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i wasnt able to pick up on the 3 part conditional and feel like that is why i got this question wrong. I didn't see the second sentence as a conditional because there weren't any indicators but i felt like it was a conditional when I read it.. how can i better identify this for future?
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PrepTest A - Section 1 - Question 16
For this one I was able to gather my information to see how I could even weaken this argument. Automatically Bruno was accused of being the spy. In my process of reading this question type, I was automatically thinking of an AC that would no longer make him the spy in question. AC A gave that set up exactly. Although I was able to figure this question type out, I am wondering if there is a quicker approach for weakening/strengthening question types that could help me. I felt like I could've answered this one quicker than I did, so anything helps!
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yeah i think i was taking the context of drinking herbs as causation and not what the actual conclusion was telling us. i picked C at first and got myself confused with BR'ing
i think it is fine bc i got it the same way. the most relationship in the second sentence for me didn’t have much value for me in terms of the stimulus so i moved past it. once i found that D was my contrapositive i knew it was right.
i didn’t understand why any measure would’ve been relevant bc i didn’t want to enter an assumption that anything works to reduce traffic. how do i go about that a little better?
reading "must reach at least 250 if it is to be self-sustaining" should make us start thinking of ways this would be satisfied. JY explains a larger habitat since the current one is under the 250. im not sure if that helps.
at what point do you get away from diagramming? i feel like it is very confusing for my understanding #help (Added by admin)
i understand now since this second half of the condition is satisfied, C is the best answer. but when I read the 'may' in the second sentence I started to wonder how that impacts the condition. i didn't realize that it was connecting to the first sentence in that sort of missing piece style. i chose B and can see why that doesn't work.
this had to be one of the hardest passages I've read... #whew
if i wanted to get more practice on MSS questions like this, what would i search? MSS with lengthy conditional/causation claims? #help
answer choice C and D made me stray away from them because saying "in most cases" and "most of the info" is generalizing that 51%-100% cases would encounter this problem which we don't know. more of a strong assumption that we don't have further information on. im not sure if that is how eliminating these AC go, so please correct if I am wrong to go about it that way.
so does that mean multiple hypothesis can work, its just using our ability to find which one works out the best?
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i got this one wrong because i confused context for conclusion. this explanation was useful to show how the conclusion will appear for MC/MP
JY i know you didnt just trick me like that!!! lol i learned my lesson with that and it is forever stuck in my head now!!
for the last question :
Working backward from today’s languages through written classical ones allowed philologists to discover systematic changes, which in turn let them peer further into the past to posit what the unwritten PIE would have sounded like.
“written classical ONES” isn’t that last word in my entry a referential as well? i thought it was referential to language.
why would sabotage not be in the parsed version of the sentence? for some reason i picked that up in the process and didn't see it as a modifier.
from my understanding of the concept, i believe the graph is more so explaining the intersecting indicator words and how we should view when coming across them
Hi there!! I had the same issue but giving yourself the patience and understanding that this information is very complex and new for our brains is a starting point. I would get really upset when I wasn't performing until I realized that my blind reviewing and video watching wasn't enough. I had to analyze why I wasn't getting questions correct and started talking to myself through the process of each question type I came across. You sort of build your own style when you have the repetition which is a dreadful process but you begin to see the progress and build your confidence.
I would say really analyze why you got the questions wrong (didn't understand the stimulus, question stem, or answer choices) I found that my biggest mistakes came from not learning what the argument was telling me and breaking it down. I have seen a major switch in my brain the more I focused on analyzing my wrong answers during BR which has decreased the time I spend on each questions. It will slowly fall in place just keep practicing! I hope that helps and goodluck!