LSAT 135 – Section 4 – Question 13
LSAT 135 - Section 4 - Question 13
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| Necessary assumption +NA Causal Reasoning +CausR Net Effect +NetEff Link Assumption +LinkA | A
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Summary
The author concludes that reducing class sizes in our district would probably not improve overall student achievement.
Why?
Because reducing class sizes requires hiring more teachers.
There’s already a shortage of qualified teachers in THIS REGION.
Education suffers when teachers are underqualified.
Why?
Because reducing class sizes requires hiring more teachers.
There’s already a shortage of qualified teachers in THIS REGION.
Education suffers when teachers are underqualified.
Notable Assumptions
We can’t attract enough qualified teachers from outside this region to work at our schools.
The benefit students would get from smaller classes does not outweigh the harm to education resulting from teachers who are underqualified.
The benefit students would get from smaller classes does not outweigh the harm to education resulting from teachers who are underqualified.
A
Class sizes in the school district should be reduced only if doing so would improve overall student achievement.
Not necessary, because the argument never argues that something should or should not be done. So it doesn’t need to assume anything about the circumstances necessary for when class sizes “should” be reduced.
B
At least some qualified teachers in the school district would be able to improve the overall achievement of students in their classes if class sizes were reduced.
Not necessary, because if it were not true — if NO qualified teachers would be able to improve overall achievement in their classes if class sizes were reduced — this doesn’t undermine the argument. In fact, it helps support the claim that reducing class sizes would not improve overall student achievement.
C
Students place a greater value on having qualified teachers than on having smaller classes.
What students value has no role in the reasoning of this argument. The argument concerns the effects of making class sizes smaller. We have no reason to think what students value more has any impact on the effects of reducing class sizes.
D
Hiring more teachers would not improve the achievement of any students in the school district if most or all of the teachers hired were underqualified.
Not necessary, because it’s too extreme. The author doesn’t need to assume that underqualified teachers would not improve the achievement of “any students in the school.” Even if they improve the achievement of some students, as long as they don’t improve the overall achievement of the school, the author’s reasoning still stands.
E
Qualified teachers could not be persuaded to relocate in significant numbers to the educator’s region to take teaching jobs.
Necessary, because if it were not true — if qualified teachers COULD be persuaded to relocate in significant number to the educator’s region to take teaching jobs — then the fact that there’s a shortage of qualified teachers in THIS REGION doesn’t necessarily establish that we’ll need to hire underqualified teachers to reduce class sizes. We might be able to hire qualified teachers who move in from other regions.
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Section 1 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
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- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
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- Question 07
- Question 08
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- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
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- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 2 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
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- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
- Question 14
- Question 15
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- Question 18
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- Question 24
- Question 25
Section 3 - Reading Comprehension
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Section 4 - Logical Reasoning
- Question 01
- Question 02
- Question 03
- Question 04
- Question 05
- Question 06
- Question 07
- Question 08
- Question 09
- Question 10
- Question 11
- Question 12
- Question 13
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