GMAT Club Around The World!!! Candidate: Today’s voters expect their

Experts' Global Official Explanation

Mind-map: Candidate: voters expect accountability --> every improvement in government’s accountability increases expectations --> my goal is to meet your demands for accountability

Missing-link: Not needed

Expectation from the correct answer choice: To be duly deducible from the information in the passage, without any assumption or extrapolation

A. The argument mentions that the candidate’s goal is to meet the voters’ demands for accountability, suggesting that the candidate will likely consider himself unsuccessful if he fails in meeting the demands; however, the argument makes no mention of the candidates’ competitors’ success or whether the candidate’s goal is a measure of success; so, this answer choice cannot be established. Because this answer choice is not deducible from the information in the passage without any assumption or extrapolation, this answer choice is incorrect.

B. Correct. The argument mentions that the candidate’s goal is to meet the voters’ demands for accountability and that every improvement in government’s accountability increases voters’ expectations for accountability, suggesting that the goal is possible to meet only if government’s accountability can be continually increased, or if continuing improvements in government accountability are possible, as the answer choice mentions. Because this answer choice is deducible from the information in the passage without any assumption or extrapolation, this answer choice is correct.

C. Trap. If a politician incorrectly anticipates the voters’ demands for accountability, the politician is likely to exceed or fall short of the voters’ expectation but no inference about the change in government accountability can be drawn; so, it cannot be established that a failure to accurately anticipate voters’ demands certainly leads to a failure in advancing government accountability, as the answer choice mentions. Besides, the term “certain to fail” is extremely strong; one needs to be cautious of such answer choices as they are generally incorrect on the GMAT. Because this answer choice is not deducible from the information in the passage without any assumption or extrapolation, this answer choice is incorrect.

D. The argument mentions that if a politician is satisfied with the government’s current level of accountability, that politician will soon find that the constituents are not; however, no inference about whether government accountability will decline can be drawn; so, this answer choice cannot be established. Because this answer choice is not deducible from the information in the passage without any assumption or extrapolation, this answer choice is incorrect.

E. The argument makes no suggestion regarding the current satisfaction level of voters; so, it cannot be established that the candidate’s constituents are currently satisfied with the accountability displayed by the government, as the answer choice mentions. Because this answer choice is not deducible from the information in the passage without any assumption or extrapolation, this answer choice is incorrect.

B is the best choice.