@FavourChijioke also if that’s the case, how does one go about knowing when to initiate weakening or strengthening through evaluation questions since its not implicitly / explicitly stated in the question stem like S or W questions.

Since when is evaluation questions supposed to weaken? I didn’t realize that was an objective of these type of questions, if anything strengthen and add to the conclusion, which is why I picked A. It would’ve further established history of using conifer. Guess I gotta go back to the drawing board for evaluation question types.