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PT109.S4.Q15

angarce01261

Friday, Apr 24 2020

I chose A... I suppose I made the unwarranted assumption that "taxpayers should not NOT subsidize" means that they shouldn't give any money to the government to mountain climb, which would not support their proposal of mountain climbers should post a bond to the government... But I misinterpreted taxpayers as mountain climbers, but there are obviously taxpayers who aren't mountain climbers. J.Y. saying "make for them pay for it [mountain climbers] themselves" made it make sense to me.

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PT109.S4.Q8

angarce01261

Thursday, May 07 2020

I originally chose E, but in BR I'm realizing E does nothing to the argument. The argument is saying that new marketing ventures are destined to crash and burn because managers with high skill are not assigned to them, they're assigned to the already established high-revenue product lines. So in an effort to fix this, managers should be assigned to these new marketing/development projects. E says the short term revenue prospects are a good indicator of how successful a product line will be. But we already know that the short term revenue prospects are bad for new projects! I didn't make this connection, and even if I did, I would have to make the additional assumption that managers should be obligated to save product lines with bad short term revenue prospects, which is essentially what the conclusion already says.

If D is true however, then it means the talented managers who are working on the high revenue product lines are free to move to these new product lines with no consequence, so why wouldn't they?

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PT106.S3.Q14

angarce01261

Monday, Apr 06 2020

Made the same mistake I made on another one of these MP. I picked D, thinking A was context. #help what are other people's strategies to discerning whether something is context or the actual conclusion? I tend to think okay, which proves which?

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PT103.S2.Q8

angarce01261

Monday, Apr 06 2020

Got it wrong due to the complex argument structure. I overlooked the first sentence as context, and mistook E as the main conclusion instead of sub-conclu.

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Thursday, Jun 04 2020

angarce01261

How often should I be reviewing old lessons in the curriculum...?

I'm going through the curriculum right now and I'm up to LR pseudo-sufficient questions. There were some lessons in which I felt sort of weak on (for example weakening questions), though I feel compelled to just keep going as I want to finish the curriculum in the allotted time I originally planned in my study schedule. How often should old lessons be reviewed? Should I drill down those lessons before going on? Or should I just keep going, finish the curriculum and then go back and review old lessons?

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PT104.S4.Q15

angarce01261

Tuesday, Jun 02 2020

So how I'm understanding this is that getting this question right depends on your understanding of subjectivity vs objectivity. Subjectivity in this context means arriving at a standard of beauty dependent upon another (earlier) culture's standard of beauty. Objectivity in this context means arriving at the same standard of beauty as another culture's standard of beauty INDEPENDENT of any connection between the two. We want to weaken the author's position that beauty is objective, and therefore say it is subjective. This is what C does.

I got this question wrong because the way the stimulus is set up. First author gives OPA (other people's argument - beauty is SUBJECTIVE) and then says it's false. But then he gives what seems like support for what isn't even his argument and seems like support for OPA. I failed to recognize that the third sentence and onward is NOT defining what objectivity is, which the way the stimulus is organized, makes it seem like it's gonna tell you what objectivity is (since author just said, hey you know that judgement that beauty is subjective? its wrong.) Of course, when I read it, I got mixed up thinking the author was mentioning the derivation of beauty from previous cultures as support for his own argument. So naturally, I thought I had to pick a choice that said, NO, the derivation of beauty does NOT come from previous cultures.