Community organizations wanting to enhance

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct73% picked this

   Community organizations seeking to encourage higher education programs must persuade the public that these programs benefit

   Why this is right

   This matches the meaning of the 1st sentence very well. We can appreciate the care they took to use their thesaurus and integrate some synonyms in here. "wanting to enhance support" vs. "seeking to encourage" "need to convince the public" vs. "must persuade the public"

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

   73%
2. B

   Premise Last Claim Trap7% picked this

   It is easier to get the public to support programs that are seen as benefiting everyone than it is to get them to support

   This was a supporting detail, which is indicated by the fact that it was prefaced by for example. We should always feel suspicious of ourselves if we're picking an answer on Main Conclusion that matches the final claim of the paragraph, since the conclusion usually isn't found there on Main Conclusion but they always have a trap answer for people who will just assume the last claim is the conclusion.

   7%
3. C

   Relative vs. Absolute Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

   It is easy to get the public to support road building, because road building is seen as benefiting

   This looks nothing like the first sentence, so we can reject it without reading it. If we did read it, we would see that it's not even correctly reproducing any claim from the argument. We were told that "it is easier" (relative) to get people to support stuff that seems to benefit society as a whole, not that "it is easy" (absolute).

   0%
4. D

   Intermediate Conclusion19% picked this

   Convincing the public that higher education programs will benefit society as a whole makes the public more

   This answer replicates the meaning of the 2nd sentence, which was an intermediate conclusion. We're looking for an answer that matches the 1st sentence, which is the main conclusion

   19%
5. E

   Unstated Claim Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

   Higher education is similar to road building in that both are beneficial to society

   This looks nothing like the first sentence, so we can reject it as soon as we make that assessment. It also is not a claim from the argument, so it couldn't be citing our main conclusion, because our main conclusion is a claim in the argument. This answer is trying to temp people by saying something that feels like an Inference or Assumption (in other words, they're hoping people will pick it because it feels like a correct answer, on a different question type).

   0%