For question one, I didn't chose B because I was looking at the last sentence of the paragraph, a quote, "Whenever you write prose or poetry or drama you are writing a social criticism of one kind or another. If you don't, you are completely irrelevant—you don't count." I know throughout the passage it discusses the little interest in guidelines that differentiate between fiction and autobiographies, but the last sentence really threw me off. Kind of sucks I didn't get this level one question lol.

I initially right off the bat chose A, but then reread the question stem and realized that the passage is saying most strongly SUGGESTED, and not most strongly SUPPORTED. I figured because that this is implied, its not suggested, its too obvious i went with B then E because it says for E, that prior to 1700s alaskans hunted sea otters regularly..

my question is do i treat Most strongly suggested questions in RC, like most strongly supported if that's how i went about it from the start before changing my answer choice to B then E

At first i was confused as to why C is not the right answer, and how D is... but i looked back at the stimulus which supports it clearly.

C is supported because the volcanic eruptions that cause large amounts of dust into the Earth's atmosphere drop the average temp of the Earth. This is something that the stimulus supports. Ice Ages happen (earth's temp drops), when sun is dimmed (volcanic eruptions dim the sun when large amounts of dust are spewed into the atmosphere).

D is not supported because, first we're talking about cosmic rocks, second once the cosmic rock enters the atmosphere, the answer says that it raises large amounts of dust from Earth's surface. Focus on the dust for a second.

Stimulus says in order for the the dust cloud to have any effect, they must be dense, we don't know this about the dust mentioned in D, second we also don't know if they dim the sun, which causes temperature drops, because maybe the dust isn't dense enough to dim sunlight, or absorb heat.

Okay, I immediately crossed off D because the stimulus talked about a free month's supply, and i stupidly made the unwarranted assumption that "free" means, free shipping and handling, and thought this completely goes against what the meaning of free is in the premise.

And even after jumping and choosing between A and E, I was so confused as to why neither of these options make sense.

I'm confusing the process of finding the correct answer choice with the method of SA with PSA. I keep choosing a principle/rule that's more generalized and broad, rather than something that's narrow and specific to the argument.

I first chose A, until I read D, then figured because it isn't a PSA question type, A isn't right because it presents a principle type of answer, where as D presents a premise.

So when we choose answer choices for SA, during my blind review I treated the question as a PSA and chose A, (what I initially thought the answer was), should I just keep doing that? Or how do I know that if I'm looking for an answer choice that's kind of a principle (generalized) vs if I should look for an answer that's more specific to the stimulus like D.

bc there is the unless indicator, should we not do

J->F->T->D

conclusion: J->D

~D-> J?

did i get that right? because it's the lesson from group 3 indicators right?