Mukund is participating in a group discussion about a book his class has just read. How does the rest of the class know that he is well prepared?

Being well prepared means Mukund has already chosen useful material to support what he says. If he has a section of the book readily prepared as a reference, he can use it without searching or hesitating. Flipping through the book to find a passage suggests he was not prepared in advance.

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