Correct option C Dr. Godfrey:
Premise: Now that high school students are allowed to work more than 15 hours per week at part-time jobs,
those who actually do so show less interest in school and get lower grades than
those who do not work as many hours at part-time jobs.
Conclusion: working long hours at part-time jobs during the school year contributes to the academic problems
that many of our high school students experience.
Dr. Nash: That’s not so.
Many of our high school students set out to earn as much money as they can simply
to compensate for their lack of academic success.
The answer to which one of the following would be the most helpful in determining
whether the conclusion that Dr. Godfrey draws could be logically defended against
Dr. Nash’s counterargument?
Simple: we need to find question from below stem, which answer should be conclusion of Dr. Godfrey
“Working long hours at part-time jobs during the school year
contributes to the academic problems
that many of our high school students experience”
(A) whether
people who have had academic problems in high school
are ultimately less successful in their careers than
people who have not had such problems
Wrong: This stem brief about the less successful in careers,
we need “working part time may lead to academic problems”
(B) whether
students are allowed to spend more than 15 hours per week
at school-sponsored non-academic extracurricular activities
such as team sports or clubs
Wrong: logically this stem works in favor of Dr. Nash,
showing benefits about school sponsored activities.
(C) whether
the students who work more than 15 hours per week and
have academic problems
had such problems before they began to work that many hours
Correct: Exactly, is it, becasue of working more than 15 hours
or same problem arise while one working more than or equal to 12 hours too.
(D) whether employers and high school students typically obey all the laws that
regulate the conditions under which young people may legally be employed
Wrong: Irrelevant, this stem leads to law adherence or not,
not with academic problems while working more than 15 hrs a week
(E) whether high school students
who have after-school jobs continued to work at those jobs after graduating from high school
Wrong: Irrelevant, as this doesn’t give clear picture about the problem faced during academic.