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E is wrong because even if the school changes its methodology there is no indication that this new methodology will be liked by the students, let alone getting 'most' of them to attend the extra classes.

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Parent: It is as misleading to conclude that decreasing attendance in after-school extra classes shows that our children’s academic requirements are finally being fully met in regularly-scheduled classes as it is to reason that teachers do not get negative ratings from students because students respect and admire teachers. The real cause behind the decreasing attendance is that the same teachers who teach the regular classes teach the after-school ones, and students don’t like the methodology used by these teachers in the first place.

The parent’s statements, if true, best support which of the following conclusions?

A. The reason teachers do not get a negative rating is that the students are scared about the repercussions their votes could have on their academic assessments.
B. Teaching methodologies across schools need to be evaluated to best cater to the students’ needs and requirements.
C. The management of the school wants to cover up for their lack of an effective teaching methodology by implementing the rating system.
D. The students’ academic needs are not being fulfilled in the regular classes.
E. If the school changes its teaching methodology in regular classes, most of the students will be motivated to attend the free after-school extra classes


why "D" is right? it's been clearly mentioned in the statement that parents claim children’s academic requirements are not finally being fully met in regularly-scheduled classes. why conclude the same statement again?
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E is wrong because it uses the word 'Free', which is not a part of the argument
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Can some one please highlight the conclusion for me. I am having difficulty in understanding it.
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Can some one please highlight the conclusion for me. I am having difficulty in understanding it.
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There is no main conclusion in the passage itself. Question stem says, which of the answer choices can be considered the best conclusion according to the given info in the passage.

For such questions, use word "THEREFORE" before every answer choice ans see what looks best.

Say, for correct answer choice I can write ;

Parent: It is as misleading to conclude that decreasing attendance in after-school extra classes shows that our children’s academic requirements are finally being fully met in regularly-scheduled classes as it is to reason that teachers do not get negative ratings from students because students respect and admire teachers. The real cause behind the decreasing attendance is that the same teachers who teach the regular classes teach the after-school ones, and students don’t like the methodology used by these teachers in the first place. Therefore, the students’ academic needs are not being fulfilled in the regular classes.
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Can some one please highlight the conclusion for me. I am having difficulty in understanding it.
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There is no main conclusion in the passage itself. Question stem says, which of the answer choices can be considered the best conclusion according to the given info in the passage.

For such questions, use word "THEREFORE" before every answer choice ans see what looks best.

Say, for correct answer choice I can write ;

Parent: It is as misleading to conclude that decreasing attendance in after-school extra classes shows that our children’s academic requirements are finally being fully met in regularly-scheduled classes as it is to reason that teachers do not get negative ratings from students because students respect and admire teachers. The real cause behind the decreasing attendance is that the same teachers who teach the regular classes teach the after-school ones, and students don’t like the methodology used by these teachers in the first place. Therefore, the students’ academic needs are not being fulfilled in the regular classes.


Thanks for the explanation. I got what I was looking for.
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Option E is wrong because it uses the word 'most'. The prompt mentions a declining attendance in the after school class, which means that the number of people who prefer the after school class is declining but nowhere it mentions that majority of the people are not attending the class. Hence, we can't say that most people will attend the class, it might very well be the case that most students are already attending the class.
Option D on the other hand says something that can be derived from the passage, that students' academic needs are not fulfilled in the regular class.

Therefore option D is the correct answer.
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