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I was just speaking with the fitness trainer at my gym a few weeks back and he made a certain argument. I just thought that the same would make a good CR question. There is no OA as this is my own question. Would help if experts could iron out the problems if any in the question. I also feel exercises like these would help improving AWA skills. Since this is my own question, I am going to go ahead and rate it as a sub 600 level question. Please let me know if there are any changes that I could make to improve the quality of the question. So here goes....
Source : MacFauz
Fitness Trainer : Arnold Schwarzzeneger started training with weights at the young age of 16 and, with a height of more than 6 feet, he is considered tall by the general public. So, weight training at a young age does not affect growth.
The fitness trainer's conclusion is based on the assumption that :
A. People more than 6 feet in height are considered tall by the general public.
B. Starting weight training at a younger age and starting weight training at an older age are not any different from each other in terms of affecting growth.
C. A person whose growth was affected by weight training cannot grow to such a height that people consider him tall.
D. People at the age of 16 are considered young.
E. Short people are not more likely than tall people to have started training with weights at a young age.
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Originally posted by MacFauz on 21 Nov 2012, 02:48.
Last edited by MacFauz on 03 Dec 2012, 08:02, edited 2 times in total.
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21 Nov 2012, 02:59
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MacFauz wrote:
I was just speaking with the fitness trainer at my gym a few weeks back and he made a certain argument. I just thought that the same would make a good CR question. There is no OA as this is my own question. Would help if experts could iron out the problems if any in the question. I also feel exercises like these would help improving AWA skills. Since this is my own question, I am going to go ahead and rate it as a sub 600 level question. Please let me know if there are any changes that I could make to improve the quality of the question. So here goes....
Source : MacFauz
Fitness Trainer : Weight training at a young age does not affect growth. Arnold Schwarzzeneger started training with weights at the young age of 16 and, with a height of more than 6 feet, he is considered tall by the general public.
The fitness trainer's conclusion is based on the assumption that :
A. People more than 6 feet in height are considered tall by the general public.
B. Starting weight training at a younger age and starting weight training at an older age are not any different from each other in terms of affecting growth.
C. The growth of a person considered tall by the general public was not affected by weight training.
D. People at the age of 16 are considered young.
E. Short people are not more likely than tall people to have started training with weights at a young age.
If you disagree with me, please provide reason why...
Kudos Please... If my post helped.
ha ha.. I do not agree with first Macfauz prep OA.. I would pick D as the answer. trainer was able to justify his conclusion on the basis that Arnold started weight training at the age of 16 and he is considered tall. Therefore he assumed that 16 is young age.
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21 Nov 2012, 03:15
Vips0000 wrote:
MacFauz wrote:
I was just speaking with the fitness trainer at my gym a few weeks back and he made a certain argument. I just thought that the same would make a good CR question. There is no OA as this is my own question. Would help if experts could iron out the problems if any in the question. I also feel exercises like these would help improving AWA skills. Since this is my own question, I am going to go ahead and rate it as a sub 600 level question. Please let me know if there are any changes that I could make to improve the quality of the question. So here goes....
Source : MacFauz
Fitness Trainer : Weight training at a young age does not affect growth. Arnold Schwarzzeneger started training with weights at the young age of 16 and, with a height of more than 6 feet, he is considered tall by the general public.
The fitness trainer's conclusion is based on the assumption that :
A. People more than 6 feet in height are considered tall by the general public.
B. Starting weight training at a younger age and starting weight training at an older age are not any different from each other in terms of affecting growth.
C. The growth of a person considered tall by the general public was not affected by weight training.
D. People at the age of 16 are considered young.
E. Short people are not more likely than tall people to have started training with weights at a young age.
If you disagree with me, please provide reason why...
Kudos Please... If my post helped.
ha ha.. I do not agree with first Macfauz prep OA.. I would pick D as the answer. trainer was able to justify his conclusion on the basis that Arnold started weight training at the age of 16 and he is considered tall. Therefore he assumed that 16 is young age.
Haha.. Thanks for your reply Vips.... But I thought that that would be a concern. That is why I added "young age" of 16 in the question. I thought if I stated it explicitly in the question statement, then it cannot be taken as an assumption. Does it not work that way??
Re: I was just speaking with the fitness trainer at my gym a few
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21 Nov 2012, 21:47
Practicegmat wrote:
Good Try MacFauz !! Though I am not convinced withyou OA ( I marked A) , I would give you kudos!!
BTW can you explain why A is wrong as per your explanation ?
Thanks Practicegmat.... One concept I thought was valid in finding assumptions questions was that "If something is explicitly mentioned in the argument, then it cannot be taken as an assumption." That is the same reason for me to think D is wrong as well. According to the argument, the fitness trainer does not assume the facts given in statements A & D. According to him, those are facts. That is he knows for sure (whether it may be true or not) that people more than 6 feet tall are considered tall and that people 16 yrs old are considered young. It was on this basis that I framed the answer choices. You can correct me if I'm wrong.
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30 Nov 2012, 22:53
Looking to revive this topic.. Would really like to know whether my reasoning behind framing options A & D is correct... With some help I could come up with a better question...
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30 Nov 2012, 23:19
MacFauz wrote:
Looking to revive this topic.. Would really like to know whether my reasoning behind framing options A & D is correct... With some help I could come up with a better question...
With my score, I no longer qualify to give my opinion still...
If the fact that 16 is young age was explicitly stated, or used as premise then it would have been alright to conclude that it's not an assumption.
However, since young age of 16 is used as part of conclusion , it is no longer a fact or premise.
