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Lessons · Logical Continuation Question (Broadcasting)

madelineionascu956

Wednesday, Jan 29

I also crossed out A because it says "abstract model" but the author emphasizes the need for "empirical evidence" which is NOT abstract

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Saturday, Jan 25

madelineionascu956

Reading efficiently on reading comp

I know we always say practice practice practice and it will get easier, but I really struggle with reading efficiently on reading comp despite the practice. I am not a fast reader and it takes me a second longer to truly understand a sentence. If I do an untimed reading comp passage, I almost always get every answer correct..... but it will take me like 15-20 minutes. Then, when I do timed, I get almost 50% wrong. Help!! How do I read more efficiently on reading comp?

Lessons · Skill Builder - Comparatives 4

madelineionascu956

Monday, Sep 23 2024

For question 3, I put A & B = smaller vs larger retaliatory force

Quality = maintaining maximum deterrence

Winner = having a larger retaliatory force

is this technically incorrect? and what cues should I have noticed to not interpret it this way?

Lessons · You Try - Cell Phones on Airplanes

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Dec 21 2024

holy shit i suck at these

Lessons · Skill Builder - Comparatives 2

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Sep 21 2024

I am having trouble understanding the last one - could someone explain in more detail?

PrepTests ·

PT118.S4.Q8

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Oct 19 2024

For answer choice B, I disagree that Sasha says nothing about government/society values - to me, when she said that in democratic governments people are "free to dissent," that means that there can be a world in which the government and society hold different values. I understand that B is incorrect, but could there perhaps be a different reason that it is incorrect?

Lessons · Lesson 4 - City Council's Wisdom (W)

madelineionascu956

Sunday, Nov 17 2024

It doesn't really feel like B pokes a hole in the analogy, more like it pokes a hole in the PRONG of ONE of the sides of the analogy. So, not sure how B actually makes the hole in the analogy bigger.

Lessons · You Try - Leather Tanning

madelineionascu956

Monday, Dec 16 2024

Is D not just restating the premise? Like doesn't the premise stipulate that the cost for the biological process is not more expensive than the conventional process?

Study Groups · DC Study Buddy?

madelineionascu956

Sunday, Feb 16

I am in DC and would be interested too!

Lessons · You Try - A Union Strike

madelineionascu956

Thursday, Jan 16

The words "immediate" and "now" oriented my thinking around time, which is why I assumed that there would be a strike in the future. I'm sure the test writers did this on purpose but jeeeezzzz!

Lessons · Review (MC)

madelineionascu956

Monday, Oct 14 2024

#feedback second paragraph - It's also a great introduction because we got a glimpse into the various types of argument in LR.

"argument" should be plural to "arguments"

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Lessons · You Try - Chirality of Weedkiller Molecule (S)

madelineionascu956

Sunday, Nov 10 2024

The reason I chose C was because the conclusion said that the effects are misleading. C shows a scenario as to WHY it is misleading - because in a not controlled environment, like that of local soil conditions, one molecule breaks down more than another, showing that the results are misleading. It's a bad experiment so it strengthens the conclusion that the data is misleading. I am still a bit confused, but I guess I can see how the conclusion is actually saying "I am rejecting this data, so let me show you a better experiment, answer B to prove why." Can someone help explain to me why my initial interpretation was off?

Lessons · Alternative Hypothesis

madelineionascu956

Tuesday, Oct 08 2024

Here's how I see it and maybe a bit easier to understand

Fat Cat vs kids example

Suppose the trash bin was knocked over. The original explanation is: Fat Cat did it.

Now, we introduce an alternative hypothesis: The kids knocked over the bin.

If we take this alternative hypothesis as true, we don’t need the Fat Cat explanation anymore. We know why the trash fell over—it was the kids.

Result: The original argument (blaming Fat Cat) is weakened.

True alternative hypothesis: Weakens the original argument.

False alternative hypothesis: Strengthens the original argument by ruling out other possibilities.

Lessons · Skill Builder - Drawing Valid Conclusions 3

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Oct 05 2024

I'm confused when we learned about inferring some relationships when two items share a sufficient and are on the necessary side.

Lessons · Lesson 5 - Mediterranean Diet and Health (S)

madelineionascu956

Tuesday, Nov 05 2024

I also thought B was correct because it is the fat/oil PARTICULAR to Mediterranean food

Lessons · You Try - Beta-Carotene on Health - RRE Review

madelineionascu956

Monday, Nov 04 2024

I couldn't totally understand why E was wrong, but to your point, I went with D because it just made sense to me. It strengthened the validity of the experiment which then strengthened the discrepancy, so I figured in my mind that it was likely the correct answer.

Lessons · Skill Builder - Negation 1

madelineionascu956

Friday, Oct 04 2024

#feedback I would love for there to be a little intro on negation before jumping right into it with the quantifiers because my brain when straight to doing the contrapositive and I was confused when I got all of them wrong!

Lessons · Skill Builder - Quantifier Translations

madelineionascu956

Thursday, Oct 03 2024

I read #5 as "fewer than half translates to some or many." AKA, it would be kittens children home. Why is this incorrect?

#help

Lessons · You Try - Alternative Energy Funding (S)

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Nov 02 2024

I also thought B was wrong because yes, funding IS subject to change, but it could still be subject to change BASED on what the corporations want

Lessons · You Try - Technological Innovations (W)

madelineionascu956

Saturday, Nov 02 2024

I also thought about the example of AI

Lessons · Skill Builder - Rules and Exceptions (Embedded Conditionals)

madelineionascu956

Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

Would the contrapositive of #5 be / (person aware --> knowledge established) --> believes not exist?

Lessons · Rules and Exceptions

madelineionascu956

Tuesday, Oct 01 2024

I mean.... to me it also just feels like we can do what we have been doing from the beginning and it makes more sense in my head.

/ Prohibited keeping pets --> Legit medical purpose (negate sufficient because of unless) which essentially means keep pet --> legit medical purpose (if one can keep their pet, aka they are not prohibited, it must be that the pet serves a legit medical purpose). The contrapositive would then read - / legit medical purpose --> /keep pet (if there is no legit medical purpose, then one is prohibited from having a pet, matching the original rule).

Is this okay to do?