ykaiim wrote:
Headway is now targeted at a wider readership - to include all NUT members who are on the leadership salary spine. This year's NUT membership credential gave members the opportunity to identify themselves as teachers on the leadership spine and Headway will, in future, be mailed directly to all members so identified.
From the text above, which of the following can we reasonably conclude?
(A) Headway is a free newspaper.
(B) Formerly, the readership of Headway did not include members on the leadership salary spine.
(C) Teachers can only be present on the leadership spine thanks to the NUT.
(D) The readership for Headway will increase in future years.
(E) Teachers cannot get access to Headway unless it is mailed to them.
fameatop wrote:
Hi Mike
I would like to know your take on this question. I think both options B & D are doubtful. As per me D is best of the worst. Can you kindly explain the logic applied in this question. Waiting eagerly for your valuable inputs.
Fame
I am responding to Fame's p.m.
This question reaches new depths of poor quality. If I set out to compose a CR question of the poorest possible quality, I truly doubt whether I would be able to create one as spectacularly bad as this one.
Flaw #1: The grammar & diction --- "
is now targeted at" --- really? Everything about the questions and the answer choices suggest an incredibly poor grasp of the English language.
Flaw #2: What is NUT? How is the general read suppose to know that this stands for "National Union of Teachers"? The GMAT never gives an acronym without explicitly defining it. Cf. OG13, CR #7 (BTW, "Headway" is a real magazine, published for members of NUT.)
Flaw #3: How does a "
membership credential" give anyone anything? Does it mean a membership credential
program?
Flaw #4: What in tarnation is a "
leadership salary spine"? That is not a standard term in any particularly well known discipline or profession. The GMAT might occasionally use a term, such as "
tenure track" or "
middle management", a term well recognized and understood in particular contexts, but if it uses a term invented from whole cloth, such as the one here, it would explain this new term quite clearly.
This question is not worth any consideration or analysis.
As always, some of the longest thread and most involved discussions on this forum are debates about exceedingly poorly written questions. A well written questions entails little discussion --- some folks get it right, and the folks who get it wrong understand quickly why the right answer has to be right and why the wrong answers have to be wrong. There's not much to debate. It's only these bottom-of-the-barrel questions that entails pages of arguments back and forth --- that's a sure-fire sign that it's a poorly written question.
Here's a relatively strong GMAT CR practice question:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3137When you submit your answer, the following page will have a complete video explanation.
Let me know if anyone reading this has any questions.
Mike
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