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sinai.claire
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Practice Exam

by sinai.claire Wed Aug 10, 2016 5:28 pm

Hello,

I have two questions about the free practice exam:

Question 17 of the second verbal (women’s rights inference question) "It can be inferred from the passage that Mill’s defense of women’s rights was more influential than Wollstonecraft’s because..”

I understand why A and B are correct, but I also think C (he was a man and his judgments were therefore more highly respected) is correct too. The passage states that " Although the first major and systematic defense of women’s rights appeared as early as 1792 with Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman, it would be almost a century before the theme of women’s equality with men was seriously entertained as a result of John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women (1869). The bolded section seems to imply that women’s equality was not taken seriously until a MAN entertained them. Why is this a wrong answer choice?

The second question I have is question 11 on the second math portion: If a + b > 0 and b – c < 0, which of the following statements must be true? I found that none of the answer choices provided must be true, if you solve by picking numbers. For example, if I were to choose A=-4 b=10, and c=6, -4+10= 6 so that checks out, and then 10-18 is -28 so that checks out as well. When we do a+c, which is the answer that your team deemed as true -4 + -18, we get -22, so that A (a+c > 0) the answer that the test suggests, doesn’t seem to actually always hold true. I see what your team did with the formula, but I disproved it by plugging in numbers. Can you please provide an explanation?

Thnaks
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Re: Practice Exam

by tommywallach Thu Aug 18, 2016 4:18 pm

Hey Claire,

Apologies for this, but this post is in the wrong forum, so it won't be helpful to people. Please post the first one in the "Verbal: Practice Tests" forum and the second in the "Math: Practice Tests" section, so they can be referenced by other students. Thanks!

-t