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My last couple of practice tests have been REALLY rough for RC. I can read and understand the passage pretty well in around 4 minutes, but spend way too much time on inference questions (both author agreement/disagreement and general inferences about the passage questions). My RC scores have been tanking my overall score, I'm consistently -0 to -2 LR, -0 on LG when I finish the section but sometimes don't get to the last 2-3 questions. I was at a solid -3 to -5 with RC for the majority of my studying up until now, usually just from not finishing the last few questions, but recently my uncertainty with these inference questions is killing my score. I can usually only get it down to 2 or 3 answer choices, I overthink them for 2ish minutes, and then invariably choose the wrong answer. Looking for tips on how to answer these question types more confidently, especially when 2 or 3 answer choices can reasonably be supported by information in the passage. How should I be quickly assessing which statement for which there is more evidence that the author would agree with it?
If anyone has recently taken PT87 and remembers passages 1 and 2 from the RC section, would be interested to hear your thoughts/approach on the inference questions - especially question 6 from passage 1 of PT87! Or in general, if anyone has receded severely in RC - how did you get your score back up? Any and all help much appreciated
Although (E) introduces an alternate cause for the increase in seed sales by the two largest seed companies, it still seems like (A) does a better job of weakening the argument as a whole. (A) seems like it explains both the increase in produce prices and challenges the notion that this increase in prices has led to an increase in personal gardens. If the increase in produce prices are driven by increases in fuel costs of bringing produce to the market, then wouldn’t it be a reasonable assumption to make that, at the very least, produce sales have remained constant, that people have not, as a result of increased costs, ceased to by produce from grocery stores? Or even that people are buying produce from markets at a higher rate than before and so more fuel is required to get this produce to the market as a result of demand? Although (E) dismantles the assumption that an increase in seed sales from two companies means an increase in overall seed sales, it doesn’t seem like (E) actually calls into question the conclusion itself, as it doesn’t really have anything to do with where people are getting their produce from.