Question Types - Provable

Question 1

Conclusion

Answer 1

Question Stem Keywords

• main point
• main conclusion

What you are looking for.
A provable translation of the conclusion

Back Up Plan
Is this a translation of the conclusion?

Question 2

Inference

Answer 2

Question Stem Keywords

• if the statement above is true/from the statements above
• must be true/follows logically
• inference
• properly inferred/properly be concluded/properly drawn

What are you looking for?
The thing you can provide definitely must be true

Back Up Plan
Does this have to be true?

Question 3

Most Strongly Supported (MSS)

Answer 3

Question Stem Keywords

• the statements above, if true/by the information above
• most strongly supported
• most strongly suggests

What you are looking for.
The thing you can prove is very, very, very likely to be true

Back Up Plan
Does this pretty much have to be true?

Question 4

Fill In

Answer 4

These questions always has a blank at the end.

Question Stem Keywords

• completes
• concludes
• a blank at the end of the stimulus

What you are looking for.
The thing you can prove completes the author’s thoughts

Back Up Plan
Does this have to be true?

Question 5

Controversy

Answer 5

Question Stem Keywords

• point at issue
• point of disagreement
• disagree
• differing opinions

What are you looking for.
The thing you can prove the 2 speakers disagree about

Back Up Plan
Does the first speaker have to believe this is true/false? Does the second speaker have to believe this is true/false.

Question 6

Agreement

Answer 6

Question Stem Keywords

• agree on
• point of agreement
• committed to agreeing

What are you looking for
The thing you can prove that both speakers agree on

Back Up Plan
Does the first speaker have to believe this? Does the second speaker have to believe this?

Question 7

Necessary Assumption (NA)

Answer 7

Question Stem Keywords

• any necessary condition indicator: necessary/depends/required/relies
• assumes/assumption
• the conclusion does not follow unless

What you are looking for.
The thing you can prove must be true; if the conclusion is true

Back Up Plan
If the conclusion is true, does this have to be true?

Question 8

Method

Answer 8

Question Stem Keywords

• argument proceeds by
• argumentative technique
• method of reasoning
• strategy of argumentation
• responds by
• describes

What are you looking for?
A provable description of what happened in the stimulus

Back Up Plan
Did this happen?

Question 9

Argument Part

Answer 9

Question Stem Keywords

• role in the argument
• functions in the argument
• argument part
• the reference to/the statement that
• quoting a phrase from the stimulus

What are you looking for?
A provable description of what the phrase is going in the argument

Back Up Plan
Is this what the phrase is doing?

Question 10

Classic Flaw

Answer 10

Question Stem Keywords

• flaw/flawed
• most vulnerable to critics on the grounds that it
• questionable technique employed
• the reasoning in the argument/the reasoning above

What you are looking for
A provable description of what the argument did wrong

Back Up Plan
Is this what’s wrong with the argument?

This one has all the Classic Flaws in the other flash cards

Question 11

Loophole Flaw

Answer 11

Question Stem Keywords
- most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it + (loophole flaw prefix)

Loophole Flaw Prefix

• mistakenly assumes
• fails to consider/establish
• presumes without providing sufficient justification
• takes for granted
• overlooks the possibility that

What you are looking for.
A provable description of how the argument overlooked your Loophole

Back Up Plan
Was it bad that the argument overlooked this?