GUYS GUYS GUYS IVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR FOUR HOURS AND I FINALLY GOT IT RIGHTTTTTT. TIP FOR YALL LIKE ME: Stop viewing it as a STRENGTHEN QUESTION. It is NOT a strengthen question our intent is NOT to strengthen. Simply look at the choices blankly and think, HMMMM, which one of these that is in the stimulus would mess up the argument IF I NEGATE IT. If what of these is NOT TRUE would mess up my reasoning. ALSO, very EXACT things like guarantees are TOO STRONG. hence why we dont wanna see it as a strengthen question you may be swayed this way. 7SAGE i think you need to better clarify how this is not exactly a strengthen question...
The reason I eliminated C was because it said increased tuition would 'guarantee' a larger applicant pool, but I interpreted the negation of it (not guarantee) as still having the possibility of an increase. So the argument doesn't completely fall apart. Is that a valid way for me to eliminate this AC, or am I misinterpreting it?
Bruh no way they played me I was like A is wayyyy too easy. New note- na answers can literally be the weakest most disgustingly obvious possible assumption ever and still be correct
@TeklaCo I might be a little late with this but I can explain why B isn't the case.
B is talking about the quality of education and its relationship to tuition. However, this is not necessary because the stimulus doesn't actually directly talk about the quality of the education itself, but what parents/students conclude about the quality of education. So basically, B could be false, but parents and students could still conclude that education is linked to fees.
For B to work, you need to make the assumption that parents/students make conclusions based off of facts, but the stimulus doesn't give you any justification for why they conclude as such or what would cause them to conclude otherwise.
I got lucky and just started by reading A, thought "well that's obviously necessary" and submitted it w/o bothering to read any other answers. Totally would have fallen for B
That's crazy i struck out "a" cause i thought it was implied - l was like why would that be the answer if its so obviously implied by his conclusion. Damm guess i was making an assumption without even noticing - won't get me again.
eliminated B because its the parents that think the price of education is tied to its quality. The university president is not presenting that as his own belief, he just wants more applicants.
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GUYS GUYS GUYS IVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR FOUR HOURS AND I FINALLY GOT IT RIGHTTTTTT. TIP FOR YALL LIKE ME: Stop viewing it as a STRENGTHEN QUESTION. It is NOT a strengthen question our intent is NOT to strengthen. Simply look at the choices blankly and think, HMMMM, which one of these that is in the stimulus would mess up the argument IF I NEGATE IT. If what of these is NOT TRUE would mess up my reasoning. ALSO, very EXACT things like guarantees are TOO STRONG. hence why we dont wanna see it as a strengthen question you may be swayed this way. 7SAGE i think you need to better clarify how this is not exactly a strengthen question...
The reason I eliminated C was because it said increased tuition would 'guarantee' a larger applicant pool, but I interpreted the negation of it (not guarantee) as still having the possibility of an increase. So the argument doesn't completely fall apart. Is that a valid way for me to eliminate this AC, or am I misinterpreting it?
FINALLY HELL YA
I got the question correct on blind review.
one of my favorite things to do has become guessing the difficulty of a question by the number of comments in the discussion
note to future self: revisit this since it kicked your ass
Bruh no way they played me I was like A is wayyyy too easy. New note- na answers can literally be the weakest most disgustingly obvious possible assumption ever and still be correct
negate A and the argument instantly falls apart.
@sarahbalfoul yup!!!!
what
This felt so easy on BR. Fell for the trap.
same
This is wild. Stressed. Three days away and still getting tricked lol.
I feel so stupid 🥲
NOO I FELL FOR THE FLIPPED SA AND NA (C) !!! IM SO MADD
i'm irritated
@yes-coconuts Literally, same.
Everyone's talking about how stupid the answer is, but no one is talking about how stupid the argument is. :(
idk B makes sense to me honestly
@TeklaCo I might be a little late with this but I can explain why B isn't the case.
B is talking about the quality of education and its relationship to tuition. However, this is not necessary because the stimulus doesn't actually directly talk about the quality of the education itself, but what parents/students conclude about the quality of education. So basically, B could be false, but parents and students could still conclude that education is linked to fees.
For B to work, you need to make the assumption that parents/students make conclusions based off of facts, but the stimulus doesn't give you any justification for why they conclude as such or what would cause them to conclude otherwise.
i couldve sworn A was a trick wtf LOL
I got lucky and just started by reading A, thought "well that's obviously necessary" and submitted it w/o bothering to read any other answers. Totally would have fallen for B
Another riddles 3 I'd expect a bridge troll to present to me like okay sure
That's crazy i struck out "a" cause i thought it was implied - l was like why would that be the answer if its so obviously implied by his conclusion. Damm guess i was making an assumption without even noticing - won't get me again.
@JessOk Nope I did the same
What if instead of "one possible explanation," he just said "one explanation"? Then would D be correct?
A seemed so tempting to me so I moved on to other ACs :)
Taught C was the answer lol
LET ME OUT OF THIS SA & NA JAILLLLLLLLL GET ME OUT OF HEREEEE
@iriswu84153 well at least NA and SA are not the top 3 most common question types
@iriswu84153 give me SA absolutely any day over NA
eliminated B because its the parents that think the price of education is tied to its quality. The university president is not presenting that as his own belief, he just wants more applicants.