Where in the text does it support D? I see now how E is wrong, because it says "Burning also influenced forest composition in the tropics, where natural fires are rare. An example is the pine-dominant forests of Nicaragua...". This would suggest that the author would not be most likely to ...

patrick for answer choice C, can we say that because she did in fact have poll results, poll results that somewhat hinted at the fact that people would support her bill, that there was not an absence of evidence. that is to say does the fact that she has some evidence hinting at support, invalidate ...

These "logically complete the last paragraph" questions always trip me up. I don't understand what information we are supposed to find the correct answer. I chose B for this question, and I think that it is wrong because it says on lines 3-6 that "foresters and ecologists are increasi...

I got this question correct, I just want to write out why I think each answer is correct/wrong and get feedback. A is correct because of lines 36-41 B is wrong because she is trying to show that "Land managers should therefore focus their efforts on fuel". If she held this defeatist view o...

Is D wrong because the first paragraph does not mention whether the views presented are the prevailing ones?

Is this just a trap answer that requires closer reading?

Could another way to approach this kind of question be to simply negate the conclusion and look for an answer that explains the negated conclusion. For example, if we assume that the organic factors are actually distributed evenly, which one of the answers would help explain why the symptoms show up...

@farhadshekib I know you posted this a while ago, so I understand if you don't have an answer. But when you are dealing with these main point/main idea questions during the test, are you going back into the text to find support for determining the correct answer, or do you just know what key points ...

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How exactly do you know to mark that while reading? I have so much trouble pointing out those obvious places where the author tells you the main point.

Where in the passage does it say that "in the youngest basalt, [magnetite grains] are aligned with the earth's current polarity"? All it says, is that when the magma cools and forms solid basalt, the alignment of the magnetite grains is "locked in," recording the earth's polarity...

I also narrowed down to C and D, but I ended up going with D, because my reading of the passage led me to believe that the primary point of the passage was discussing the three scholars' different interpretations of Greek tragedy. My rationale was that the passage was organized by the thoughts of th...

For answer D, could we say that the "school of thought" being referred to, is the Critical Legal Studies movement? I also got tripped up by D, because I figured that the passage was describing a response to a challenge made by the Cricial Legal Studies movement against the orthodox legal t...

"Am I missing something?" A better answer choice to pick. I agree with you that typical usage of "shifted from X to Y" conveys a cessation of doing X. We would never say "I shifted my breakfast from 7am to 9am" and mean "I extended my breakfast to a two hour window...

Hi Patrick, Thank you for the detailed explanation! For answer choice (D) why cant we conclude that it is the "most important" given that in the stimulus, it essentially says "if you are going to have any goals at all, you better make sure this one in there". That reads as "...