I'm seconding this. I could write an essay on the problems of higher education right now, but none of my perspectives are in the prompts.

If I went off on the Department of Education and say rampart plagiarism amongst faculty members would that be OK provided I respond to some of the other points and cite sources that I know to be true?

For all the practice I have been experimenting with selecting the first answer that looks good and submitting it, then using the blind review to see if I was overconfident. I think that's a good approach for these lesson questions and the drills. See how much you can get away with not reading all the answers. I've been really successful at picking out the right one on the first pass and I'm banking more time on these than any other question type because most of the time I'm able to skip at least 2 of the answers entirely. Make adjustments when you see how you're actually doing in blind review

I picked A under time because I recognized the shape, but what concerns me is I wasn't able to figure out why the original statements were flawed. The wealth vs income distinction seemed valid and I completely missed the most objective vs solely issue. I hope that's not bad. Not a good a feeling

I completely overlooked the All vs Individual thing, but I picked A in 45 seconds and confirmed on blind review.

I just made a simpler rule:

Paleowhatever → Familiar ; X person is Familiar therefore Paleowhatever

A → B

B → A

Is this bad? Are there answers where you need to distinguish the individual? What was shown in the lesson seemed very excessive.

This is the first dichotamy question I've seen so it got me :(

I know it's included on the list of flaw types but it would be cool if they had one question like this in the lesson.

#feedback

I do notes on the blind review, and I don't abbreviate anything. I make sure I totally understand everything. Going through it that way eventually makes it automatic so I don't usually need to take notes and can answer quickly under the target time. But if I'm even a little bit unsure, I got ham with notes and analysis during the blind review

Are there correct answers where the answer is presented as it's contra-positive?

In other words answer choice C could be written as: It is not the case that journalism is good if it does not provide accurate information or is not of interest to the public.

E felt tempting in that respect, but I am following everything you're saying

The struggle is real

I had it right but switched to D on blind review because I thought, "oh this is the analogy lesson so I should probably attack the analogy." :(

It's just trying to help you Identify what types of questions to prioritize in your study. It is literally "high priority" BECAUSE you got it wrong.

Hang in there bud

What's tough about this is I blew the target time by 60 seconds. The second I read E I knew it was instantly correct, but eliminating the wrong answers took too long

I had the exact same problem. I was so livid that I got this wrong, I had to go to the gym and calm down. Other than these types of questions everything makes sense but EXCEPT questions really throw me off. I'm going to start flagging them on all my practice tests, but missing it on a blind review....

At least I know where to put my focus.

Story of my life. I always highlight the word EXCEPT lol

Am I tripping or did he flip the value symbol when explaining answer choice D?

Saying group S is no more likely should mean "equal to or LESS likely" than group ~S.

I understand his point, and it doesn't change the way that D is an irrelevant wrong answer choice but I just want to confirm that is the case, and also make sure that I'm not taking crazy pills :D

There are literally greater than and less than symbols, yet I find myself using the little arrows just like you :P

E was Sooooo tempting. That comparative grammar lesson saved me!

3 the comparison is so obvious, yet somehow hard to actually put in words

And yes I see the irony. It's 2 AM :P

I initially skipped this entire section because I understand grammar well, but this is setting you up to identify SPECIFIC trap answers that you will see later. I didn't appreciate it until blind review, and going through all failed questions. I often struggle when they subtly change what class they are referring too, and being able to cut down or work through some of the really nasty sentences is also important, especially for time. I find it helps eliminate bad answers.

Pronouns :P

I immediately had the same thoughts. In the example "The cat sings" he did not include the direct object as part of the kernel.

I initially skipped this whole part of the course because I figured: Grammar, piece of cake. Now I'm coming back to it because wow is this important. A lot of issues I've had came from getting hung up on, or not recognizing subtle differences in the modifiers.

Did a dolphin hurt you?

Bro really said for the lols. Love it! Best course ever

Question 2:

Jeff must kill Brian or Rob:

Because the word "either" is not present, would that not allow the possibility that he kills BOTH of them? In other words, if I say, "I'm going to go to the gym or practice piano." I would not generally think that what I am saying excludes the possibility of me doing both. If that was my intention I would say, "I'm either going to go to the gym or practice piano."

I realize that the logic on this test is not always reflective of our learned understanding of language, but am I missing something here?