PT108.S3.Q20

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PrepTest 108 - Section 3 - Question 20

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Sarah: Support Reporters, by allotting time to some events rather than others, are exercising their judgment as to what is newsworthy and what is not. ██ █████ ██████ ████ ██████ █████████ ███ █████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Sarah argues that reporters “always interpret the news.” How so? When reporters decide what is and isn’t newsworthy, they’re using their judgment. This, Sarah implies, is an act of interpretation.

Speaker 2 Summary

Ramon argues that “reporters should never interpret the news.” As support, he says that reporters have an obligation to objectively communicate the facts of anything they deem newsworthy. This indicates that Ramon doesn’t think that determining newsworthiness counts as interpretation as long as the facts are “untainted.”

Objective

We need to find an idea that the speakers disagree on. One such idea is whether determining the newsworthiness of an event counts as interpretation. Sarah thinks it does, but Ramon thinks it doesn’t.

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Sarah and Ramon's remarks provide ███ ████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ████████ █████ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ███████████

Reporters actually do █████████ ███ ████ █████ ████ ████ ██████ ███

Sarah agrees with this, but Ramon doesn’t express an opinion. Ramon’s argument is all about what reporters “should” do, and never goes into what they actually do or don’t do.

Reporters should exercise █████ ███ ████████ ██ ██ █████ ██████ ███ ███████████

Like (D), neither speaker offers an opinion on this. Sarah never says anything about what reporters should or shouldn’t do. Ramon never discusses the standard by which reporters should deem events newsworthy, so it could be by their judgment or some other standard.

Reporters' primary responsibility ██ ██ ███ ████ ██████ ███ ████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████

Neither speaker discusses the ranking of reporters’ responsibilities. Sarah doesn’t mention any kind of responsibility at all, while Ramon talks about an obligation not to taint the facts, but doesn’t say what reporters’ primary responsibility might be.

Reporters should not █████ ████ ██ █████████ ████ ██████ ██████ ████ ███████

Like (B), neither speaker discusses this. Lucy only talks about what does happen, not what should happen. Ramon does talk about what should happen, but only in the context of leaving facts “untainted” rather than how reporters should allot their time.

Reporting on certain ██████ ██████ ████ ██████ █████████ ██ ████████████ ███ █████

Lucy agrees with this, but Ramon disagrees, so this is the point of disagreement. This is the conclusion of Lucy’s argument. On the other hand, Ramon thinks that deciding what’s newsworthy doesn’t count as interpreting as long as the facts are left “untainted”.

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67% of people who answer get this correct

This is a difficult question.

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

25% 145

158

75% 170

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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