PrepTest 151

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Facts

Question Type:
Argument Completion

Stimulus Summary:
not Computer system requires adopting more productive work habits → not System increase efficiency
Ministry of Transportation's new system will fit the current work habitsSo __________.

Answer Anticipation:
The stimulus establishes a conditional, setting up a requirement for increasing productivity—to do so, a system must make workers adopt new, more productive habits. Then, it states that the new system for the Ministry of Transportation won't do this—it's being built to fit the current habits/ways of working. Since the new system won't meet a necessary requirement of increasing efficiency, the conclusion of the argument that we're supposed to fill in will state that this new system won't increase efficiency.

Answer Explanation:
Right off the bat, we get the correct answer. Since the new system won't force the adoption of more productive habits, it won't increase efficiency.

Key Takeaway:
People generally hate conditional logic when they start prepping for the LSAT, but investing the time in getting fluent in it is important to the exam. Your goal is to get to the point where you're happy to see conditional logic in a question—as we saw here—because it can allow you to be much more specific with your anticipations and much more certain of the correct answer.

Incorrect. There's no discussion in the stimulus of the system itself working, just the impact it'll have on the workers' productivity, so this answer is out of scope.

Incorrect. Never conflate outcomes and motives! Just because the argument is set up to show that productivity won't increase doesn't mean that the decision-makers don't want productivity to increase—they could just be going about it in an ineffective way.

Incorrect. There's no premise establishing what would make the new system worthwhile, so this answer choice is out of scope. Additionally, the argument is set up to say that the new system won't do something positive (increase productivity).

Incorrect. The stimulus doesn't discuss the ease of learning the new system. Even if it is designed to fit existing ways of working, it could require a lot of training for people to pick it up and integrate into their workflows.