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Hi everyone,
I did a passage sometime last week in Kaplan verbal where they were asking what I could infer about what the author meant when he was making a point. I picked an answer that was a nearly verbatim sentence from the passage clearly offered as an explanation of his point a few sentences later. This answer was wrong because it was "explicitly stated" and thus could not justfiably be "inferred".
I have two questions:
1) WTF?
2) Does anyone know if AAMC shares this narrow definition of permissible answers for "infer/imply" type questions? As in, if I'm down to two choices and pick the one that is obviously stated in the passage, is that wrong if the word "imply/infer" is in the question stem?
I did a passage sometime last week in Kaplan verbal where they were asking what I could infer about what the author meant when he was making a point. I picked an answer that was a nearly verbatim sentence from the passage clearly offered as an explanation of his point a few sentences later. This answer was wrong because it was "explicitly stated" and thus could not justfiably be "inferred".
I have two questions:
1) WTF?
2) Does anyone know if AAMC shares this narrow definition of permissible answers for "infer/imply" type questions? As in, if I'm down to two choices and pick the one that is obviously stated in the passage, is that wrong if the word "imply/infer" is in the question stem?
