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PT153.S3.Q1

SECTION 1 · rc

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PrepTest 153 - Section 3 - Question 1

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Minh: Support This film director’s newest works are very predictable. ██████ █████████ ███ ███ ████████ ███ ████ ███████████ ████████ ████ ████ ██ ██████ █ ██████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Minh believes that a certain director is “pillaging” his past work, but not getting much value from doing so. In support, Minh points out that the director’s recent films are very predictable, and in fact are nothing more than repetitions of his past films.

Speaker 2 Summary

Natalie argues that the director’s recent work is actually original, despite their similarity to past films. How so? Because the director is using the same elements to create new works (rather than just repeating past works).

Objective

We need to find a point of agreement about the director’s recent films. Minh and Natalie agree that the recent films are very similar to the director’s previous films.

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Minh agrees with this, and so does Natalie. Minh says that the new films are simply repetitions of the director’s earlier films. Natalie doesn’t go so far, but does say that the films have a “startling sameness” and use the same elements.

They constitute evidence ████ ██ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ████████

Minh agrees with this, but Natalie does not. Natalie thinks that the recent films do not show a lack of creativity that amounts to just pillaging past works, but in fact are original.

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Minh agrees with this, but Natalie disagrees. Natalie thinks that even though the new and old films use the same elements, the new films are original works.

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Neither speaker directly compares the director’s newer films with his earlier films. Each speaker expresses an opinion about whether the new films are original, but neither talks about how the old films measure up.

They provide evidence ██ ███ ██████████ ███████████

Natalie agrees with this, but Minh doesn’t. Minh thinks that the new films are evidence that the director is just repeating his past works rather than coming up with original new films.

Difficulty

Question

84% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

CURVE

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

25% 120

122

75% 147

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Point at issue: agree

Stems that ask us to identify a statement to which the speakers in the stimulus would either both say "Yes" or both say "No"

Stimulus Tags

Value judgment

Stimuli in which a jump from descriptive claims (i.e. "is" claims) to normative claims (i.e. "ought" claims) informs our evaluation of the answer choices.

Answer Popularity

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84%

161

154

10%

159

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156

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