Flyer: Appleseed Books is pleased to announce that our Summer Bookclub

I dont think D is right .
The question stem tells us
"Club registration fee includes all books, refreshments at meetings, and admission to each signing event"
But this no where tells us that only club members will admitted to signing events.

The simple rule for must be true is it is necessary to distinguish between information that might orcould be true,and information that is presented in the passage.
The passage no where claims D to be true

IMO answer is E and i agree with sudhir18n's point about option D

OA is E. OE is exactly what is provided by sudhir18n.

how can we eliminate C ? i mean the primus says
refreshments at meetings, and admission to each signing event

this distinction clearly hints that regular meetings and sighing events are not same.

i mean if it were same the sentence should read admission and refreshments at signing events and other meetings.

+1 E, reason as provided by sudhir above.

except E,rest all cannot be derived using fact test from the argument.

E is clear.

I thought the answer was at C when I first looked at it, but now I see that the answer is clearly E.

I have a question: How did you prepare for each section? and also, how did you not get a 51 on verbal when not missing any of the questions?

Also, were your practice MGMAT CATs timed or untimed?

In my opinion, "six of the best new novels" in option E can also mean that six novels out of, for instance, the 12 best novels were chosen. In this case it is not necessary to identify the best 6, the bookclub can simply pick 6 out of those 12 randomly. However, if we interpret this part as there are only 6 best novels, then obviously it must be decided which ones are the best.

I agree the best novels part is ambiguous, which is why I did not choose E. It doesn't specifically mention novels by local authors.

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Hi i see D is one of the favourite but it is wrong
D says only bookclub members are admitted.
We cannot say that for sure. We know if we pay the fee, we are sure to get admitted but it does not mean, non members cannot be admitted.
Non members can pay one time fee to get admitted. Therefore D is wrong.

E is right, because the fee includes featuring top 6 books, so they must have selected the books in order to say so

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A. Summer Bookclub will be popular among fans of local authors. - the passage does not contain any information that would support the claim laid out by (A).
B. Most local authors write novels rather than poetry. - the passage does not contain information about ''what'' most of the local writers write about. Hence, (B) cannot be supported by the information contained in the passage.
C. Book signings will not be held during regular meetings. - all the passage mentions is that the fee charged by Appleseed Books includes all books, refreshments at meetings, and admission to each signing event. The passage does not mention anything about the ''sequence'' of these events.
D. Only Bookclub members will be admitted to signing events. - the passage only mentions the benefit of paying a certain fee that would grant access to all books, refreshments at meetings, and admission to each signing event. This does not mean that only members will be admitted to signing events. It is still possible that customers buy tickets to individual events, based on their interests.
E. It must be decided which new novels are the best. - the entire argument is built on the fact that ''best novels by local authors'' will be featured in the Summer Bookclub and Signing Series events. If Appleseed Books is not able to decide which of the novels are the best of the lot, then their reasoning to encourage people to pay up the 3-in-1 inclusive fee will be rendered invalid. Hence, (E) is necessary for the argument to hold. Therefore, (E) is the right answer choice.

E. It must be decided which new novels are the best - doesn't this indicate that the best novels are yet to be decided?

What if the 6 novels were decided before the announcement? - In this case, option E is wrong.

Can someone please clarify?

Thanks in advance!

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