Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0308 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Either Half Can Kill an Option
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The idea
A compound option is wrong if either half fails. That makes elimination fast: test the less likely half first and discard the whole option when it misses. Candidates who read compound options as a single impression lose the leverage the structure hands them.
In practice
Test the weaker half first.
Where people slip
Half wrong is wholly wrong.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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