Agree, I got this question right and was surprised to see how many people chose C! She didn't choreograph different dances. She had one interpretation of the dance (only 1 choreographed dance, that is), and what the last paragraph explicitly says is that she addressed different parts of the same dance within her interpretation of it. A is a lot more explicitly supported, in my opinion!

I missed this question because I couldn't even understand what the question stem was asking me to do lol.

@obenevento I did the same. Maybe I'm an idiot but I thought A worked, because if small rats are more likely to die of other fatal illnesses that occur before heart disease, then I took that to mean that the remaining small rats who lived long enough would get heart problems. I'm not sure how to word what I was thinking, but like, if they managed to avoid dying of those other fatal diseases, then the remaining small rats could have disproportionate rates of heart disease just because they lived longer than the other small rats who died.

I guess in fairness, the assumption for A did depend on the idea that heart problems would be more likely as the rats age, but I feel that C also requires a heavy assumption that stress relates to heart problems. Which we know is true in the real world, but nothing in the stimulus established that. It's hard to know where to draw the line between outside knowledge and unwarranted assumption.

@erinreed01 I feel validated because me too lol. I'm proud of myself that during the section I just accepted I wasn't gonna get it and moved on to other questions, so I didn't waste time on it. But in BR, I swear I read the stim and the answers so many times and nothing clicked.

@xh1162 I feel so vindicated because I normally nail RC (like -1 to -3 range), but I missed THREE alone in this passage, ruined my whole section.

@jlr32353717 This is literally what is feels like lmao, like when do I know it's okay to make assumptions and when it's not okay?? I know the trick is what's the best answer, meaning it can be somewhat flawed and still be correct, but it is really annoying.

@bangmachiv I originally had A selected, then changed to E because of taking issue with "detrimental" for the same reasons you've described. "Inevitably" doesn't work for E, either, that's also too strong, but I think you can make more of an argument for E being implied than you can for A. "Detrimental" is definitely the wrong word, a more accurate word would have been "counterproductive" or something to that effect of a lack of progress.

@gcoleman124 I got this question right, and I eliminated B because it doesn't quite match what Elsa is saying. Elsa's point is that public art should emphasize radically different opinions (if they are held), whereas B is talking about the possibility of art that people with those opinions can enjoy/support. And neither Laurie nor Elsa says anything about what people can or should support, or what type of people can enjoy or support art.

Her "no art form can do the impossible" is a statement about Laurie's view about public art bringing people together, which I found to be more support for answer choice C.

@Mello I chose B, but my thought process was kind of twofold. 1) Yes I did assume ponderosa forests were in North America, just because, if not, why would the author bring them up as an example? Like how else could it contribute to their point? But then more importantly, 2) the later line about "because of relative success of fire-suppression efforts, many forests, including ponderosa forests, have now been free of fire ..." and then it's again followed up by a conclusion regarding land management in North America.

So for me the thought process was that we know ponderosa forests used to be open forests and would be cleared of brush/young trees due to fires. We also know that now, we haven't seen such fires in around 50 years. So then we must also know that the population density is higher in modern ponderosa forests since that brush/younger trees haven't been burned away.

@RubyBlue Agree, I disregarded the correct answer solely for "ornamental," as it seemed to me that the passage went out of its way to clarify that Ms. Gray's style leaned visually austere. So how can it be ornamental lol?

@unknown Literally me lol, I had the right answer the whole time, then changed it at the end because I found it too strong on a second pass. Oh well.

@iwillgeta175 None whatsoever - I could be way off base but I see some of these dumb arbitrary changes (like taking away the lines indicating the separation of each RC passage or making it so that you had to click on a list to see which questions were still unanswered or flagged, which they all eventually modified but still) as their way of trying to stop score inflation. The only other weapon they have, apart from difficulty, is time. So if people seem to be getting better at difficult questions, the only other thing they can do is try to make you waste as much time as you can.

It's garbage, but I guess this is what it's come to.

@GDatria715 No they're saying that for the stretching group, those joggers might already be more prone to injury to begin with, not that the stretching does nothing.

So like say they would normally have like 10 injuries over the course of a year. But then they start adding stretching to their routine like the stim describes, and now they're only getting like 5 injuries a year.

Yeah, 5 injuries is still a lot, which makes it seem like the stretching doesn't work. However, when you compare it to the 10 injuries a year, 5 is looking pretty good. Thus showing that the stretching could help prevent injuries, which weakens the stim's conclusion that stretching doesn't help.