I understand why D is correct but I hate the wording of it all.

Essentially:If a "member" (either the color thingys or the appearance of the fish) of a "set" (I guess the set of effects it uses to it's disposal to fight off predation) doesn't have an effect (fighting off predators), the whole set doesn't have that attribute . Which is why D is correct.

The argument assumes, due to their experiment, that just because the color balls don't fight off predator, the whole set doesn't help fighting off predators. The problem with this is that there's a possibility they could work in conjunction to get the desired effect.

feelsbadman

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If I am really struggling with the most advanced weakening questions should I stay on the lesson until I am able to perform better or should I move on to the next lesson in the schedule and come back to weakening questions later.

Thanks

Hey,

I'd review the lessons until you feel confident you understand the concept. For the harder questions it should be easy to narrow down the answer choices, then go with your gut. If you feel that an answer grasps the weakness in the argument conceptually, it's most likely the right answer.

Goodluck !

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Is there a way to change my settings (for problem sets & exams) to account for my 1.5X extended time?

There should be a stop watch icon near the top right of the tester, to the left of the highlighters!

Also GOODLUCK AND YOU'RE GOING TO DO GREAT!

I'm mad bc during timed conditions I was trying to find a flaw between length of stay and recovery time without the consideration that the hospitals might just specialize in different things. fffffffffff

Not a master but I have worked up from missing an average of 13 questions per section to 5/6 questions per section (I miss them because I can't beat the timer just yet :neutral: )

What I can say is that 7sage in conjunction with Loophole will help alot and won't provide any conflicting ideas. I actually preferred Ellens method on going about doing LR compared to 7sage. But with that being said, there's not too much that you don't learn in the curriculum from 7sage when compared to the Loophole book (I think notable things are just strong/weak language indicators & the focus on reading stimuli in one go to save time).

But ya, nothing conflicting based on my experiences. Once again, not a master...Yet :blush:

Sad I got this wrong, but it makes sense. Essentially you can either

1.) Not think of fragility of life and be clouded by illusion

or

2.) Think about it and taint your emotional outlook on existance.

This stimulus gives no middle ground and is MSS, therefore, D makes sense because if you're not doing one, you must be doing the other.

I find with comparative reading that it's easier when you read the first passage, look at the questions and eliminate or jot answer down pertaining to that passage you read, and leaving the passage specific questions for after you read the second one.

By far my best section (-4/-3) and what I personally do is focus on questions that I got wrong or took the most time.

If I get it wrong, I'll watch the explanation for it, make sure my board and inferences were good, and follow the flow chart in the syllabus (do the question 5 times though because I have a pretty decent handle on LG).

Once you realize alot of LG (minus the misc games) is just a variant of a previous one, you will see patterns based on rules and if not you'll naturally pair up rules with each other and be able to draw key inferences. It's very rare that I have to brute force a question, but if I do I make sure I catch onto that quick since time is of the essence.

Hope this helps!

I originally had A because I didn't realize what the last sentence was saying. If you think about it, it says "Gradually, time keeping functions became more important, and astronomical functions diminished (diminishing in IMPORTANCE not function)".

D is pretty much explicitly stated. You need to connect the dots between the comparison of them being (i) Complex to simple and (ii) Originally having astronomical functions with the interest in those functions diminishing.

I personally think B for Q18 is dumb because matter can literally refer to anything from stars to oxygen molecules. Using "galactic" as a description for a structure threw me off bc I don't think it's accurate to say that the gravitational pull that say 2 diatomic molecules have would fit into a category such as "galactic structure". Not to say the other choices are better. But in a time crunch I thought A would be more reasonable than B.

I re-did this in BR and ended up with the same answer. Not that I had a strong reason to choose it. However, compared to the other answer choices it seemed like the best one, and through POE it really just weaved out and emphasized it was a better answer choice than the rest.

