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Comparing and contrasting alternative viewpoints asks where competing explanations agree and where they split.
ACT Science presents these in Conflicting Viewpoints passages, where scientists or students explain one observation in different ways. Questions ask which statement every viewpoint would accept, which point only one of them makes, or how a pair differs on a specific mechanism. Agreement often lies in the shared facts, while disagreement lies in the explanation.
Marking each viewpoint's key claim before answering keeps them separate. Wrong choices tend to treat a difference in emphasis as a disagreement, or credit a viewpoint with an idea it never mentions.
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