Treat statements as given
Use only the information supplied and avoid importing outside assumptions.
What to master
- Must-be-true versus most-strongly-supported tasks.
- Conditional chains.
- Quantifier relationships.
- Safe inferences from comparisons and categories.
- Avoiding extreme or overgeneralized answer choices.
BoardQBank strategy
1
Summarize the facts without turning them into an argument.
2
Identify direct consequences before attempting complex combinations.
3
Test each answer against the possibility that the facts are true and the answer is false.
4
Prefer modest wording when the evidence is limited.
Practice focus
- Conditional must-be-true questions.
- Most-strongly-supported questions.
- Inference questions involving groups, proportions and comparisons.