literally just hit me with a brick. i knew that it was an improper inversion right from translating the stimulus, but NONE of the answer choices seemed to make sense. i didn't realize that they could throw curveballs at you and replicate the flaw but change the premises around to make it more difficult to discern. wow. literally HIT me with a brick.

sigh I guess this chapter really underscores the importance of conditional logic in LR. I mistakenly chose A and didn't read into the "most" logic like I should have. But that's okay. It's good that I'm catching my weaknesses in this chapter and learning from them. It's a tough section for me personally compared to the others, but I'll get through it.

honestly, ac a was so convoluted that i wouldn't have gotten it right had i not solved it through process of elimination. eff this question.

I hope the writers of these two passages and their questions experience the uncomfortable feeling that no matter how low they turn down their air conditioning, they never quite feel that cool, comforting sensation of being cold enough.

It might be a bug. I had the same issue a few days ago, but noticed that it would successfully create a drill if I limited it to 15 questions at a time.

Oddly enough, A seemed like the most inviting answer choice before I read E, not C, because C just seemed completely unprovable given the premises, which is what we need in a MBT question. Obviously A can be eliminated for that same reason. I just thought E seemed the best choice because it's the only AC that can be wholly backed up in the stim. We know that the effects of histamines are independent of the effects of colds and such. Therefore, antihistamines only block histamines. They do not produce the effects that whatever it is that viruses do, so they will be ineffective. In this independent little world of this stim, that is.

eliminated ac B immediately because i read in a book that words like "primarily" are RED FLAGS because importance is a difficult standard to achieve and we need a provable answer for NA questions. E seems too easy of an AC, but that is the point.

i'm just really mad about AC A on question 12--we don't know anything about her contemporaries right? i would've chosen that one but the phrasing of that last part threw me off and i eliminated it because it references something that wasn't even mentioned anywhere in the passage. but i now realize now that the ACs for that question were even more egregious. they really out here being absolute sadists with these questions.

That was a lot of scientific terms to take in, but the passage is relatively straightforward in its flow of information at least. That one passage about faking art...oh boy.

imagine diagramming it correctly but getting it wrong because you filtered out the "false" in the question stem......................................

I got D right but maybe for the wrong reasons? ACs A and E both looked enticing and I didn't even notice the "most" part lol whoops. A is cancelled bc the first and second conditions are necessary conditions. Even though both are true, they aren't sufficient to create a just society. However, one of the conditions in D fails; therefore, we know that the society is unjust.

I put down E as my first answer then changed it to B because I overthought the wording in the answer choice... that to understand completely is not equivalent to be well-acquainted with. But looking back, that was a dumb assumption to make. Oh well. Sharpening my intuition for next time.

yall we broke the curve

nausea. SEVERE nausea