LSAT 125 – Section 4 – Question 23
LSAT 125 - Section 4 - Question 23
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Type | Tags | Answer Choices |
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Psg/Game/S Difficulty |
Explanation |
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| PT125 S4 Q23 |
+LR
| Must be true +MBT Conditional Reasoning +CondR | A
5%
155
B
79%
164
C
1%
154
D
2%
155
E
13%
157
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145 152 159 |
+Medium | 145.982 +SubsectionMedium |
Politician: The current crisis in mathematics education must be overcome if we are to remain competitive in the global economy. Alleviating this crisis requires the employment of successful teaching methods. No method of teaching a subject can succeed that does not get students to spend a significant amount of time outside of class studying that subject.
Summary
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:
Notable Valid Inferences
If we are to remain competitive in the global economy, we must get students to study math outside of class.
If we are to overcome the crisis in math education, we must get students to study math outside of class.
If students don’t spend a significant amount of time studying math outside of class, then we won’t remain competitive in the global economy.
A
If students spend a significant amount of time outside of class studying mathematics, the current crisis in mathematics education will be overcome.
This could be false. Spending a significant time outside of class studying math is a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition, of resolving the crisis.
B
The current crisis in mathematics education will not be overcome unless students spend a significant amount of time outside of class studying mathematics.
This must be true. As shown in the diagram, by chaining conditional claims, we see that studying math outside of class is a necessary condition of overcoming the crisis
C
Few subjects are as important as mathematics to the effort to remain competitive in the global economy.
This could be false. The stimulus does not talk about the relative importance of other subjects.
D
Only if we succeed in remaining competitive in the global economy will students spend a significant amount of time outside of class studying mathematics.
This could be false. Remaining competitive in the global economy is a sufficient condition, not a necessary condition, of spending a lot of time studying math outside of class.
E
Students’ spending a significant amount of time outside of class studying mathematics would help us to remain competitive in the global economy.
This could be false. We know that spending lots of time outside of class studying math is a necessary condition of remaining competitive. However, that’s not logically the same as “helping.”
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Section 1 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
- Passage 2 – Passage
- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
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- Question 15
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- Question 17
- Question 18
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- Question 20
- Question 21
- Question 22
- Question 23
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- Question 26
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
- Passage 1 – Passage
- Passage 1 – Questions
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- Passage 2 – Questions
- Passage 3 – Passage
- Passage 3 – Questions
- Passage 4 – Passage
- Passage 4 – Questions
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