gmatprav wrote:
Can you please elaborate? I didn't understand.
samsmalldog wrote:
and this prevention of scholars building on each others' work will result in the script never being deciphered.
B seems fit that.
Background:An archaeological dig sponsored by five universities unearthed five stone tablets incised with an undeciphered ancient script. The universities agreed that each would take one tablet to decipher.
Premise:Because of the prestige involved for the university that cracks the script, critics of current academic practices fear that the universities will jealously guard their scholars' work until decipherment is complete,
Conclusion:and this
prevention of scholars building on
each others' work will result in the script never being deciphered.
The answer would weaken the critics' argument, so if the answer attack or weaken the main conclusion, choose it.
The red part is the main point of the conclusion:prevent working with each other will result that the work will never finished. i,e,
work alone --> never deciphered.B.The decipherment of other ancient scripts has generally been the work of a single person working alone.
This answer hits the point, "generally" told us that it's
usual to work alone in decipherment, like there is one teacher teaching in the class and it works,, this answer actually weaken the conclusion
D.A university atmosphere generally provides an open forum for the exchange of ideas, which enhances the growth of intellectual projects.
irrelevent, told us nothing about
work alone and
decipherment NEVER EVER attack background information, In weaken question we must focus on the MAIN CONCLUSION. or you will go too far.
hope it helps,
Jack.