PT127.S2.Q3

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PrepTest 127 - Section 2 - Question 3

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Conclusion Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent opportunities for advancement. ██ █████████ ████████ ███ ████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███████████ ████████ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████ ████ ███ █████ ███████ ██ █████

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.

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Which one of the following ███████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ █████████ ██████

Acme's vice president ██ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ████████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ██ █████

If anything, this strengthens the argument by showing that Ms. Garon’s example of advancement is not a unique exception.

Acme regularly hires ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ █ ██████████ ██ ███████████ █████████ ██████ █████████ ████ ██ ███████████

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.

Acme promotes its ███ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ █████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████ ██████ ████████ ████ █████ ██████████

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.

Ms. Garon worked ██ ████ ███ ████ ████ ██ █████ ██████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ██████████

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.

Acme pays entry-level █████████ ████████ ██████ █████ ████ ████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███ ████ █████████

The level of pay has no relationship to the existence of opportunities for unskilled workers to advance at the company.

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25% 120

128

75% 145

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