Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT122 S2 Q3 Explanation

Most employees spend their time

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TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

Most employees spend their time completing unimportant tasks for which they have been given firm schedules and deadlines. Efficient employees know how to ignore such demands and instead spend their time on projects that will yield big rewards for their carry the risk of significant loss if unsuccessful.

What this question is testing

Principle-Conform

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
3.

Which one of the following is an example of efficiency as

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    spending the entire afternoon working on a report that a supervisor has ordered completed by

  2. Trap4% picked this

    instead of working on a report that a supervisor has ordered completed by the following day, spending the entire afternoon completing routine

  3. Correct93% picked this

    deciding to take an urgent call from a major customer instead of being punctual at

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Principle-Conform · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap0% picked this

    meeting daily with other staff members to discuss workloads

  5. Trap1% picked this

    spending time each morning scheduling tasks according to the most

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