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Question Type:
Necessary Assumption

Stimulus Breakdown:
The argument concludes that secondary school science courses should teach students to evaluate science-based arguments regarding practice issues. This is because the skills taught in secondary schools should be useful and an abstract knowledge of science is very seldom useful.

Answer Anticipation:
The argument assumes that evaulating science-based arguments regarding practice issues is useful.

Correct Answer:
(E)

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) is too strong. ...

Question Type:
Explain a Result

Stimulus Breakdown:
The city of Gastner, in order to relieve traffic congestion, built a new highway linking several suburbs with the down town area. However, instead of relieving traffic, for residents of the downtown area commute times actually increased.

Answer Anticipation:
How could the new highway increase commute times? If the suburbs were now linked to the downtown area, it seems reasonable that there would be more traffic ...

While I don't like the other answer choices, I'm not wild about the correct answer choice either. For some reason, I just can't see how that is Carol's interpretation of Ming's remarks.

I'm not so interested as to why "C" is correct, but how I should approach problems like this in future.

Question Type:
Necessary Assumption

Stimulus Breakdown:
Our first sentence gives us context on a problem, so it's great as background, but it's not too relevant to the argument itself. Rather, we get a premise (a rare one that has "should" in it, which more commonly shows up in our conclusion) telling us that we should give parents extra votes on behalf of their kids. From this, we conclude that these families will be properly ...

Question Type:
Match the Reasoning

Stimulus Breakdown:
There's some conditional logic in here, but it's super tricky. It's also not clean, in that we don't have clear conditional keywords throughout, so instead of coming up with a conditional chain, let's come up with an abstract description of what's going on with these spies.

It's spy vs. spy here, and we know that caught spies are failed spies, and they reveal their secrets. Successful spies ...

Question Type:
Procedure

Stimulus Breakdown:
Conclusion: We should use majority vote to decide on meeting agenda.
Evidence: We have three options - unanimous consent is unlikely and forming a committee usually leads to bad stuff. (Majority vote is the only remaining option)

Answer Anticipation:
We usually need to characterize the evidence or the method on these questions. The author arrived at her final choice by ruling out to other choices.

Correct Answer:
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Hello,

I was just wondering what was the best way to study the reading comp section in the grouped by question type book? I see "scale" and other types of words but not sure how i should study this. Should i read the passage a certain way? look at questions first? or should i just read?

Question Type:
Most Supported

Stimulus Breakdown:
"We know the following:
1. Specially bred aquarium fish with brilliant coloration and unusual body shapes are popular with connoisseurs.
2. Specially bred aquarium fish are inferior to ordinary fish.
3. Specially bred aquarium fish, hampered by their elaborate tails and strangely shaped fins, cannot compete with ordinary fish for food and so are underfed.
4. The offspring of specially bred aquarium fish do not have the elaborate ...

Question Type:
Most Supported (principle)

Stimulus Breakdown:
"We know the following:
1. The production of leather and fur is labor intensive, which means that these materials have tended to be expensive.
2. As fashion has moved away from these materials, their prices have dropped, while prices of other less labor intensive and more fashionable materials have risen."

Answer Anticipation:
This is a tough one to anticipate.

Correct Answer:
(E)

Answer Choice ...

Question Type:
Strengthen

Stimulus Breakdown:
The argument concludes that in most of this forest the expected outbreak of tree-eating tussock moths should not be countered. Why? Well, the moth is beneficial where the forest is unnaturally crowded with immature trees.

Answer Anticipation:
To support this argument it'd be helpful to know that most of this forest is unnaturally crowded with immature trees.

Correct Answer:
(A)

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) is ...