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I have been seriously struggling with weaken and strengthen questions compared to any other question type I have encountered thus far. Can anyone give me some advice on how to correctly answer these questions?
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I have been seriously struggling with weaken and strengthen questions compared to any other question type I have encountered thus far. Can anyone give me some advice on how to correctly answer these questions?
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Hi Aida! For weaken and strengthening, I really just focus on the relationship between the conclusion and the premises in the stimulus. Finding out why the author comes to their conclusion is important. Also, just remembering HOW to weaken an argument (most often being introducing alternative explanations) helps as well. For strengthening, you can identify the "gap" in the author's reasoning (If author thinks dogs are bad because having fur is bad, the statement "all dogs have fur" would strengthen the argument by filling the gap). Strengthen questions can also have the negation or blocking of a weakener as the correct answer!
@MarcusTsang Thank you so much Marcus I really appreciate this! I will follow your advice :)