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 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

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.

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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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.

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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.

So are we to assume that the opposite of "bland and innocuous" is "controversial and disturbing"?

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I picked A, but then changed it in BR because I got tripped up on the "or" part

Ouch. I did not catch the distinction between flights and airplanes

I was reluctant to pick C because it only gives the possibility that the country will get richer. What if the country gets considerably poorer and has to halt all industrial activities? I still went with C, because I couldn't find anything better, but I'm wondering why that wasn't something that should be considered. I guess we are to assume that pollution problems cannot diminish naturally after a few years without industrial activities?

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

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 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

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...