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Saturday, May 23 2020

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How to Improve on Harder Questions?

I took my first PT after going through the curriculum and was able to increase my score by 6 points from my diagnostic. While promising, I noticed that 18/24 questions that I had missed were considered level 4 or 5 difficulty questions and I had gotten the lower difficulty questions correct on blind review, leaving me without a necessary "weak" question type. My initial takeaway seems to be that I have a decent baseline understanding of the question types and lawgic and can intuitively get to the right answer for the easier questions, but I struggle with breaking down the harder ones. Is there a way to effectively overcome this hump? Thanks for any advice.

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PT129.S2.Q22
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Friday, Aug 14 2020

God I hate this question because the answer choices kinda suck.

A-This answer is correct because if the clovis points in Siberia are older than any of the ones found in America, they are more likely to have been invented in Siberia. I hate this answer because it leaves out the possibility that there are even older ones yet to be found in America or the possibility that some people had brought these clovis points from America to Siberia, but it does the bare minimum to make the argument stronger because of its potential implications on invention. Honestly, this is an answer I would expect on a NA question rather than a strengthen question, but in a sense a NA question is just a specific type of strengthening question so it checks out.

B-I chose this answer, but it's wrong because it does nothing for the argument itself. All it tells us is that out of the known clovis points, they couldn't have been brought over from America, but it tells us nothing about where they were invented. Like A, it has the flaw that it leaves the possibility that there are unfound clovis points that could have been brought over from America before the land bridge broke, but it does nothing itself to actually strengthen the argument since we still don't know where the clovis points were invented.

C-Irrelevant

D-Irrelevant.

E-Weakens the argument because it explicitly opens the possibility that the clovis points could've been brought over from America.

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PT144.S2.Q26
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Friday, Sep 04 2020

My mistake here was that I subtly interpreted the stimulus as a principle itself and misread the question stem. The stimulus is only illustrating the principle that "don't let people profit off their illegal deeds" or something to that extent. I was running low on time, so I ended up choosing B, but once I actually slowed down and took a closer look at the question, it's pretty obvious why E is the correct answer since it prevents a criminal from profiting off his crime.

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