When is your test date @everyone? I feel like I’m starting early-ish but after this first question, I’m like shouldn’t have started studying when I was a baby? 😀
The only reason i didn't choose (E) is bc I got accustomed to avoiding the 'arbitrary' & 'technical/specific' so i doubted (E) although true and chose (C)
I think its so important to learn the wording! I attached myself to A because I read the sitmulus and inferred that everyone who didn't miss class, automatically would've had an A. Like it was said, they could have, but the stimulus mentions nothing about A, or that perfect attendance was linked to it. "All students who got a bad grade had imperfect attendance. Don't confuse that with all students with imperfect attendance got a bad grade." Kind of a mind game, but once I understood, it really cleared up confusion.
I notice myself jumping straight into an answer and latching onto it. I appreciate the breakdown of the thought process and reasoning behind the answer choices and explanations. With practice, I hope that I can slow down and carefully examine the answer options like this.
Posting my notes for when I get it right or wrong. Just started today, Thankfully, this one went well. Hopefully my notes help maybe 1 person.
First, I believe the hypo is saying: "Most of the total # of students in Spanish 101 attended every class session. But, each student who got lower than a B- missed 1 or more classes (their would be in the minority of the total # students)
Rules:
MAJORITY GROUP
B- or higher ->> Never missed a class
B+ ->> never missed
A -/+ ->> never missed
MINORITY GROUP
Lower than a B- ->> missed 1 or more classes
Answer A: Some students who received A- or higher attended every class session (Fails to meet the majority group conditions. It would need to be all of them.
Answer B: "Most if not all" = "The vast majority" who missed at least 1 class got lower than a B-. Wrong, everyone got lower than a B- if they missed at least 1 class.
Answer C: The answer parallels the logic of the majority
Answer D: At least (can be more) 1 student (can be more than 1 student) -- who got a B- or higher missed one or more class sessions. That doesn't make any sense.
Answer E: More that 50% of the # of students got a B- or higher. Hm.... "most of the student.... every class" "however...." does the however imply less than 50%? I think so. Ah, I see, in contrast to answer C, it specifies both the B- and above. Question C scopes in on all grades above B-. Meaning, the answer is E.
Appreciate your explaining this. I have a minor concern where you say"So when we’re told “most” attended every class, that doesn’t exclude the possibility that all of them attended every class." (approx 6th/8th para)
But Most is not all. Most is 51%-99% but it is not 100%.Is there a way of attaching a jpeg or gif because I wished to illustrate a venn diagram. The response allows for youtube clips but no gifs?
Hi! So this was a rough question. I'm likely overthinking things but I'm a little confused about answers (B) and (D). In the text, it says "in our example, there were up to 4 students with imperfect attendance. It's possible that just one got a bad grade. Those other three with imperfect attendance? They could have received B range grades." First question is, how is that possible if the second claim states that each student who received a grade lower than B- missed at least one session." And I guess (D) falls under that same idea because while I get attendance not being the cause of bad grades, doesn't the passage allude to a correlation between the grade given and if someone has missed or not missed a session?
Sorry if this is a lot but I really appreciate it. Thanks!
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This is all about learning so let's keep plugging alone shall we?
In short,
More than half of the students received a grade of B minus or higher.
This is because more than half of the students made a B- or higher and everyone else made a C+ or lower
I fell for the trap. It's so hard.
Already wanna quit and I've gotten one thing wrong
Fell for the C trap but I think it is important I learned that lesson. This is the time to make mistakes so we can learn from them!
I’m cooked
didn’t read past D 💀💀
Humbled, but I learned something important
When is your test date @everyone? I feel like I’m starting early-ish but after this first question, I’m like shouldn’t have started studying when I was a baby? 😀
Cool. I get it!
idk if anyone else is having this issues, but i physically can't move on from the first question...like the arrow is greyed out
this was so humbling LOL. i'm excited to learn more!
The only reason i didn't choose (E) is bc I got accustomed to avoiding the 'arbitrary' & 'technical/specific' so i doubted (E) although true and chose (C)
So when you contrapositive "lower than B minus" does it become "higher than B minus"? or does it also include B minus as well?
The "you're not normal, you're a lawyer in training" truly changed my brain chemistry.
I think its so important to learn the wording! I attached myself to A because I read the sitmulus and inferred that everyone who didn't miss class, automatically would've had an A. Like it was said, they could have, but the stimulus mentions nothing about A, or that perfect attendance was linked to it. "All students who got a bad grade had imperfect attendance. Don't confuse that with all students with imperfect attendance got a bad grade." Kind of a mind game, but once I understood, it really cleared up confusion.
I notice myself jumping straight into an answer and latching onto it. I appreciate the breakdown of the thought process and reasoning behind the answer choices and explanations. With practice, I hope that I can slow down and carefully examine the answer options like this.
Posting my notes for when I get it right or wrong. Just started today, Thankfully, this one went well. Hopefully my notes help maybe 1 person.
First, I believe the hypo is saying: "Most of the total # of students in Spanish 101 attended every class session. But, each student who got lower than a B- missed 1 or more classes (their would be in the minority of the total # students)
Rules:
MAJORITY GROUP
B- or higher ->> Never missed a class
B+ ->> never missed
A -/+ ->> never missed
MINORITY GROUP
Lower than a B- ->> missed 1 or more classes
Answer A: Some students who received A- or higher attended every class session (Fails to meet the majority group conditions. It would need to be all of them.
Answer B: "Most if not all" = "The vast majority" who missed at least 1 class got lower than a B-. Wrong, everyone got lower than a B- if they missed at least 1 class.
Answer C: The answer parallels the logic of the majority
Answer D: At least (can be more) 1 student (can be more than 1 student) -- who got a B- or higher missed one or more class sessions. That doesn't make any sense.
Answer E: More that 50% of the # of students got a B- or higher. Hm.... "most of the student.... every class" "however...." does the however imply less than 50%? I think so. Ah, I see, in contrast to answer C, it specifies both the B- and above. Question C scopes in on all grades above B-. Meaning, the answer is E.
inference questions pmo 😭
So, I definitely missed key parts to this, but what I figured out (and later confirmed after the explanation) is that:
"All students with C+ or lower grades had imperfect attendance" =/= "All students with imperfect attendance had a bad grade (C+ or lower)."
I totally missed that distinction while doing this question.
This is fun
im cooked
Appreciate your explaining this. I have a minor concern where you say"So when we’re told “most” attended every class, that doesn’t exclude the possibility that all of them attended every class." (approx 6th/8th para)
But Most is not all. Most is 51%-99% but it is not 100%.Is there a way of attaching a jpeg or gif because I wished to illustrate a venn diagram. The response allows for youtube clips but no gifs?
Hi! So this was a rough question. I'm likely overthinking things but I'm a little confused about answers (B) and (D). In the text, it says "in our example, there were up to 4 students with imperfect attendance. It's possible that just one got a bad grade. Those other three with imperfect attendance? They could have received B range grades." First question is, how is that possible if the second claim states that each student who received a grade lower than B- missed at least one session." And I guess (D) falls under that same idea because while I get attendance not being the cause of bad grades, doesn't the passage allude to a correlation between the grade given and if someone has missed or not missed a session?
Sorry if this is a lot but I really appreciate it. Thanks!
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