MBT and splitting boards

luca takes lsat

When splitting boards, and when you have an MBT question for example... do you choose the answer that is based off of both split boards? does this go for every category like CBF and CBT?

hotranchsauce

If I'm understanding your question correctly:

RE: When splitting boards, and when you have an MBT question for example... do you choose the answer that is based off of both split boards?

Split boards represent possibilities from the main game (different conditionals for example). If the question does not specify outwardly or by implication that you're supposed to use only 1 board, then you'd look to the commonalities between both (or all) boards to arrive at the MBT you're looking for. For example: Dancer X is always dancing 5th regardless of if you look at split board 1, or split board 2, etc.

The MBT is really dependent on the question stem. It could be asking about an overall truth to the game, or it could be asking an overall truth of a specific circumstance of the game, for example it would ask you what MBT if you ONLY look at your split board # 4.

RE: does this go for every category like CBF and CBT?

Yes. In terms of what you're looking for within the boards, each of CBT MBT MBT ETC are all absolute truths. More or less specifically, they are absolute provable truths. For example, could it be true that dancer x is in spot 3? Yes, that's an absolute truth. Must it be true, that if we put dancer x in spot 5, that dancer y sits out? Yes, that's an absolute truth. They are all absolute truths. You can kind of look at them all as a different side of the same coin.

From my experience:
Could be true questions are about the truth of more than one element going into one spot. Correct answer choice will be the lest obvious of the bunch.

Must be true questions are about the truth of one element being in exactly and only one spot (usually paired with a conditional in question stem). Correct answer choices will be the least obvious of the bunch.

Must be false questions are about the truth of one element being absent from exactly and only one spot. Correct answer choices will be the least obvious of the bunch.