Technological education is worsening. People between eighteen and

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Technological education is worsening. People between eighteen and twenty-four, who are just emerging from their formal education, are more likely to be technologically illiterate than somewhat older adults. And yet, issues for public referenda will increasingly involve aspects of technology.

Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above?

(A) If all young people are to make informed decisions on public referenda, many of them must learn more about technology.

(B) Thorough studies of technological issues and innovations should be made a required part of the public and private school curriculum.

(C) It should be suggested that prospective voters attend applied science courses in order to acquire a minimal competency in technical matters.

(D) If young people are not to be overly influenced by famous technocrats, they must increase their knowledge of pure science.

(E) On public referenda issues, young people tend to confuse real or probable technologies with impossible ideals.

praveenism · Accepted Answer

(A) If all young people are to make informed decisions on public referenda, many of them must learn more about technology.
Correct: This option clearly indicates that if Young people are entrusted with decisions on public refrenda, they must know about technology.
(B) Thorough studies of technological issues and innovations should be made a required part of the public and private school curriculum.
Incorrect: You may observe that the question stem states about age group of 18-24, and here we are talking of public/pvt schools. Another issues with the option is it brings Innovation into the picture. Technology and Innovation cannot be intermixed.Right !!
(C) It should be suggested that prospective voters attend applied science courses in order to acquire a minimal competency in technical matters.
Incorrect: Voters --> Out of Scope.
(D) If young people are not to be overly influenced by famous technocrats, they must increase their knowledge of pure science.
Incorrect: This option brings a new premise to the conclusion. i.e getting influenced by technocrats. Beware of this option as you may get caught by the second part, which is true.
(E) On public referenda issues, young people tend to confuse real or probable technologies with impossible ideals.
Incorrect: This can be an inference, but cannot qualify for conclusion.
I hope, I am able to make the reasoning..

TheGraceful · Answer

This is an interesting question. I reached 'A' With POE - i.e. not because 'A' sound correct to me but because I was able to eliminate all other options. Here is my thought process:

(A) If all young people are to make informed decisions on public referenda, many of them must learn more about technology.
 ==> This may not be OR May be true. Hence keep the option - don't eliminate it.

(B) Thorough studies of technological issues and innovations should be made a required part of the public and private school curriculum.
 ==> May be  true  but  definitely out of scope . Public and private school are out of scope, curriculum is out of scope. Moreover, with 'should' the this option is tending towards extremity.

(C) It should be suggested that prospective voters attend applied science courses in order to acquire a minimal competency in technical matters.
 ==>Out of scope: Applied science is out of scope, minimal competency is out of scope.Moreover, with 'should' the this option is tending towards extremity.

(D) If young people are not to be overly influenced by famous technocrats, they must increase their knowledge of pure science.
 ==>Out of scope: technocrats - out of scope.Moreover, with 'must' the this option is tending towards extremity.

(E) On public referenda issues, young people tend to confuse real or probable technologies with impossible ideals.
 ==>Out of scope:Impossible Ideals - out of scope.

sk818020 · Answer

I would definitely choose A.

B is not correct. Its a trick answer. Given the passage alone, the proper conclusion is not that the  only  way to solve the problem is to teach technology better in school. There is no wording indicating this. It does suggest that technological issues are not taught well in school, but, again, this does not suggest that school is the only way to fix the problem.

A more properly gives the conclusion. Take for example the argument break down;

Technology education is getting worse.

Student coming out of school are more likely to be bad with technology than older adults.

Public referenda will involve technological issues.

Therefore, if all young people are to make informed decisions on public referenda, many of them must learn more about technology.

Notice that this is much more broad than B and better encompasses the information from the passage.

Could you please confirm the OA?

Hope that helps,

Jared

GMATWhizTeam · Answer

Hi…. Let’s take an example: Say there are 100 students in a class. In the context of GMAT CR: “All” students would mean all 100. “Most” students would mean any number between 51 to 100. (“most” means more than 50% and upto 100%) Thus, “most” could mean all. However, choice A does not have “most”. It talks about “many”. “Many” in GMAT CR refers to more than 3- 4 and could mean “all”. Thus, “many” is a part of “all”. For more on the implication of quantifiers such as “all”, “most”, “some”, etc click on the link below: https://blog.gmatwhiz.com/2020/01/15/qu ... most-some/

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