As part of continuing efforts to control illegal immigration, the US

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As part of continuing efforts to control illegal immigration, the US government should institute a system of internal passports similar to those in European nations. Drivers’ licenses currently serve a kind of internal-passport function, but this system is severely limited because all states do not require the same documentation before issuing photo ID. Illegal workers can get a driver’s license in one state with lax regulations and use it as identification in another state with stricter regulations but better-paying jobs. Internal passports will keep illegal workers from slipping through the cracks by standardizing forms of photo ID.

Which of the following is most similar to the passage above in logical structure?

A. National standardized college entrance exams replace exams written independently by test administration services affiliated with groups of universities.

B. A national association of doctors approves standards for diagnosis and treatment of childhood development disorders, and these standards are used in private clinics across the country.

C. Resale values of used cars are discussed, standardized, and published in an industry manual also available to independent buyers and sellers.

D. The distance between rails of train tracks is standardized across the country, allowing trains built by any manufacturer to travel along any rail line.

E. Employment applications and hiring processes for a national restaurant chain are standardized in order to ensure uniform quality among employees.

I am not fully satisfied with the QA and the explanation given , hence the post. Please explain your choices while answering.

Thanks.

ritula · Answer

I was confused b/w A and E. But E speaks of uniform quality. In A, standardizing entrance exam is being talked of which is same as the standardizing passport sytem in argument. So it shld be A
whts the OA?

IanStewart · Answer

This question doesn't make sense to me. First, the wording, highlighted above, is dodgy; the sentence as written means 'every state requires different documentation', and surely it ought to say 'not all states require the same documentation', meaning some have different requirements than others. Secondly, the stem is an argument, so its 'logical structure' is completely different from any of the answer choices, which are simply descriptions of various situations. Surely it should read something more like (giving this very little thought), 'standardizing passports most closely parallels which of the following standardization schemes?' Still not a great question, but I'd have to choose A: if exams aren't standardized, then someone with a good score on an easy exam in one state could then be accepted to a college in a different state and be accepted because he or she was held to a lower standard - the same situation as applies to the illegal workers who benefit from lower standards in one state to get a job in another.

vinay.kaipra · Answer

Let me try to explain this one.

The main passage implies that internal passports should be issued in order to restricts illegal immigrants. i.e. to make some sort of standardization for every immigrant. Now, lets try to correlate answer options.
A) Standardize the entrance examination for entrance exams.
B) Here as well standardization but does NOT make other hospitals to follow that stringently(as per the statement). This sentence has got some ambiguity.
C) Standardization of resale value for cars. But, it is not mandated also, there is no problem which they are trying to resolve.
D) Talks about standardization of lines. But, here there is no problem which they are trying to resolve.
E) Talks about standardizing for only one organization. There is nothing general here.

Hence, I picked A. Hope my reasoning is fair enough to get to the proper answer. Please comment if you have anything else to add to this.

Trainwithnolov3 · Answer

As part of continuing efforts to control illegal immigration, the US government should institute a system of internal passports similar to those in European nations. Drivers’ licenses currently serve a kind of internal-passport function, but this system is severely limited because all states do not require the same documentation before issuing photo ID. Illegal workers can get a driver’s license in one state with lax regulations and use it as identification in another state with stricter regulations but better-paying jobs. Internal passports will keep illegal workers from slipping through the cracks by standardizing forms of photo ID.

Which of the following is most similar to the passage above in logical structure?

A National standardized college entrance exams replace exams written independently by test administration services affiliated with groups of universities.

Passage says that illegal immigrants are able to obtain DL in U.S. with lax regulation in certain states and these workers take better paying jobs elsewhere. Hence, an internal "passport" only for Americans will keep the illegal immigrants from moving and taking jobs.

Choice A says test created by groups of universities is not fair--less qualified students can take the spots of more qualified students ( US government says its not fair immigrants can take better paying jobs of Americans). Hence, standardized test will keep the less "qualified" students out and level the playing field for everyone. (Hence, internal passport will keep immigrants from moving to better paying jobs)

honneeey · Answer

Hi,

Why not "D"??
We want to avoid a problem of manufacturing at local level and need to standardize the rails at National level.

Any flaw in the reasoning?

Please help me decipher it.

sayantanc2k · Answer

The logical equivalence between the passage and option A are as follows:
workers = examinees
illegal workers = examinees with lower aptitude
authorities issuing ID = universities
authorities issuing ID on lax regulations = universities giving degree on easy exam papers
illegal workers getting photo id from states with lax regulation = examinees with low aptitude getting degree from universities that set easy questions
illegal workers with photo IDs from states with lax regulations are considered at par in states with stricter regulations = examinees with low aptitude are considered at par with students who got degrees from universities which set difficult exam papers.

Now I would suggest that you try to set up such an equivalence between the passage and option D - you would realize why A is more similar to the passage than D is.

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