Should you use both styles by first viewing how many questions apply? No. Split passage is more efficient mostly if you get mixed up between the passages or the exact wording/ideas in each. I find this happens to me so I prefer split to have confidence in my answers. If you don't have this problem, then the split passage method does not provide much utility to you apart from preference. You would actually lose time by reading questions stems and viewing first. Go with which method works best for you and stick to it.
would it be too time-consuming to look through the questions first to see which ones may be applicable to passage one without reading passage two, and deciding which approach would be fastest?
@jjjjffff I think it's best to stick to one method. Nothing wrong in theory with switching to Split if there's a lot of questions that are doable just based on one passsage. But I think it's best to go into test day knowing what approach you're going to use.
@Kevin_Lin What about skimming through the questions to see how many apply to passage a versus passage b and using that count to decide which of the two passages to read first in the split approach - is there any reason not to be flexible in reading either passage a or b first in the split method?
Passage B captures a thing that annoys me about a purely evolutionary approach to explaining animal behaviors. "Bees do X to pass on their genes" sure, they may have evolved that way, but what do the bees really feel?
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Should you use both styles by first viewing how many questions apply? No. Split passage is more efficient mostly if you get mixed up between the passages or the exact wording/ideas in each. I find this happens to me so I prefer split to have confidence in my answers. If you don't have this problem, then the split passage method does not provide much utility to you apart from preference. You would actually lose time by reading questions stems and viewing first. Go with which method works best for you and stick to it.
would it be too time-consuming to look through the questions first to see which ones may be applicable to passage one without reading passage two, and deciding which approach would be fastest?
our species favours monogamous families LOLLLLLL
I have the same question. Or should we just pick one method and use it consistently?
doesn't "one" refer to a human agent??
@jjjjffff I think it's best to stick to one method. Nothing wrong in theory with switching to Split if there's a lot of questions that are doable just based on one passsage. But I think it's best to go into test day knowing what approach you're going to use.
@Kevin_Lin What about skimming through the questions to see how many apply to passage a versus passage b and using that count to decide which of the two passages to read first in the split approach - is there any reason not to be flexible in reading either passage a or b first in the split method?
@WillS7an I think it's worth trying. Don't see anything in principle that would suggest it's a bad idea.
Is the "only if" here still being used as a Group 2 indicator?
Passage B captures a thing that annoys me about a purely evolutionary approach to explaining animal behaviors. "Bees do X to pass on their genes" sure, they may have evolved that way, but what do the bees really feel?
Horny... AKA they want to procreate... AKA their genes are pushing them to procreate... Thus everything comes down to the evolutionary approach.
this hurt my brain
So you would decide which technique you want to use after first briefly scanning the question stems?