Timing
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Melody
· started 2020-06-19 15:44
· last activity 2020-06-19 21:29
· 1 reply
Hi, I'm struggling with timing for sufficient and necessary types of questions because of the need to diagram. I understood why each answer is wrong and why the correct answer is correct, but I am not able to get to the right answer in 1:30min. What do you recommend for timing issues?
Thanks in advance!
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BenMingov
· 2020-06-19 21:29
Hi Melody, thanks for the question.
These questions are honestly quite time consuming if you haven't yet reached a high level of fluency translating from full sentences to diagrams. I would recommend setting aside some time to drill converting word sentences to conditional diagrams. Additionally, I would avoid writing the contrapositives for every single condition you notice; I would make the chain using the initial diagrams and then taking the contrapositive of the entire chain.
For example:
A -> B
B -> C
NOT D -> NOT C
NOT E -> NOT D
Here, instead of taking the contrapositive of all statements. I would take the contrapositive of only the last two.
A -> B
B -> C
C -> D
D -> E
This is combined to create: A -> B -> C -> D -> E and the contrapositive of the entire chain is
NOT E -> NOT D -> NOT C -> NOT B -> NOT A
This is a solid time saving strategy if you are comfortable enough with the conditions that you don't need to see each contrapositive.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
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