Political Science Graduate: Many of the professors I had in

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Political Science Graduate: Many of the professors I had in college had poor listening skills and seldom made eye contact with their students. For these reasons I always gave them negative evaluations at semester’s end.

But Professor Goodell was strikingly different. When she listened to you, you felt heard. And when she looked at you, you felt seen

The student is implying that

A. “strikingly different” refers to physical features, teaching methods, or conversational skills

B. teachers with good listening skills who make eye contact with students will receive good evaluations

C. effective teachers must have the ability to engage students

D. those who aspire to be professors should take educational courses in their graduate programs

E. the better instructors usually listen to their students and make eye contact with them

kt00381n · Answer

Where did you get the question?

USCTrojan2006 · Answer

Seems pretty direct. You can narrow it down to C and E, but E best fits the student's requirements.

What is the source of the question?

vigneshpandi · Answer

E tells that who ever makes an eye contact and listens becomes a better instructor...But in the question it is mentioned that "Seldom made eye contact", which means they make eye contact at some point of the time...doesn't this contradict with E?
I really appreciate anyone's explanation.

shrive555 · Answer

C is wrong because even if the teacher is able to engage the students, he or she may receive negative evaluation for other reasons. Within the scope of the argument if you think  poor listening skills   .....  seldom made eye contact   ==== result ====  negative evaluations ... to support this argument an example of Professor Goodell is given....  She is different   ----why ---- because she makes eye contact and listens ---result--- Positive evaluation, which means the instructor is better among other (  according to graduate student  ) 
E support this assumption

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andysimple · Answer

This type of question is really rare on GMAT.

vinzycoolfire · Answer

i think both E and C are wrong.
i'll go with A.
wat is the OA??

intcan · Answer

B & C are probably extreme. Hence E. Straightforward.

nishantmehra01 · Answer

A. Out of scope
B. Receiving evaluations dont make a good teacher. This makes b doubtful. NO 
C. This is true in general but doesnt have any mention in the paragraph. NO
D. Out of scope. NO
E. This is true. YES

tuanquang269 · Answer

Quite tough question, and I choose the wrong answer for this one :<

dexerash · Answer

for me it was easy one, if the answer is E

Practicegmat · Answer

This is a "Must Be True" type question as per Powerscore

A)“strikingly different” refers to physical features, teaching methods, or conversational skills  
In a Must be true question, you should not add any new information.The stimulus here is not talking anything about the physical features or teaching methods of Professor Goodell. The stimulus talks about the listening capabilty, which you can say - a part of the conversational skills

B)teachers with good listening skills who make eye contact with students will receive good evaluations  
We have causation issue here. 
Let p = the professor had poor listening skills and seldom made eye contact with their students
q = the author gave poor evaluation

The stimulus says - If p, then q.
Hence contapositive of this statement which should be true is : If the author gave good evaluation, that means those teachers had good listening skills and made who make eye contact with students, i.e If ~q , the ~p.
But this anawer choice says If ~p, then ~q which may be true, but not must be true

C)effective teachers must have the ability to engage students  
In the stimulus, the author never talks about engaging students. The author here might maximum has meant, that the students felt encouraged as the Professor Goodell made the students felt heard and felt seen.The word "engaged" is too strong to infer
  D)those who aspire to be professors should take educational courses in their graduate programs  
This is a out of scope answer choice. Recommendation of any specific educational cources is never mentioned in the stimulus
  E)the better instructors usually listen to their students and make eye contact with them  
This is the best choice out here. Professor Goodell is a good instructor as per the author, and she usually listen to their students and make eye contact with them.

bschooladmit · Answer

IMO E.

E over C because of the word "different". Its a comparison kinda. Since E has "Better". It is the answer!

vietmoi999 · Answer

I do not know what type of question.

I think this is "which of the following is the conclusion of the argument". it takes me a long time to find this question

though I choose E, it is hard

rohans51288 · Answer

Ans choice "A" uses " OR  conversation skills". Had it been AND conversation skill you could have ruled it out but since it uses OR, this Ans choice seems correct to me.

b9n920 · Answer

Given the choices, obviously E is better than the rest, but I am not a fan of this Q. 
The statements, though true, are made by a particular student and the conclusion (choice E) talks about students in general.
What if there are 100 students in the class and 99 others do not consider the skills mentioned by the author important? Can we justify  usually  in choice E in such cases?

Pls help.

mvictor · Answer

oh man... tough one..I knew there must be some kind of trap..

The student is implying that

A. “strikingly different” refers to physical features, teaching methods, or conversational skills
physical features - out of scope.

B. teachers with good listening skills who make eye contact with students will receive good evaluations
well, it might be true, but may be not. the student doesn't say that those who listen and make eye contact will receive positive evaluations. tricky one. Note how this one "will receive" makes it 100% true?

C. effective teachers must have the ability to engage students
to engage how? the student mentions only 2 qualities: listening skills and eye contact. moreover, "effective" looks like it talks about different type of teachers. C is out.

D. those who aspire to be professors should take educational courses in their graduate programs
this one is out of scope, as the educational courses and programs are not discussed in the argument.

E. the better instructors usually listen to their students and make eye contact with them
aha! so Prof. Goodell was different. He listened and made eye contact. It thus can be inferred that prof. G was better then the others.

RanjanSury · Answer

IMO E.

The rest of the choices are not relevant to what is discussed in the passage.

B is close. But it is not right because good listening skills and eye contact are necessary conditions for good evaluations,  BUT NOT SUFFICIENT  conditions. Hence E is correct

vasuca10 · Answer

Straight E Option........There are two prerequisites for professors for getting a good evaluation - 1) Good listening skills and 2) Eye Contact with the students....Only E fits in

harsh778 · Answer

Okay. Student's reason to rating bad in evaluation is 
1. Not good listening skill
2. Must make eye contact.

He rated bad many professors on the same parameters

When he says But Professor Goodell was strikingly different.

He meant - That Professor Goodell had the good listening ability and she made eye contact with the students.

Assumption - In the student's opinion for a teacher to be superior he must have the good listening ability & good eye contact skills

Lets evaluate answer choices

A. “strikingly different”  refers to physical features, teaching methods, or conversational skills - Not mentioned in passage and Not as per our understanding from the passage -  INCORRECT

B. teachers with good listening skills who make eye contact with students  will receive good evaluations - This is the implication or result of having those two skills that we discussed above . But student doest not intend this - INCORRECT
 
C. effective teachers must have the  ability to engage students  - Engaging can be done in many ways i.e asking the questions -  TOO BROAD  -  INCORRECT

D. those who aspire to be professors should take educational courses in their graduate programs-  Extremely irrelevant to the Argument -  INCORRECT

E. the better instructors usually  listen to their students and make eye contact  with them- perfect- goas as per our thinking - CORRECT

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