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PT125.S3.P1.Q4

jocelyn790

Monday, Apr 15 2024

Q4: I was between C and D, and still a bit stuck on D. I took "An essential element in the success of this tactic was..." to mean that the author viewed the strategy as necessary. The word "essential" is what gets me. Let me know if anyone can explain why this is not adequate support. I guess referring to an "essential element" is not the same as referring to the whole strategy as essential?

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PT127.S1.Q7

jocelyn790

Monday, Apr 15 2024

I originally chose C because I made the inappropriate assumption that "the second date was established by testing pollen grains... to determine when ice masses yielded to spruce forests" meant that spruce forests would pop up as soon as ice masses disappeared. I see now this is not supported – it may have just taken spruce forests some time. We don't have much information at all about exactly when and where ice masses melted. I need to refrain from making assumptions that aren't supported by the stimulus.

C: Possible, but it is not supported – all of the ice masses could have disappeared at the same time as warmth-adapted beetles replaced the others, and spruce forests simply took more time to populate than the warm beetles did.

D: "Replaced" does not necessarily mean "died out." Maybe the cold beetles moved to chillier regions. Not supported.

E: This is the correct answer. The stimulus tells us that warm beetles replaced cold beetles 500 years earlier than spruce forests populated the territory. So this statement is the one that is most strongly supported by the stimulus – the warm beetles were established faster than spruce forests. Doesn't require any major leaps, like the other answer choices.

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Sunday, Apr 14 2024

jocelyn790

Advice! Do I take June or August?

I have never sat for the real exam before and really can't decide whether to take June or August. I just took 4 section PrepTest 42, and got a 168 actual with 176 on Blind Review. This is right around where my last 2 prep tests have been.

The breakdown was:

-4 on LG (I didn't get to the fourth game).

-3 on LR (felt good)

-1 on RC

-6 on LR (completely lost focus, spent 3+ minutes on some questions, and didn't make it to several questions)

7sagers, please help – what do you recommend? I'm not sure if I should cut my losses on LG and drop it and just study LR and RC for the August test, or if it's realistic to get to -0 between now and June. I will have much more time to study come summer.

Do I sign up for June? If so, what course of study do you recommend? My goal score is 170 minimum. I suspect I'll have to retake in August no matter what... My dream is an HLS score. Applying this coming fall.

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PT131.S2.Q24

jocelyn790

Tuesday, May 07 2024

I was between B and E, and chose E during the actual test and also on Blind Review.

B is most strongly supported by the stimulus. We know that 59% of consumers don't expect to be worried about interest, and that credit card companies concentrate on improving the services customers are most interested in, so we can infer answer choice B.

Answer choice E is tempting given what is said about consumers who use cards to avoid carrying cash or checks, but E makes reference to "the most intense competition." To infer that the most intense competition would be over the number of places that accept a card, we have to make a lot of assumptions. Maybe there would be a lot of competition over the number of places that accept the card, but the most intense? Also, we only know about the 59% of consumers who anticipate paying off their cards – that's not enough information for us to make strongly supported assumptions about the most intense competition.

Next time, I need to stick to the answer choice that requires fewer assumptions, and I think carefully about what the stimulus actually tells us.