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Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
this explains the paradox because if parents are more involved with the school and the parents who have children with low grades will complain
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
this does not explain the paradox .If the parents do know the scores of their own district how can the parents complain about the school.So the parents with no knowledge will not complain
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
tis explains the paradox .Though their child getting good grades there are parents who think that grade is low,so they complain about the grade to the school
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
this clearly explains the paradox
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.
this expalins the paradox because the districts may have politicians who are eager to appear in media
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None of the above explanation gives why D is the answer. Everybody says either B or E. can someone say which is correct and why .. Thanks for the same ..

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None of the above explanation gives why D is the answer. Everybody says either B or E. can someone say which is correct and why .. Thanks for the same ..

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The answer is B. Note that it is an 'EXCEPT' question. All other options explain the paradox. B does not.

(D) explains the paradox too. Parents living in high score districts find that their child gets less than average scores in their district and that could be the reason of complaints. It explains why people living in high score districts would complain the most.
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Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.


Can you please provide the OA for this? Both C and E seem to explain the paradox here....B, I think is the correct answer..
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Swagatalakshmi wrote:
Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.


Can you please provide the OA for this? Both C and E seem to explain the paradox here....B, I think is the correct answer..


Again, note that it is an "EXCEPT" question. ALL options must explain the paradox except the answer. Hence both C and E WILL EXPLAIN the paradox. B DOES NOT EXPLAIN the paradox and that is why it is the answer.
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Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.


I picked E.

In E, the word that makes the answer the good one is "most".

If the number of complaints is 100, you need to have according to E, 51 coming from political activists: Most of whom are living in high achivement scores districts. Therefore out of those 51, at least 26 are living in those areas.

We have therefore, 100 complains, but only 26 coming from the high achieving districts... which will not help to explain the apparent paradox...

What do you think?
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Swagatalakshmi wrote:
Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.


I picked E.

In E, the word that makes the answer the good one is "most".

If the number of complaints is 100, you need to have according to E, 51 coming from political activists: Most of whom are living in high achivement scores districts. Therefore out of those 51, at least 26 are living in those areas.

We have therefore, 100 complains, but only 26 coming from the high achieving districts... which will not help to explain the apparent paradox...

What do you think?


Most could be 51 and most could also be 90. In common parlance in fact, most is usually used for 90. Political activists are the most vocal and most of them live in high achieving districts. So it is certainly possible that most complaints come from high achieving districts. So (E) does help to explain the paradox.
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