What has helped you most with making reasonable assumptions?

kiazcmuleta

Even though I'm going slow and parsing out passages, often times I get W, S, E questions wrong because I'm not making the same kinds of assumptions they make to get to that answer choice. Maybe it's also because I just started W,S,E questions like a week ago in the CC, so it's still a little new to me. What has helped you most with making reasonable assumptions? The assumptions explained in the lessons sometimes feel very arbitrary.

natemanwell1

I'm confused about this question, so if you can post more detail so people can help you effectively that would be great. you mention "passages" so I assume that this question is about reading comp, but I'm nots sure as Weaken/Strengthen/Evaluate questions are not very common in the reading section. seeing an assumption is generally only relevant if the gap has an assumption or if you are doing an assumption question. but you are saying that the test is "using an assumption to arrive at an answer choice"? I'm not sure if that means that you are not seeing the relevant assumptions in the argument, or if you think that assumptions are used to justify answer choices, which does not happen