Self-study
Editorialist: Drivers with a large number of demerit points who additionally have been convicted of a serious driving-related offense should either be sentenced to jail or be forced to receive driver re-education, since to do otherwise would be to allow a crime to go unpunished. ████ ██ ████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ██ ████ ████ ███████████ ███████ ██████ ██████ ████████████ ██ ███████████ ███ █████ ██████████████ ██ ██ ██████ ██████ ██████████ ██ ████ ███████ ████ █ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████████ ████████
Summary
Drivers who have a large amount of demerit points and were convicted of a serious driving-related offense should either go to jail or receive mandatory driver reeducation. However, driver reeducation should only be available to drivers who are likely to be made more responsible. It is also almost impossible to make drivers with a large number of demerit points more responsible drivers.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Those with a large amount of demerit points who have been convicted of a driving related offense should go to jail.
If someone is not likely to become a more responsible driver, they should go to jail.
12.
If the editorialist's statements are █████ ████ ███████ ███ ████ ███████ ███ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████
a
Drivers with a █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ████ ████ █████████ ██ █ ███████ ███████████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████
Because it is nearly impossible to make drivers with a large number of demerit points more responsible, driver reeducation should not be recommended. Thus, they should go to jail.
b
Driver re-education offers ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ █ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███████████ ████████
There is no support for a statement this strong. The stimulus says that becoming more responsible is very “unlikely” for these drivers.
c
Driver re-education is ███ █ █████ ██████ ██████████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ █ ███████ ███████████████ ███████ ███ ███ ████ ███████████ █ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████
Nothing in the stimulus mentions anything about “harshness.” For all we know, the reeducation training could be “harsher”
d
Driver re-education should ███ ██ ███████████ ███ █████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████████████ █████████
The stimulus says nothing about drivers who have not committed serious driving-related offenses. It could be that reeducation is their best option.
e
Drivers with a █████ ██████ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ██ ██████████ ███ █ ███████ ███████████████ ███████ ██████ ███████ ██████ ████████████ ██████ ████ █████
The stimulus does not give conditions for those without a serious driving-related offense. You need to make assumptions for this to work.