Thank your prompt response. I am sorry for venting about my own issues instead of contributing to the community at large. My frustrations are with my own performance and are not a reflection of J.Y. or the curriculum. It was completely unfair for me to attribute my shortcomings to J.Y. or the curriculum and it was incorrect to assume my situation mirrored others in the community. If it is possible, I would like to delete my original comment as I do not see how it would benefit anyone else in the future.

Thank you for your response to my comment and batu.buyukbezci's comment. I understand that my frustration was completely unwarranted and misdirected and I apologize for the harsh critique. My shortcomings are not the fault of the curriculum and I really appreciate the effort the entire 7Sage community has put into teaching this test. If it is possible, I would like to delete my comment as I do not see how it can be beneficial to others moving forward.

#feedback It is so disappointing that not one person from 7sage has responded to your comment, especially considering it's been up for a MONTH. This program is woefully inept when it comes to addressing actual questions students have (as opposed to answering every single minor spelling error).

I guess we're just supposed to "get it" and move on, huh? Feeling really let down by 7sage as a whole the more I progress through the CC.

#feedback It feels like I am completely unprepared to answer the questions presented in this section. I can't POE successfully or move through any of the stimulus' in any meaningful way compared to how JY does it.

I do not think 7sage or JY have done a good job preparing students for this section. Every new question feels like were going at it blind and then JY just comes in with his usual nonchalant reasoning for wrong answers that make sense to him but leave us non-enlightened students feeling like we're so far off base that we need to start the curriculum over.

Can't say I feel confident about what I'm learning at this point.

I was stuck between B and C and ultimately went with B bc I thought I understood B better but it turns out I didnt understand either of them.

So B was wrong because it basically just says the argument didnt consider how varying cultural differences in nutrition cause the deficiencies in the brain compounds (one of many symptoms associated with mental illness).

But we aren't discussing the reasons behind the compound deficiencies or a certain symptom of mental illness. We're discussing the variations in multiple symptoms that show up across the globe.

And C says the argument didnt consider that the difference in cultures, across the globe, can have an effect on the different variety of symptoms that might show up in different areas.

#help #feedback

Not sure how we're supposed to follow the explanation when we've seen so little about biconditionals. Everything up until the 10 min mark is so inadequately explained, I have no clue how to follow any of the reasoning, even after going back and rereading the biconditional lesson.

Also, it's unacceptable that multiple people have commented on this exact issue (dated from over 7 months ago) and not one person from 7sage has responded. Myself and so many others are paying for this service in order to receive help from the actual tutors and teachers, we are not supposed to be relying on other students to maybe or maybe not help fully flush out our misunderstandings. (Especially knowing 7sage can't be bothered to answer their student's questions half of the time.)

What gave you the indication that you could read those sentences in the manner that makes the biconditional more obvious?

#help So frustrating. I fell for D. I cannot for the life of me determine when something is "required" in the ACs. I negate and it still doesn't make it clear. I'm also so angry that E is the right answer because wtf - E seems so far out of scope. #help#help#help

The link no longer works. Any chance we could get an updated version?

#help Trying to play around with the argument structure and came up with this. Is it correct?

If one wants to throw a 100mph fast ball, then one should practice meditation, even if one doesn’t believe in it. Throwing a fast ball is a lot easier to do for those who train 3 days per week as opposed to those who don’t.

throw 100mph fastball is the objective.

training 3 days/wk → throw 100mph

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one should meditate.

AC) Training 3days/wk is often a by-product of deep contemplation.

(meditating) → training 3 days/wk → being able to throw 100mph

* (→ = causes)

#help Consistently narrowing it down to two answers: the right answer (E) and a trap answer (B) and falling for the trap EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Why am I struggling so bad?

When reading (E) I thought to myself: "Oh this is just repeating the premise, therefore it can't be the right answer". And when reading (B) I justified my choice by convincing myself this was the contrapositive of what I was looking for. Why???

#help#help#help

Why is this wrong. Im so confused. I ended up with:

money→health→happiness

And translated (A) as money → (aquire money→happiness obtainable) and concluded it was incorrect.

I've watched and rewatched the video and I just dont comprehend how the conclusion were looking for is "should not acquire money". I'm so freakin lost.

#help @ 8:08 "You see how that works"? No. I don't see how that works.

P4 - cannot communicate with us = capable of communicating → as intelligent as humans

(contrapose) as intelligent as humans → capable of communicating

Since P1 already determines that not as intelligent we are supposed to infer that

P1 + P3 = capable of communicating

Am I anywhere near understanding how P4 was determined?

#feedback I love feeling completely unprepared for a question prior to trying it and spending 7 minutes trying to answer it. Then, taking 30 minutes to diagram and determine the correct answer in BR - only to have it be the worst choice option of the bunch. Thanks 7sage! I feel less informed and less confident leaving this question than I did going into it.

#help Making my way through the stimulus I got:

P1 - Feelings cannot be controlled.

P2 - Promises not within our control makes no sense.

MP - Promises about feelings make no sense.

C - No one should take (interpret) "love"in this context, as a feeling (bc it makes no sense?).

From here, I went into the AC's and got completely lost, initially choosing C after almost 5 minutes of trying to determine the correct answer. In BR I chose D (partially as an educated guess) after narrowing it down to B and D. Idk what my problem is, but Im struggling immensely. After looking at B and D for 10 more minutes I understand now that:

B is saying: control → make promise which is clearly not what were looking for in P→C

D is saying: ???? Makes no sense → Promise interpreted in a such a way

Im getting tripped up here at some point and I dont know where it is. Can I translate D to make it more understandable, especially within the time allotted?

What if you're not improving and have yet to get the swing of ANY of the WSE/PSA questions, even though you've gone over the questions and videos multiple times? #help (Added by Admin)

I love taking 15 minutes to answer a question and getting it wrong twice. Nothing about WSE/PSA is clicking and Im about ready to give up.

The explanations for a lot of these AC's are so contradictory from question to question. JY is so cavalier in dismissing an AC for seemingly obvious reasons and then the very next question will justify an answer similar to the one he just dismissed previously. At this point Im about ready to take a bat to my computer.

I hate this.

#help Any advice or tips for someone still struggling with WS and now these PSA questions? I have gone back over every question, AC and video multiple times and I still feel lost.

I was able to fix the issue with help from your suggestions. Thank you

It really does something to your confidence when you miss every question in a section. Rage doesn't even begin to describe how I feel when doing these questions.

#help #feedback The text in the video disappears whenever I pause it now. Same with the previous video.

#help I have gotten the last 3 questions wrong originally and in blind review. What am I missing here? I eliminated D because why do we care about the company's overall position when the stimulus only talks about the marketing campaign and its effectiveness in saving the product.

#feedback 3 months and still no videos? This is incredibly disappointing given the cost of the program and the underlying difficulty of the curriculum.