PT144.S3.Q4

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PrepTest 144 - Section 3 - Question 4

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James: Support Community colleges, by their very nature, work to meet the educational needs of the communities they are in. ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████████████ █████ ███████ █████ ██████ ████ █████ ██ █████████ █████████

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Speaker 1 Summary

James argues that universities do not work to meet the educational needs of their communities. He supports this by saying that universities’ goals differ from community colleges’ goals. Further, all community colleges have a goal of meeting their communities’ educational needs. So, if universities’ goals are different, they wouldn’t be trying to meet those needs.

Speaker 2 Summary

Margaret doesn’t make an argument, just two factual claims. Firstly, all universities have a primary goal of serving their community’s needs (presumably including educational needs). Secondly, most people attend universities and community colleges for the same reason, to prepare for a career.

Objective

We’re looking for a disagreement. James and Margaret disagree about whether a primary goal of universities is to meet their communities’ educational needs.

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James disagrees and Margaret agrees, making this their disagreement. James directly states that universities do not share this goal with community colleges, while Margaret directly states that universities do have this primary goal.

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Neither speaker makes this claim. James and Margaret are just talking about universities’ primary goals. They don’t get as far as discussing whether universities actually accomplish those goals.

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Margaret agrees with this and James doesn’t state an opinion. As with (E), James never mentions the reasons that people have for attending a university.

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Margaret seems to agree with this, but James doesn’t offer an opinion. James doesn’t talk at all about what people’s educational needs actually are.

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Margaret agrees with this and James does not express an opinion. Like with (C), James doesn’t discuss people’s reasons for attending universities or community colleges.

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84% of people who answer get this correct

This is a slightly challenging question.

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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 124

138

75% 152

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: disagree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which one speaker in the stimulus would say "Yes" and the other would say "No"

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