I have been studying since last August and I stayed at the same score until this past June when I shot up 8 points and have been increasing since. I felt so discouraged and so defeated seeing everyone around me apply last cycle when I had originally intended to. And honestly, I don't believe this curriculum helped me. The access to the drills and PTs was huge in helping me solidify what I learned from another book I purchased in March and that's what caused my score to shoot up. If you have been trying this curriculum and things are not fitting into place I highly suggest looking for other resources! 7sage still provides me with useful explanation videos and drill options, but the way the curriculum is set up simply did not work for me. AND THATS OKAY!!

Got it right after 6 minutes haha #lfg

You are correct, you are to take the answer choices to be true, but here even in doing so it doesn't weaken as much as C does. In taking D to be true you are taking the fact that there is no clear evidence that the ichthyosaurs has or does not have those characteristics of the whale. When there is no clear evidence that the ichthyosaurs has or does not have those traits, that doesn't mean that they for sure do not, maybe they do? We just don't know.

If the answer had said the ichthyosaurs does not have other traits that whales have that they need in order to be deep divers, then that would be much better at weakening the argument because simply having the porous bones isn't enough to be a deep diver which the argument concludes of the ichthyosaurs.

Hopefully this made some sense, I tried my best to explain! :)

The same thing happened to me, and it really made me question taking this entire test BUT it really is part of the process. The more you do problems the more all those explanations and strategies that you think you aren't understanding right now become second nature to you!

I will say what really helped me is when I get the answer wrong on a drill, open the question up again, and see if you can get the right answer yourself before watching the explanation right away (don't look at what the right answer is obviously lol). Sometimes just knowing you got a question wrong is enough of a wake up call to see the ACs in a different way!

I don't know if this will help anyone understand why C is correct but this is what helped me!

Most coffeehouses that are well designed feature artwork

All it says in the stimulus is that most PUBLIC PLACES that are well designed feature art work not that most coffeehouses that are well designed feature artwork. Sure there is a chance that a well designed coffee house may feature art work. But coffeehouses only comprise a sliver of well designed public places. So to say that most coffeehouses that are well designed feature artwork would not make sense to say.

I'm in a coffeehouse right now, pretty well-designed, and not a sliver of art work is featured lol.