Logical Reasoning

PT18 · S2 · Q23 Teachers are effective only when they help

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Teachers are effective only when they help their students become independent learners.

Statements

The correct answer to Must Be False most frequently contradicts some conditional relationship. We can see that there are multiple conditionals here from words such as "only when" / "not until" / "essential".

All of these are synonyms for "requirements", and the Required thing always goes on the Right side.

Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions

The final sentence just summarizes the Start / End of this chain, so it's not a new thought we need to do anything with.

Goal

The question stem is asking,

Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions

According to this chain, we only know one thing: these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.

They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.

But they definitely have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.

So we should be looking for a correct Must Be False answer that says .

23.

According to the argument, each of the following could be true of teachers who have enabled their students to make their own decisions except:

  1. Their students have not become

    Could Be True

    Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.

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  2. They are not effective teachers.

    Could Be True

    Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.

    10% picked this

  3. They are effective teachers.

    Could Be True

    Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. They may or may not be effective teachers. They may or may not help their students become independent learners.

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  4. They have the power to

    Must Be True

    Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.

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  5. Correct

    They do not have the

    Why this is right

    Effective → help students → students → teachers teaching become ind. can make have learners own power to decisions make decisions According to this chain, we only know one thing (we can only go from Left to Right): these teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. Thus, this answer must be false.

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

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