Overcoming time anxiety is usually a product of being familiar to taking PT's. The main idea is that when you see the question stem, you know what to do and how to identify correct answer choices / incorrect answer choices. This process eventually building up to it becoming natural for you to do things like identifying conclusion, sub-conclusions, and premises, followed by a scan of answer choices while POE-ing. On the chance you can't figure it out right away, you also need to train yourself to skip questions and return to them once you've answered the ones you're actually good at (because questions are weighed equally you would want to get the lowest hanging fruit first, then come back to those that are higher up).

The questions you miss should dictate what the next move is. For example, I usually only miss one "level 3" question, and alot of 4's and 5's. So at this point in studying I'm more or less drilling harder questions with the odd level 3's to prep myself for when those slightly more demanding questions are encountered during my pt'ing.

It's different for everyone, the approach I've taken is starting with 55min PT's, and decreasing by 10 mins when I can score under -8 within the timeframe (my personal goal score is 160 so there's alot more room for error compared to someone who would want to score higher).

But ya, it's all about being really familiar with the test. I've been studying and working for 2 years, I thought I was "good" at the stuff but had bad luck for the longest time and while it can be true that some PT's are harder, you are scaled with people who write the same day as you, so push yourself to do the best you can / push yourself to being one of those 165 people.

Goodluck!

Okay so I'm not sure how to properly quote people on here but they said us friday ppl should be good for tomorrow on the website. Hopefully we all get our desired scores and aren't too terribly plagued with vacation mode in our heads (I'm unfortunately already in vacation mode and have been trying to force work onto myself to be somewhat productive today).

Treehouse

I missed the except. I feel stupid because I kept re-reading the answer choices, making sure I was reading them correctly, and I ultimately got fudged.

Step one: Read the question stem

Very happy I was able to Map this out and choose the right answer!

This wasn't bad once I went through the PMR lesson again.

- I was able to eliminate A and D through POE

- B is wrong because the conclusion in the stimulus might occur, whereas in B it insists that she must have considered her goals carefully.

- C is wrong just because instead of following:

A→B

A

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maybe B

C actually is:

A→B

A

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maybe B

- Then lastly if you write out the argument for E, it fits the structure in the stimulus.

Hopefully this helps!

I originally chose A, did not bother re-reading. But B does make sense.

- We know how stalagmites are formed. This is when water drops in the same place over a long period of time which causes a mineral deposit to form.

- The researchers are currently in the water filled cave.

- Thus if we consider water in the cave. Fill 1 would have introduced into the cave so that when water levels dropped the stalagmites formed. Then the second fill occured in the cave, which is why researchers can see stalagmite formation under in this underwater cave.

Thus B is the answer: The water levels in the cave are higher now than they were at a previous time.

Yeah honestly I think speed comes with mastery / familiarity of the content. Like main conclusions (usually no matter what difficulty) just make sense to me at this point because of how fundamental it is to find conclusions. But yeah, you only get better through good practice and good testing habits (being able to switch from being able to predict an answer [when you can], to POE and "feeling" out the right answer when you can't.)

Hey, I'd be down (2 hours ahead of you). I'm scoring low 150's but definitely should be scoring high 150's low 160's once I nail LG's consistently!

email: studyemail4vince@.com

I'd be down to join! Will message!

Okay so for answer choice E:

I get why it's wrong regardless of how I negated the word "few" but when you negate "few" is it "none" or "all"?

(Assuming few is anything from 1-100, if we negate wouldn't it be none instead of "tons" as jy said?)

#help

Jumps off my roof

IYKYK

Just commenting so I can find this post later but ya nice post!

I'm in the same boat as everyone here. I assumed because you guys gave a huge post on every LG video that they were only going to be available to premium and higher that you might be giving some sort of announcement similar to that but for things such as extensions. I bought a one month already, and the programs great (I actually cannot talk bad about this program bc the service is really helping me out), but heads up on this type of change would have been appreciated!