LSAT 122 – Section 4 – Question 03

LSAT 122 - Section 4 - Question 03

June 2006

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT122 S4 Q03
+LR
Must be true +MBT
Conditional Reasoning +CondR
A
1%
154
B
2%
153
C
0%
150
D
96%
164
E
1%
152
128
136
143
 +Easier 146.485 +SubsectionMedium

Educator: If there is a crisis in education today, it is one of maintaining quality. People love to reduce serious learning to degrees and certificates. But one also can obtain these credentials by plodding through courses without ever learning much of value. When that happens, the credentials one receives are almost meaningless.

Summary

Crisis in education today→ crisis of maintaining quality

People love to reduce serious learning to degrees and certificates

It is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.

Earned certificates or degrees by plodding through courses without learning→ those credentials or degrees are almost meaningless.

Notable Valid Inferences

It is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.

A
Increasingly, institutions are granting meaningless degrees and certificates.

This could be false. We are given criteria to describe meaningless credentials; we don’t know how many meaningless credentials are granted or if the rate of granting meaningless credentials is increasing.

B
It has become easier for students to complete their coursework without learning anything of importance.

This could be false. It is possible that plodding through courses is difficult––the stimulus gives no information on how easy something is.

C
Educational institutions should cease to grant degrees and certificates.

This could be false. The stimulus does not contain any recommendation for the actions that educational institutions should take.

D
Degrees and certificates do not guarantee that a person has acquired much worthwhile knowledge.

This must be true. From the stimulus, we know that it is possible to obtain degrees and certificates without learning much of value.

E
A person benefits from an education only to the extent that he or she invests effort in it.

This could be false. The stimulus does not specify under what conditions one benefits from an education.

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