Can someone confirm if the years go forward or backward when discussing A.C. v. .B.C.? Would "no earlier than 375 AC" include the year 373, or would it go the other way, being 377?

Don't analyze answers that don't match evidence or conclusions of the stimulus

In this one, I did not analyze C because it does not have the most relationship in its evidence.

I can skip over D b/c it does not match the conclusion on the stimulus

Same I did not think the politician was saying Thompson was a good leader, only that he was better than the others. Under this world, C could come in and say, "Well, actually, he is sus on these other things."

It seems that because A essentially says that Thompson's opposition to higher taxes is irrelevant to whether she is a good leader, the main premise of the politician's argument is thus irrelevant (not weakened, but irrelevant)

If we choose C and said that to the politician, he would reply with the same argument because we did not attack it directly; AC A attacks the reasoning more closely than C does, so the politician would be on his toes if we told him A

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You have to make sure that the choice is descriptively accurate and a flaw. You are correct about saying that B is a flaw but not the type of reasoning employed in the stimulus.

If you were to tell the author, "Hey, you are assuming that just because we have no proof it went up, it went down, and that's a flaw, HAHA!"

The author would say, "No, I did not say that; I said that because the scores are below average, the quality has gone down, so you have no point!"

We want to attack the reasoning employed in the specific argument.

I agree with the other poster. Also, something that helps me is telling myself that for Strengthen questions, we are strengthening the reasoning employed by the author (the argument), not just the idea in general.

MISSED OUT ON REFERENTIAL PHRASING. The “only ones.”

P1: MOST of our city's art movement pieces have this QUALITY

P2: The only ONES (our city's art movement pieces) that do not have this QUALITY are Y

P3: BLUE IRISES does not have this QUALITY,

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Conclusion: BLUE IRISES is not part of our city's art movement

NA:

If this conclusion is true, we have to assume BLUE IRISES is not Y.

Negate AC B: If BLUE IRISES is Y, then it could be part of the city's art movement pieces that don't have the quality.

Quality = Bold brushwork and sharp contrast

Y = Abstract

Taking in august looking to join as well, also, anyone else looking feel free to pm me directly

+1 I am also searching for an updated version of this. Is there an Excel beast out there who can whip this up?

D is Not a Flaw

A single fact that is incompatible with a theory is enough to show that theory to be false.