Public reports by national commissions

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Stimulus

Public reports by national commissions, governors’ conferences, and leadership groups have stressed the great need for better understanding of international affairs by the citizenry. If the country is to remain a leading nation in an era of international competitiveness, the need is undeniable. If there is such a need for the citizenry must be prepared to teach their subject matter with an international orientation.

What this question is testing

Must be True

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question

22.

If all of the statements in the passage are true, which one of the following must

Answer choices

Correct82% picked this
If the country is to remain a leading nation in an era of international competitiveness, then new teachers must be prepared to teach their
Why this is right
Answer A is correct.
Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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Unknown Trigger Illegal Reversal5% picked this
If new teachers are prepared to teach their subject matter with an international orientation, then the country will remain a leading nation
We don't have any conditionals that begin with the idea of "if teachers are prepared" as a trigger, so we can't derive any certain outcome of that idea. This is reading the chain backwards.
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Unknown Trigger Reversal (if anything)11% picked this
If there is better understanding of international affairs by the citizenry, then the country will remain a leading nation in
We don't have any conditionals that begin with the idea of "if there is a better understanding", so we can't derive any certain outcome of that idea. Even if this said, "If there is need for a better understanding", it would still be doing an illegal reversal to go backwards to "remain leading nation".
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Contradicted (if anything)0% picked this
If the country is to remain a leading nation in an era of international competitiveness, then there is no need for the citizenry to
Our chain goes, "If remain leading nation, then do need better understanding, and thus teachers need to teach in an international style."
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Out of Scope1% picked this
Public reports from various groups and commissions have stressed the need for a more international orientation in
Out of Scope: stressed need for teachers The only thing we know about these public reports is that they've stressed a need for better understanding of international stuff. We don't have any way to prove that they've stressed a need for teachers.
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