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PT145.S1.P4.Q20
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Tuesday, Dec 29 2020

1. steele confirmation?

2. how?

3. virus transmission

4. signature | OPA

TIME (Passage - 3:19)

BLIND REVIEW

1. Steele's immune mechanism

Structure: context/MP

Transition: more details about the mechanism steele claims to help support L's theory

2. R-DNA mutation

Structure: OPA Premise

Transition: how does this mutation figure into L's hypo?

3. virus transmission hypo

Structure: OPA support

Transition: plausible? APOV

4. patterns evidence | opposition

Structure: OPA conclusion/opposition

Very difficult for me to see a cookie cutter structure here

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PT145.S1.P3.Q14
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Tuesday, Dec 29 2020

TIME: (Passages - 3:51)

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1. shift - gender relations

Structure: change/shift in history | context

Transition: examples or support as to how this was produced in historical study/impact

2. impact today

Structure: impact

Transition: good/bad?

3. obscurity of gender

Structure: APOV/MP

B

1. A's laws

Stucture: context

Transition: impact

2. successful

Structure: more contextual details

Transition: relevance today?

3. momentum in art

Structure: more details

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PT145.S1.P2.Q8
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Tuesday, Dec 29 2020

1. question - OPA cost benefit

2. morality factors

3. impractical - detection ratio

4. reconsider both

TIME: (Passage - 3:19)

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1. question | OPA - penalty over profit

Structure: rhetorical question | OPA explanation

Transition A POV disagree

2. earnings over morality

Structure: OPA contd.

Transition: discrepancy/issue with OPA

3. consequence - detection ratio

Structure: discrepancy/issue

Transition: APOV/solution

4. alternate needed

Structure: APOV

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PT145.S1.P1.Q1
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Tuesday, Dec 29 2020

1. FTP importance: Negro Units

2. diversity from debate

3. MP - impact

TIME: (Passage - 3:47)

BLIND REVIEW

1. FTP Negro Units

Structure: context/intro to key episode in history

Transition: more details into why important/impact at the time

2. diversity of production

Structure: details on what characterized the episode from its foundation to characteristics

Transition: APOV on why important in context of FTP broadly

3. impact

Structure: impact

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PT144.S1.P4.Q20
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Monday, Dec 28 2020

TIME: 11 mins 17 secs (Passage - 3:53)

1. N.E. theory

Structure: intro/context to approach | theory defined

Transition: APOV. good?

2. A not B (not sufficient)

Structure: MP

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PT144.S1.P3.Q14
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Monday, Dec 28 2020

TIME: 8 mins 05 secs (Passage - 3:39)

1. MP

Structure: context/MP

Transition: details regarding development

2. religious to political transition

Structure: premise/support

Transition: examples of political messages

3. foundation solidified

Structure: support/premise

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PT144.S1.P2.Q7
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Monday, Dec 28 2020

TIME: 7 mins 43 secs

1. legal issue/question

Structure: question/issue introduced

Transition: what makes the opposition think patents are hindering basic research? reasoning

2. hindrance/threat

Structure: issue explained further/OPA

Transition: is fear unfounded? APOV

3. unfounded fear

Structure: MP

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PT144.S1.P1.Q1
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Monday, Dec 28 2020

TIME: 7 mins 55 secs (Passage: 3:48)

1. quote

Structure: intro

Transition: who's saying this and why?

2. source

Structure: context/background info

Transition: why criticism of supposed legend? is criticism appropriate?

3. controversy

Structure: context/background info

Transition: did S. achieve later praise likewise?

4. S.'s representative styles, #1

Structure: APOV

Transition: #2 style

5. no tone

Structure: premise

Transition: #3?

6. 12-tone

Structure: PREMISE

Transition: MP

7. why deserving praise

Structure: MP

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PT128.S1.P2.Q12
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Wednesday, May 26 2021

#12 I think the support from D comes from the third paragraph where the author says "two beliefs underlie this shift..."

