dense to save for last.
Which revised sequence is best supported by the full scan of the regional storytelling and food-label interpretation passage sets?