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General · How do you all balance study time across LG LR and RC?

jiyoon815620

Thursday, Feb 10 2022

@10trent33742 thanks for the input!

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Wednesday, Feb 09 2022

jiyoon815620

How do you all balance study time across LG LR and RC?

So I've been going through the core curriculum in order, starting with all the LR stuff and now going through LG. But I feel uneasy about the fact that I haven't even gotten to RC after a few months of studying, and after doing just LG for a few weeks I feel like I'm forgetting the LR material. How do you all balance going back and forth between the different sections? Should I force myself to studying a different section each day or week? Wondering if any of you have any strategies for progressing evenly across the three sections and not feeling like you're neglecting one of them.

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PT104.S1.Q3

jiyoon815620

Saturday, Oct 02 2021

It was helpful for me to look at this question with the correlation-causation lens:

stimulus:

- Y presents a correlation between size and survival rate of blackbirds

- Y concludes a causation from this correlation that size determines survival rate

- author pushes back on Y's conclusion, suggesting that age is a competing cause determining survival rate.

answer choices:

A) nope, the stimulus says that "smaller blackbirds are generally younger," so there's at the very least a correlative relationship between size and age

B) the author is suggesting that age is actually the causal factor determining survival, and we have no information from the stimulus suggesting that larger birds of the same age will survive better

C) again, since the author is suggesting age as the causal factor, a difference in age probably DOES indicate a difference in survival. But even if this AC was worded like this, it's a stronger statement than D and therefore would be a harder inference to push out

D) This one is consistent with the author's argument. If age really is the factor determining survival rate as the author suggests, if you observe the birds of the same age, regardless of size, then they should have the same survival rate.

E) we have no idea what will happen with a larger sample. this would be a huge assumption which we are not allowed to make

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PT102.S2.Q4

jiyoon815620

Sunday, Sep 12 2021

It's basically saying that detection of counterfeit money by experts is expensive--most likely due to having to hire and pay them, etc. We know from the stimulus that an anticounterfeiting technique that depends on expert detection is referring to microprinting, so AC A is saying that if microprinting were used as the anticounterfeit measure, then it would overall be costly to society since microrprinting depends on having experts to find all the counterfeits.

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PT103.S1.Q7

jiyoon815620

Sunday, Sep 12 2021

I was stuck between D and E too, but I went with E since it seemed to make less assumptions than D. If you look at the wording of D, it says "some" tombs of warriors, and we know that "some" is a really vague and weak word. It also doesn't specify what kind of weapon, and like JY said in the video, maybe they were just more spears. It also specifies that these armor and weapons were "trophies taken from enemies in battle," which isn't really the same thing as "a new method of warfare." If the armor and weapons were truly just trophies, I took that to mean that that the tribes wouldn't then use that same armor and weapons again in the next conflict.

I think E is definitely much more direct and specific with stronger language to support the argument. It says "many" of the late Bronze Age warriors, which is a stronger statement than the "some"in D. It also says that there were marks on the bones of these warriors, which means that there was actual conflict and warfare caused by the arrows. This answer choice seems to match more with what sounds like "a new method of warfare" than D does.

I agree with you that E does make the assumption on arrowheads, but I guess in this case it's about going with the answer choice that makes the least assumptions? I think it's also important to remember that strengthening questions needs to simply provide reason to believe the conclusion a little more--it doesn't need to absolutely prove it. Hopefully this helped!