- Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:45 pm
#112496
Hi balikbayan!
I could be missing something, but on my reading of this stimulus, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that diagramming is essential to getting through this one as quickly as possible. Indeed, I wouldn't know how to approach the answer choices at all except by diagramming out the stimulus first. Not having a diagram, one could easily spend far too much time sifting between these answer choices and trying to discern their differences without having a good foothold on what must be true, could be true, and cannot be true based on the stimulus.
It's possible that one or another answer choice might have stood out. For example, if four answer choices used strong language like "all" but only one answer instead used the word "some," then I might start with that outlier answer choice. However, in this case, that doesn't help narrow down answers, since they're comparatively similar to one another in strength (all of them refer to "some people"). If one were able to narrow down answers in this way, it might have allowed you to bypass the need for diagramming, but unfortunately it's not useful here.
Lastly, if possible, one option is to work on time management on other questions. If you budget your time right, you should have just as much time to spend on questions at the end of the section as earlier questions. You might even be able to get to a point where you have time left over after completing a section, in which case you can go back to ones that might take you more time like this one. You also have the option of skipping questions entirely if they seem like they'll be too time-consuming, and then returning to them with any extra time.
