CARS- Best way to approach for refutation/evidence questions

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For the questions that state "which statement is most susceptible to empirical verification or refutation" what is the best way to approach them. I always get them wrong and can't find a way to improve. I am having loads of trouble with CARS!
 
This is going to depend a lot on the context of the relevant passage and the subject/content area.

I'm not sure I've ran into a great deal of questions that specifically ask for which are most susceptible to empirical verification, but there are definitely a lot of questions that ask one to ask for the assertion that is most easily refuted by the passage.

In general, look for answer choices that have the strongest language (always or never or only, etc.) , especially compared to the other answer choices. They may sound generally along the gist of something in the passage, but the strong qualifier makes them incorrect. The exception of course is if the author of the passage states that strong opinion directly.

One way to train oneself to better dissect different CARS answer choices for questions like this is to rephrase answer choices into ones own words, then try to figure out if the author would be likely to say that. CARS answer choices are (like CARS passages) often written obtusely so can be confusing to parse at first. If you rephrase a really long and complicated answer choice to something simple like "brutalism is never beautiful," you can have a better time answering the question.
 
This is going to depend a lot on the context of the relevant passage and the subject/content area.

I'm not sure I've ran into a great deal of questions that specifically ask for which are most susceptible to empirical verification, but there are definitely a lot of questions that ask one to ask for the assertion that is most easily refuted by the passage.

In general, look for answer choices that have the strongest language (always or never or only, etc.) , especially compared to the other answer choices. They may sound generally along the gist of something in the passage, but the strong qualifier makes them incorrect. The exception of course is if the author of the passage states that strong opinion directly.

One way to train oneself to better dissect different CARS answer choices for questions like this is to rephrase answer choices into ones own words, then try to figure out if the author would be likely to say that. CARS answer choices are (like CARS passages) often written obtusely so can be confusing to parse at first. If you rephrase a really long and complicated answer choice to something simple like "brutalism is never beautiful," you can have a better time answering the question.

Yeah I was talking about the questions that ask for which is most easily refuted. Thanks that helps a lot! Also, after looking over passage explanations I saw that if an answer choice involves people's emotion/motivation/feelings/intelligence, those are not easily testable or able to measure so those can't be the answer either. Thanks for your help!!!!!
 
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