Logical reasoning PrepTest 117 · Section 4 · Question 13

Question prompt

Whether a machine performs 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

Valid or Flawed

Flawed

Question Type

Illustration Questions

Stimulus Summary

Machines - Everyone can tell if it’s working, so engineers are cool under evaluation
Art - Seeing greatness requires rare perception, so artists are anxious under evaluation

Answer Anticipation

The stimulus here is all about the comparison between engineers/machines and artists/art. The two are contrasted on two metrics - how easy their work is to evaluate, and how they respond to evaluations.
Machines are easy to evaluate, and engineers aren’t anxious when their work is being judged. Art is hard to evaluate, and artists are anxious when their work is being judged. Thus, the principle should connect these concepts:
The easier it is to evaluate a creation, the less anxious the person who made it is during the evaluation process.

Answer choices

  1. A
    People who have an Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    The stimulus isn’t about anxious personalities, but rather getting anxious in a specific situation, so this answer is out of scope.
  2. B
    The value of a Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited
    The comparison is over the response of the creator during evaluation, not the factors that go into determining value.
  3. C
    Evaluation of the work Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C is not credited
    This answer may address the first half of the comparison (the ease with which these creations can be evaluated), but it doesn’t address the creators’s responses to that evaluation, so it doesn’t encompass the entirety of the stimulus.
  4. D
    People who create things Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D matches the stem
    This answer connects the points of comparison. The success of machines can be easily ascertained; the success of art cannot. This answer connects that split to the different response of engineers (worry less/aren’t as nervous) and artists (worry more/are nervous) to evaluation.
  5. E
    Someone who creates a Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    This answer compares the creator to the evaluator, whereas the stimulus compared two sets of creators.

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Answer choice distribution

  1. A 8%
  2. B 7%
  3. C 3%
  4. D Credited 78%
  5. E 4%

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