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@esoriano the stimulus says Taychester is ALWAYS at least 10 degrees cooler than Charlesville. So who cares if the temps in Charlesville drop to 0 degrees? Taychester will be colder than at least -10 degrees. Yeah, the residents of Charlesville are turning their heaters on because it's cold - but so are the residents of Taychester because it's at least 10 degrees colder. Make sense? This was the 3rd section of the PT -brain fatigue is a REAL thing.
SMH. In what lifetime does blocking out a portion of the sun make people feel SECURE? Who equates polluting to risk-taking? HORSESHIT QUESTION.
@al3x15 you have to build your skill set up to the point where you can eliminate FOR SURE WRONG answers like B, C, and D just by reading them. That leaves you with A and E. Then you have to avoid the time trap. Make your best guess, flag it, and if there's time, come back. But if you couldn't eliminate B, C, and D just by reading them, then there's room for development in the skill set.
Read this stimulus and you can immediately identify 3 factors: A = Lucinda, B = engineering major, and C = residents in WH. Immediately you map out the relationship these factors have:
A ---> B
C ---> B
A ---> C (here's the flaw)
Answer choice B has 4 factors: GONE
Answer choice C has 3 factors in one relationship: GONE
At this point you should be able to look at answer choice D and know it doesn't fit either.
To answer this question in less than 4 minutes when it's at the END of a LR section is WILD. Guess between what's left, flag it, and revisit anything you've flagged prior to question 11 - you have a much better chance of recovering points there. If you still have time to come back to this one - good for you. Hope that helped.
Flagged it - moved on. Came back, spent a WHOPPING 4 minutes and got it right. Totally worth it! LOL!
Respectfully, I have an issue with the stimulus. The first line states most of the BRICK houses on RS have a front yard. The second line says most of the HOUSES WITH FRONT YARDS have 2 stories. We have no idea how many front yard houses there are on RS. What if there are 100 houses on RS and 10 of them are BRICK. It is very much possible that the 90 houses on RS have front yards and 80 of them have 2 stories and not one of those 80 is a brick house. That second line should have said either most BRICK HOUSES THAT HAVE FRONT YARDS have 2 stories or EVERY BRICK HOUSE has 2 stories.
Such an important section - they all are - but like important important. I thought it would never end. LOL.
@NovaBates PSA will have "principle" in the question stem and will reference justifying. SA will have "assumption" in the question stem and will reference assuming. A PSA is comparable to a MSS when it comes to the standard the answer must meet and a SA is comparable to a MBT when it comes to the standard the answer must meet. Hope this helped.
This was really helpful. Hope there are more of these question stem drills further along in the lesson library.
If you're struggling to understand why the answer is E, it might help to read the question stem again - specifically "most DIRECTLY undermines the objection". The objection is saying, decisions on energy are best left to operation of the market AKA consumers. Of all the answer choices, which one does the best job DIRECTLY undermining that statement? E
true/sure belief in the stimulus. Look for the word knowledge in the answer. NEXT! lol
@AndBac it asked conclude the last paragraph of the passage - it didn't say conclude the passage. I agree - I was focused on an answer choice that supported the paragraph first.