QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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The questions require you to examine implications from the data provided in the stimulus. You
are given facts and must determine what is implied by them. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Implication Family
Must be True Question - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Implication Family
Must Be False - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Implication Family
Soft Must be True - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Implication Family
"Properly Inferred" - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Must be True Prompt
Answer choices are taken as true and the correct answer will affect the stimulus. - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Operation Family
Strengthen - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Operation
Weaken - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Operation
Provide necessary/sufficient assumption - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Operation
Resolve Paradox in Argument - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Operation
Describe/characterize what the stimulus is doing. The stimulus will give and argument and the
prompt will ask you to pick something that accurately describes a part of the stimulus. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Characterization Family
Accurately describes what a particular paragraph or sentence is doing in the stimulus. Will
always refer to that particular part. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Role Question
For, Since, After All, - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Introduce Premise
The correct answer will correctly describe what the author's stimulus argument does -> accurate
description of reasoning within an argument. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Characterization
family
"The argument proceeds by __" "The argument __" - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Describe
Question Prompt
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, "Which of the following is a technique of reasoning or method of reasoning used by the
argument?" - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Describe Question Prompt
Describe Question Strategy - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. Determine if the stimulus provides 1
or 2 perspectives
2. Break down each argument into its seperate parts (premise, conclusion, background, support,
subsidiary conclusions).
Wrong Answer Choices Describe Questions - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Inaccurate description
of what the argument does
Inaccurate description of how the 2nd author responds to the 1st.
Use argument methods that are not used in the stimulus
Mischaracterize an aspect of an argument.
Premise Indicators - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Since, because, for, after all, given that
Conclusion indicators - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Thus/therefore/hence/so/as a
result/consequently/ it follows that/ accordingly/ clearly.
Will ask you what the entire passage is about. - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Main Point Question
Ultimate point of the argument; has support but will not support any other statement. -
CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Main Conclusion
Has support from other statements but also supports the main conclusion - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Subsidiary Conclusion.
"Which of the followinf most accurately expresses the conclusion of the argument?" Also can
say "main" or "overall" - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Main Conclusion Prompt
However, Besides, but, although - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Shift Indicators
Disagreement Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. Some people think...But/However (Main
Conclusion)...Here's Why (Premise)
2. Some people think...but/however (subsidiary conclusion)...So new claim (main conclusion)
Answers in the Characterization Family Must - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>1. Capture Subject of
the Conclusion
2. Capture the tone
3. NO LIES
Modality - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>The degree of necessity expressed by a proposition; how
certain it is something will occur
May; Could; Might; Can; Occassionally - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Weak Modality- More
than 0% chance
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