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Hi AndrewN

Thanks for this wonderful explanation.

I have a very silly doubt. Please bear with me.

B option used the word "school" and nowhere in the passage we have discussed the same hence can it be the reason to eliminate option B.

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Hello, a123bansal. Your query is not silly at all. In the context of the answer choice, a school can be thought of as a school of thought, an admittedly idiomatic expression, and a school of economic historians can be linked directly to many economic historians from the opening line of the passage. Similarly, we could say that one school of thought or one school of test prep companies argues that pre-thinking is crucial to CR, while another school would argue the opposite. In short, I would not use the word school in answer choice (B) against it.

Thank you for following up, and good luck with your studies.

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Hi AndrewN

Thanks for this wonderful explanation.

I have a very silly doubt. Please bear with me.

B option used the word "school" and nowhere in the passage we have discussed the same hence can it be the reason to eliminate option B.

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Hello, a123bansal. Your query is not silly at all. In the context of the answer choice, a school can be thought of as a school of thought, an admittedly idiomatic expression, and a school of economic historians can be linked directly to many economic historians from the opening line of the passage. Similarly, we could say that one school of thought or one school of test prep companies argues that pre-thinking is crucial to CR, while another school would argue the opposite. In short, I would not use the word school in answer choice (B) against it.

Thank you for following up, and good luck with your studies.

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Thank you so much for your prompt response and also for this wonderful explanation as usual.

Means a lot.
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dear avigutman, AndrewN,MartyTargetTestPrep ,

I was struggled about Q3 between B and C.
C. During the years following a severe economic depression, textile manufacturers??? output levels and profit levels increase in Brazil and Mexico but not in the rest of Latin America.
Doesn't C compares the textile manufacture with the rest of the industries?

appreciate for your response.
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I was struggled about Q3 between B and C.
C. During the years following a severe economic depression, textile manufacturers??? output levels and profit levels increase in Brazil and Mexico but not in the rest of Latin America.
Doesn't C compares the textile manufacture with the rest of the industries?
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Take another look.

(C) compares textile manufacturers with other textile manufacturers in different places.
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    During the 1980s, many economic historians
    studying Latin America focused on the impact of
    the Great Depression of the 1930s. Most of these
    historians argued that although the Depression
(5)
    began earlier in Latin America than in the United
    States, it was less severe in Latin America and did
    not significantly impede industrial growth there.
    The historians’ argument was grounded in national
    government records concerning tax revenues and
(10)
    exports and in government-sponsored industrial
    censuses, from which historians have drawn
    conclusions about total manufacturing output
    and profit levels across Latin America. However,
    economic statistics published by Latin American
(15)
    governments in the early twentieth century are
    neither reliable nor consistent; this is especially
    true of manufacturing data, which were gathered
    from factory owners for taxation purposes and
    which therefore may well be distorted. Moreover,
(20)
    one cannot assume a direct correlation between
    the output level and the profit level of a given
    industry as these variables often move in opposite
    directions. Finally, national and regional economies
    are composed of individual firms and industries,
(25)
    and relying on general, sweeping economic
    indicators may mask substantial variations among
    these different enterprises. For example, recent
    analyses of previously unexamined data on textile
    manufacturing in Brazil and Mexico suggest that the
(30)
    Great Depression had a more severe impact on this
    Latin American industry than scholars
    had recognized.

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(Book Question: 460)
1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

A. compare the impact of the Great Depression on Latin America with its impact on the United States
B. criticize a school of economic historians for failing to analyze the Great Depression in Latin America within a global context
C. illustrate the risks inherent in comparing different types of economic enterprises to explain economic phenomena
D. call into question certain scholars’ views concerning the severity of the Great Depression in Latin America
E. demonstrate that the Great Depression had a more severe impact on industry in Latin America than in certain other regions


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(Book Question: 461)
Which of the following conclusions about the Great Depression is best supported by the passage?

A. It did not impede Latin American industrial growth as much as historians had previously thought.
B. It had a more severe impact on the Brazilian and the Mexican textile industries than it had on Latin America as a region.
C. It affected the Latin American textile industry more severely than it did any other industry in Latin America.
D. The overall impact on Latin American industrial growth should be reevaluated by economic historians.
E. Its impact on Latin America should not be compared with its impact on the United States


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(Book Question: 462)
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the author’s assertion regarding economic indicators in lines 25–27 ?

A. During an economic depression, European textile manufacturers’ profits rise while their industrial output remains steady.
B. During a national economic recession, United States microchips manufacturers’ profits rise sharply while United States steel
manufacturers’ profits plunge.
C. During the years following a severe economic depression, textile manufacturers’ output levels and profit levels increase in Brazil and
Mexico but not in the rest of Latin America.
D. Although Japanese industry as a whole recovers after an economic recession, it does not regain its previously high levels of production.
E. While European industrial output increases in the years following an economic depression, total output remains below that of Japan or the United States.


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Why is c not the answer for question 3, here also, we are talking about different regions, right? From what I understand, it can be diffrent industries, geographies, etc..­
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­The author's point is that you CANNOT rely on general, sweeping economic indicators. But that's exactly the kind of high-level information we get in choice (C): output and profit levels for two countries (compared to the rest of the region). This national data could certainly mask variations among firms and industries within those countries.

On to choice (B). If we relied just on the high-level national data, we might think that both industries did poorly because there was a national recession in the United States. But (B) also gives us information about two different industries within the same country: one that did well and another that did poorly.

By providing that industry-level context, choice (B) avoids the problem described above.

I hope that helps!
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I have the same doubt. If the data is inconsistent it supports option A and no where in the passage does the author call for a re-evaluation this is why I chose A and not D.

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(Book Question: 461)
Which of the following conclusions about the Great Depression is best supported by the passage?
A. It did not impede Latin American industrial growth as much as historians had previously thought.
B. It had a more severe impact on the Brazilian and the Mexican textile industries than it had on Latin America as a region.
C. It affected the Latin American textile industry more severely than it did any other industry in Latin America.
D. The overall impact on Latin American industrial growth should be reevaluated by economic historians.
E. Its impact on Latin America should not be compared with its impact on the United States


I still don't understand why B is wrong in Question No.2.
the passage says, using general data would mask the variation among different industries, implying that the historians are considering the textile industries at the same level as the whole Latin America.
And then the passage says, Brazil and Mexico textile industries suffered more severe impact than historians had recognized. Doesn't this mean the impact on the Brazilian and the Mexican textile industries is more severe than that is on Latin America as a region?

Can anyone help? Thanks!
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