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Re: Teachers are effective only when they help their students become indep
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30 Nov 2022, 09:13
Teachers are effective only when they help their students become independent learners. Yet not until teachers have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms can they enable their students to make their own decisions. Students’ capability to make their own decisions is essential to their becoming independent learners. Therefore, if teachers are to be effective, they must have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms.
According to the argument, each of the following could be true of teachers who have enabled their students to make their own decisions EXCEPT:
(A) Their students have not become independent learners. - WRONG. May be true but it's not about teachers.
(B) They are not effective teachers. - WRONG. Conditionality gives this one little scope to be true.
(C) They are effective teachers. - WRONG. Just like B this is wrong as its just the opposite of B.
(D) They have the power to make decisions in their own classrooms. - WRONG. Like B and C, this is can't be true necessarily.
(E) They do not have the power to make decisions. - CORRECT.
It is the dreaded EXCEPT question but with a simple solution to find.
The problem is with the manner language is written - convoluted style.
Note that the passage has a conclusion that is conditional in nature so nothing can be a straight forward reality.
Another important aspect is about question stem. It asks about teachers only and nothing else. Hence anything not related to them is most likely irrelevant or a diversion. B, C and D are 50-50 cases.
Since conclusion is about teachers with a condition, the NOT condition MUST be true.
Answer E.