This is the passage about acting and internal and external styles. Page 2 (of 2nd edition, which is the current edition).
Questions 4 & 5 are driving me crazy. Can anyone explain the answers to me? Or at least some part of the answers that I'm not getting right? I read EK's answers and they are not helping.
(I just want to know how I could get similar questions right going forward.)
#4 Correct answer = B
The answer assumes that most children don't use the internal method of acting when lying. Isn't that assumption necessary to answer #4 correctly? If not, please explain. (I really don't get it at all and am feeling frustrated. Maybe the author has dumb kids.)
#5 Correct answer = B
I have two categories of dilemmas with this answer. One is the test taker's strategy, and the other is just having it make sense.
1st dilemma, I acknowledge the test-taker's strategy of looking over the answer choices and realizing that answer A and answer C could contradict under the logic of A is a type of C, and then rule out both A and C since you cannot choose both answers. I didn't do that because sometimes the more specific or more general answer wins. (If I am wrong and you know why, please explain. I wish I understood.)
2nd dilemmas - Stuff that doesn't make sense:
Being on television or film is a point brought up in the passage, how are we suppose to know that we can ignore that here (without reading the answer key)?
Why are we disregarding that the passage says the internal approach is more natural?
How are we suppose to know that the film makers in the question prefer to represent Helen Keller with an actor who PRIORITIZES body language and external movements over emotion which would be better expressed using the internal approach? I could understand that if it were a comedy act meant to make fun of people, but for a documentary...
(Further, there is a very important difference between two words that EK treats as synonyms. The difference is a matter of respect, something all doctors should have. The word "portray" in the question stem suggests a serious representation used in a typical documentary, whereas "mimic" the word in the answer key suggests motive to entertain, according to online definitions. I looked this up to make sure it wasn't just me. This also supports the dilemma in the previous paragraph.)
Lastly, why would they want to emphasis the external (audio/visual) aspects of a blind person over the internal? A blind person has no exposure (or much less exposure) to the visual so this makes no sense to me. (The answer key says blind is irrelevant, but how are we suppose to know that prior to reading the answers?)
As far as I can tell everything listed above is of the same critical nature, and no more and no less critical, than the reasoning used by most MCAT practice tests makers as to why a question is right or wrong.
It seems I have tried everything. Spending little time on each passage got me nowhere. Spending an hour on each passage got me nowhere. I've read everything I can think of, tried every single strategy, and am so SICK OF VERBAL REASONING!!!!
Questions 4 & 5 are driving me crazy. Can anyone explain the answers to me? Or at least some part of the answers that I'm not getting right? I read EK's answers and they are not helping.
(I just want to know how I could get similar questions right going forward.)
#4 Correct answer = B
The answer assumes that most children don't use the internal method of acting when lying. Isn't that assumption necessary to answer #4 correctly? If not, please explain. (I really don't get it at all and am feeling frustrated. Maybe the author has dumb kids.)
#5 Correct answer = B
I have two categories of dilemmas with this answer. One is the test taker's strategy, and the other is just having it make sense.
1st dilemma, I acknowledge the test-taker's strategy of looking over the answer choices and realizing that answer A and answer C could contradict under the logic of A is a type of C, and then rule out both A and C since you cannot choose both answers. I didn't do that because sometimes the more specific or more general answer wins. (If I am wrong and you know why, please explain. I wish I understood.)
2nd dilemmas - Stuff that doesn't make sense:
Being on television or film is a point brought up in the passage, how are we suppose to know that we can ignore that here (without reading the answer key)?
Why are we disregarding that the passage says the internal approach is more natural?
How are we suppose to know that the film makers in the question prefer to represent Helen Keller with an actor who PRIORITIZES body language and external movements over emotion which would be better expressed using the internal approach? I could understand that if it were a comedy act meant to make fun of people, but for a documentary...
(Further, there is a very important difference between two words that EK treats as synonyms. The difference is a matter of respect, something all doctors should have. The word "portray" in the question stem suggests a serious representation used in a typical documentary, whereas "mimic" the word in the answer key suggests motive to entertain, according to online definitions. I looked this up to make sure it wasn't just me. This also supports the dilemma in the previous paragraph.)
Lastly, why would they want to emphasis the external (audio/visual) aspects of a blind person over the internal? A blind person has no exposure (or much less exposure) to the visual so this makes no sense to me. (The answer key says blind is irrelevant, but how are we suppose to know that prior to reading the answers?)
As far as I can tell everything listed above is of the same critical nature, and no more and no less critical, than the reasoning used by most MCAT practice tests makers as to why a question is right or wrong.
It seems I have tried everything. Spending little time on each passage got me nowhere. Spending an hour on each passage got me nowhere. I've read everything I can think of, tried every single strategy, and am so SICK OF VERBAL REASONING!!!!
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