My linguistics background influenced me in choosing D here🥀1) Translations can never be faithful, and 2) Even if translated faithfully, it can still be full of incompetencies due to being unable to convey inherent cultural nuances. I’m surprised this isn’t curved as high as I thought it would be

I actually eliminated E as an answer because I took Meyerson’s response to be a testament to how it’s not up to debate because she believes it’s part of the legal process. Whole time she’s arguing, thus debating with CLS😭

Mike’s version was very helpful! This was like my third time getting it wrong and I always get tripped up on the “ought = obligation” connection

I thought B implied the teacher was like the chief editor at a magazine of sorts, like she required it to be published. That’s why I didn’t pick B

@kimwexler same

@BridgetDineen I think it has to do partly with the stimulus stating, “whereas the orbits of Earth and several other planets around our sun are approximately circular.” We only know some of our planets orbits are circular, not all. There could be some planets who have oval orbits for all we know. I think that is why B technically weakens, it’s targeting this assumption that there may be some oval orbits in our own solar system.

Similar to S1. Q21, I remember reading the right answer and being like “duh” and moving on… sometimes the assumption is the obvious (duh) answer!

I naively assumed “prerequisite” meant “before” as in “this is sufficient to activate this”… Damn

D says what I thought B did lol

@kyliepage2438 general question for anyone reading this, but can we safely say the answer to these principle questions will always lead to the conclusion in the stimulus?

I think I missed 21 because I was getting anxious about the clock and another passage ahead of me. In reality, as soon as I read the question, I thought to myself “it must be non-intentional.” I think another reason I chose D instead of A is because I did not focus on the “purely economic.” A great question, and hopefully I learn from this mistake for the future!

I only missed 14 because I didn’t realize her interior design didn’t include lacquer. I thought the passage was about how she was innovative with lacquer, specifically interior design </3

I did have difficulty with this, but when I came back to it and read “in order to survive,” I was like, what??? What does survival have to do with anything??? I ended up choosing A immediately afterwards because it’s the only one that touched on it.

Agreed, B-E blamed the first subject (Stalworth) instead of the second subject.

Got it right during the practice test but now that I’m reviewing I’m so confused

Wow, upon reviewing this, I can’t believe I got it wrong. Being able to write out on the stimulus/answers makes the process of elimination so much easier.

The only reason I didn’t pick C is because I didn’t know what “impetus” meant. Ahhhh

This is one of the harder questions I’ve encountered