Dominant Trap D
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Evidence1
- Real Property1
Example wrong choices
14776_loaves_fishes_fire_log · EVIDENCE · Choice Aadmissible as a summary of voluminous booking and release records.
Why it's attractive
The witness found no entry; she is not offering a chart or calculation of contents.
Why it's wrong
The witness found no entry; she is not offering a chart or calculation of contents.
14776_loaves_fishes_fire_log · EVIDENCE · Choice Binadmissible, because it is hearsay outside every exception.
Why it's attractive
The choice stops at hearsay and does not account for the no-record exception.
Why it's wrong
The choice stops at hearsay and does not account for the no-record exception.
14776_loaves_fishes_fire_log · EVIDENCE · Choice Dinadmissible, because the booking and release records themselves must be offered.
Why it's attractive
The word must is doing too much work.
Why it's wrong
The word must is doing too much work.
15018_illumination_birdbaths · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice AYes, because the rule is not illegal, unconstitutional, or against public policy.
Why it's attractive
This answers only whether the rule crosses an illegality/public-policy floor.
Why it's wrong
This answers only whether the rule crosses an illegality/public-policy floor.
15018_illumination_birdbaths · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CNo, because any rule not written in the recorded community documents is unenforceable.
Why it's attractive
The word any makes the answer too broad.
Why it's wrong
The word any makes the answer too broad.
15018_illumination_birdbaths · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice DYes, because the rule is reasonably related to furthering a legitimate purpose of the association.
Why it's attractive
This uses the friendliest phrase for the board but does not account for the silent documents and aesthetic-only trigger.
Why it's wrong
This uses the friendliest phrase for the board but does not account for the silent documents and aesthetic-only trigger.
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