What are y'all doing to improve your performance on conditional reasoning? I feel like I know the keywords & tricks to introduce sufficient and necessary assumptions, and my former tutor last fall even told me I was good at it. But when it comes to anticipating, for some reason, I'm lost or just get it totally wrong. Or I over-diagram when I don't even need to diagram (shoutout Blueprint prep...)
Sorry to be so vague -- just wondering what has helped other people.
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What are you trying to anticipate?
My rule for whether I write out a conditional is whether it takes me time to translate it initially. If it's a very clear "if X then Y" that I can translate in my head again in a second, it's not time efficient for me to write it out. If it's more subtle language or more complex, I translate it once then write that down so I don't need to keep repeating that step.
Also, distinguish sufficient/necessary assumption (a question type) from sufficient and necessary conditions (elements of a statement in a stimulus or answer choice that then lead to a conditional statement that encapsulates the relationship) - these are not the same thing.