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To be eligible for the Young Leaders’ Prize, one must be under the age of 21 and attending a post-secondary institution. Furthermore, it is a requirement that a candidate must not have a criminal record nor a grade-point average below 3.5. After an initial review, only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview for the prize. Everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist, exclusively from which the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize.

Which of the following must be true of a recipient of the Young Leaders’ Prize?

A. The recipient has a grade-point average above 3.50

B. The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving

C. The recipient interviewed for the prize

D. The recipient was deemed to be the one most deserving of the prize

E. The recipient advanced to the shortlist
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A. Grade point of 3.5 is missed here.

B. This is tempting, but we don’t know if that is enough to get shortlisted. There might he other ways to be shortlisted.

C. Same as above. Also, argument doesn’t say that only those who are interviewed will be selected.

D. The recipient deemed most deserving is selected from the shortlisted candidates only. Plainly most deserving doesn’t fit the cut.

E. The selection is exclusively from the shortlisted candidates. So good.

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Hello expert,
Could you share some ideas about why B and C is wrong?
Passage says “only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview”, so this is a necessary condition. If hasn't done this, the person can’t go on next step and finally get the prize.
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Hello expert,
Could you share some ideas about why B and C is wrong?
Passage says “only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview”, so this is a necessary condition. If hasn't done this, the person can’t go on next step and finally get the prize.
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I will go one better, Mavisdu1017, and post a full analysis of the answer choices. I am going to approach this post a bit differently from my typical manner, in which I discuss the passage and then the answer choices. I think it may be more useful to trace the chain of logic through the answer choices themselves to gain a better understanding of the passage. That passage, for reference:

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To be eligible for the Young Leaders’ Prize, one must be under the age of 21 and attending a post-secondary institution. Furthermore, it is a requirement that a candidate must not have a criminal record nor a grade-point average below 3.5. After an initial review, only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview for the prize. Everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist, exclusively from which the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize.

Which of the following must be true of a recipient of the Young Leaders’ Prize?
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Do not lose sight of must be true, or assumptions will take over.

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a) The recipient has a grade-point average above 3.50
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The passage notes the requirement that a candidate must not have... a grade-point average below 3.5 (my italics). We can appreciate from Quant that not below means greater than or equal to. A candidate can carry a 3.5 GPA and be eligible for the Young Leaders' Prize.

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b) The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving
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Yes, candidates are evaluated based on their perceived demonstration of community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving, but perceptions are not hard facts. We have no idea what this initial review process may entail, and cannot say with confidence that any eventual recipient of the prize has actually demonstrated the qualities in question.

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c) The recipient interviewed for the prize
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Be careful here. Yes, the passage states that everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist. But does that necessarily mean that only those who interview can make it to the shortlist? No. That is associative reasoning taking over. There might be candidates who are invited to interview but cannot make it, whose candidacy could look so promising that their names might make their way onto the shortlist anyway. Simply put, the passage does not tell us about this other potential group of candidates.

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d) The recipient was deemed to be the one most deserving of the prize
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If the passage explicitly states that the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize, then we cannot whittle down three to the one. End of story.

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This must be true, since we are told that the recipients will be selected exclusively from [the shortlist]. How those names may have appeared on the shortlist (answer choice (D)) is up for debate, but exclusively is an absolute condition.

Perhaps the question makes more sense now. I wish I knew the source. I do not typically praise questions from third parties, but this one is carefully considered and phrased.

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Hello expert,
Could you share some ideas about why B and C is wrong?
Passage says “only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview”, so this is a necessary condition. If hasn't done this, the person can’t go on next step and finally get the prize.
I will go one better, Mavisdu1017, and post a full analysis of the answer choices. I am going to approach this post a bit differently from my typical manner, in which I discuss the passage and then the answer choices. I think it may be more useful to trace the chain of logic through the answer choices themselves to gain a better understanding of the passage. That passage, for reference:

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To be eligible for the Young Leaders’ Prize, one must be under the age of 21 and attending a post-secondary institution. Furthermore, it is a requirement that a candidate must not have a criminal record nor a grade-point average below 3.5. After an initial review, only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview for the prize. Everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist, exclusively from which the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize.

Which of the following must be true of a recipient of the Young Leaders’ Prize?
Do not lose sight of must be true, or assumptions will take over.

Quote:
a) The recipient has a grade-point average above 3.50
The passage notes the requirement that a candidate must not have... a grade-point average below 3.5 (my italics). We can appreciate from Quant that not below means greater than or equal to. A candidate can carry a 3.5 GPA and be eligible for the Young Leaders' Prize.

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b) The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving
Yes, candidates are evaluated based on their perceived demonstration of community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving, but perceptions are not hard facts. We have no idea what this initial review process may entail, and cannot say with confidence that any eventual recipient of the prize has actually demonstrated the qualities in question.

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c) The recipient interviewed for the prize
Be careful here. Yes, the passage states that everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist. But does that necessarily mean that only those who interview can make it to the shortlist? No. That is associative reasoning taking over. There might be candidates who are invited to interview but cannot make it, whose candidacy could look so promising that their names might make their way onto the shortlist anyway. Simply put, the passage does not tell us about this other potential group of candidates.

