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@ArdenAmarelo I came here for this exact reason. I made the same mistake "object to being unlike" is the most confusing way they could have written that.
By far my biggest weakness across the board is critique/debate RC passages. I consistently miss 2-3 questions per passage no matter the difficulty or topic. This is not close to my other types of RC passages where I am well above 70% accuracy.
I noticed I will see answer choices and immediately throw them out because I feel like they are either too extreme or twists the author's view too far... am I supposed to be looking for stronger answer choices and less neutral ones?
Any advice would be much appreciated because I feel like I am improving in every area besides this one.
Thanks!
@JeremyShirey I think the difficulty in the question lies in the subtle assumption that there could be two different groups of people who believe different things that are hovering around 50%. For example, almost half dislike Mayor Walker because of guilty rumors, but that could be 48%, while the other 52% could also exist as a separate group, with no overlap. I think if you assume that these groups overlap, even for a moment, then the answer choices fall apart pretty quickly, and the question becomes fairly difficult. If not, A becomes fairly obvious.
Also, saw your bio - thank you for your service! Best of luck in your studying.
Trust your gut. I tend to do better when I follow my intuition and not second guess myself. The answer I often select in BR is the "second best" answer I had left as a possibility.
To give you some confidence I scored a 143 in January on my diagnostic and got a 159 last weekend. VERY much possible! You got this.
TLDR: a feature that recommends questions for BR but not be able to see why it was flagged. For example:
I would like to review an answer that I got right but "took double the usual amount of time on". However, at the moment if I hovered over the BR review flag it would explain why - which would insinuate that I got the answer correct and lead to me select the same answer again for the BR.
In other example, the BR recommendations also lead me to seeing "I selected the wrong answer" and then simply crossing out my incorrect answer choice and going through the other 4 options without taking the time to see why I got it wrong in the first place.
Basically, I am able to "cheat" through BR by using the recommendations and I want to avoid this by properly going through the BR recommended questions without knowing why. I know the simple answer would be self-restraint from hovering over the little "!" BR recommendation, but it would be nice to be able to turn it off.
Thanks for your help!
Not sure if this will help anyone, but the way I like to think of these is as a "battle", and you have to determine "the competition", or who you are fighting against. For example in Q3:
It is our nation vs the other nations - therefore you have to find the subject and what it is being tested against. Here, our nation would be tested against others. Well, how will the nation do that?
Simply; with a retaliatory force greater than other nations.
Not sure if this makes sense to others but I applied it to all the questions here, but the analogy works better when you talk about war and nation-states. Lol
@Shardison This is great advice!