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Hi: can someone help resolve between (A) or (E).
In (E) "writing was not the only factor in deciding which press releases to publish", but in the text, "page limitations" was another factor.


The editor says "PAGE LIMITATIONS SOMETIMES FORCE US to return well-written: documents"

It means that: even though a write up may have been good, it could be returned due to other limitations. Exactly what option E suggests.

The question doesn't mention anything about the criteria of acceptance, hence eliminate option A.
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Hi: can someone help resolve between (A) or (E).
In (E) "writing was not the only factor in deciding which press releases to publish", but in the text, "page limitations" was another factor.

The editor says "PAGE LIMITATIONS SOMETIMES FORCE US to return well-written: documents"

It means that: even though a write up may have been good, it could be returned due to other limitations. Exactly what option E suggests.

The question doesn't mention anything about the criteria of acceptance, hence eliminate option A.

I think you misunderstood the question, we are eliminating the options that MAY BE inferred.

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All of the following may be inferred from the information above, EXCEPT

Thus, as you said above (E) CAN BE INFERRED, and (A) CANNOT BE INFERRED, thus the answer would be (A), in your analysis.
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Why is choice A incorrect and E correct?
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HI, I believe the option A CAN'T be inferred here, but that option appears incorrect. Please could you explain why E is correct? I think E can be easily inferred here
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Yeah... this is a REALLY bad problem.

INFERENCES, on standardized tests, are things you can PROVE from given information—which itself needs to be written with all the necessary logical connections actually stated in explicit terms.

The 'passage' here doesn't state connections at all, instead just insinuating them (in typical corporate-bad-news fashion). That's not acceptable for a standardized-test problem on which you need to prove things, because it leaves the door open for lots of technically valid objections. E.g., no relationship is actually articulated between the first and second sentence, so, actually we don't know whether this person's submission was even one of the "worthy and well-written" ones to begin with!

That's already a fatal flaw... and then there are the answer choices. Oh boy.


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HI, I believe the option A CAN'T be inferred here, but that option appears incorrect.

You are right about this.

This is one of the "technically valid objections" I mentioned above, because the sloppy writing and lack of explicit logical transitions/connectors leaves lots of possibilities that the author didn't intend.

For instance, if there were a thousand "worthy and well-written" submissions and also a thousand terrible, horribly written ones, and the publisher only accepted a total of 10 submissions out of all 2,000, then page limitations will definitely force the publisher to reject at least 990 of EACH type—regardless of the criteria used in selection! In this case, even if the publisher deliberately selects mostly BAD writing to publish, or just picks ten submissions completely at random, choice A is still a true statement.



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Please could you explain why E is correct? I think E can be easily inferred here

This time, the given answer actually works.

The phrase "worthy AND well-written" implies that "worthy" and "well-written" are actually two different descriptions. Therefore, "worthiness" must be judged on the basis of criteria other than just good writing.

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