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I was actually really happy that I got two RCs, it's generally my strongest area.
RC-RC-LG-LR
But that being said the first RC was way easier than the second one.
I had 14 minutes remaining going into the final logic game but my proctor stopped my test because I was leaning over my scratch paper working and apparently I was off camera. That really threw me off. That last game was rough.
I have no idea, but I specifically avoided C because I was for some reason under the impression that I should avoid argument by analogy. I read C and said like, "who cares about modern writers?"
So, JY says it and it was part of the reasoning that I used - Henrietta's daughter could have been born wiser, and Henrietta could have been born more unwise than her daughter. There's no absolute standard for wisdom.
The difference between ACs A and D is that A is relative and D is absolute. That's how I thought about it, at least.
A's answer kind of says that wisdom cannot be measured except against itself - it should always be higher than its starting point. Every person gets more wise as they age - but what was their starting point?
Meanwhile everything has an absolute altitude that can be measured against others, because all altitude begins with sea level. Altitude in Mexico City can be measured against Panama city because the absolute standard for altitude is sea level.
So, AC D works because tree rings are an absolute measurement. There's 1 ring at the beginning, then it goes up. If something is older, it absolutely has more rings. Trees don't begin with a random number of rings. If they did, and only gained more rings as they grew older, age would be impossible to tell. We'd only know that it was younger when it had fewer rings but we wouldn't know where the beginning was.
Likewise, we don't know where the beginning is in the measurement of "wisdom."
I got this one right first time through. I initially got it right on the BR too.
Then, as I was eliminating "correct" answers, I got to answer choice E and forgot what I was doing and chose it because it's a traditional "most strongly supported" answer.
And got it wrong. Genius.
Can't forget about those "except" rules.
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I don't believe so. I had clay and summer camp games maybe?