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MacFauz wrote:
I was just speaking with the fitness trainer at my gym a few weeks back and he made a certain argument. I just thought that the same would make a good CR question. There is no OA as this is my own question. Would help if experts could iron out the problems if any in the question. I also feel exercises like these would help improving AWA skills. Since this is my own question, I am going to go ahead and rate it as a sub 600 level question. Please let me know if there are any changes that I could make to improve the quality of the question. So here goes....
Source : MacFauz
Fitness Trainer : Weight training at a young age does not affect growth. Arnold Schwarzzeneger started training with weights at the young age of 16 and, with a height of more than 6 feet, he is considered tall by the general public.
The fitness trainer's conclusion is based on the assumption that :
A. People more than 6 feet in height are considered tall by the general public.
B. Starting weight training at a younger age and starting weight training at an older age are not any different from each other in terms of affecting growth.
C. The growth of a person considered tall by the general public was not affected by weight training.
D. People at the age of 16 are considered young.
E. Short people are not more likely than tall people to have started training with weights at a young age.
If you disagree with me, please provide reason why...
Kudos Please... If my post helped.
The conclusion is -> Weight training at a young age does not affect growth The fitness trainer uses the fact Arnold Schwarzzeneger training with weights and his height and what is considered tall by the general public.
So the assumption must bridge the gap between growth and Arnold Schwarzzeneger or between growth and What ppl consider.
I guess we need to have another option such as "growth is considered not affected if a person is 6 feet tall" or "general public are the best judgement of what growth is" or "growth is measured by how tall a person is"
If we need negate any of these the whole argument fails!
A is wrong because its connect 2 premises, IMO. D is a restatement of a premise.
Cheers
Originally posted by Jp27 on 30 Nov 2012, 23:32.
Last edited by Jp27 on 30 Nov 2012, 23:42, edited 1 time in total.
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30 Nov 2012, 23:36
Vips0000 wrote:
MacFauz wrote:
Looking to revive this topic.. Would really like to know whether my reasoning behind framing options A & D is correct... With some help I could come up with a better question...
With my score, I no longer qualify to give my opinion still...
If the fact that 16 is young age was explicitly stated, or used as premise then it would have been alright to conclude that it's not an assumption.
However, since young age of 16 is used as part of conclusion , it is no longer a fact or premise.
Nevertheless great attempt Mcfauz prep
Haha.. Vips.. I agree.. 720 does not do you justice... But I still think it is a score a lot of ppl would happily accept...
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23 Jan 2013, 19:49
I would add the following as the correct answer:
F. Weight training cannot increase one's height.
Out of your answers, intuitively D feels right. My experience with GMAT questions tells me to pick D. The premise does not explicitly state that 16 is a young age. Instead, the fitness trainer labels this age as young: "...at the young age of 16...", demonstrating an underlying assumption: in the world of training with weights 16 is considered young. Compare: "Ballerina Z started dancing at the young age of..."
Logically, B also seems right. At least B is sufficient to arrive at the conclusion without any other premises. I am not sure if this is acceptable for CR questions.
However, I think that C is wrong. First of all, the trainer's argument is wrong as a whole: it is wrong to generalize from one person to people in general. Even with the assumption C we can only conclude that Arnold's growth was not affected. (Is it common to see incorrect generalizations as CR questions?) Since this argument is a stretch anyway, I doubt that the trainer had such a strong assumption as C in mind. He probably assumed that people whose growth was negatively affected by weight training are unlikely to grow to 6 feet.
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MacFauz wrote:
Source : MacFauz Fitness Trainer: Arnold Schwarzzeneger started training with weights at the young age of 16 and, with a height of more than 6 feet, he is considered tall by the general public. So, weight training at a young age does not affect growth.
The fitness trainer's conclusion is based on the assumption that: A. People more than 6 feet in height are considered tall by the general public. B. Starting weight training at a younger age and starting weight training at an older age are not any different from each other in terms of affecting growth. C. A person whose growth was affected by weight training cannot grow to such a height that people consider him tall. D. People at the age of 16 are considered young. E. Short people are not more likely than tall people to have started training with weights at a young age.
Just a few thoughts on this.
First of all, while the GMAT will make verifiable factual statements about real people, usually dead historical people, in the SC, notice that real people never appear in the CR. Once you open this can of worms ---- arguing about real world people --- that brings a whole bunch of other things into play --- outside knowledge, people's opinions, etc. The GMAT NEVER touches a living person, most certainly not a celebrity/politician about whom folks might have very strong opinions. The whole point of everything the GMAT does is to avoid material that will engender strong opinions in and of itself --- they strive to stay as clinically neutral as possible.
Again, the prompt is very short, and considers a paucity of factors. The answer choices here are a little more engaging.
I would say --- when the GMAT asks for an assumption, that assumption is NEVER stated explicitly. Here, the text explicitly says 16 is "young", and it explicitly says "6 ft ... considered tall by the general public" , so that eliminates (D) and (A) respectively. In general, answer choices for assumptions questions never re-state something stated explicitly in the prompt. I was actually drawn to (C) as the answer.
I would say there is something profoundly flawed about designing a question and not having a clear idea about what the answer should be. That shows a very limited understanding of what is involved in question design. For example, when we at Magoosh write a question, we are always 100% clear about which answer we intend to be the OA, and we add subtle word changes to ensure that there's something clearly and objectively wrong about each of the other four answer choices. Any question in which the OA is debatable, any question in which the OA is not 100% unambiguous from the start, is a poor question.
The debate you see happening in this and other forums is characteristic of how folks wrestle with questions ---- and indeed, some of the CR questions debated extensively in these forums are in fact bad questions. That debate, though, is not at all characteristic of the question production process. At its best, this process is precise and unambiguous, creating something that will force test-takers to think and analyze carefully, but which always contains the clear unmistakable clues to what must be the answer.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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