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Thanks @ for the timely response. I was wondering if it's possible to collapse answer choices that you don't want to view. I know that LSAC's digital tester offers that feature.
My questions are related to the Blind Review window in the digital test.
Context: I just did my first digital preptest (PT 44) and now have to do the Blind Review, but when I started doing the Blind Review, I noticed that I couldn't see what answer I had chosen nor which questions I had flagged during the Timed take. Instead, when looking at the status bar, all I could see were which questions I answered, skipped or didn't get time to complete during the Timed take. I didn't keep track of my answers/flagged questions through another means both because I assumed that such information would be stored and carried over to the Blind Review window and because I wasn't using a physical answer sheet to record my answers since that wouldn't replicate actual test conditions. As such, these are my questions:
1. Is there some way to see what answer I selected per question during the Timed take when in the Blind Review window?
2. Is there some way to see which questions I flagged during the Timed take when in the Blind Review window?
If it helps, I used the digital tester on my Windows 8 laptop with a wireless mouse in the most recent Chrome browser.
If someone has a workaround for this situation, please let me know! I don't know whether we can select anything in the test screen once that box appears to inform the test taker that time is up, but if we can, then maybe I can record my answers/flagged questions before I select the "OK" button that accompanies that box before moving on to the next section. However, for the sake of replicating actual test conditions as much as possible, I would prefer not to do that since we won't have that amount of time between the test sections other than Section 3 when writing the real exam.
In regards to question 24, I think that the reason why you wouldn't choose (B) is because, in my opinion, it seems to represent one half of a very limited binary cut/logical opposite of what the categories of neurons are. For (B), the logical opposite would be "does not respond to drug treatment" (or "not(respond to drug treatment)"), which would therefore imply that the "defined categories of neurons" are limited to two options: 1) responds to drug treatment; or 2) does not respond to drug treatment. Honestly, this binary cut seems way too narrow to me when we're talking about "defined categories of neurons" because I don't know, what if there is a category of neurons that, for example, responds to an another form of treatment other than drugs? (B) is too restrictive to account for probably more than two categories of neurons.
If you were to operate on the understanding that this responsiveness/unresponsiveness is the potential binary cut of the categories of neurons, I think you would then be forced to assume there are some brain disorders that can fall under either category without overlap, and in that case, you would need to be able to answer this question: "Which brain disorders fall under each category?" but can you even answer that question using the passage information? I don't think we have enough information to make that inference, especially considering the fact that the author states in lines 54-55 that "pharmacologists may be able to design drugs...", which would imply that there is no guarantee that drugs can be created to alter the effects on behaviour. Also how the heck do you even know that there are some brain disorders or subsets of particular brain disorders that don't fall under both categories (i.e., overlap)? Based on the passage information, you can't infer with 100% certainty that there are brain disorders or subsets thereof that don't overlap the two categories.
Basically, answer choice (B) = So many assumptions, so little time.
Hope my rationale is clear. If not, let me know and I can try to explain it better or may someone else can help me out by pointing out gaps in my rationale or if my rationale is way off base!
To 7Sage Administrators: I wanted to point out a possible spelling error in one of the questions above.
"Of the following propositions, which one is best illustrated by the daily farmer's statements?"
I wasn't sure if you intended to write daily rather than dairy or something else, but even though this possible spelling error doesn't have much bearing on correctly identifying the question type, I wanted to bring this to your attention just in case the use of the word "daily" in the question wasn't intentional.
@ I've tried to provide a written explanation of this function below, but in case that isn't easy to comprehend, I would recommend viewing LSAC's digital tester tutorial (https://familiar.lsac.org/) where you will find the collapse function by going to the Tutorial section, then selecting the 'Practice' button to the right of "Multiple Choice" and viewing question #2. Within question #2, the collapse function is indicated by the upward-facing arrow to the right of each AC and below the "fade-out/eliminate" button (i.e., the AC letter with a slash going through it).
The collapse function is made available for only those questions in which the length of all, most or some of the 5 ACs is so long that you can't see all 5 ACs fully on the digital tester screen without scrolling. As mentioned above, for these questions, the collapse function is activated via an upward-facing arrow located directly to the right of each AC and below the "fade-out/eliminate" button (i.e., the button that the mouse is selecting in the gif you attached to your post). When you choose to collapse an AC, you click on this upward-facing arrow, causing everything to disappear from sight except the first line of that AC along with the answer choice's corresponding letter (A, B, C, D or E), although the first line that is still visible is faded out and an ellipsis appears in lieu of lines that have disappeared. Once you collapse an AC, the upward-facing arrow becomes a downward-facing arrow, which you can press if you would like to view the AC fully again.
Some of the benefits of having this function include reducing the amount of scrolling you would have to do in order to see all of the ACs and providing another way to "eliminate" an AC. This function would likely be helpful for questions like the MP questions in the RC section and the Parallel (Flaw) MOR questions in the LR section of the test, among other question types throughout the test, since the ACs for these question types are usually long. Obviously I can't speak for all test takers, but although it's not exactly a necessity to have this function since 7Sage does provide an option to "eliminate" an AC, making this function available could be beneficial to some test takers.