same!!!! It wasnt until I read this explanation where I realized that "because it would deter investment" is the legislators thoughts and not the colleague. Just because the legislator knows it would deter investment does not mean that the colleague knew it would deter investment (Implication , Fact vs Belief flaw) I didnt realize that the stim gives us a hint that "since she hasnt revealed her real reason, we should approve the act"

MSS dont have conclusions/arguments,

the fact that the question asks us to find the AC that most strongly supports the argument was the indicator that this is strengthening question and not MSS

I did not catch it but these test makers are getting super sneaky

I knew what the flaw was, Like what if she put in her request of retirement but she wont retire for another 2 years? But i did not pick up that this was an equivocation error OOP

Thats what i assumed as well, because if the cost goes up then retail pricing goes up for things

Didnt people learn ballroom dancing because they learned other ballroom dances such as merengue

C talks about traffic accidents (which could even be fender benders) versus the stim talks about traffic fatalities (people dying)

Argument: Reducing speed means that when an accident happens it doesn't end with a death

Answer choice: reducing speed means that less accidents happen

I originally chose (B) but now I can understand why it is A. The way I understood this, was that it is a probable causal argument. When a causal argument is probable, the author understands that there are more than one cause for the effect, thats why the author states effect is probable to happen, the author knows that theres also a chance that it might not happen, that probability will not mean definitely occur, thats why I was able to remove E but fell for B

What was your approach when it came to the questions?

This is something I am also struggling with because they're so implicit and hard to predict at times.

Always be on the lookout for modifying adjectives or verbs.

These subtle words portray the light in which the author views things. Words like "fortunately" "Puzzlingly" "surprisingly"

"important" "significant" (these show up often, i take this as the author felt that it was worth mentioning)

I thought E was wrong because thats not really discussed in majoirty of the passage, only in the end :(

For Q28, the answer started after "Futhermore, ..."

But i thought that was the authors view on experts opinion that digitilization should be added to the law,

how do we know that the experts view, kept trailing down the paragraph?

hope that makes sense

hi! I think youre explanation made sense perfectly!

A lot of testers including myself cut out A instinctually b/c we subconsciously treated it as a MBT AC rather than strengthen.

thanks for the tip!

In my head I knew B was wrong because the hospital auditor is separating between what is the case (funds being used to push new technologies) versus what ought to be done (use funds to minimize suffering)

I am in your position currently, and looking for ways to improve myself.

For both RC & LR I try to remind myself to go slower, understand what each sentence means before moving on. I am a sucker at getting the implicit questions wrong because I often go too fast. Try to form a mental image in your head of the stimulus so it makes it easier and faster to para-phrase a stimulus and eventually answer predictions.

Often people emphasize PTing but i believe that drilling is a better way at practicing in small manageable chunks, maybe only 1 or 2 PTs a week closer to the actual test, otherwise drill drill drill

If you have any tips let me know!