Self-study
Hi all, Phenomenon-hypothesis (LR) is my highest priority in tags for logical reasoning. I know it's not a question type like Weaken, Strengthen, etc., but does anyone have any tips or advice for handling questions with this tag or improving at these? Thanks!
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The first thing I would recommend is to review the causal reasoning section of the core curriculum, under the foundations. What phenomenon-hypothesis questions are fundamentally about is identifying an event, and coming up with an explanation for why it's occurring. A potential explanation is a hypothesis i.e. it may or may not be the case. This will center on causal logic, as something which could be causing the phenomenon.
When looking at PH questions, make sure that you can clearly identify what the phenomenon is, and what the hypothesis is, and be able to describe this to yourself before proceeding to the answers. If you're noticing that you struggle to do this, it could be a stimulus understanding issue. Also note if you find certain question types with the PH tag harder than others (you can click on the specific PH questions you got wrong in your analytics to note this.)
I would also do drills exclusively with this tag, which you can generate with the drill builder. Begin with the level that you find difficult, and as you work through and review try to identify the similarities between the questions. Then, when you do an LR section, try to consciously identify which questions are PH. Note if when you review, you weren't always able to do so correctly.
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