Study Strategies
## The Power of Prephrasing
Before you look at the answer choices, try to predict what the correct answer
should say. This keeps you from getting tricked by confusing wording.
### How to Prephrase
- Think: 'If I wrote the answer, what would it be?'
- Focus on the gap or flaw in the argument
- Compare your prediction to the choices
### Why It’s Awesome
Prephrasing helps you stay focused and avoid being swayed by clever
distractors.
Examples
- Reading a flaw question, thinking 'The argument ignores X,' then looking for an answer that matches.
- Predicting that a strengthen question needs evidence about a specific link, and finding a choice that does just that.