Many high school students

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Conclusion Match7% picked this

   High school students who have misconceptions about a career should not be encouraged to

   We are talking about high school students who have misconceptions about a career, but the conclusion isn't telling career counselors to talk them out of pursuing that career. The conclusion is saying that the career counselor should try to correct the students' misconception about what that career is typically like.

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2. B

   Bad Evidence/Conclusion Match2% picked this

   One should not encourage people to seek unattainable goals if one wishes to maximize those people's chances

   This rules is saying, If you want to maximize don't encourage people's chances to ? them to seek lead happy lives unattainable goals The trigger has no match in the argument, since we never established that career counselors are wishing to maximize their students' chances of leading happy lives. And the conclusion doesn't match. We're telling the counselors to provide students with a more accurate picture of what a journalism career would look like. This rule would say to the counselors, "Don't encourage them to seek a career in journalism".

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3. C

   Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

   Students who are choosing a career should be encouraged to try to reach the top

   This is a principle about what students should do. We're trying to justify a conclusion about what career counselors should do, so this type of rule is useless to us.

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4. D

   Correct86% picked this

   A career counselor should try to disabuse students of any unrealistic conceptions they may have about the likely consequences

   Why this is right

   This and (E) are the only answers to specifically address career counselor's, which is appealing. We heard about students having an expectation / reality mismatch when it comes to careers in journalism. They're expecting glamorous international news gathering, but in the vast majority of cases they're going to cover local news for local papers. So we can say that students have an unrealistic conception. This rule says, If students have an career counselor unrealistic conception ? should disabuse about likely consequences them of that of choosing a certain career To "disabuse someone of notion X" is to convince them notion X is not really true. It's similar to clarifying a misconception. And that's a good match for what the conclusion is instructing career counselors to do.

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

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5. E

   Bad Evidence Match Weak Conclusion Match5% picked this

   Career counselors are not doing their job properly if they encourage people to make career choices that are initially appealing but that

   This gives us a rule that says, If they encourage people career counselors to make career choices ? not doing their that start good but later jobs right turn regrettable Does the trigger match stuff we were told in the Evidence? No, the evidence didn't say anything about career counselors encouraging students to choose journalism. And it didn't say that journalism is initially appealing but later regretful. Does the outcome match the conclusion? No, the conclusion is that career counselors should provide info about a typical journalism career, not "therefore, they're doing their job wrong".

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