Logical reasoning PrepTest 105 · Section 2 · Question 13

Question prompt

Yolanda: Gaining access to Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: D

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

Argument or Facts

Argument/Argument

Valid or Flawed

Flawed/Flawed

Question Type

Point at Issue Questions

Stimulus Summary

Y: Hacking is like joyriding, but joyriding puts people in physical danger while hacking doesn’t, so joyriding is more dangerous. A: Hacking can put people in physical danger, so I disagree that joyriding is a more dangerous crime.

Answer Anticipation

When dealing with a Point at Issue question, listen up to the second speaker when they explicitly disagree with something the first speaker says! Here, Arjun disagrees with Yolanda...but it’s unclear off the bat what, exactly he’s disagreeing with. Reading further into his response, we can see that he highlights an example where hacking can lead to physical danger to people. Yolanda says that joyriding is more dangerous because it can lead to physical danger whereas hacking can’t, so here’s the point at issue. Yolanda believes joyriding is more dangerous because only it leads to physical harm, whereas Arjun disagrees because hacking can also put people in danger of physical harm.

Answer choices

  1. A
    whether joyriding physically endangers Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    Arjun doesn’t discuss joyriding at all, and so he definitely doesn’t suggest that it doesn’t physically endanger people. This answer is therefore out of scope of his response.
  2. B
    whether the unauthorized manipulation Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited
    This seems to be a point of agreement, in that Yolanda states hacking hurts intellectual (private) property, and Arjun agrees that data systems can be damaged.
  3. C
    whether damage to physical Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C is not credited
    Which act is more criminal is out of scope of both speakers’ statements - they disagree over how relatively dangerous the crimes are.
  4. D
    whether the unauthorized use Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D matches the stem
    Yolanda concludes that joyriding is the more dangerous of the two crimes, and Arjun disagrees since hacking can also put people in harm’s way, so this is the correct answer.
  5. E
    whether treating private property Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    Yolanda and Arjun talk about relative danger (“more dangerous”). As such, whether or not something is dangerous is out of scope - it could be dangerous, but just less dangerous than another crime.

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Answer choice distribution

  1. A 4%
  2. B 3%
  3. C 7%
  4. D Credited 84%
  5. E 2%

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