I'm confused by how we should interpret "counterparts" here. I took it to mean "individuals" 25 years ago, but I suppose we're meant to interpret that more broadly? This question stumped me because of that word.

Can we eliminate three of the answers here based on their use of “usually”, if the logic has to be airtight?

I understood this by diagramming but is this even the right way to go about it??

feeling —> /control

/control —> /sense

Link those together to get feeling —> /control —> /sense

Take the contrapositive since the conclusion is talking about love in marital context —> /feeling

Sense —> control —> /feeling

To link the entire argument together, look for the answer that talks about promises making sense, which is D. (E is wrong because we’re not talking about promises that cannot be kept.)

I’ve been generally relying on intuition to get the hardest questions right without diagramming on paper, but this one stumped me and on blind review, I had to go through the diagramming to understand it, but that takes times. How can you quickly eliminate answer choices here to cut down on time? Do answer choices that fail to link to the conclusion (ones that don’t mention effectiveness) get automatically thrown out?

How much should we consider every answer in a testing setting? I saw D pretty immediately, could finish this question in 30 seconds. Is it better to spend time considering other options or use the time gained on harder questions down the line?

I have this question too