Example ·Of obstacles to recognition of rights by provincial courts
Provincial courts interpret the right to recognition of customs as applying only to customs held prior to colonization; but aboriginal societies lack legal documentation from that time
Provincial court’s interpretation was too limited, outcome is regrettable and unsatisfactory
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
21.
Which one of the following ████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ██████████
Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
The author’s purpose in this sentence is to describe why it’s been difficult to consistently recognize and enforce aboriginal rights — the language of the constitution must be written in a general way, which requires the courts to interpret and translate the language into rulings.
a
to demonstrate that ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██████ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████████████ ███████
Not supported, because the author doesn’t suggest that decisions “rarely” meet the goals of constitutional reforms. The decisions may be inconsistent, but that doesn’t imply that they usually don’t conform to the constitutional reforms’ goals. Because (A) isn’t supported, it can’t be the purpose of the line.
b
to locate the ██████ ██ █ ████████ ███████ ██ ██████████ ██████████ ██████ ██ ██████
This best capture the author’s purpose in the sentence, which is to describe why it’s been difficult to consistently recognize and enforce aboriginal rights.
c
to identify the ████████ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ████████ ██████████████ ███████ ██ ██████
The constitutional reforms were already enacted in 1982. The problem relates to interpreting the constitutional reforms, not in getting the reforms enacted.
d
to describe one ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ██████████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ ██████
The sentence doesn’t have anything to do with the process of enacting reforms.
e
to criticize the ███ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████████
The author doesn’t criticize the use of general language. Notice that she says the language is “necessarily” general; that means it must be general. So, although the author does believe the general language creates problems, that doesn’t imply the author thinks the general language should be changed or should be made more specific.
Difficulty
79% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is significantly easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%135
148
75%161
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Law
Problem-analysis
Single position
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
2%
158
b
79%
166
c
16%
161
d
1%
158
e
2%
157
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