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08 Jan 2022, 07:27
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Families that prefer homeschooling for their kids do so for many reasons, including the belief that children are progressing sufficiently within the tradiitonal school structure. Opponents of home schooling put forward the point that home schooling denies children the right to develop and interact with their peers during their growth, while the supporters question the very idea of deciding the peer group based on age. They point on that the home schooled children interact with other children outside school time for various group activities, including games, enabling them to choose their peers. This awareness along with the growing numbers, indicates that home schooling will rapidly gain more followers in the coming years.
In this argument the portion in bold face plays which of the following roles?
A. The first is a belief which is not disputed within the argument. The second is the claim used to oppose it.
B. The first is an opinion that supports the main conclusion. The second is the situation that challenges the first.
C. The first is a judgment that supports the main conclusion. The second is a position that disputes a claim within the argument.
D. The first is a finding that supports the main conclusion. The second is a circumstance that is used to support the main conclusion.
E. The first is a claim that forms the basis of the action leading to the main conclusion. The second is a circumstance that disputes a claim within the argument.
In this argument the portion in bold face plays which of the following roles?
A. The first is a belief which is not disputed within the argument. The second is the claim used to oppose it.
B. The first is an opinion that supports the main conclusion. The second is the situation that challenges the first.
C. The first is a judgment that supports the main conclusion. The second is a position that disputes a claim within the argument.
D. The first is a finding that supports the main conclusion. The second is a circumstance that is used to support the main conclusion.
E. The first is a claim that forms the basis of the action leading to the main conclusion. The second is a circumstance that disputes a claim within the argument.
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Hello, cyrwr1. The first thing to keep in mind concerning Verbal practice material is that nothing beats official questions. You never know what you are going to get with questions from third parties, and sometimes the OAs are, indeed, debatable. That said, I am attaching a screenshot of the question, taken just after I worked on it myself. (Notice that I was the sixth person to complete the timer.) As a challenge, I like to look at any question without knowing the OA so that I can give it an honest attempt and provide candid feedback. There were a few turns of phrase that caught me up while I was reading the passage, and I was debating between two answer choices before I chose what ended up being the OA. Perhaps explaining my thought process will prove useful to you and others.
In any CR passage, you want to read line by line, paying attention to how one sentence may build off the previous one. In a boldface passage in particular, you definitely want to get a feel for how the two lines in question play against each other, but not at the expense of understanding the lines around them. My screenshot with some doctored up effects highlights a few talking points:
- The orange box and underlining draw attention to one group in the debate on whether homeschooling is desirable or effective for children—this group supports homeschooling; the blue box and underlining highlight a group that opposes the first
- The pink underlined portion serves as the premise to the conclusion or argument, hard though it may be to understand, and the brown underlined portion is that argument or conclusion
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Choice (B) fails because, once again, the second boldface does NOT challenge the first.
Choice (C) fails, even though it can be tricky to work out, because it is questionable whether the first boldface is a judgment, and the second is not readily identifiable as a position. Yes, the pro-homeschooling group adopts the position that the home schooled [sic] children interact with other children outside school time in a manner that would be deemed sufficient for growth, but the boldface itself is not really the position itself. Rather, it is the thing that is pointed out or offered as evidence in support of the overall view of the group.
Choice (D) fails because the first boldface is NOT a finding. No one is studying the pro-homeschooling group and reporting their findings. The passage merely tells us what this group believes. (Always look for easy targets.)
Choice (E) is correct because the first is, in fact, the claim of the pro-homeschooling group, namely the belief that children are progressing sufficiently within the traditional school structure. Yes, traditional school structure must be interpreted as a reference to homeschooling, and that link is not firmly established in this passage, as it would be in an official question, but the context of the passage suggests such an interpretation within reason. Then, notice that the first boldface is said to lead to the main conclusion. Again, that is correct. The first is used to support the argument the passage adopts at the end. That is, the passage makes a prediction that homeschooling will rapidly gain more followers in the coming years. This prediction would be baseless if more people sided with the opponents of homeschooling. Moving on to the second boldface, the line can be seen as a circumstance or something that occurs, and this evidence is used to dispute a claim within the argument—the claim made by the anti-homeschooling group that homeschooling denies children the right to develop and interact with their peers. So, this final answer choice is the hardest of the five to argue against, and that is why, ultimately, we should choose it over the other four.
I am not going to say that this is a GMAT™-ready question. At the same time, I do see the logic behind the passage and answer choices, what I see as an honest attempt by the author of the question to mimic an actual CR boldface question, so I would not write off the question altogether. Just have fun with it, and then shift back to official questions for preparation.
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
