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For 24 considered A given that the start of passage was regarding other spirits not being in category as wine. Then wine has great properties for health was throughout passage. Then only last two sentences speak to grapes and there decrease in platelet adhesiveness. The other 58 lines was just wine...
You are absolutely right about the level of difficulty. I know this is the type of passage I should pick up fast and get most answers correct. But I just got only half of them answered correctly. I think I got so careless and I didn't do well. Your advise on No.27 will definitely a great point that I should keep in mind.
For 24, does it mean then that we assume that other alcoholic beverages are done from other ingredients like plums or apples? Because when I was reading it, I thought - nowhere in the passage it talks about plums and apples, neither does it say "present only in grapes".
No way! Don't ever assume anything. The info is always in the passage.
See the 6:10 mark of this video for a discussion of the question.
For questions like 22 and 27, I found that the answer choices are a little more specific so I had to go back to the passage and search for each one to eliminate it, but it is also time consuming. Do you have an alternative approach for these kind of questions?
Yes; that's what your SPAM and READ ACTIVELY lists are designed to help with. Armed with those, you should be a more efficient and effective reader and have a stronger map of the passage to make the process of fetching information faster. Also, consideration of our discussions of language cues should speed your work through answer choices.
Hello again!
I was curious about #26 since I was stuck between C. and D. I mistakenly selected D. because I thought the C. meant that the the misconception had to be wrong because the scientific evidence seemed to repeatedly "suggest", but not prove causation that wine was different from other liquors in terms of health.
How do I keep myself from overthinking like this?
Read structurally! This whole passage exists to correct prior bad thinking. (d) is the opposite of this passage. You got yourself completely turned around! The way to avoid doing that is to keep a big-picture view of the main point and purpose of the passage, and use that understanding to inform your work. Think about the way that I explain the passages and try to read in that way (it's not about details for the most part. Smart, structural reading finds out what the passage is about).
After looking back on my reading scores, I've seen marked improvement from taking this advice and can see that structural reading (when I manage to do so) eliminates a lot of confusion so thank you for the clarification.
Awesome! That's so greaet to hear. Keep up the good work!