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d) The recipient was deemed to be the one most deserving of the prize
If the passage explicitly states that the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize, then we cannot whittle down three to the one. End of story.

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e) The recipient advanced to the shortlist
This must be true, since we are told that the recipients will be selected exclusively from [the shortlist]. How those names may have appeared on the shortlist (answer choice (D)) is up for debate, but exclusively is an absolute condition.

Perhaps the question makes more sense now. I wish I knew the source. I do not typically praise questions from third parties, but this one is carefully considered and phrased.

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AndrewN hi expert, much thanks for your response. But sorry I cannot well understand what you mean about B, could you mind to exemplify it?
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AndrewN hi expert, much thanks for your response. But sorry I cannot well understand what you mean about B, could you mind to exemplify it?
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Sure, Mavisdu1017. Say that I read through your posts and decide that they exhibit a high degree of curiosity and intelligence. Does my assessment mean that you are, in fact, a curious and intelligent individual? (Of course! you say.) That could be true, or it could just be that my assessment is inaccurate. The truth of the matter cannot be known by my assessment of your posts only. In a similar way, an initial review of candidates who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving may or may not be accurate. We cannot deduce anything about the candidates themselves.

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To be eligible for the Young Leaders’ Prize, one must be under the age of 21 and attending a post-secondary institution. Furthermore, it is a requirement that a candidate must not have a criminal record nor a grade-point average below 3.5. After an initial review, only those who demonstrate their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving will be invited to interview for the prize. Everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist, exclusively from which the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize.

Which of the following must be true of a recipient of the Young Leaders’ Prize?

b) The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving
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I think there's a separate reason to rule out B. The question is playing a kind of shell game; it's trying to make the reader think there's a certain linear process in deciding the award. It's trying to make you think "someone needs certain qualifications (GPA, no criminal record, etc), then if the person has leadership and problem solving skills the person gets an interview, then people who get interviewed go on to the shortlist, then people from the shortlist are considered for the prize". But the one thing the question never tells us explicitly, and which does not need to be true, is whether *only* people who are interviewed are added to the shortlist. If some people who are not interviewed are also added to the shortlist, then it is possible someone who does not meet the requirements for an interview can still make the shortlist, and can still win the award. So it is possible someone without leadership or problem solving skills can make the shortlist (but not the interview) and win the award, and B does not need to be true.

This feels a lot more like an LSAT question than a GMAT question.
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For B) The option says "The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving" which is the same phrasing as the passage? then why is not correct as demonstration is the required. Why are we over complicating to perceived/ not hard facts? Please explain
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I will go one better, Mavisdu1017, and post a full analysis of the answer choices. I am going to approach this post a bit differently from my typical manner, in which I discuss the passage and then the answer choices. I think it may be more useful to trace the chain of logic through the answer choices themselves to gain a better understanding of the passage. That passage, for reference:


Do not lose sight of must be true, or assumptions will take over.


The passage notes the requirement that a candidate must not have... a grade-point average below 3.5 (my italics). We can appreciate from Quant that not below means greater than or equal to. A candidate can carry a 3.5 GPA and be eligible for the Young Leaders' Prize.


Yes, candidates are evaluated based on their perceived demonstration of community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving, but perceptions are not hard facts. We have no idea what this initial review process may entail, and cannot say with confidence that any eventual recipient of the prize has actually demonstrated the qualities in question.


Be careful here. Yes, the passage states that everyone who interviews for the prize will advance to the shortlist. But does that necessarily mean that only those who interview can make it to the shortlist? No. That is associative reasoning taking over. There might be candidates who are invited to interview but cannot make it, whose candidacy could look so promising that their names might make their way onto the shortlist anyway. Simply put, the passage does not tell us about this other potential group of candidates.


If the passage explicitly states that the three candidates who are deemed to be most deserving are given the prize, then we cannot whittle down three to the one. End of story.


This must be true, since we are told that the recipients will be selected exclusively from [the shortlist]. How those names may have appeared on the shortlist (answer choice (D)) is up for debate, but exclusively is an absolute condition.

Perhaps the question makes more sense now. I wish I knew the source. I do not typically praise questions from third parties, but this one is carefully considered and phrased.

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For B) The option says "The recipient has demonstrated their community leadership and aptitude for problem-solving" which is the same phrasing as the passage? then why is not correct as demonstration is the required. Why are we over complicating to perceived/ not hard facts? Please explain

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I think because the passage gives one-way logic, not two-way logic.

It says:

demonstrated leadership/problem-solving -> invited to interview
interviewed -> shortlist
recipient -> shortlist

But B would require us to go backward:

recipient -> shortlist -> interviewed -> demonstrated

And that backward chain is never stated.

So even though the wording in B matches the passage, it is still not guaranteed. Matching words is not enough. For a “must be true” question, we need an explicit path from recipient to demonstrated, and the passage does not give that.

Option B is also discussed in this post and in this post. Please also check those.
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