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FANTOD is a new and powerful programming language. In a five recent cases, teenagers with advanced programming abilities in FANTOD used it to hack into ETS and change their own SAT scores. All of the individuals responsible for these breaches were convicted for their crime. Colleges have discounted the official SAT scores of applicants with these convictions, and have required them either to retake the SAT under more secure conditions or to take special admission tests, with difficulty levels similar to the SAT, in supervised conditions on their own campuses. Student advocates claim that this entire situation gives an unfair advantage to some students, because ____________.
Which of the following most logically completes the passage?
A. some students may find a particular college’s special admission tests easier than the SAT
B. many of these special admission tests at the colleges take less than three hours to complete
C. some of the teenager hackers also changed the SAT scores of their friends
D. in only one case, multiple users of a single school computer all were convicted
E. privately purchased SAT prep courses have been shown to improve performance on all the special admission tests at the colleges
Which of the following most logically completes the passage?
A. some students may find a particular college’s special admission tests easier than the SAT
B. many of these special admission tests at the colleges take less than three hours to complete
C. some of the teenager hackers also changed the SAT scores of their friends
D. in only one case, multiple users of a single school computer all were convicted
E. privately purchased SAT prep courses have been shown to improve performance on all the special admission tests at the colleges
06 Dec 2021, 04:10
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There's a switch at the end; the stem first talks about students who hacked test scores, but concludes by describing an "unfair advantage to some students" (and not "to these students"). That switch almost gives away the answer: if any answer explains why any group of students might have benefited from the situation, it's the right answer. And C obviously does that, so it's correct, even if you could tenuously justify some other choices as well.
The premise of the question is a bit hilarious though, for a few reasons, among them: if an MBA program, say, discovered a student cheated on their GMAT, the program is not going to say "oh, we'll design a special admissions test you can take on our campus instead." They'll say "good luck in jail."
The premise of the question is a bit hilarious though, for a few reasons, among them: if an MBA program, say, discovered a student cheated on their GMAT, the program is not going to say "oh, we'll design a special admissions test you can take on our campus instead." They'll say "good luck in jail."
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This is a very high quality question. You have to read closely to see whats going on.
First off, as a reminder, never bother reading the question "Which of the following most logically completes the passage?"
It will save you a few seconds.
FANTOD is a new and powerful programming language. In a five recent cases, teenagers with advanced programming abilities in FANTOD used it to hack into ETS and change their own SAT scores. All of the individuals responsible for these breaches were convicted for their crime. Colleges have discounted the official SAT scores of applicants with these convictions, and have required them either to retake the SAT under more secure conditions or to take special admission tests, with difficulty levels similar to the SAT, in supervised conditions on their own campuses. Student advocates claim that this entire situation gives an unfair advantage to some students, because ____________.
The key thing here is "THIS ENTIRE SITUATION" (you need to address why the some students GAINED an advantage because of this scandal)
A. some students may find a particular college’s special admission tests easier than the SAT
This is really the hardest one to rule out in my opinion, since you may think that because of the "special" tests that the convicted hackers must take, they will find them easier. the KEY THING to recognize with this choice is that, even if it were easier for them, the difficulty level is similar to that of the SAT, and its MORE SECURE. so it cant possibly be easier than the real thing, thus no advantage is really on offer to the hackers given what this choice says.
C. some of the teenager hackers also changed the SAT scores of their friends
Bingo! the hackers are the only ones subjected to the new conditions, so the unexamined variable here is that, if they did alter their friends scores, then those students would FACE NO CONSEQUENCES !
First off, as a reminder, never bother reading the question "Which of the following most logically completes the passage?"
It will save you a few seconds.
FANTOD is a new and powerful programming language. In a five recent cases, teenagers with advanced programming abilities in FANTOD used it to hack into ETS and change their own SAT scores. All of the individuals responsible for these breaches were convicted for their crime. Colleges have discounted the official SAT scores of applicants with these convictions, and have required them either to retake the SAT under more secure conditions or to take special admission tests, with difficulty levels similar to the SAT, in supervised conditions on their own campuses. Student advocates claim that this entire situation gives an unfair advantage to some students, because ____________.
The key thing here is "THIS ENTIRE SITUATION" (you need to address why the some students GAINED an advantage because of this scandal)
A. some students may find a particular college’s special admission tests easier than the SAT
This is really the hardest one to rule out in my opinion, since you may think that because of the "special" tests that the convicted hackers must take, they will find them easier. the KEY THING to recognize with this choice is that, even if it were easier for them, the difficulty level is similar to that of the SAT, and its MORE SECURE. so it cant possibly be easier than the real thing, thus no advantage is really on offer to the hackers given what this choice says.
C. some of the teenager hackers also changed the SAT scores of their friends
Bingo! the hackers are the only ones subjected to the new conditions, so the unexamined variable here is that, if they did alter their friends scores, then those students would FACE NO CONSEQUENCES !
