Information Archival

Answer choices

1. A

   Unknown Comparison Out of Scope: theft1% picked this

   Information stored electronically is more vulnerable than information stored on paper to unauthorized

   We never talked about unauthorized use or theft, so there's no basis in the passage for supporting this answer.

   1%
2. B

   Out of Scope6% picked this

   Much of the information stored on optical computer disks in the 1980s was subsequently transferred

   Out of Scope: transferred to digital storage Too Strong: much of what's on optical The only time we talk about the optical computer disks in the 1980s is in the middle of the 2nd paragraph. At no point does it talk about any of that stuff being transferred onto digital storage tape, which is only ever talked about in the following sentence. This is just a classic Word Salad (i.e. unsupported relationship) where they grab nouns/phrases from different parts of the passage and smush them together to create a new meaning. In this case, optical disks from the 80s and 'digital storage tape' appeared in consecutive sentences (which were joined by "and', as in, "and another thing...") and so they wrote an answer that just invented a relationship between them. "Much of" doesn't have a precise meaning, but you would assume we're talking at least 30% or so.

   6%
3. C

   Too Strong: high cost prohibiting1% picked this

   The high cost of new electronic data storage systems is prohibiting many archivists from transferring their archives to

   We don't have anything that sounds like the cost is prohibitively expensive for many archivists. The only thing we're told making them reluctant to transfer to computer disks and tape (end of 2nd paragraph) is that computer technology is "ever-changing", so they may put stuff onto a format that they have no way of accessing later. Also, we're told that recent generations of digital tape last only ten years.

   1%
4. D

   Correct69% picked this

   Media used recently to store information electronically may ultimately be less durable than older, conventional media such

   Why this is right

   We have enough facts to support this claim, but we have to cobble together support from multiple places. At the end of the first paragraph, we're told that photographs last between 40-200 years (depending on color vs. B&W) and that videotapes last about 20 years. At the end of the second paragraph, we're told that recent generations of digital storage tape only last about 10 years.

   Skill tested: Inference · how this choice captures the passage's function is the move to repeat next time.

   69%
5. E

   Too Strong: proportionally23% picked this

   The percentage of information considered essential by archivists has increased proportionally as the amount of

   This answer is claiming that if the amount of information that people are creating (selfies, TikToks, blogs, memes) is increasing 65%, then the percent of information archivists consider essential to store has also increased 65%. There's no reason it would ever be that tightly mathematically connected. We also don't have anything in the passage to relate those two things to each other (volume of material is in the first sentence of the passage, and essential material is discussed in the last paragraph). And common sense would tell us that now that we all have cameras we're creating terabytes and terabytes of dumb stuff that is not culturally essential for archivists to preserve.

   23%