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Wednesday, Nov 24 2021

I loved every moment of reading this. GOOD LUCK FAM!

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PT128.S4.P3.Q13
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Wednesday, Dec 23 2020

1. P's hypo & resistance

Structure: context

Transition: why did they resist? OPA?

2. OPA | discrepancy

Structure: OPA| discrepancy

Transition: how did P. go about challenging? what evidence?

3. P's challenge | rebuttal

Structure: new view/OPA rebuttal

Transition: P's response

4. nuclear reaction expl.

Structure: reason for long-held resistance

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PT128.S4.P2.Q7
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Wednesday, Dec 23 2020

1. deeper representation of self

Structure: Context/MP

Transition: "theme throughout career" flesh out how career works signify this theme, delve into previous emblematic works

2. eg. S.M.

Structure: support/premise

Transition: other works as examples

3. eg. Manhattan

Structure: Premise/support

Transition: other example

4. less artististic > more ...

Structure: support/premise

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PT128.S4.P1.Q1
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Wednesday, Dec 23 2020

1. N.Z. decline

Structure: phen/shift - source/consequences of change

Transition: impact/potential solution

2. potential solution - model strategies

Structure: potential solution/APOV

Transition: feasible? method? what exactly are their strategies?

3. division

Structure: discrepancy/crux of issue

Transition: how does potential solution resolve?

4. CGR

Structure: method/MP

I am trying to understand how to tackle reading comprehension blind review and practice drills for radical improvement. I do understand how the memory method is supposed to work as a process but I need to prioritize or do something. I find myself alternating with speed reading and not fully connecting referential phrasing dots to meet the 3 (mostly ends up being 4 1/2 minted still) then getting a poor understanding of the passage overall. Or reading for clarity as J.Y. does in explanation videos, trying to mimic real-time imagination strategies , then killing more time. Both resulting in about 10 to 13 minutes per passage. Which one do I prioritize? Should I focus on better reading then time will automatically fall in line with confidence? Or am I missing the point altogether? #help Pleaseee. Thank you in advance.

I struggled between A and B, why is A wrong? and why is B right?

I would think A to be wrong because it focuses the blame on historians, which came from nowhere because the stimulus didn't mention; or even "some great scientists" we don't know about any scientist but Newton

I would think B is also wrong because it says "review by other scientists": i guess I thought other scientist reviewing never came up but when i think more, I guess it can reasonably assumed that if it is published, it will be reviewed by other scientists which is what would cause the advancement of chemistry but an assumption no less

#help

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Hi Guys,

So you know how J.Y. and other tutors stress the importance of doing preptests in a way that mimics the test conditions for the day of the actual test. In my case, I have to travel (actually board a plane) to take the test at a testing site that I have never been to. Has anyone had to do the same? How does one prepare for that in the sense of reducing test day anxiety, etc.?

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PT158.S3.Q12
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Friday, Jan 14 2022

#help #help Can the fact that the second sentence is an illustration of the principle lead one to conclude that it lends some support to the principle or vice versa like AC A suggests?

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PT142.S3.P4.Q22
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Sunday, Dec 13 2020

1. M.G. hypo | flawed

Structure: intro/MP

Transition: details on flaws

2. consensus agenda

Structure: support/premise

Transition: Flaw #2

3. views representative?

Structure: support/premise

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PT142.S3.P2.Q9
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Sunday, Dec 13 2020

1. stealing thunder strategy

Structure: intro to idea/practice

Transition: importance?

2. effective

Structure: MP - premise

Transition: but...

3. "spin" - pro/drawback

premise

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PT142.S3.P1.Q1
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Sunday, Dec 13 2020

1. why not perfume?

Structure: rhet. question/phen

Transition: explanation?

2. parallels - art

Structure: context/deepens paradox

Transition: explanation?

