Omgggg the word choices made for this passage

@caldepp686 This helps me, too. Sometimes I highlight just those things to strip everything down and just have the primary points clearly shown.

Hahaha Kevin really hyping this one up in the beginning. So good.

Man I want to get to the level where I feel like I develop a mastery over the test. So inspiring... Thanks for sharing! Loved hearing his strategy tips.

Brutal. Honestly thought I was doing really well on this drill and was surprised to see how many I missed. Also surprised to see the level of difficulty on my second passage, because I really thought it would be a level 5 and felt like I was crushing it. Haha shoot!

@Gracetorres151 Haha relatable. I feel the same way after this drill. Absolutely brutal.

Kevin's explanation for why answer choice "C" is incorrect is excellent. Answer choice "E" felt clunky, but it definitely embodied what the reference to the Fur Seal Treaty "primarily served" best.

This question took me almost 10 minutes and I can't believe it was only a level 3 haha

When I saw the question was on the 1991 case, I used the search to find "1991" and highlighted "1991," "After hearing testimony," "the court reconsidered," and "The court now held." These phrases seemed to show the flow of how their decision was made, which is exactly what the question was asking.

I knew A was wrong because they were widening, not narrowing, a term, and the term was not "long-standing."

I knew B was wrong because the interpretation question was not over "within living memory."

I knew C was wrong because they were not adhering to the FWS regulations.

I knew D was wrong because they weren't making a new interpretation on the original treaty.

That left E, through process of elimination, and E was very easy to see as correct just based on my highlights from earlier. "After hearing testimony" (testimony establishing)--The testimony surrounded the historical facts around the many uses of sea otters before occupation by the Russians in the 1700s.

If I were to guess what the answer would be by just reading the question stem before reading through the answers, I never would have anticipated E to be the right answer. But process of elimination and really watching the "flow" of how the decision was made made it an easy answer choice even though it seems like an odd choice.

@soflaw I agree! The legal drama is way more exciting than science or humanities lol

@madelineionascu956 Great catch!

@Anaya Thank you for this tip!

@ertnlv89120 I liked this stimulus better. And the questions were even interesting. But the freaking answer choices were impossible! I definitely preferred the answer choices from the LHB stimulus.

@jansen bien m belarmino Took me just over three minutes, but still feels like a win after missing the last two on both initial AND blind review lol

@hardlyellewoods This. Keep going. Trust the process.

Once again... Three takes and three incorrect answers. Ouch. It's just wild because this particular stimulus really doesn't seem that difficult to me. Like... I feel like I get it. And the questions don't seem that difficult. But the answer choices are just brutal.

Missed this on my initial take and on blind review. Also missed it in a drill it appeared in last week. All three times I selected a different (and incorrect) answer. Sigh. These are the moments that are extra discouraging--When you don't even have it down to two choices where one of them is correct. To have three different takes that all end up being incorrect makes you second guess how much you think you know.

Answer choice "A" is tricky to me because it seems to put what we know to be wrong from the stimulus in a positive context, so it just seems counterintuitive.

@K-SeveralGapYears-JD The vast array of subjects covered within these stimuli truly is something to behold... I'm learning so much about things that never would have crossed my path if not for studying for this stupid test lol

@marymoussa67424 I agree, the last passage was more challenging than this one because of how abstract it was, in comparison.

@MC567 Me too!!

As I read the LHB stimulus, I was curious what the creationist theory / view would be on the subject.

Here's a brief summary, for anyone else who may have been curious.

From a young-earth creationist perspective, the Late Heavy Bombardment and Kuiper Belt are speculative constructs built on unobserved assumptions about deep time rather than direct evidence. The LHB is inferred from selective radiometric dating and uniformitarian models that already assume billions of years, making it circular reasoning rather than independent proof. Likewise, the Kuiper Belt is invoked to explain impacts and comet sources that fit evolutionary timelines, yet its past behavior is entirely hypothetical and cannot be tested or observed. A global Flood and a recent creation better explain widespread cratering and catastrophic processes without resorting to invisible histories and unverifiable timescales.

@cmhrandall593 I went to public schools in a very large, blue city, and had evolution crammed down my throat. But I grew up in a conservative Christian home and was always taught the "other side" from the Biblical Worldview. Personally, I think the secular / "scientific" views take more faith to believe than the Biblical view. I love Answers in Genesis as a resource to check out for anyone who is curious about the "other side," which I personally find to be more compelling.

@kayteeem Incredible progress! Thanks for the inspiration!

Sometimes my intuition and logic seem so spot on, like when I get an abstract question / answer like this one correct. But then other times I miss on much simpler question / answer combos and it makes me question everything lol

"They can't scare us!" Channeling this energy haha