A minute over time only because I eliminated B on the first pass. Just read too fast and did not make the appropriate connections. But when I shallow dove on the rest and saw they were all incorrect, I went back to A and B, saw that B was SOLIDLY analogous and chose it. Time is a killer.
A minute over the recommended time, but I got it right! Doing a shallow dip was really helpful to eliminate 2 of the answer choices for me, and I went a bit deeper and eliminated another. Then I had two left, started a deep dive on one, the logic lined up, chose it, and BOOM!
I know that even a few months ago, this type of question would have stumped me for 5+ minutes. Thanks JY!
It took forever for me to ultimately get the right answer but is there something fundamentally wrong with where I placed /ep-weak? I though because the stim says "so any nation with a government that has made such a commitment will avoid economic and political weakness," it would place /ep-weak all the way to the right of the causual chain.
I'm not huge on diagramming and I know he said we should be doing this in our head but I'm stuck on whether or not my general reasoning of causation is flawed. Please help!
This section is all about patterns. Triangle is mentioned. Square is mentioned. SO, since square made the commitment, square will have the advantage.
This HAS to apply in the answer choice.
Answer B:
People incapable of empathy = trangle
People who do have the capacity can manipulate = square
SO,
SQUARE HAS TO BE MENTIONED IN THE CONC.
People who can manipulate = square.
*Remember, square looks better in the premise and the conclusion and is saying square is better. Therefore, it needs to look "good" in the stimulus and right answer choice.
I know this sounds a little silly but the content DOES NOT MATTER. Its all about the reasoning. The content only matters when you are down to two answer choices left. But try not rule these out just because you are not getting them right now, please, work on them. They are fast and by looking at the bright side, you can rack up these points just as easily as you can lose them.
I don't know why I got this answer right, but reading through the answer choices, AC B felt intuitively correct. Is this something that I can trust for the actual test, or do I need to look into this further?
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i'm eating these
Tried to do this one without diagramming. Took me 7 minutes and came up with nothing. After I diagrammed it, I got the answer right immediately SMH.
2:39 mins over and i got a difficult one right! Thanks Jesusss
holy sh$t i got it right!
got it right, but with 22 seconds over, its still a miracle
45 seconds over but I got it right
Over 3 minutes... but got it right.
Highlighting the parts that align with the stimulus really helps:
I feel like not chaining on this question really helped me, while JY chained it. Not chaining actually helped to find right answer.
got this one right but exceeded over 2 mins
this question absolutely sucked
In order to quickly shallow dip eliminate ACs, I found it very helpful to immediately translate the stimulus argument into abstract concepts.
uneducated pop-> weak ep
educated pop-> committ
conclusion: commit-> /weak ep
Abstract form:
A->B
/A-> C
conclusion: C-> /B
So, as I read the ACs I translated into A, B, C form and it really helped on timing.
A minute over time only because I eliminated B on the first pass. Just read too fast and did not make the appropriate connections. But when I shallow dove on the rest and saw they were all incorrect, I went back to A and B, saw that B was SOLIDLY analogous and chose it. Time is a killer.
A minute over the recommended time, but I got it right! Doing a shallow dip was really helpful to eliminate 2 of the answer choices for me, and I went a bit deeper and eliminated another. Then I had two left, started a deep dive on one, the logic lined up, chose it, and BOOM!
I know that even a few months ago, this type of question would have stumped me for 5+ minutes. Thanks JY!
JY diagrammed the stim out as:
/edu —> ep-weak
/ep-weak —> edu —> commit
But I diagrammed it as:
/edu —> ep-weak
edu —> commit —> /ep-weak
It took forever for me to ultimately get the right answer but is there something fundamentally wrong with where I placed /ep-weak? I though because the stim says "so any nation with a government that has made such a commitment will avoid economic and political weakness," it would place /ep-weak all the way to the right of the causual chain.
I'm not huge on diagramming and I know he said we should be doing this in our head but I'm stuck on whether or not my general reasoning of causation is flawed. Please help!
This section is all about patterns. Triangle is mentioned. Square is mentioned. SO, since square made the commitment, square will have the advantage.
This HAS to apply in the answer choice.
Answer B:
People incapable of empathy = trangle
People who do have the capacity can manipulate = square
SO,
SQUARE HAS TO BE MENTIONED IN THE CONC.
People who can manipulate = square.
*Remember, square looks better in the premise and the conclusion and is saying square is better. Therefore, it needs to look "good" in the stimulus and right answer choice.
I know this sounds a little silly but the content DOES NOT MATTER. Its all about the reasoning. The content only matters when you are down to two answer choices left. But try not rule these out just because you are not getting them right now, please, work on them. They are fast and by looking at the bright side, you can rack up these points just as easily as you can lose them.
Whoever came up with the initial explanaton video for these parallel questions, you deserve a medal.
What used to be my absolute worst set of questions, has become something I get 100% of the time, and at worst slightly above target time.
Using that approach is an absolute gamechanger, wow. I don't even need to read all the options.
this may or may not have taken me 17 minutes
bingo with 25 seconds to spare...foot on the gas y'all
Got it right on BR when time was not the issue. Yeah I might have to just guess these on the test.
yay only 6 secs over
Finaly feeling good about these :)
I don't know why I got this answer right, but reading through the answer choices, AC B felt intuitively correct. Is this something that I can trust for the actual test, or do I need to look into this further?
Did a fistpump IRL, can't believe I got it right
15 minutes and I still got it wrong. sigh