Self-study
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The Fast Way
Many necessary assumption questions, this one included, are open to a pretty simple strategy: isolate a concept that appears in the conclusion and nowhere else, then anticipate that the assumption is something like “[the concepts in the premises] are related to [the concept in the conclusion].”
Here’s the argument distilled through that lens:
Premises: [To be the dean of computing, there are like 1000 requirements. None of those mention being a professor in the CS department, though.]
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Conclusion: The dean of computing must be a professor from the CS department.
And now the anticipation:
The only people who can fulfill [these various requirements] are professors from the CS department.
This strategy isn’t foolproof – there are often tons of other ways to poke holes in the argument, any of which would qualify as a right answer if the testwriters wanted to be tricky. Quite often, though, you can save a lot of time by hunting for an answer choice that fits your anticipation, finding it, and moving on without agonizing too much about the other options.
All Five Requirements
As mentioned above, the stimulus’ premises just establish a million requirements to be the dean of computing. Let’s explicate them:
The dean of computing needs to berespected (which requires adoctoral degree ), andcompetent (which requiresknowledge of computers ), andpart of the university’s staff .
That’s 5 requirements. Fail to meet any of these standards and you’re disqualified from being the dean of computing.
Analysis by MichaelWright
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