First off, congratulations on your score. I have been in your shoes and thought my performance was a fluke too, but that is not the case. No one scores a 178 on luck alone. I thought it was a joke when I scored my first 180 a week out before my actual test, but the 175 I have on record proves otherwise. It is possible that you may underperform, but that doesn't invalidate your PT scores. You've already proven that you are capable of getting there. This may be a controversial statement here, but if you can do it once then you can do it again. You don't necessarily need to score 175+ a dozen times before you can get there in the real thing. It does certainly help though

If you can take the August test, I would absolutely do that. Even if you don't do as well as you would have liked, you would both have more time to retake than you would months from now and you would be able to go in with the experience of having already taken the real thing. I was a nervous wreck my first time and bombed hard, but that experience helped me score 15 points higher exactly 2 months later.

I hope you are aware, however, that the August and September deadlines have already passed. If you haven't already set a test date for yourself, the earliest time you will be able to take it will be in October.

I was completely stumped on this one until I realized I read the question stem completely wrong. I thought it was asking which question the stimulus answers. I can't honestly believe myself

Coming back to this, it seems fairly obvious now. The author may have intended the ambiguous usage of the word, but that doesn't mean that it isn't still a flaw. The mayor is talking about whether it can be financially afforded and the author's argument is based around an entirely different definition of that word. It's a flaw because he's not addressing the reason why the mayor says it can't be afforded. I originally thought that it wasn't a flaw because it just seemed like wordplay to me, but the issue is it doesn't make for an effective argument.

Gotta love it when JY uses his circular reasoning to say the wrong answers are wrong because they are not right. The passage literally says right there "even of in-world sales for virtual currency", so how is A wrong for Q13? Does "in-world" not mean outside of the video game? If so, how are we even supposed to figure that out? #help

This is the most evil LR question that I've ever seen

I found Q16, Q17, and Q21 difficult because there were like two or three similar answers that all seemed equally right to me. It's really weird because I felt like I had a pretty good understanding of the passage, but then I missed all of the main point/purpose/structure questions only.

I wish I could say that I am unreservedly optimistic about my ability to answer RC questions correctly...

Can someone explain how B is supported on AC 2? It's what I initially picked through process of elimination, just like JY, but I ended up choosing D on BR because I couldn't find anything in the passage that actually pointed to B being correct. It just seems like a completely irrelevant point. #help

The thing is, this question isn't about whether the AC is supported. For an AC to be correct, it must be false and completely incompatible with the stimulus. We still have no reason to believe that, just because European music is a sophisticated achievement, it is one of the most sophisticated music. We also don't know how many types of the most sophisticated music there are. What if European music is only a small portion of the most sophisticated music and its reasons for sophistication are completely different than the vast majority of music that is considered to be the most sophisticated? That being said, I've never heard of "tends to..." meaning anything other than that it implies a trend or frequency. Saying that it means "most of the time" feels a bit strong to me. I still don't see how it is incompatible, even with that definition.

Even if that is true, the stimulus is talking about sophistication in European music specifically. If it is compatible for A to say that African music had a more powerful impact on the world than European music, then it could be equally compatible to say that African music is more sophisticated too. Any of its reasons for sophistication might be entirely different than the reasons for sophistication on European music.

Let's say "one of the reasons that Jedi are sophisticated is that they use the force" as [sophistication → force user]. If they're no longer a force user, can they not be sophisticated anymore? After all, it is only one of the possible reasons. All we know now is that it is not one reason. For it to be a true conditional, it would have to say something like "all sophisticated people use the force".

Why exactly are we supposed to assume that European music is in that category of "most sophisticated music"? I also don't see a single thing in the stimulus that says all sophisticated music should be coherent without its original function. Just because European music may be a sophisticated achievement, does not at all mean that there is no possible music even more sophisticated that might require context to be properly appreciated. This seems like a sufficiency/necessity mistake. There's nothing here to suggest that sophistication in music is contingent on internal coherence nor does it say that the most sophisticated music requires that.

#help#help#help

I was so sure that it was C that I didn't even think about how obvious E is...

Q5 is just a bad question. AC D is poorly written and doesn't make sense as the correct answer

I found Q5 really difficult to understand. I saw E, but I couldn't figure out what was meant by "value systems".

Aren't the author's character and personality two completely different things?

How are we supposed to get this done in 5 minutes? I can't even read through the passage and do the low resolution summary in that time...

I'm really bad at this

I dismissed D because the stimulus says it's comparing dinners eaten at home by both groups. What I didn't catch was that it affects the weekly average spent preparing food at home.

Wow, this question was confusing. I thought that the distinction between the mall's economic activity and the local economy meant that the mall was not considered part of the local economy.

I wonder if a lot of people just guessed and moved on because there was so much to unpack in the stimulus.

Damn, did I really just get this wrong because I confused the names?

The problem with C is that it says "we should never jeopardize the interests of our people". The language is too strong for it to be necessary

I spent a whole 3 minutes on this question alone.

What...

This question seems contingent on outside knowledge that a warmer star can become one of those coolest brown dwarfs. If the topic were anything else, how could we reasonably assume this? A Honda could not have been a Lamborghini in the pas

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Ahh, I dismissed A because I wasn't paying attention to the last sentence. I thought that the conclusion would still follow that cerebral edema is especially dangerous at high altitudes because it can be caused by the shortage of oxygen at those elevations, but the argument is placing the similar symptoms of ordinary mountain sickness as the sole reason.