- Mon May 25, 2020 6:26 pm
#75707
Hi,
In the Science Passage #2 about T-cells, I think the entire passage just really went over my head when I was doing it. I'm not restricted by the timing element right now because I'm aiming for accuracy right now. But, I'm worried that I'm not able to grasp a good understanding without the timing element, which makes me question what and how I will perform when timed. After seeing that I got most questions wrong, and also not being able to understand why some correct answers were correct and why some incorrect were incorrect, I decided to write down a short summary of the passage which helped me better understand it. Do you have any other tips for me that will help for now?
For question 2, I chose A as the correct answer. I understand why it's incorrect now. The explanation also says that it's incorrect because the lytic function is inhibited by the tumor itself and not by the specific ability of tumors to escape T-cell surveillance. Could a correct answer say "It's inhibited by the inability of the T-cells to escape the microenvironment of the tumor"? I thought that would make sense because we're told that the defect of the lytic function is exclusive to T-cells residing in the tumor microenvironment only and not anywhere else in the body.
I think question 3 was pretty tough. When I was reading the explanation I found that A is the correct answer. While I found A attractive, I also found E attractive. The explanation for E being incorrect, however, made me question why A was correct. For example E is incorrect because "we need to explain why tumor-infiltrating T-cells exhibit lytic defects, not why T-cells in general do." Makes sense. We need something to weaken that tumor-infiltrating T-cells are inhibited from performing their lytic function because of the tumor itself. But answer choice A never addresses "tumor infiltrating T-cells", is this because it explicitly says that the tumor is caused by a virus that disrupts the normal functioning of T-cells. In this, they're making direct reference to the tumor, which means they'd be referring to tumor infiltrating T-cells right?
Is there something else I was supposed to understand from A?
Kindly guide me on how I should've approached the question, if mine was incorrect.
Thank you in advance! (very much)
In the Science Passage #2 about T-cells, I think the entire passage just really went over my head when I was doing it. I'm not restricted by the timing element right now because I'm aiming for accuracy right now. But, I'm worried that I'm not able to grasp a good understanding without the timing element, which makes me question what and how I will perform when timed. After seeing that I got most questions wrong, and also not being able to understand why some correct answers were correct and why some incorrect were incorrect, I decided to write down a short summary of the passage which helped me better understand it. Do you have any other tips for me that will help for now?
For question 2, I chose A as the correct answer. I understand why it's incorrect now. The explanation also says that it's incorrect because the lytic function is inhibited by the tumor itself and not by the specific ability of tumors to escape T-cell surveillance. Could a correct answer say "It's inhibited by the inability of the T-cells to escape the microenvironment of the tumor"? I thought that would make sense because we're told that the defect of the lytic function is exclusive to T-cells residing in the tumor microenvironment only and not anywhere else in the body.
I think question 3 was pretty tough. When I was reading the explanation I found that A is the correct answer. While I found A attractive, I also found E attractive. The explanation for E being incorrect, however, made me question why A was correct. For example E is incorrect because "we need to explain why tumor-infiltrating T-cells exhibit lytic defects, not why T-cells in general do." Makes sense. We need something to weaken that tumor-infiltrating T-cells are inhibited from performing their lytic function because of the tumor itself. But answer choice A never addresses "tumor infiltrating T-cells", is this because it explicitly says that the tumor is caused by a virus that disrupts the normal functioning of T-cells. In this, they're making direct reference to the tumor, which means they'd be referring to tumor infiltrating T-cells right?
Is there something else I was supposed to understand from A?
Kindly guide me on how I should've approached the question, if mine was incorrect.
Thank you in advance! (very much)