I think they go hand in hand more than you think- I started scoring better when I started thinking of RC as long LR, that being said get the foundations down.

@JacquiF Do I need to have purchased CAS before the Recommendors send those in?

@Sof You choose your center closer to the test

Yay! Thank you!!!!!

Should I write an addendum if I had a year where my GPA was slightly like very slightly below the rest of the semesters (but it did bring down my GPA). How severe does the grade fluctuation need to be to warrant an addendum?

How many LORs do schools really want, and how much weight do they hold?

I had the same experience. You're going to hate my answer... but I went through the curriculum again, I think it helped having context from drilling- I understood and retained techniques better the second time around.

@tigerlily Yes, sorry about that!

Hi! I also used to struggle with NA questions. This is what helped me. First: understanding the difference between NA and SA questions. If you see "if" in the Q stem you can pretty quickly assume it is SA. SA require stronger answer choices that fill in a gap and sometimes actually strengthen the conclusion- think of them as BOOM big explosion wow moment. NA questions require much, like you said, narrower answer choices, I don't even like to think of filling in a gap, I like to think of what does the argument seek, what does it need. These answer choices confine closely to what is stated in the stimulus- if the answer choice offers any new information or goes above and beyond- that is likely not the answer. That's where it gets tricky. It helped me to think of Conlcusion supports the necessary and Sufficient supports the conclusion.

I have found that the negation test tends to be pretty accurate, if the negation of this answer choice destroys the argument or makes the argument HIGHLY UNLIKELY to follow then it's probably correct. In theory we could always find loopholes around the negation test, but I suggest just taking it as it is and don't overthink because you will be able to find assumptions in almost all answer choices on the entire test and that becomes like a black hole.

For PT127.S2.Q20

Think of it almost as steps (I AM NOT DRAWING OUT CONDITIONALS) this is my thought process that usually leads me to the right answer-

• Talk show------ broad audience

• But broad audience --- not high quality

  OK but why does that even matter?????

• not high quality ---- no talk show

  WAIT BUT WHYYYYY?

you can kind of see here where the argument is missing a premise, it introduces "high quality" without justifying its impact and position in the argument. That is what we need to resolve, we need to give high quality a purpose.

So we can look at the conclusion and the lead up to it and say ok all of this information together needs answer choice D while silmutaneously providing support for it to fit seamlessly into the argument.

If you negate D the argument should not follow (of course you could deep dive into assumption land) but just take it as surface level as possible.

@JacobBaska Thank you for your response- yes, I did not want to bring up mental health as a "roadblock" or something I had to overcome. It was going to serve as a segway into my purpose! This was a very helpful response- thank you!!!!!

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