This may be a dumb question :') But how did we know that the former refers to the government services, and the latter refers to the decrease in volunteerism? The wording is confusing me.

@AnyahJoseph815 Yeah, I had the same thought. If there are 20 students and all 20 of them can read, then the statement doesn't make sense.

3/3 let's gooo!

Btw, for anyone that is still in the foundational work, I highly recommend doing a drill of 10-15 questions every-day you study prior to your study plan!

You can choose specific types of questions for LR and it's a great way to warm your brain up lol. Make sure to do them UNTIMED and properly look over each question you got wrong. Quality > quantity! Take as much time to actually understand the question!

I answered the questions correctly under the target time, and I think it's because of my light drilling.

Hope this helps someone :)

for 3, why is "The birds cannot sing unless pastries cook themselves" a valid conclusion ??

This conclusion makes sense: If birds can sing, then pastries cook themselves

I dont get the other one.

@JarheadUSMC32 It did thank you so much

@Hanifa Wow this helped haha thank you!!!!!!

@And.m3d sameeeee!

I'm having trouble understanding the "winner". For the first question, why is this year considered the winner? Same with question three, and the pop. of ducks at the western lake?

@isabellagirjikian I think drawing it out is helpful - the diagrams and the amounts.

The highlight feature is sooo helpful. Highlighting the premise(s), conclusion, and concession made it much easier to eliminate the wrong choices.

@pbahoura I initially thought that too, but after reading the passage again, and watching the video, I can understand the different parts.

The first sentence introduces what economists are asking - which is why certain countries have higher income variance than others. This is the context as to what we will be reading about.

The second sentence then says that some of these economists believe that the answers can be found by examining macroeconomic factors. This is also context - aka other people's positioning.

Next sentence, the author is countering these economists' answers by saying well we need to do x (examine the individual decisions). The word "however" helps recognize that we are moving AWAY from context and into a personal opinion - which we can say is the conclusion.

And why do we need to do x?

Because the "macroeconomic forces" that these said economists are talking about are "nothing more than the aggregation of individual microeconomic choices." The word "since" helps us understand WHY we need to do x - aka the premise.

I hope this somewhat helped :')

@petvma SAMEEE

@jkm11 sameeee but I was hesitant of the "consequently". Soo close to a 5/5 ughh