Got it correct first try because I associated the "bad person" and "we value/we approve" etc... signals towards the answer with "judgement" since judgement is heavily involved in the logic of the argument.

I was between C and E, I took an extra minute and chose C because the word "adapted" in E seemed off, the theme of the stimulus was "universal" "common" values not "adapting" values. "Shared" sounded like the best fit answer rather than "adapted".

The technique I used to answer this question was to ignore the first sentence

A is tempting for fast readers. I chose A initially because of the double negative.

I was between A, B and C and chose A the first time because it is supported by the time delay. Looking back the best hint for C is probably the first sentence how researchers "tried but failed to find any correlation." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be taken at face value, and substantial enough to reject the findings of the study. Looking back, that is the main hint in this passage.

My notes go as: (System forming = A , Chance of Life = B , Chance of Large = C). A->B likely. A->C not likely. W/o C no B. A->C not likely therefore C->B not likely. to evaluate show that A->C is likely or A->B is not likely. I thought option B proved that it was likely that there could exist life without large planets. However this question based on its conclusion wants to strengthen the likelihood that A->C was likely going against the initial A-C not likely. Tbh I chose B since it had "comets" and sounded like the right answer demonstrating that A-> is not likely however I lost focus of the conclusion.. I was also tired of the question, and went for the first likely answer for times sake instead of reviewing my last two standing options B and D.

For me the word "fairness" was the giveaway to choose B

I chose C first try. First I saw "Evaluate the reasoning" and highlighted the support. The most telling hint for me was the timeline, the mentioning 15 minutes, then a few minutes. For me I assumed the answer must be a question about the time it takes to park at this building and C was the best fit.

As someone who answered A and thought the conclusion was a sub-conclusion,

Does the word "certainly" in the last sentence "Whatever the basis of poetic excellence is, it must certainly be rare rather than common" serve as an indication that it is a fact (support) and therefore not a conclusion? Is this a good indicator?

@MaxThompson I had the same initial reaction as your student. My train of thought was that the first sentence that "People often praise poems for their truth" would translate to people's perception of excellence and when combined with the preceding sentence would make that a sub-conclusion.

I marked the third sentence as context because after the previous question I thought there would only be one premise