Naila02 wrote:
Sajjad1994 ,
bm2201 could you please give some clarifications to 4th question?
PrachiMaloo wrote:
Can anyone explain Questions 3 and 4?
Hi
Naila02,
PrachiMaloo,
3. The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) challenging the implications of previous research into why youngsters try new careers.
(B) suggesting new employment strategies for attracting youngsters to new careers.
(C) reconciling two different views about the effect of lucrativeness on youngsters' willingness to try new careers.
(D) describing a new approach to researching why youngsters try new careers.
(E) discussing certain findings regarding why youngsters try new careers.Explanation: Author begins the passage with: "It is well known that youngsters try new career paths, but it is still not clear what motivates them to do so..." and then goes on to discuss the studies that have been done to understand the same. Throughout the passage we can see that the author mentions multiple findings regarding why youngsters try new careers. Thus E is the correct answer. Other options can also easily eliminated as we cannot infer author challenging/reconciling, suggesting/describing new strategies.
4. Which of the following, if true, would most tend to weaken the conclusions drawn from 'some of this research' (Highlighted)?
(A) In a subsequent study, youngsters who were asked to evaluate new careers with relatively less lucrativeness had the same perception of the career's growth risk as did youngsters who were told about the same careers having more lucrativeness.(B) In a subsequent study, the quality of the advertising for the careers that youngsters perceived as having a lower growth risk was relatively high, while the quality of the advertising for the careers that youngsters perceived as having a higher growth risk was relatively poor.
(C) In a subsequent study, the careers that youngsters perceived as having a lower growth risk were less lucrative than the very lucrative careers in the previous research.
(D) None of the youngsters involved in this research had ever before taken up careers provide by the employers involved in the research.
(E) Researchers found that the higher the source credibility for a career, the more youngsters were willing to try it.
Explanation: Consider the lines - "
Some of this research has concluded that a relatively high lucrative factor will reduce a youngster's perception of the growth risk associated with choosing a particular career, while other studies have reported that lucrativeness has little or no effect on perceived career growth risk."
The conclusion drawn from the highlighted sentence is that a high lucrative factor could reduce a youngster's perception of the growth risk associated with choosing a particular career. Now we are asked to weaken this conclusion. So, we need to look for an option that presents an argument that a relatively high lucrative factor
might not reduce a youngster's perception of the growth risk associated with choosing a particular career.
Option A, present a similar argument that youngsters who were asked to evaluate
new careers with relatively less lucrativeness had the
same perception of the career's growth risk as did
youngsters who were told about the same careers having more lucrativeness.Thus, A is the correct answer.
Hope This Helps.
Thanks.