@businessgoose Onwards! Past the brain fog!

@PhoebeHopp The number definitely did! I may have hit a plateau right before the exam and am hoping that my time away will have refreshed my perspective. I'm feeling more stressed about my first PT than I was about getting today's score - "what does my brain have for me today?!" kind of thing

@EmeryBeals Thank you!

Thank you - that means a lot, especially today (:

I think it's funny that it comes across that someone had "stultifying miasma" just sitting at the top of their dome like no big deal.

Watch the video commentary in Lesson 2 at 1.2x speed to see his process. It's a great insight into a method that works for him!

I seriously considered quoting the Barbie Girl song lyrics, but after reading that some admissions actually check to make sure you didn't draw a rocket ship, I think writing about being wrapped in plastic might work against me.

But seriously: Watch the commentary videos to get inspired for a workflow before you lock yourself down with the proctored writing sample.

I wasn't as prepared as I had wanted to be (the scratch notes are in a SMALL window while you're trying to write!)

@DanteFiallo Totally agree with you - appreciate the follow-up and clarification. This was one of those where too much experience in a field can really throw a wrench in your flow ..of mud.

I think that I was beyond burnt out when I left my comment. I was leaning too much onto previous experience and not enough into what was being said said/inferred.

Had to reply to such a solid explanation - and great TLDR!

I’m a visual learner, but I can’t see images in my head (aphantasia) - this is super helpful to drive the relationships home.

Very useful as a comparison tool, but might find across too concrete to those not understanding it's a ballpark estimation.

Leaving off the BR number is a solid decision - the actual score - however much a ballpark estimation - is still more accurate to actual performance than a number that will never be below the actual score.

Huge fan of the feature!

@Optimusbladerunner It could help resolve the discrepancy when we're looking for the EXCEPT. I've been burning these Reconcile questions for too long and read too deep into E. To me, more people moving from other provinces = they're also filing taxes in those provinces they're from, so the income won't increase substantially. I overlooked "revenue" in D, and boop.

Hey look - a question that actually has the "need a better definition" answer selection as correct

Woo! I've thought the timeline segments for different answers were already super useful, and this is definitely a solid upgrade.

@Perlaaaa Study > Analytics. If you have access, it should be on the right side of the page under the section header.

I selected A because it is the implied rephrasing of the preceding "emotion and sentient" phrase... which is NOT explained by the provided explanations.

I may have selected B if the author wasn't trying to break their personal record on excessive commas used in a passage.

@LiaWang It doesn't :)

I think that I had posted my original comment in frustration that I chose D over C because of the definition of unique and was splitting hairs.

I may have been trying to decide between C and D, and I recognized C as a part-to-whole flaw. When I considered the definition of the pivot word (unique), D seemed more attractive.

For context, this question was presented from an adaptive drill (instead of a Section drill or PT).

Definitely appreciate your asking for clarification.

@LiaWang It does both.

It reinforces C by confirming that "unique"ness applies to all of them, and it challenges the stem's sloppy use of the word to make Jones seem exclusively distinguishable when the actual definition doesn't support that.

i am tired of this nonsense

@steamboatwillie You and me both!

I selected A because C was too incomplete for what I was looking for. Even though A says "necessary", that mirrors Parent Q's conclusive language ("..would become obsolete...").

I don't care that I got it wrong - it's good to know why, etc, but I do care when the explanations for answer gaps are so thin and the explanations for the wrong answers are so weak.

If you a necessary/sufficient explanation is used in the explanation, it makes sense to map out the logic used in the gap explanation.

6/8/26 edit: Read Dante's reply to this comment for a solid explanation

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There is some weak sauce explanation as to why D is wrong.

The only way D is supported by B is that there is any government regulation - however irrelevant to the stimulus - at all. That's the only way it's true.

The 30% figure in P4 describes a typical composition, not a regulatory allowance. The passage mentions tight regulation but never specifies what the permitted limits actually are, so there's no basis for the claim in either direction.

I agree that E is correct, but when an answer choice is this close, I'd appreciate a more accurate explanation - this makes me feel like I actually eliminated D because E is 5th answer down and I have 5 fingers.

Please prove me wrong.

TIL "overlap in the ranges" refers to the geographic range, and not the range between species.

If we're expected to know that "range" is standard ecological terminology for geographic territory, then that same standard should require it to be used unambiguously. The sentence structure here - "overlap in the ranges of moose and white-tailed deer" - reads more naturally as referring to a range of the species themselves, as in population counts, which is exactly the kind of ambiguity that ecological terminology is supposed to eliminate. You can't invoke a technical standard selectively.

Happy to be proved wrong!

@stringcheesed I got this correct, but I was hesitant to because of how strongly it was worded.

Curious what you ultimately picked - I had eliminated the answers down to A and C, but after reading again, it seemed to be obvious that it wasn't A.

It would be cool if they showed you when you interacted with the answer selections so we could better remember how we worked through eliminating options.

@SMRegalado X would agree, but M doesn't have an opinion on outdoor seating = eliminate

If we're using conditional logic to justify a method of reasoning in the stimulus and to eliminate answer selections, mapping that logic out would be super helpful for those of us who are more visual learners.

You're slapping me around with bricks of text - either give me a diagram or a puppy pic pls (preferably both)

Reasoning for A is a bit of a cheesy hand wave - even if you tack on 50 years to the total, 55,000,050 years is still considered "55 million years"

That said, I'm totally being pedantic, and B is the better answer choice.

@David_Busis Is this number impacted when the drill analytics is reset from the preferences menu?