LSAT 134 – Section 2 – Question 09

LSAT 134 - Section 2 - Question 09

October 2011

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PT134 S2 Q09
+LR
+Exp
Weaken +Weak
Net Effect +NetEff
A
0%
150
B
0%
156
C
5%
152
D
94%
163
E
0%
151
128
136
145
 +Easier 146.032 +SubsectionMedium

Robert: The school board is considering adopting a year-round academic schedule that eliminates the traditional three-month summer vacation. This schedule should be adopted, since teachers need to cover more new material during the school year than they do now.

Samantha: The proposed schedule will not permit teachers to cover more new material. Even though the schedule eliminates summer vacation, it adds six new two-week breaks, so the total number of school days will be about the same as before.

Summarize Argument
Samantha claims that the proposed schedule won’t allow teachers to cover more new material. This is because, accounting for breaks, there will be the same number of school days as before.

Notable Assumptions
Samantha believes that all school days are equal. She assumes that the six two-week breaks will not have a different effect on how teachers are able to teach (i.e. how much material they’ll be able to cover) versus summer vacation.

A
Teachers would be willing to accept elimination of the traditional three-month summer vacation as long as the total vacation time they are entitled to each year is not reduced.
We don’t care what teachers are willing to do. We care whether an alternate schedule will allow them to cover more material than before.
B
Most parents who work outside the home find it difficult to arrange adequate supervision for their school-age children over the traditional three-month summer vacation.
We’re not interested in other benefits of the proposed schedule. We care whether an alternate schedule will allow teachers to cover more material than before.
C
In school districts that have adopted a year-round schedule that increases the number of school days per year, students show a deeper understanding and better retention of new material.
This schedule won’t increase the number of school days per year.
D
Teachers spend no more than a day of class time reviewing old material when students have been away from school for only a few weeks, but have to spend up to a month of class time reviewing after a three-month summer vacation.
Not all school days are the same. Teachers have to review much more if students have been away for a three-month summer vacation, which prohibits them from teaching new material.
E
Students prefer taking a long vacation from school during the summer to taking more frequent but shorter vacations spread throughout the year.
We don’t care what students prefer. We care whether an alternate schedule will allow teachers to cover more material than before.

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