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I have noticed that I struggle the most with Link Assumption questions, despite scoring strong on Sufficient and Necessary Assumption questions. Any advice on what to study to help curb this?
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smk22a231
Tuesday, Jun 03 2025
To distract you! Before you even read the answer choices, have in the back of your head that your opinion is officially "people live long because of genetics", because this is the conclusion that you are assigned to strengthen. B and C are meant to confuse you and make you think you are pursuing an answer choice that relates to habits, and since they are mirror images of each other, it can be an easy but dangerous assumption to think that one must be correct. In reality, only one answer choice here even remotely addresses the conclusion you want to strengthen
smk22a231
Tuesday, Jun 03 2025
Think about it logically...how DOES e weaken the argument? It just claims that the people who use the most sunscreen are the most susceptible to skin cancer. In other words, they probably will likely get it no matter what. What about everybody else? And on top of this, how are skin cancer rates still INCREASING? We have to find the conclusion and then look through the answer choices for something that claims that sunscreen could still be helpful. If you look at b, it explains that this is because we are still seeing the results of behaviors that took place BEFORE people started using sunscreen, thus removing sunscreen from the equation entirely and therefore weakening the hypothesis that suncreen doesn't reduce cancer. Essentially, the stim is saying "this does not effect this" and the most weakening choice claims that we have no way of knowing, because most people with skin cancer now were exposed to these harmful rays before sunscreen existed.
smk22a231
Tuesday, Jun 03 2025
still think of alternatives while reading the stim, but then look to find them refuted instead of confirmed in the answer choices
smk22a231
Tuesday, Jun 03 2025
Just look at the stim conclusion and you can see that corporations are against this funding. Answer C) says that not only is funding is cut for orgs that the corporations don't like, it is cut exclusively for those that the corporations dislike
smk22a231
Friday, May 30 2025
A doesn't say anything about actually defending yourself. It says it "triggers regions in the brain that control the tracking of objects for self-defense." This would help explain why children have better luck catching objects at higher speeds, an additional region of their brain has been activated to help them better track the ball. I think you read into it so hard you missed the overall point of what A is saying
smk22a231
Monday, May 05 2025
i'd aim for time, then make sure you are certain of the answer after blind review. train yourself to get off an answer quickly, then dissect the question
smk22a231
Friday, Apr 11 2025
i think you're thinking too hard
smk22a231
Wednesday, Apr 09 2025
no, its not about whether or not the compromise is succesful, its only about whether or not that is the main issue. if they conflict, that is sufficient for the main issue to be succesful compromise, but that is not the main issue, then they are not conflicting
smk22a231
Wednesday, Apr 09 2025
I think indicators should just be in the back of your mind, not a main focus. When you look at the whole thing, there is an obvious cause and effect (bacteria increasing doesn't cause the stuff to be mixed into the soil). Use common sense to determine sufficiency/necessity, but use the background knowledge of indicators to help you go faster!
smk22a231
Wednesday, Apr 09 2025
Am I wrong to be turned off by "particular frequency" in #4?
smk22a231
Tuesday, Apr 01 2025
came here looking for this
You have to fully invest yourself in the passages. Read them with the level of attentiveness as you would an acceptance letter from your dream law school. Convince yourself to care, and then give yourself the time to give the passage a good read. Don't make it perfect, but you have to have a good solid understanding of what's going on and how the author feels about the subject (as well as a general idea of their argument approach). Then you can go to your question stems and let them direct you back to certain areas of the passage, but do not use them to fill in gaps in your understanding about the passage. I like to give myself about 8 minutes per passage, which usually consists of about 4 minutes on the first read of the passage itself, give or take. Don't rush yourself or worry about time or the questions or the test or anything else while you are reading, purely focus on the subject like this is the most important and interesting thing you've ever had to learn/read.