Keep going guys, you've got this. You're all going to do fantastic on your tests, you're going to get into law school. You're going to do great things. I'm rooting for you!!!! You can do it!!!!
@jrm98 Honestly, the only thing that's helped me improve a bit is to read the answer choices super slowly and negate them. So for this one's answer, I read :
"it is not much easier today to domesticate wild large mammal species than it was in the past"
As:
"It is much easier today to domesticate wild large mammal species than it was in the past."
Then I applied it to the argument. If you take the negation to be true, the argument's just not possible.
But yeah, I'm thinking unless I learn to do these quicker, I'll just skip and leave to the end on test day, guess if I have to, and focus on the ones I know I can do right and in good time.
Here's a tip for anyone struggling with necessary assumption questions! At first I was really struggling, but I switched to using the negation technique. Basically, for necessary assumption questions, negate your answer choices. With your negated answer choices, go through each one and see which one completely wrecks your argument. That answer choice will be your correct answer choice. I was trying to do it a different way and was getting all of these questions wrong, but now that I made the switch I have been getting them right!
i got the answer right but i just used negation for this and the way i just sat back up cause it rly just clicked for me. i used poe to get the correct answer but i got too into my head with blind review. thank u sm!
A dreadfull and pedantic question. Been sitting here for 45 minutes and still dont understand the logic. Solution is vastly unsatisfying. 0/10. Moving on.
I am also just not understanding his explanation. He keeps repeating the same thing hoping it sticks but its not lol. Will look on google or youtube for other methods
I always see a lot of discouraged comments, and I just want to share that this is all practice. I got this wrong during the first round because I did not understand the stim. But I took my time in BR and kept rereading the stim until I realized that if domesticated then -> domesticated now.
Once this clicked, the P-->C bridge formed itself.
That to say, don't be too hard on yourself and keep trying though it can be discouraging.
Something that has helped me is REALLY force yourself to leave any real-life knowledge out of your thought process. You may look at an answer and think that it does not make sense based on your previous knowledge but that is what caused me to get many questions wrong. Really force yourself to just go based off of the information that they give you. I am not sure if this will help anyone but if it does yay!
P1: Every domesticated large mammal species we have today was domesticated thousands of years ago
P2: Since then, people have tried thousands of times to domesticate each of the wild large mammal species that seemed worth domesticating
Conclusion: most wild large mammal species in existence today either would be difficult to domesticate or would not be worth domesticating
I was really confused about what the stimulus was even saying. The conclusion is that the large mammal species that remain wild today (aka were not domesticated) would be difficult to domesticate or would not be worth domesticating. In other words, today's large wild mammal species remain wild either because our ancestors didn't think they were worth domesticating and therefore didn't try, or because our ancestors tried to domesticate them but failed (because they were difficult to domesticate). Because it is an argument by analogy between the past and present, the past and present conditions can't be radically different in regards to domestication, or else the conclusion wouldn't hold. Negating answer choice B) would provide such a flaw and so we know it's a necessary assumption. (If species are much easier to domesticate now, then the reason they remain wild can't be because they're difficult to domesticate)
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Keep going guys, you've got this. You're all going to do fantastic on your tests, you're going to get into law school. You're going to do great things. I'm rooting for you!!!! You can do it!!!!
Love all the positive vibes. Great attitude, Thank you :)
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Pick the conclusion and negate the attractive answer. If it weakens the conclusion, it is the right answer. I have been doing that.
This helped me so much, I've gotten every NA question right since trying this. Thank you!!
You are welcome! But don’t only use this technique you need to also analyze the argument. It doesn’t work for all of them!
Like this comment if you misread the argument and chose A
i have gotten every single one in this section wrong. it is not clicking
@jrm98 Honestly, the only thing that's helped me improve a bit is to read the answer choices super slowly and negate them. So for this one's answer, I read :
"it is not much easier today to domesticate wild large mammal species than it was in the past"
As:
"It is much easier today to domesticate wild large mammal species than it was in the past."
Then I applied it to the argument. If you take the negation to be true, the argument's just not possible.
But yeah, I'm thinking unless I learn to do these quicker, I'll just skip and leave to the end on test day, guess if I have to, and focus on the ones I know I can do right and in good time.
Here's a tip for anyone struggling with necessary assumption questions! At first I was really struggling, but I switched to using the negation technique. Basically, for necessary assumption questions, negate your answer choices. With your negated answer choices, go through each one and see which one completely wrecks your argument. That answer choice will be your correct answer choice. I was trying to do it a different way and was getting all of these questions wrong, but now that I made the switch I have been getting them right!
can someone please give me an example of negating the answer choices? struggling to figure out how exactly everyone is doing it
i got the answer right but i just used negation for this and the way i just sat back up cause it rly just clicked for me. i used poe to get the correct answer but i got too into my head with blind review. thank u sm!
This helped me so much, thank you!
dude, i just did the following question after this and i came back to say thank you, thank you, thank you. insane, thank you so much!!
Got every NA question wrong so far, 140 here we come!
up is the only way to go from here brethren
A dreadfull and pedantic question. Been sitting here for 45 minutes and still dont understand the logic. Solution is vastly unsatisfying. 0/10. Moving on.
oh my this is really the question type that i can not get down
I am also just not understanding his explanation. He keeps repeating the same thing hoping it sticks but its not lol. Will look on google or youtube for other methods
NA questions are so difficult compared to other question types for some reason. Like, what is going on??
the last TWO modules have kicked my ass
Bye I chose A
Damn I dont get it
@TeklaCo same
i am not good at these at all
NA and I are just not working outtttt. I keep going for the question that strengthens :(
Me too mate, me too!
Was breezing thru these sections till I got to NA. Literally haven't gotten a single one correct ffs
I think I genuinely didn't understand the stimulus for this one...
i hated this question with a burning passion
After getting trounced in SA, this is the one "you try" to break the losing streak. Thank you domesticated mammals.
I always see a lot of discouraged comments, and I just want to share that this is all practice. I got this wrong during the first round because I did not understand the stim. But I took my time in BR and kept rereading the stim until I realized that if domesticated then -> domesticated now.
Once this clicked, the P-->C bridge formed itself.
That to say, don't be too hard on yourself and keep trying though it can be discouraging.
Something that has helped me is REALLY force yourself to leave any real-life knowledge out of your thought process. You may look at an answer and think that it does not make sense based on your previous knowledge but that is what caused me to get many questions wrong. Really force yourself to just go based off of the information that they give you. I am not sure if this will help anyone but if it does yay!
Half of these answer choices felt necessary to the argument...
@MRod completely agree
P1: Every domesticated large mammal species we have today was domesticated thousands of years ago
P2: Since then, people have tried thousands of times to domesticate each of the wild large mammal species that seemed worth domesticating
Conclusion: most wild large mammal species in existence today either would be difficult to domesticate or would not be worth domesticating
I was really confused about what the stimulus was even saying. The conclusion is that the large mammal species that remain wild today (aka were not domesticated) would be difficult to domesticate or would not be worth domesticating. In other words, today's large wild mammal species remain wild either because our ancestors didn't think they were worth domesticating and therefore didn't try, or because our ancestors tried to domesticate them but failed (because they were difficult to domesticate). Because it is an argument by analogy between the past and present, the past and present conditions can't be radically different in regards to domestication, or else the conclusion wouldn't hold. Negating answer choice B) would provide such a flaw and so we know it's a necessary assumption. (If species are much easier to domesticate now, then the reason they remain wild can't be because they're difficult to domesticate)
@AudreyGilmour Thank you!! This helped connect the dots for me
NA questions, Negate answer questions lol