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Wrong answer types

Wrong answer types

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Wrong answer types

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- [Voiceover] It's useful to consider exactly how the jury makes wrong answer choices "wrong" for logic questions. Not only will this help you decide whether a choice is wrong or right, but you'll start to notice patterns that will make future questions easier. So let's go over a few ways. Sometimes choices will do the opposite of what the question asks for. For instance, if the question asks you to undermine an argument, maybe the choice will strengthen it. That might sound easy to catch, but oftentimes it's tricky because the question answer choice will be talking about the subject matter in a very familiar way, and you might get confused about whether it strengthens or weakens it. Other choices will seem to help, but they'll be really weak in the way that they help. They won't be strong enough, they might say like, "Some people do something" or "Many of the people being interviewed said something." But that's not really necessarily gonna support things usually. Other choices will…

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