Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT133 S3 Q17 Explanation

Educator: Traditional classroom education

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TopicsSufficient Assumption

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Stimulus

Educator: Traditional classroom education is ineffective because education in such an environment is not truly a social process and only social processes can develop students' insights. In the traditional classroom, the teacher acts from teachers and students is rigid and artificial.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
17.

The educator's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope1% picked this

    Development of insight takes place only if genuine education

    Genuine education is not necessarily effective education.

  2. Reversal12% picked this

    Classroom education is effective if the interaction between teachers and students is neither

    This reverses the DSI → E assumption between education that develops student insights and education that is effective.

  3. Supports a Premise24% picked this

    All social processes involve interaction that is neither rigid

    This connects with TC → R + A the third premise SP → R + A to support the first. ჻ TC → ~SP

  4. Correct60% picked this

    Education is not effective unless it leads to the development

    Why this is right

    This bridges the gap E → DSI between education that is effective and education that develops student insights.

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

  5. Out of Scope3% picked this

    The teacher does not act from outside the group in a

    Nontraditional classrooms are not relevant to the argument.

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