dirty trick question. but fair.

For me, I think the thing I have been practicing is just deliberately forcing myself to read slower. It sounds obvious/dumb, but if I tell myself to slow down to the point where I can articulate the meaning of the sentence I just read, it's my tell that I'm going slow enough to understand. You can speed up from there, but don't sacrifice your understanding! It is going to feel like pushing through a brick wall at first, but I actually noticed that my sections (especially LR) actually got faster when I started doing this, probably because I wasn't trying to re-read the stimulus over and over again to understand what it is saying.

I don't understand why A is wrong. It is a very common ecological phenomena for a population to exceed its maximum supported level (referred to as carrying capacity), and for that population to dramatically decline after exceeding this level as a result.

Imagine a scenario where there are 100 rabbits and a population of foxes, but we remove the foxes. Rabbits balloon in population to 200, but this exceeds their carrying capacity of 150, and so they eat up all the grass in their habitat before it can regrow, and maybe 150 rabbits die as a result. The population is now lower. This situation is exactly what answer choice A is suggesting. It might require some outside knowledge to get here, but it is NOT an incorrect inference to make if one has that understanding of ecology. It just seems like a very poorly written question; it punishes students who have actual knowledge of population ecology.

@7sage, please help!! Would love a better explanation here than the one offered in the video.

My problem with this question is that the passage never actually tells us what happens if we are WITHIN the transition temperature RANGE. D says what will happen if it is heated to its glass transition temperature. But what does that mean? The upper end of the range, or the lower end of the range? We know that, above the range entirely, we are a liquid; this is pretty reasonable to interpret based on the information in the passage. But above the lower end (and below the upper end) of the transition temperature, we are in the transition range and the passage doesn't tell us what behavior is like at all! I feel like the wording in the answer choices is too ambiguous. The passage clearly treats the transition temperature as a range (it says that glass takes on the physical properties of a solid below the LOWER END of this range), but the answer choices don't reflect this nuance whatsoever.

I thought hiding the rest of the stimulus was an incredibly effective way to teach this lesson!