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Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan

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Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   06 Oct 2020, 08:53
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Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advantage reading program. After all, our students get all the reading practice they need by studying history and science.

The argument above depends on which the following assumptions?

(A) The Verbal Advantage program would not help the students learn history and science.
(B) Other reading programs are just as effective but less expensive than the Verbal Advantage program.
(C) The Verbal Advantage program involves only reading practice.
(D) Teaching students history and science is more important than teaching them reading skills.
(E) The students can already read well enough to study history and science.
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Re: Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   07 Oct 2020, 08:37
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(C) The Verbal Advantage program involves only reading practice.
Prethinking; It needs to be assumed that the program only offers reading practice, which they already get from history and science, in case if it offers something else then it would be worth to spend the money.
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Re: Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   20 Oct 2020, 02:45
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Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advantage reading program. After all, our students get all the reading practice they need by studying history and science.

The argument above depends on which the following assumptions?

(A) The Verbal Advantage program would not help the students learn history and science.
(B) Other reading programs are just as effective but less expensive than the Verbal Advantage program.
(C) The Verbal Advantage program involves only reading practice.
(D) Teaching students history and science is more important than teaching them reading skills.
(E) The students can already read well enough to study history and science.


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The correct answer is (C).

The argument boils down to the following, including the unstated assumption provided by choice (C):

    Premise: Students get enough reading practice already.
    Unstated assumption (choice C): The program provides only reading practice.
    Conclusion: The program is unnecessary.

None of the other four choices provides the necessary assumption.
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Re: Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   20 Oct 2020, 02:59
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I picked E over C..
Can anyone explain why E is wrong?
If "The students can not read well enough to study history and science", this assumption will weaken the conclusion, otherwise, it will strengths the conclusion, isn't it?


The argument did not mention anything about the level of reading skills imparted by the new program. It could be that the new advantage program is not sufficient to impart the reading skills required for Science and history.

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Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   20 Oct 2020, 13:30
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I picked E over C..
Can anyone explain why E is wrong?
If "The students can not read well enough to study history and science", this assumption will weaken the conclusion, otherwise, it will strengths the conclusion, isn't it?

Hi E is wrong because even if the student do not read well , its fine .. they are still getting enough practice to read and get better. he conclusion is not about being capable of comprehending but to practice . Even if you negate the option you get ---- the students can not read well enough to study /understand history or science , but our conclusion is about practice and not how well the students can read/comprehend. Our conclusion still stands as reading will still improve the reading skills of the students.

Hope it makes sense.

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Re: Our school district should not spend its money on the new Verbal Advan [#permalink] New post   21 Oct 2020, 22:09
Hey. I was having a hard time eliminating E since it also suggests that taking on the new verbal program is unnecessary. However, I can now see that there are extra assumptions we will have to make in order to prove that reading skills are sufficient ENOUGH to dump the idea of this program.
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