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by jyothinookula » Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:52 am
Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.

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by umaa » Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:08 am
jyothinookula wrote:Parents often criticize schools for not doing their job. Many blame schools for low student achievement scores. Surprisingly, the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts where the achievement scores are high.

All of the following, considered individually, help to explain the apparent paradox EXCEPT:
A. Parents from districts of high achievers are very involved with the schools and are, therefore, more likely to make critical comments.
B. Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores.
C. High scores cause parents' expectations to rise leading parents to demand that students achieve even more.
D. High-scoring districts contain low-achieving students whose parents are likely to complain when their children score below the local average.
E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.

please explain

IMO B.

A - Explained the discrepancy very well
B - With the information given, we can't over assume that parents are criticizing schools because they don't have any knowledge of scores. Parents may criticize schools even if they know that the district has high average and their child has not got a good score.
C - If parents expectations rises, they'll expect more from children. So, if children didn't get good score, parents criticize schools.
D - If parents see their children getting low scores below the average, they'll start criticizing schools. Clearly supports the discrepancy
E - I was between B and E and I neglected E because even though we don't need any information about political activists, this sentence satisfies the discrepancy. Those high average district schools are getting more criticism from political activists.

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by M09 » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:04 am
IMO, E..I tried POE..Remember it's Except Q so

E. Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts.

This statement tells which group, political activists, complains the most. But doest explain any discrepancy.

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by jyothinookula » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:05 am
OA is B.
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by jyothinookula » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:09 am
But how does E explain the discrepancy?It may be assumed that political activists are vociferous about complaints but why should there be so many complaints when the district scores are high? how does this explain both sides of the paradox?
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by umaa » Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:20 am
When we compare B and E, E at least resolve the paradox in some way. But B does nothing to do with the argument. So, I chose B.
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by DanaJ » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:01 am
jyothinookula wrote:But how does E explain the discrepancy?It may be assumed that political activists are vociferous about complaints but why should there be so many complaints when the district scores are high? how does this explain both sides of the paradox?
Paradox: Complaints from parents come from high scoring districts.

This means that the statements that resolve this paradox should address this apparent contradiction, between scores and complaints. There must be something apart from scores that helps bridge the gap between scores and parents' reactions. Statement E covers this gap by mentioning that an external factor ("political activism") is responsible for complaints. Statement B however does not make any distinct link between the two facts.

Also, if you look at the statements closely, you'll see that all of them except for B mention "high scoring" in one way or another, thereby covering at least one side of the problem. This should also be used to eliminate choices.
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by M09 » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:33 am
jyothinookula, I did not understand what exactly you need to know. Please explain.
Also, It's except question.

Umaa, Even I was stuck between B and E. BUT I eliminated B because here what I understood

most of complains are from districts, although the scores are high in those districts...we have to resolve this.
In other words why most complaints when the scores are already high.

now looking at B, Parents have no knowledge of their district's own scores. In other words, they don't know the real thing or due to their lack of knowledge, but still they are complaining about low score. This explains that why most complains come from districts where high scores are there.

Let me know what you think ?
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by umaa » Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:37 am
M09,
I think its too much assumption. But if we take E, it says "Most complaints about schools come from political activists, most of whom live in high-achieving districts."

So, only few people complaints in high score district. But most complaints come from political activists. The first sentence is derived from the logic. But the second clearly satisfies the discrepancy. This is what I understood.
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by gmatv09 » Sun Dec 13, 2009 6:52 pm
E can be eliminated becoz..
the most frequent and vociferous complaints come from those who live in districts

IMO B
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by jyothinookula » Sun Dec 13, 2009 8:31 pm
hmm. i understand now. thanks a lot.
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by joseph32 » Sun May 15, 2016 10:31 pm
Answer B seems to be logical one out of other answer choices
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