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Kaplan 800: Student Scholarships

by karmayogi » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:14 pm
A recent university study indicated that students who receive full scholarships tend to maintain higher grade point averages than do students who must take out loans or work to finance school. The study concluded that scholarships enable students to achieve high grade point averages by alleviating the stress related to financial concerns and freeing up students’ time to study more.

The study’s conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?

A)Students who take out loans maintain higher grade point averages than those who work to finance school.
B)Finance-related stress affects student performance in a manner similar to that of restricted study time.
C)Students who must work to pay for their studies cannot maintain high grade point averages.
D)High grade point averages were not the primary criterion upon which the scholarship awards were based.
E)Controlling stress level is less important to student performance than is intensive studying.
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by blackarrow » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:32 pm
IMO D


D)High grade point averages were not the primary criterion upon which the scholarship awards were based.

If scholarships are based on grade point criterion, students will automatically score higher, so its a function of the scholarship and not the stress related to loans

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by gmat740 » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:25 pm
A,C and E options have some flaw
A)Students who take out loans maintain higher grade point averages than those who work to finance school.
Absolutely different than what has been said
E)Controlling stress level is less important to student performance than is intensive studying
Out of scope,we are concern with financial stress.
C)Students who must work to pay for their studies cannot maintain high grade point averages.
It is the work which stops students to study, so low grades

I don't if its is correct, but it looks more like an inference than an assumption


Confuse between B and D


Would go with B.

Because D" we are not concern with how the scholarships are given but we are concerned with the consequence of the scholarships"

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by delhiboy1979 » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:03 pm
I dont know. I like C best here. It does say that getting scholarships is the only way that the students can study more and hence do well.
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by scoobydooby » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:59 pm
would go for D

conclusion: scholarship causes high GPA

A) makes an unecessary distinction which doesnt affect the argument

B) financial stress and less study time affect student equally but it doesnt affect the argument so it need not be assumed

C) if students who work cannot maintain high GPA=> we still cant conclude scholarship causes high GPA

D) if we negate we get: high GPA only factor that determines scholarship=> it reverses the causality and our argument falls apart. D must be the necessary assumption.

E) out of scope
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by nervesofsteel » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:19 am
D

if scholarships were awarded based on high scores... then can be possible that ... students who are getting higher score now .. were already scoring higher score.. scholarship has no role into it...
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by gmat740 » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:00 am
if scholarships were awarded based on high scores... then can be possible that ... students who are getting higher score now .. were already scoring higher score.. scholarship has no role into i
D)High grade point averages were not the primary criterion upon which the scholarship awards were based.

can you feel the difference between what you have written and what has been given in Option D??
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by ketkoag » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:40 am
IMO : B seems to be the best answer, coz we are not concerned about how the scholarships are given i.e. in D..
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by Musicolo » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:45 am
delhiboy1979 wrote:I dont know. I like C best here. It does say that getting scholarships is the only way that the students can study more and hence do well.
I also agree with C. This is a tough one though.
D seems out of scope since the assumption is about what happens after the scholarships were awarded and not the criterion on the basis of which the scholarships were awarded.
Possibly B, but I would go for C.
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by shkusira » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:59 am
D..If this were true, the causal relationship suggested would reverse.

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by blackarrow » Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:51 am
Karmayogi,

Request you to please post OA.

No point in answering a question unless we can determine whether we are right or not

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by abhi75 » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:14 am
The OA is D. D is eliminating the weakness in the argument.
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by karmayogi » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:25 am
I totally forgot this post. I am extremely sorry for that. There is some problem with BTG's "Notify me when a reply is posted" functionality. I have already sent a PM to Beatthegmat regarding this.

OA is D.

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by Uri » Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:00 am
KY, do you have any official explanation for the answer? Or else, can you provide any explanation why (A) should be the answer? I strongly feel that (D) should be the one.
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by karmayogi » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:10 am
Uri wrote:KY, do you have any official explanation for the answer? Or else, can you provide any explanation why (A) should be the answer? I strongly feel that (D) should be the one.
Thanks for pointing out. It was a typographical error. I edited the post; the answer is indeed D.
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