Strengthen with Necessary Premise Questions - - Question 1
It is the mark of a superior conductor that he or she has the authority to insist, even with a top orchestra, that re...
colleen_May 25, 2020
Sufficient vs. necessary follow up
Posting again because support told me to post my question again if it wasn’t answered within a week and it’s been a week and a half.
Is there somewhere I can practice identifying strengthen with sufficient vs. strengthen with necessary premise question stems? I understand how to solve them, but distinguishing the two is tricky for me.
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We are so sorry about the late response to your question!
There are no extra practice questions outside of those under the Strengthen with Sufficient and Strengthen with Necessary Premise practice questions in this section. However, they will come up in practice exams as well.
A Strengthen with Necessary Premise question will ask for an assumption that is in some way required i.e. the argument depends upon this assumption. These questions will use necessary indicators.
A Strengthen with Sufficient Premise question will ask for an assumption that, IF provided, would allow the argument to be properly drawn/concluded. These questions will use sufficient indicators, primarily "if."
For Strengthen with Necessary Premise questions, you should be looking for an answer choice that the argument requires in order to be true i.e. if this answer choice is negated, the argument can no longer be properly concluded.
For Strengthen with Sufficient Premise questions, you should be looking for an answer choice that would guarantee the truth of that argument.
Sorry again for the late response! Hope this is helpful and please let us know if you need any further clarification.
