Logical reasoning PrepTest 126 · Section 3 · Question 2

Question prompt

Board member: The J Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: C

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

Errors in Reasoning Questions

Stimulus Summary

Condition of grant - The resulting work doesn’t hurt J Foundation’s reputation
Resulting work - Doesn’t mention the achievements of the J Foundation
Conclusion - The work violates the condition of the grant

Answer Anticipation

Whenever an argument accuses someone of violating a condition or a rule, it’s important to clearly understand the condition/rule and the details that are claimed to have violated it.
Here, the condition for the grant was that the work resulting from it doesn’t hurt J Foundation’s reputation. The detail that claims this condition was violated states that the work doesn’t mention J Foundation’s achievements. That’s a jump from a condition about not hurting a foundation to a supposed violation that involves not lauding the Foundation. The correct answer should address this shift!

Answer choices

  1. A
    takes for granted that Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited
    “High intellectual value” isn’t mentioned in the argument, nor is it inherently related to anything in the argument, so this answer is out of scope.
  2. B
    confuses a condition necessary Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited
    The condition on the grant could be viewed as a requirement for receiving it, but there’s no indication that anyone treated that condition as sufficient for receiving the grant.
  3. C
    presumes, without providing justification, Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C matches the stem
    This answer highlights the term shift between the condition placed on the grant recipient and what the Foundation claims that the recipient did to violate it. Failing to mention laudable achievements doesn’t guarantee that a foundation is harmed, and so the argument makes an assumption that that’s the case in treating them as the same.
  4. D
    fails to consider that Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D is not credited
    There’s no indication as to what the person who received the grant did, so it’s impossible to tell if they did or did not strive to meet the foundation’s conditions. We know only that they didn’t laud the Foundation’s achievements.
  5. E
    fails to consider the Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited
    If a work fails to meet any single condition on a grant, then it’s valid to say that it didn’t meet the conditions of that grant, regardless of how stringently it followed the other conditions.

What this tests

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Answer choice distribution

  1. A 3%
  2. B 4%
  3. C Credited 92%
  4. D 0%
  5. E 1%

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