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Hey guys! I have just finished the LR portion in the core curriculum so now I am on the RC section and I am really struggling to eliminate wrong answers in RC. For every RC question I can safely eliminate at least 2 wrong answers but then I really struggle to find reasons to eliminate the last 2. It just seems so much fuzzier then LR where it's very clear that there are 4 wrong answers. Any tips?
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Hello! I totally understand why RC seems much fuzzier than LR. Adding to all the great comments below, I would say focusing on the exact language of the answer choices really helps.
An AC might look almost perfect... until there's a single word or phrase that makes it descriptively inaccurate. For instance, did the author ever actually say X is a 'primary' or 'chief' factor? Or consider a scenario where the passage says, 'Y is much more valuable than Z.' If an answer choice claims that 'Z has no value,' it is incorrect. Did the author ever say Z doesn't have a value? No, just that it has less value than Y.
A trap AC will often contain a subtle assumption or exaggeration that the author never provided as fact. With that being said, keep in mind that MSS and Inference questions in RC are very similar to the ones in LR; it is just that the stimulus is much longer. I hope this helps, and best of luck!
I agree with you that it seems much fuzzier. What I'd recommend is reviewing those situations that you find fuzzy, and coming up with a sort of proof that the wrong answer choices are wrong. Find exactly in the text where it becomes unfuzzy, and the answer choice becomes definitely incorrect. Doing this in review will eventually give you a sense of what to pay attention to when reading the passage and what kinds of phrases signal evidence that makes it less fuzzy.
Hey there! 1 thing that can really help is actually looking at your ACs through an LR lens. There may be a couplpe answers that seem compatible with the text, but through a logical lens, they aren't quite supported (can you say "most" or "primary? Is there a sufficiency-necessity misrepresentation?).