I was revisiting some old PTs and stumbled across this question. It's giving me quite the headache. JY's explanation doesn't help at all because he assumes that the amount of correctly addressed but damaged mail is a small subset of correctly addressed mail. But where does this inference come from? It could very well be that all correctly addressed mail is damaged. I don't believe there's any reasonable basis to assume that only a minority of correctly addressed mail is damaged.

I believe most other explanations for this question claim the existence of the binary of correctly addressed mail and incorrectly addressed mail as the main reason why there must be a significant amount of incorrectly addressed mail. However, I don't believe this binary is of any significance because the stimulus gives us a way for these two groups to overlap via correctly addressed mail that is damaged. Since we know nothing about the respective sizes of the two groups, this scenario should be plausible:

1000 total mail

800=correctly addressed

200=incorrectly addressed

700=damaged

Thus, most mail arrives three or more business days after being sent.

As shown above, I believe the existence of this overlap makes it such that D is a "could be true." Now, if there was no overlap, then D must be true. But as stated above, without any information about the respective sizes of each group, we can't conclude anything.

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PT62.S4.Q9 - If a mother's first child is born...

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All 40 of John's friends know someone who has smoked 40 cigs for 40 years who is also very fit and well and John does NOT know anyone like this, yet he knows he is NOT unique. The correct answer is E, some of John's friends are not telling the truth. However, if John is NOT unique, wouldn't that mean that the majority of his friends also do not know someone who has smoked 40 cigs for 40 years who is also very fit and well. Since he is NOT unique, wouldn't that entail that he is not a rarity among the group that does not know someone like this? And the majority do not as well, since he is not a unique case. What am I missing here? Am I overthinking or putting too much importance on the word choice of "unique"?

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I keep looking this up and can't find one concrete response. You can complete the writing sample after the exam correct? It just could delay your score?

Posting this again in the discussions to gain more traction because I'm really not understanding this one.

This question still doesn't sit right with me, and I find the explanations to be less than sufficient even after perusing the comments. The stimulus provides us with this condition: to produce the rankings of how easy it is to do business within a country, the World Bank assesses how difficult it is for a hypothetical business to comply with regulations and pay taxes. However, we don't know what factors are in play when assessing the difficulty of compliance. The premise that follows provides a semblance of an answer to that by saying that the government has dramatically simplified tax filing for small and even midsized businesses, leading us to the assumption that simplifying tax filing lessens the difficulty of regulation compliance, therefore leading to another assumption that businesses will comply with regulations more if the simplification of tax filing reduces the difficulty of complying with regulations. I believe that's reasonable. The conclusion then says that the country's ranking will improve, further supporting that second assumption. With this line of thought, here is how I approached the questions.

A) Completely useless. Who cares about the rate at which new businesses are formed?

B) This directly plays off the assumption I made while reading the stimulus. If the simplification of tax filing decreased the difficulty of regulation compliance, then more businesses would comply with regulations. If the answer to the question B poses is no, then the minister's conclusion doesn't stand because the simplification didn't make it easier to comply with regulations. If the answer is yes, then the conclusion works.

C) We see this type of answer choice all the time. Who cares about other regulations? We're looking specifically at one type of effort that can be made to decrease the difficulty of regulation compliance. Even if tax filing was the most trivial of tasks, it would still lessen the difficulty of complying with regulations. Useless answer.

D) I don't understand why we need to care about the size of the business mentioned in the stimulus. Are small and midsized businesses not businesses? The conditions for assessment deal with hypothetical businesses. Small and midsized businesses are businesses so they should be included when considering businesses in general. I feel like you can use much of the same reasoning for answer choice C to get rid of D. Even if the midsized business was smaller than the hypothetical business, given that it still is a business, why can it not be used as a comparative point? Why does size matter at all in this scenario?

E) Useless.

Update: This is what was shared with me

Suggested RC: PT 68 P3, 74 P4, 80 P1, 82 P3, 83 P4, 87 P4, 61 P3, 67 P3, 82 P3, 40 P3, 50 P4, 77 P4, 85 P2, 86 P4, 67 P4, 81 P2M 85 P1, 87 P3.

Suggest LR: PT 83, 81, 78, 89, 86, 85 (Most important) , 70 (Hardest LR)

Suggested LG:

a. Grouping: PT 28 G3, 39 G2, 48 G3, 81 G4, 83 G1 + 3

b. Circular: PT 41 G4

c. Mapping: PT 79 G4

d. Pattern: PT 72 G4, 80 G4

e. Grouping/Linear Combo: PT 64 G4, 82 G3

f. Basic Linear: PT 78 G3, 82 G2, 86 G3

g. Advanced Linear: PT 37 G1 + 4, 76 G3, 83 G4, 87 G3

h. For Seq Elements: PT 75 G3, 84 G1

Suggested Full-Test Practice Tests: PT 89, 90, 91, 92

Hope this helps :)

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I am looking for any recommendations and alterations of my strategy I came up with.

I am going to drill 15 questions of easiest-medium difficulty and try to complete before the target time. I want to give myself more time for the hard questions, so I want to be able to get easy questions done as quickly as possible.

I was also thinking of putting the question stems that I have the most difficulty in for the drills. I believe this will allow me to practice for said questions while increasing my speed.

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I have a hard time recognize bi condition rules... Any idea plz?

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Thanks:)

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Hi,

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Hi all -

I started my course of study focusing pretty much exclusively on LGs (my first PT was a 159, -4 RC, -13 LG, -avg 5.5 on LR, so the what needed improving seemed clear) and am now in a place where I'm pretty happy with them.

The problem is now LR. On average I'm still -3 or -4 per section, and I just can't seem to crack the most difficult questions. Get them wrong ~50% of the time on BR, get them wrong in the little bit of time I have to check my answers in section.

So - any tips or strategies for approaching difficult (4 or 5 pip) LRs? Thanks in advance!