Most Strongly Supported (MSS) - Key Takeaways

I have been honing in on MSS question types, as they are one of my LR weaknesses, and I wanted to share some takeaways I've developed:

• describing an instance of a situation in the stimulus does not mean you can infer in the answer choices that this situation happens often (unless the stimulus explicitly says so).

• if the stimulus does not use comparative language, the correct answer choice will not use comparative language

• similarly, if the stimulus does not use superlative language (e.g., X is the best/most effective method), the correct answer choice will not do so either

• do NOT make broad inferences or generalizations. ex: if the stimulus says something happens often during a process, don't select an answer choice that says it invariably happens during a process.

• don't assume the stimulus is asking about the author's statements. it could be asking about others' claims that are presented in the stimulus, so make sure to read it

• random but saying X is directly proportional to Y in the stimulus means that if X increases, Y increases and vice versa (your fellow not-so-math girlie got a question wrong because she didn't know this)

feel free to comment if you have any corrections to what I wrote or additional takeaways!