PT128.S3.Q16

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PrepTest 128 - Section 3 - Question 16

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The primary task of a university is to educate. ███ ██ █████ █████ ██████████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███ ████████████ ██ █████ ████████████ ███ ████ ████████ █████████ ███ ████ ████████████ ██████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███████ ████████ ███████████ ██ █ ████ ██ █████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ █ ██████████ ███ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████

Summarize Argument

A lack of funds for research hurts the ability of universities to fulfill their primary purpose. How? The university’s purpose is to educate. To be strong educators, professors must know about new developments, which requires research. However, many universities don’t have enough funds to properly support research. This, in turn, hurts universities ability to educate.

Identify Conclusion

The conclusion is the author’s claim about university education: “a lack of funds for research adversely affects the degree to which a university can fulfill its central mission.”

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In order to ██ ████ ██ █████ █████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ███████ █████████

This is part of the reasoning that links a lack of funds to the inability of a university to fully complete its central mission of education.

Lack of financial ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████████ ████████ ██ █████████████

This goes too far. The stimulus says that professors need research to teach well, but does not go so far as to say a lack of support for research is the ultimate cause of ineffective teaching.

Effective teaching is ███ ███████ ███████ ██ █ ███████████

This is context that lets us know that the central mission discussed in the conclusion is to educate.

Lack of funds ███ ████████ ███████ ███ ███████ ██ █████████ █ ██████████ █████████

This accurately rephrases the conclusion. The argument is set up to show that a lack of funds hurt’s the university’s central mission: education.

New means of ███████ ███████ ████████ ██ ████████████ ███ ███████

The conclusion is simply stating that a lack of funds has a certain negative effect. It does not go so far as to suggest a solution, as this answer choice does.

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86% of people who answer get this correct

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139

75% 149

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