Breaking Down Passages

Started by HananFrancis · started 2019-06-28 13:40 · last activity 2019-07-27 21:41 · 2 replies

I struggle with breaking down the passages and start to feel overwhelmed when I cannot figure out how to start answering the question. I try to go step by step like in the videos, but I get lost while watching them.

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  1. Ravi · 2019-06-28 20:35

    @HananFrancis, Happy to help. The first thing I'd recommend doing is relaxing and reminding yourself that everything you need to know is on the screen/page in front of you. Focus on understanding each phrase and sentence before moving on to the next one, and you'll find you'll develop a stronger sense of what's going on. Keep your head up and keep on practicing, and you're bound to see improvement. It can take time, but it will eventually come. For this question, we're looking for the answer choice that must be true based on what's in the stimulus. We can diagram the stimulus. Country's universities living up to their moral resp. - >best selling pubs in most bookstores not TV Today and Gossip Review We're then told that TV Today is the highest selling pub in most bookstores (This is a negation of the necessary condition above) S - >N /N What can we conclude? Well, the sufficient condition must be failed. /S This means that the country's universities aren't living up to their moral and intellectual responsibilities. (E) says this, albeit a bit more lightly, but it still must be true since the necessary condition in the stimulus has been failed. (E) is more or less saying that the sufficient condition has been failed. Does this make sense? Let us know if you have any more questions!
  2. reyesej4 · 2019-07-27 21:41

    I am struggling with diagramming questions that I am unsure if there is a Principle or just a Premise or all 3 (principle, premise and conclusion). I've seen some questions start with a Principle then list the Premise below and finish off with a Conclusion. But this question for example didn't have a conclusion and I'm assuming it's because it's a Set of Facts question?

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