I initially eliminated C because of the word "successful," which I didn't see supported. I drew support for the rest of the answer from lines 42-50. We are never given any information on whether or not this would be deemed successful - why can't specific performance be successful even with...

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Sorry to ask a fairly general question but I was wondering if you could elaborate on how the passage isn't making a claim and therefore answer choice C is incorrect. Why aren't lines 1-2 considered a claim? Is it because there is not really any support? Would love any tricks to be able quickly deter...

Can you explain how you eliminated C? I guess I understand the answer but definitely eliminating C because Passage B "had no claims" seems like a big stretch for me under timed conditions. Thanks! If there ever was a question that epitomized the effectiveness of ManhattanPrep's "wrong...

I think an important factor here is the phrasing of the question itself when we are looking for "most likely to agree," rather than "most supported by the passage." Because of the stimulus, I was thinking more about which answer choice can be narrowly tied to the author's POV tha...

I chose C rather than A, though I did not feel that I could eliminate either.

Is C wrong because it says its "supporting a contention" that isnt explicitly discussed? How did people know to eliminate E?

Do you have any drills/tips/methods for distilling the text in this way? I read the same lines and prephased this question with a focus on expansion I ended up picking E just because the "expanding spheres of influence" seemed to suggest that something was happening over and over again, an...

I chose B as I saw it as a counterpoint to the mainstream nationalism as discussed in the passage (mostly in lines 26-34). I thought E was out of scope because as I read it, paragraph four is referring to nationalism, not transnationalism. As such, it can't really be used in support for any answer c...

Chose B on this one because I thought the discovery that someone was not original (though in the answer choice this would be due to time rather than forgery) was well paralleled, and I'm still having a hard time fully eliminating B. The points mentioned above are great but if someone seemed innovati...

I'm having a hard time identifying the conclusion on this one. I see now that it is the second sentence, but this failed my own therefore test. I read it as: The more advanced a a society is, the more aware its members are of technology's drawbacks. Therefore, the more advanced a society is, the mor...

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Can someone explain why C is incorrect? I found support for C in lines 23-27. I know low crop activity isn't specifically supported but this seemed like a reasonable jump from the discussion of winter especially since the lines above refer to seasonal synchrony.

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Hi! I had a hard time with this question. I narrowed down the answer choices to D and E. D I see is supported by the first line "Dowsing is the practice of detecting resources or objects beneath the ground" (Lines 1-2) But I considered E to be supported by the "minute changes in Earth...

I'm having a really difficult time finding support for B. I eliminated this answer straight off the bat - where is there support for an "educational system?" I read the first few lines to be suggest a change in teaching strategy, and it seems like a sticky jump to get from "multicultu...

Can you elaborate on why answer choice B can be eliminated? I considered the first paragraph's position to be the modular theory of the mind itself, and the purpose discussing the subtractive method and its false impressions in the final paragraph is to point out the flaws with the theory. Is it too...

I narrowed this answer choice down to B and D, and end up choosing D. In retrospect, I see that D supports the initial explanation in paragraph 1 which the author's analysis expands upon, whereas B directly supports the author's analysis and evidence in the third paragraph. Is that why B provides mo...

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I'm having a hard time finding D unsupported. I see why C is correct but still having a hard time ruling out D.

Why aren't lines 12-15 and 37-40 enough support for answer choice D?

Hi! I am having a hard time understanding why D is false. (D) DOES IT MATCH? Well, the conclusion DOES try to show that a position is false (the position of many professional musicians). But the evidence doesn't sound like, "BECAUSE musicians think that music-sharing services are robbing them, ...

Thanks for the great explanations! I'm curious about the part of the argument that says "This reluctance is exacerbated by the face that the average income is significantly lower than it was five years ago." While I boiled it down to the right argument core, this sentence tripped me up qui...