If you haven't already, I'd recommend watching Kevin's LR Fast Track under the lesson library LR section, all the way at the bottom. It helped me a lot personally!
Anyway I use struggle with must be true question for two reasons
I started studying logical reasoning with powers core and started studying with power score
But anyway those days are behind. Something that changed the game for me with Must be true is that they are 100% proven by the stimulus
No, 80, 90, 95, 99 but 100%
So eliminate anything that could be true but necessarily doesn't have to or is not proven to be always true by the stimulus
If the stimulus says some people are vegetarian and an answer choice says
Nancy is a person, so she must be vegetarian
Based on the stimulus that can definitely be true but it can also not be true because there are some people that are not and Nancy can be in that group we don't know. That is a could be answer not a must be
But if the stimulus says
All people are vegetarian
And an answer says
Nancy is a person, so she's vegetarian
That must be true because by the stimulus All peole are vegetarian and Nancy is a person
So find an answer thats 100$ proven by the stimulus
If you're getting MBT questions wrong but almost every other question type correct (including conditional logic), then it's probably an issue with drawing inferences from conditional chains. I had the same problem — I was good at conditional reasoning but sucked at MBT / MBF questions. Review all of the valid inferences you can draw, and write them down on a little cheat sheet. Review it every day and eventually they'll stick and become automatic.
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If you haven't already, I'd recommend watching Kevin's LR Fast Track under the lesson library LR section, all the way at the bottom. It helped me a lot personally!
Anyway I use struggle with must be true question for two reasons
I started studying logical reasoning with powers core and started studying with power score
But anyway those days are behind. Something that changed the game for me with Must be true is that they are 100% proven by the stimulus
No, 80, 90, 95, 99 but 100%
So eliminate anything that could be true but necessarily doesn't have to or is not proven to be always true by the stimulus
If the stimulus says some people are vegetarian and an answer choice says
Nancy is a person, so she must be vegetarian
Based on the stimulus that can definitely be true but it can also not be true because there are some people that are not and Nancy can be in that group we don't know. That is a could be answer not a must be
But if the stimulus says
All people are vegetarian
And an answer says
Nancy is a person, so she's vegetarian
That must be true because by the stimulus All peole are vegetarian and Nancy is a person
So find an answer thats 100$ proven by the stimulus
If you're getting MBT questions wrong but almost every other question type correct (including conditional logic), then it's probably an issue with drawing inferences from conditional chains. I had the same problem — I was good at conditional reasoning but sucked at MBT / MBF questions. Review all of the valid inferences you can draw, and write them down on a little cheat sheet. Review it every day and eventually they'll stick and become automatic.
@ConnorDoroff omg this is so true thank you so much