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Re: Some teachers claim that students would not learn curricular content [#permalink]
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Some teachers claim that students would not learn curricular content without the incentive of grades. But students with intense interest in the material would learn it without this incentive, while the behavior of students lacking all interests in the material is unaffected by such an incentive. The incentive of grades, therefore, serves no essential academic purpose.

Stimulus: Some teachers claim that students will not learn curricular content without incentive of grades and those who are interested in content will learn it without incentive of grades. While the behavior of students who lack interest in incentive is unaffected by grades therefore grades serves no essential academic purpose.

IMO E fails to consider that few students would not be completely interested but might not be completely indifferent n grades serve as incentive for them
The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument


(A) take for granted that the only purpose of school is to convey a fixed body of information to students

(B) takes for granted that students who are indifferent to the grades they receive are genuinely interested in the curricular material

(C) fails to consider that the incentive of grades may serve some useful nonacademic purpose

(D) ignore the possibility that students who lack interest in the curricular material would be quite interested in it if allowed to choose their own curricular material

(E) fails to consider that some students may be neither fascinated by nor completely indifferent to the subject being taught
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Option E. The argument talks about students who are either completely fascinated by the curricular or those who are completely indifferent to it. But it doesn't talk about students who are interested in the curricular to some extent.
(A) take for granted that the only purpose of school is to convey a fixed body of information to students
--Wrong. The argument never says or implies about "only purpose" of school.
(B) takes for granted that students who are indifferent to the grades they receive are genuinely interested in the curricular material
--Wrong. Students "lacking interest in the curricular" are told to be indifferent to the grades.
(C) fails to consider that the incentive of grades may serve some useful nonacademic purpose
--Wrong. Irrelevant.
(D) ignore the possibility that students who lack interest in the curricular material would be quite interested in it if allowed to choose their own curricular material
--Wrong. Out of scope.
(E) fails to consider that some students may be neither fascinated by nor completely indifferent to the subject being taught
--Correct.
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Quite sure the answer is E. Took 1 min 51 secs to solve.

Some teachers claim that students would not learn curricular content without the incentive of grades. But students with intense interest in the material would learn it without this incentive, while the behavior of students lacking all interests in the material is unaffected by such an incentive. The incentive of grades, therefore, serves no essential academic purpose.

Argument understanding: It links interest of students with grading them. It brings in two sides of interest. If the students are interested, they will anyway study. And if they are not, they won't. This argument can be weakened by so many statements. One of these can be providing another academic purpose. The other can be what the answer options represents. [b] [/b]

The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument

(A) take for granted that the only purpose of school is to convey a fixed body of information to students We have to weaken that grades don't have a purpose.. Here, it tells the purpose of the school.

(B) takes for granted that students who are indifferent to the grades they receive are genuinely interested in the curricular material This strengthens the argument instead of weakening.

(C) fails to consider that the incentive of grades may serve some useful nonacademic purpose. Out of scope as we care only about academic purpose

(D) ignore the possibility that students who lack interest in the curricular material would be quite interested in it if allowed to choose their own curricular material. This is also out of scope because if they choose subjects they are interested in, then also grades aren't required. In a way, it strengthens the argument.

(E) fails to consider that some students may be neither fascinated by nor completely indifferent to the subject being taught. This is correct. It considers the IN-BETWEENER students who are indifferent. And for these grades might serve as an incentive to study.
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