Here's another tip. Choose the ONLY answer that does not bring in any sort of outside information. If an answer choice gives us information that wasn't given to us in the stimulus, why would you choose it? You really have to stick to just using the stimulus for everything you know.
the problem with these exercises is that all the answers but the right answer are easily struck out because of irrelevance or assumptions. In the drills and practice tests the challenge comes with the complexity of the mapping and answers.
Took me awhile to realize this but if you click "quick view" above the video it will show the questions, and you can try it for yourself first before watching the explanation!
I use it as a blind review (and not looking at the answer, just color) because I have to patience for waiting to see what I got right or wrong (Im working on this lack of patience;)
Something that I've been doing for these lessons is creating a drill in a separate tab with the question and doing it before watching the video lesson. I find this helps me track errors in my own reasoning and compare to JYs. Basically making each lesson a "you try" helps a lot
What i've gathered so far is that we must be wary of the "only" "any way" words, as these would presume that nothing else outside of the question stem can be considered. Hope this helped!
I think it would be useful to make all of these lessons also a You Try Drill. We would probably benefit more by attempting it ourselves to see if we can use the correct logic and familiarize ourselves with the question before we watch the lesson. #feedback
@SheridanMcGadden I don't know if this helps but I've been viewing the questions before hand and going through them on my own, and then watching the explanation. Unsure if that is what you were getting at, but it was a frustration for me for a time.
@SheridanMcGadden Underneath the title "Lesson 7 - Coastal Estuaries" there is an eye next to "show question" that you can click on to view the question. This option is under all lesson titles.
Did anyone else have a smaller chain and still got the correct answer. I mapped it out as sewage -> algae -> rich food source -> kill fish and still got the correct answer rather than doing the entire chain that he did.
@JuliaSchroeder I did that too! I kicked the middle info into the domain and just shortened it even more to sewage -> kill fish and that was E. Not sure if it's the correct formula.
I've lived on a lake my whole life. Hopefully, J.Y. is pronouncing "algae" wrong because I have always said "al-jee". Otherwise, I have been lied to my entire life.
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I've never heard someone pronounce algae like that.
hahaha same
Here's another tip. Choose the ONLY answer that does not bring in any sort of outside information. If an answer choice gives us information that wasn't given to us in the stimulus, why would you choose it? You really have to stick to just using the stimulus for everything you know.
algee
algi
Am I getting better or are these all super easy
the problem with these exercises is that all the answers but the right answer are easily struck out because of irrelevance or assumptions. In the drills and practice tests the challenge comes with the complexity of the mapping and answers.
I think this is where I am struggling too, these practice problems I rarely get confused or get incorrect. Can't say the same on the drills though
Took me awhile to realize this but if you click "quick view" above the video it will show the questions, and you can try it for yourself first before watching the explanation!
I use it as a blind review (and not looking at the answer, just color) because I have to patience for waiting to see what I got right or wrong (Im working on this lack of patience;)
Thank you!! Very helpful.
Does anyone ever feel like we're kinda doing math when we're mapping and diagramming?
Yess
Something that I've been doing for these lessons is creating a drill in a separate tab with the question and doing it before watching the video lesson. I find this helps me track errors in my own reasoning and compare to JYs. Basically making each lesson a "you try" helps a lot
I agree. I like the "you try" because I like to compare my thought process with JYs.
how do you find it in the drills? #help
i swear these videos just make it more complicated E just seemed right smh
@yam E is right wdymmmmmmm
i wish the penmanship was a bit more clear
What i've gathered so far is that we must be wary of the "only" "any way" words, as these would presume that nothing else outside of the question stem can be considered. Hope this helped!
How can we tell that this question contains a causal relationship and not a conditional relationship? #help
What helps me here is looking out for strong words, A, B, C, D use words like will not, any way, red flag
Is it correct to assume that with MBT and Inf questions, no outside information should be in the correct answer?
Does anyone else pronounce it al-gee instead of al-ghee?
@WingStopRanch25 haha yes I was looking for this comment
@WingStopRanch25 thats like least of my concerns right now
for some reason these are so much easier for me than the regular mbt
if you are going to ask people to pause to consider the answer choices it would be best to make them visible while pausing, this is quite annoying
I think it would be useful to make all of these lessons also a You Try Drill. We would probably benefit more by attempting it ourselves to see if we can use the correct logic and familiarize ourselves with the question before we watch the lesson. #feedback
I was a little scared of ''most fish'' in the answer choices went back to stimulus to double-check that it was confirmed there
@TeklaCo same!! means our brains are working!
@TeklaCo Same here
So if there is a comparative claim in the answers should we just automatically rule it out?
Does anyone else dislike it when they only give a couple of answers at a time?
@SheridanMcGadden I don't know if this helps but I've been viewing the questions before hand and going through them on my own, and then watching the explanation. Unsure if that is what you were getting at, but it was a frustration for me for a time.
@JCSamson11 where are you seeing the whole question? I don't want to give the answer away before I have a chance to read it all.
@SheridanMcGadden Underneath the title "Lesson 7 - Coastal Estuaries" there is an eye next to "show question" that you can click on to view the question. This option is under all lesson titles.
@DanielleMeuret You're my hero. This has been bugging the shit out of me.
Did anyone else have a smaller chain and still got the correct answer. I mapped it out as sewage -> algae -> rich food source -> kill fish and still got the correct answer rather than doing the entire chain that he did.
@JuliaSchroeder I did that too! I kicked the middle info into the domain and just shortened it even more to sewage -> kill fish and that was E. Not sure if it's the correct formula.
you sir…are a fish
@ArthurMorgan i have faith in you arthur..
@GTHOMP2 thank you mister
I've lived on a lake my whole life. Hopefully, J.Y. is pronouncing "algae" wrong because I have always said "al-jee". Otherwise, I have been lied to my entire life.