@blanksonjohn8703 said:

I use a yellow legal pad and g207 blue ink pens. I go through each answer choice, writing out why I did or did not pick that answer choice

I also try to explain the structure/reasoning of stimulus. Does it use conditional logic? is it descriptive? some causal logic? I also always identify a prephrase. Even on questions where prephrasing is a time sink, in blind review (in the words of jacob feldman, it should be a BR journal, not a WA journal!!) it forces you to 100% understand the stimulus, and not rely just on your intuition. your intuition might be great. but metacognition is better.

"almost half of the city's population" believe he committed ethics violations (stimulus). So, 50% of the population (i.e. 52%) don't believe that he committed ethics violations–this is a great explanation as to why 52% of the population still think he has great performance despite these accusations; they simply don't believe them. The population thought his performance was poor, and the inference to be made in the first sentence of the stimulus is that they still think his performance is poor, with the ethics violation accusations. This is exemplified by AC A. "Almost half" is brought up to implicate the other quote unquote slightly more than half. This question is great for prephrasing practice imo.

i've decided c for no particular reason. best case scenario i would have time to at least skim the questions, but if that's not in the picture, then C is my path forward lol.