LSAT 127 – Section 2 – Question 03

LSAT 127 - Section 2 - Question 03

December 2003

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Choices		 Curve Question
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PT127 S2 Q03
+LR
Weaken +Weak
A
0%
153
B
90%
164
C
0%
155
D
9%
160
E
0%
151
120
128
145
 +Easiest 146.61 +SubsectionMedium

Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement. As evidence, consider the fact that the president of the company, Ms. Garon, worked as an assembly line worker, an entry-level position requiring no special skills, when she first started at Acme.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement. The author believes this is demonstrated by the fact that Ms. Garon, the current president of the company, worked in an entry-level position requiring no special skills when she first started at the company.

Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that when Ms. Garon worked in her entry-level position, that she was an “unskilled worker.” It’s possible that even if the position did not require special skills, she still possessed skills that made her not an “unskilled worker.” The author also assumes that Ms. Garon’s advancement at the company is not a unique exception.

A
Acme’s vice president of operations also worked as an assembly line worker when he first started at Acme.
If anything, this strengthens the argument by showing that Ms. Garon’s example of advancement is not a unique exception.
B
Acme regularly hires top graduates of business schools and employs them briefly in each of a succession of entry-level positions before promoting them to management.
This raises the possibility that Ms. Garon was not an “unskilled worker.” She may have been a skilled worker temporarily placed in an entry-level position. This means she would not be a true example of an unskilled worker advancing in the company.
C
Acme promotes its own employees to senior management positions much more frequently than it hires senior managers from other companies.
This doesn’t suggest that the people being advanced might not be unskilled workers, or that Ms. Garon might not have been an unskilled worker.
D
Ms. Garon worked at Acme for more than 20 years before she was promoted to president.
The fact Ms. Garon took a long time to advance to president does not undermine the idea that the company offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities to advance. Maybe she advanced to manager, senior manager, VP, etc. over the years.
E
Acme pays entry-level employees slightly higher wages than most other businesses in the same industry.
The level of pay has no relationship to the existence of opportunities for unskilled workers to advance at the company.

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