PrepTest 150

Incorrect. The training is established as a necessary condition to judging literary quality, so there's no way to infer someone can accurately judge literary quality.

Incorrect. The stimulus doesn't preclude someone who isn't a literature professor from having the specialized training required for proper judgment. This answer is too extreme.

Incorrect. The stimulus doesn't provide any judgment as to whether the restricted nature of this training is good. "Should" is out of scope.

Incorrect. While the vast majority of the reading public lacks training that is required to be a literature professor, it's not the entire reading public. Those brave few who become literature professors could both have the training and be in the reading public, and be in the minority of that public who can properly judge quality.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Facts

Question Type:
Must Be True

Stimulus Summary:
The literature professor has three beliefs:
(1) Only someone with years of training can correctly assess literary quality
(2) This training is a requirement to be a literature professor
(3) Almost everyone who reads doesn't have this training

Answer Anticipation:
For Must Be True questions, when two statements have overlap, the correct answer will generally combine those statements. Here, all of the statements deal with specialized training, so inferences can be made by combining them. While there are several inferences to be drawn, most seem unlikely to be correct (for example, it's inferable that almost everyone isn't a literature professor, but that's a little obvious even if you didn't read the stimulus). However, combining the first and third statement yields an inference: Almost everyone who reads can't correctly assess literary quality.

Answer Explanation:
This answer combines the first and last statements. If the vast majority of the public can't access training necessary to form a correct judgment, then they won't be able to reach that correct judgment.

Key Takeaway:
In Must Be True questions, focus on combining statements that overlap in their discussion of a common idea. Be sure that you look for overlap that conveys the same idea using different language, but at the same time avoid thinking two terms overlap even though there's a subtle difference between them.