Logical Reasoning

PT3 · S4 · Q2 Behind the hope that computers

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Behind the hope that computers can replace teachers is the idea that the student’s understanding of the subject being taught consists in knowing facts and rules, the job of a teacher being to make the facts and rules explicit and convey them to the student, either by practice drills or by coaching.

Your task

Find the choice that makes the argument's conclusion less likely to be true.

Common trap

Answers that look negative but attack a claim the argument never relied on.

Winning move

Find the assumption the argument depends on, then pick the choice that undermines it.

2.

Which one of the following, if true, would most seriously undermine the author’s conclusion that computers will not eventually be able to replace teachers?

  1. Computers are as good as

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. The job of a teacher

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. Correct

    It is possible to program

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    90% picked this

  4. Because they are not subject

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. It is not possible for

    Trap

    3% picked this

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