ykaiim wrote:
Good students learn more than what their parents and teachers compel them to learn. This requires that these students derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity, and one cannot experience such pleasure unless one is so intently that one loses track of one’s own identity.
If the statements above are true, each of the following could also be true EXCEPT:
(A) Some people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are nevertheless incapable of deriving pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.
(B) Most good students do not derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.
(C) Many people who derive pleasure simply from the satisfaction of their curiosity are not good students.
(D) Some people who are not good students derive pleasure from losing track of their own identities.
(E) Most people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are not good students.
I tried to figure this using Venn Diagram, though in my mind
and marked the correct answer, but it took me around 3+ min. I also tried the casual reasoning but no help.
Do you know a better way to solve this?Good students learn more than what is necessary.
Learning more than necessary (L) requires deriving pleasure from satisfaction of curiosity (P).
This pleasure (P) requires capability of concentrating on a topic so hard that one loses oneself (C).
So this is the logic:
Good students L
L requires P.
P requires C.
So if one is a good student, one has L, P and C.
(A) Some people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are nevertheless incapable of deriving pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.
Some people with C do not have P. This is possible.
The argument tells us that P needs C. It is possible that C doesn't need P.
(B) Most good students do not derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.
Most good students do not have P. This is not possible.
We are told that good students have L, P and C.
(C) Many people who derive pleasure simply from the satisfaction of their curiosity are not good students.
Many people who have P are not good students. Possible.
Good students need P. People with P needn't be good students.
(D) Some people who are not good students derive pleasure from losing track of their own identities.
Some not good students have P. Possible
Argument doesn't say anything about not good students.
(E) Most people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are not good students.
Most people with C are not good students. Possible.
Good students need C. People with C needn't be good students.
Answer (B)
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