Political organizer: Our group needs to assemble

Answer choices

1. A

   Not Stated10% picked this

   Marcia Garson will probably not be

   The correct answer to Main Conclusion is 99.8% of the time an explicitly stated conclusion. This answer choice brings up an idea that was never said. They're trying to tempt students into drawing their own conclusions, rather than the real task, which is just to identify which explicit claim was the conclusion.

   10%
2. B

   Premise Last Idea Trap5% picked this

   The political organizer?s group cannot afford to pay people to campaign

   Sometimes the final idea is the main conclusion, but it's very rare on Main Conclusion questions. You should always be skeptical when you're picking an answer that reiterates the last claim. It's too easy for the conclusion to be at the literal conclusion of the paragraph, so LSAT usually doesn't put it last when they're testing our ability to find it. We can verify this isn't the conclusion by asking, "Why should we believe you can't afford to pay people for this work?" A supporting reason would sound like, "because donations have been low this cycle" "because we spent all our money on promotional signs" etc.

   5%
3. C

   Correct70% picked this

   If winning the election is to be a possibility for Marcia Garson, the political organizer?s group needs to bring

   Why this is right

   This correctly regurgitates the meaning of our first claim, which was the conclusion. All the other ideas in the paragraph offer support for why we should believe this claim.

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

   70%
4. D

   Premise9% picked this

   If the public is not fully informed about Marcia Garson?s record, she will not

   It's 100% guaranteed a claim is not the Main Conclusion if it's prefaced by Since (or because, after all, for) as this claim was. Those words guarantee that the claim attached to them is there to support some bigger conclusion.

   9%
5. E

   Never Stated5% picked this

   At least 30 people from the political organizer?s group need to campaign for Marcia Garson in order to fully inform

   This claim was not made, so it's not the Main Conclusion. This is tempting students into liking an answer that sounds like an Inference or Necessary Assumption, in case they forgot that our ask is merely to reiterate the author's explicit conclusion.

   5%