3. contd. - perfumers

Structure: contd. context

Transition: explanation

4. profit interests - answer

Structure: MP/possible explanation

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PT130.S2.P4.Q21
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Friday, Dec 11 2020

TOTAL TIME: 8 mins 04 secs (Passage - 3:45)

1. Complex balance

2. analogy - language

3. continuous - relaxing

BLIND REVIEW

1. complex-organized balance

Structure: MP

Transition: support...examples in music

2. analogy - language

Structure: support for idea of complexity being essential

Transition: more support

3. continuous = relax!

Structure: support for coherence being essential

Cookie Cutter - to persuade, hypothesis - support?

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PT141.S1.P1.Q1
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Thursday, Dec 10 2020

1. natural selection S.C.

2. discrepancy

3. eg. random neutral mutations

4. eg. dinosaurs

Passage - 3:50 = 7 mins 54 secs

BLIND REVIEW

1. OPA - natural selection

Structure: OPA / context

Transition: A POV wrong

2. discrepancy

Structure: MP

Transition: Support? Examples in nature?

3. neutral adaptations

Structure: support - part 1 of MP

Transition: implications

4. nonconforming eg. - dinosaurs

Structure: support - part 2 of MP

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PT153.S4.P4.Q22
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Friday, Jan 08 2021

1. "grand theories"

Structure: Intro/context

Transition: why quotations around it? not as encompassing as it seems?

2. potential not achieved

Structure: discrepancy

Transition: solution?

3. appeal

Structure: why popular

Transition: solution

4. potential solution

Structure: MP

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Wednesday, Jun 05 2019

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DIAGRAMMING BOARD SET UP

So I am have a simple/lazy issue. How do you guys set up your rules and game board. Do you do it like J.Y. says "next to the questions? Or other wise. Becasue we talk about having extra space below for drawing game boards but then it will not be next to each question. Also, if I write lawgic rules and original game boards below the rules on the first page, then after the first question I am constantly flipping back-and forth which makes me lazily try to just remember rules in my head to save time and that means I am not checking off/blocking rules as I make inferences on each question (sometimes missing a rule and spending more time eventually on questions). I started writing my rules on the back page instead with most of the questions and flipping back-and-forth only to translate rules and do the first question. What have you been doing? Or is this inevitable?

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PT127.S4.P3.Q16
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Friday, Dec 04 2020

1. lack of definition

2. ROMA

BLIND REVIEW

1. lack of definition

Structure: context/background info

Transition: issue? why is this the state of affairs?

2. problematic - ROMA

Structure: discrepancy.issue with traditional approach or definition for these concepts | MP

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PT126.S2.P2.Q7
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Friday, Dec 04 2020

1. "nature protection"

2. bias

BLIND REVIEW

1. P.L. rhetoric

Structure: context

Transition: APOV/MP

2. incentive

Structure: MP/APOV

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PT126.S2.P2.Q7
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Thursday, Dec 03 2020

1. phen

2. coping

TIME Total - 10 mins 33 secs (Passage - 4:21)

BLIND REVIEW

1. P.L. Phenomenon

Structure: context/background info on issue

Transition: future research/implications

2. control

Structure: potential solution

Transition: MP

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PT140.S1.Q18
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Monday, Aug 02 2021

AC D "this is a cookie cutter but not the cookie from which this argument is cut" LOL , I hope this gets out of my head for the next flaw question I see

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Thursday, Aug 01 2019

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PT1.S4.Q5 - Senator Strongwood reported that

I have been looking at this question for a while and A, B, C appeared correct at first. I narrowed it down to C because it seemed like he was mocking and taunting the opposing view as to suggest their report ludicrous, an appeal to emotion. I ruled out A and B because although true, that did not seem like the main method of reasoning he was using. Now that I know B is in fact the correct answer, I have eliminated A & C on the grounds that they are referring to context parts and the major premise "could not imagine any senator..." seems to imply Answer choice B more closely ...What do you guys think?

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