complete and accurate list

[pacer]

Can you go over complete and accurate list questions? I am having difficulty interpreting what the question is really asking me.

I get the general idea that the correct answer is complete and accurate and the incorrect answers are either incomplete, inaccurate or both.

I seem to do okay on the questions asking for complete and accurate list of the possibilities or ordering (positive terms)

But when a question asks for complete and accurate list of member that don't go into a group or don't choose an activity (negative terms) - I am making lots of mistakes on this type

Please go over this and help guide me with the interpretation.

[Lucas Moreau]

Hello, pacer,

A "complete and accurate list" question is really asking you for a list that fits two things:

1. It doesn't have any items left out, and
2. It doesn't have any wrongly assigned items.

For example, if I was doing a Grouping game where I was trying to find which five of ten types of fruit were on sale, a "complete and accurate list" question would ask me to find which combination of five fruits for sale did not break any rules.

The negative term questions work the same way as the positive term questions, but it may help to reword them back to positive terms. For example, if the same game asked me to find a complete and accurate list of all fruits that weren't on sale (which would probably be a Local question, saying something like "If fruits A, B, and C are on sale, what is a complete and accurate list of fruits that cannot be on sale?"), I would find out which fruits have to be on sale, and which fruits I don't know for sure whether or not they're on sale. Anything not in those two categories cannot be on sale.

If you have other specific examples, feel free to list them here so I can show you how those would work. This is a lot more concrete when tied to an actual Game.

Hope that helps,
Lucas Moreau