I read passage A's second paragraph sentence as "(bentonite) and (other clays and polymers)," not "(bentonite and other clays) and (polymers)" and chose AC A...

I understood the argument, but the wording of AC D kind of tripped me up. Typing this up to help anyone who might have this confusion as well:

If you plug the 2nd portion of the AC ("Sometimes not punishing violations of the rule") into the first part of the stimulus (replacing "violations of any of a society's explicit rules routinely go unpunished"), then the conclusion would be 100% valid.

However, the author uses "the routine non-punishment of violations of a rule" (pretty much what the stimulus is saying in its first part) to draw its conclusion, making it invalid.

Feeling like a dummy picking C because I read it as "Some immoral actions" instead of "Some actions"

Can someone explain to how one knows how to diagram the 2nd sentence? The sentence that starts with "But I argue..."

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For Q13, I chose A over E because when you think of it conceptually, trying to come up with a physical process is MUCH harder than trying to come up with a scientific theory. Describing a physical process requires hard evidence and an understanding of how a phenomenon works, where as you can create your own scientific theory on just about anything. It makes sense in the passage that she couldn't describe the process, but I'm sure she had her own theories on why radiation was spontaneous, no matter how crazy they were.

Anyone else miss #11 because you misread the question stem to say "agree" instead of "disagree"

Cannot believe I got this wrong smh

I feel like this question should be rated higher than a 3 star just because of how bad the argument is and how confusing the correct AC is, but at the same time... wtf were AC B, C, D, and E even trying to accomplish?

Definitely a great question to reference back to and learn from... but let's be honest, 99% of people are not getting this right under timed conditions unless you're the Einstein of LR or you guessed.

E is much easier to understand if you change "True" to "Possible."

I got this wrong during timed and BR, but looking at the question this way helped it make sense to me.

The author's conclusion is "Hatha Yoga is a powerful tool." Even if the counseling did help with quitting, it might only have help a tiny bit or a lot. Regardless of how much counseling helped, Hatha can still be a powerful tool.

However, Hatha yoga is being compared to self help groups. You have to assume that self help groups are powerful tools, because if they weren't, then it'd be tough to prove that Hatha Yoga is one.

I really misunderstood this argument. I thought it was saying

P: Voters judge candidates to have done poorly based off of excessive blink rates compared to normal.

C: This is bad for election results.

I didn't really understand the last sentence so I only focused on the conclusion. I was trying to find something to show that this ISNT bad for election results and assumed A was correct because it said voters judgements rarely affect election results. However, realizing the term rarely doesn't totally eliminate the possibility that it can makes sense.

C is much better because showing that excessive blinking = lack of confidence shows that this isn't bad for election results.

I cant quite put my finger on it, but something just feels off and incomplete still with this question. Don't get me wrong, A is definitely the best AC and is correct, but even after watching the explanation video and spending time doing it during BR, it still feels off.

I'm still not sold on Q15 being A and not C.

How does the author saying "his account draws our attention to an insight" = complete agreement? This is the only portion of passage A where the author isn't reporting on something Borges thinks or said. Idk how you can infer complete agreement from this super vanilla sentence when the entire rest of the passage is basically neutral.

For Q8, I feel like the wording for C is tricky. Like who says "might be put" at the end of a sentence

definitely interested!

Definitely interested!

Really wish this question stem had been phrased to look like an SA question. It makes so much more sense when you think of it as a bridging question and not a shielding one.

It's really crazy how if you just understand the point that "Voluntariness is irrelevant for policy making" can help you answer most of these questions. Definitely wish I would've realized that when taking this PT

Why does JY's voice sound so deep in this video lol

Didn't know what "repudiated" or "capricious" meant which threw me off

So many tough words in this passage that I didn't know the definition to.

I initially chose E because I thought maybe more food options = less work for the lemurs (and less pronounced activity), but looking back... more options =/= less work. There could be an abundance of plants for the deciduous forest lemurs and no plants/insects for rainforest ones.

I took a 2 week break and this question was part of the problem set I made when I got back... basically gave me a brain aneurysm.

The last sentence in Davis's argument threw me off