As a genre, hip-hop is vastly

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by kvcpk » Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:16 am

As a genre, hip-hop is vastly underrated. While critics are right to question the violent and sometimes racist content of many hip-hop lyrics, as well as the mediocrity of some popular hip-hop, the genre as a whole should not be dismissed as worthless just because portions of its subgenres are potentially offensive or sub-par. The whole should never be judged by just one of its parts.

The bolded phrases play which of the following roles in the passage above?

A. The first phrase contains a premise supporting the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contradicts that conclusion.
B. The first phrase is a reply to an argument, and the second phrase is the author's conclusion.
C. The first phrase is the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contains support for a premise.
D. The first phrase is an analogy supporting a premise, and the second phrase is that premise.
E. The first phrase is an opinion, while the second phrase contains an unrelated conclusion.

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by ashish2104 » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:03 am

IMO B.

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by FightWithGMAT » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:20 am

kvcpk wrote:As a genre, hip-hop is vastly underrated. While critics are right to question the violent and sometimes racist content of many hip-hop lyrics, as well as the mediocrity of some popular hip-hop, the genre as a whole should not be dismissed as worthless just because portions of its subgenres are potentially offensive or sub-par. The whole should never be judged by just one of its parts.

The bolded phrases play which of the following roles in the passage above?

A. The first phrase contains a premise supporting the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contradicts that conclusion.
B. The first phrase is a reply to an argument, and the second phrase is the author's conclusion.
C. The first phrase is the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contains support for a premise.
D. The first phrase is an analogy supporting a premise, and the second phrase is that premise.
E. The first phrase is an opinion, while the second phrase contains an unrelated conclusion.

IMO B

Second is the main conclusion of the argument.

First is a intermediate opinion of the author.

Both are claims

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by abhigang » Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:39 am

kvcpk wrote:As a genre, hip-hop is vastly underrated. While critics are right to question the violent and sometimes racist content of many hip-hop lyrics, as well as the mediocrity of some popular hip-hop, the genre as a whole should not be dismissed as worthless just because portions of its subgenres are potentially offensive or sub-par. The whole should never be judged by just one of its parts.

The bolded phrases play which of the following roles in the passage above?

A. The first phrase contains a premise supporting the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contradicts that conclusion.
B. The first phrase is a reply to an argument, and the second phrase is the author's conclusion.
C. The first phrase is the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contains support for a premise.
D. The first phrase is an analogy supporting a premise, and the second phrase is that premise.
E. The first phrase is an opinion, while the second phrase contains an unrelated conclusion.

IMO C.
The first is actually a conclusion and the second is the support for the premise " just because portions of its subgenres are potentially offensive or sub-par".

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by kvcpk » Fri Aug 20, 2010 2:14 pm

OA C

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by debmalya_dutta » Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:42 pm

Hey..If I may ask..what is the source of your question ? I need to get hold of some good CR stuff

kvcpk wrote:OA C

@Deb

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by kvcpk » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:39 pm

debmalya_dutta wrote:Hey..If I may ask..what is the source of your question ? I need to get hold of some good CR stuff

kvcpk wrote:OA C

Hey Deb,

This is one of the test questions from 800score.com

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by anantbhatia » Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:22 am

can someone tell me what genre would such questions fall in?

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by abhigang » Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:28 pm

anantbhatia wrote:can someone tell me what genre would such questions fall in?

This is basically a boldface question... where you need not derive anything out of the argument. But just follow the bolded statements and see how they are impacting the argument.

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