rockeyb wrote:If participation in honors creative writing class were limited to graduate students and those undergraduates who have received at least B+ in composition, most of the undergraduate students would be forced to take the regular creative writing class. Such reduction in undergraduate enrollment would reduce the percentage of failing grads in the honors class.

Which of the following if true would most strengthen the conclusion drawn in statement 2 above?

(A)Graduate students have all scored at least B+ in composition.

(B)The honor creative writing course is experiencing overcrowding due to increase in graduate enrollment .

(C)many undergraduates would work harder to score B + in composition rather than be excluded from honors creative writing .

(D)The number of failing grads in honors creative writing has decreased in recent years .

(E)Undergraduates who scored lower than B+ in composition are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of failing grads in honors.

Please explain your answer .

Thanks .

Source : Kaplan.

gmatmachoman wrote:@rockey bhai!
We have 2 creative writing class. One is Honors, atteneded by grads & Undergrads .One more is "regular" classes.
Now the author suggest that failing rate of grads in Honors class will certainly decrease provided the participation is restricted to grads & undergrads who scored B+ in "composition".

Again he says, if that condition is levied then most of the undergrads will be forced to take "regular" creative classes.

SO how does E strengthen authors claim??

Author idenstifies a assumption that undergrads who scored less than B+ are "responsible" for lowered scores of grads. reason could be undergrads are disturbing the grads. or it could be grads are spending most of the time moving around with undergards without concentrating on the subject or it may be that undergrads are "threatening" grads to do homework for them.

So in totality, reduce the undergrads population so that grads % may increase. He basically tries to connect a "relation " between Grads & undergrads!!

Undergraduates who scored lower than B+ in composition are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of failing grads in honors.

rockeyb wrote:

gmatmachoman wrote:@rockey bhai!
We have 2 creative writing class. One is Honors, atteneded by grads & Undergrads .One more is "regular" classes.
Now the author suggest that failing rate of grads in Honors class will certainly decrease provided the participation is restricted to grads & undergrads who scored B+ in "composition".

Again he says, if that condition is levied then most of the undergrads will be forced to take "regular" creative classes.

SO how does E strengthen authors claim??

Author idenstifies a assumption that undergrads who scored less than B+ are "responsible" for lowered scores of grads. reason could be undergrads are disturbing the grads. or it could be grads are spending most of the time moving around with undergards without concentrating on the subject or it may be that undergrads are "threatening" grads to do homework for them.

So in totality, reduce the undergrads population so that grads % may increase. He basically tries to connect a "relation " between Grads & undergrads!!

Govi bhai !!!

I get your point here .

Lets look at option E here :

Undergraduates who scored lower than B+ in composition are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of failing grads in honors.

The option says that Under grads who score lower than B+ are responsible for disproportionate percentage of failing grads in honors .

So how dose it mean that Under grads are actually reducing the result of honors class . Are we assuming

Disproportionate = more .

well then Disproportionate could also be less , that means may be the grads contribute more to the failing % than the undergrads . In this case too its disproportionate and Under grads are not responsible for it .

What say you ?

rockeyb wrote:@beat_gmat_09 Dude ,

I am not debating weather the author has succeed in bridging the gap between under graduate students and graduates. He has succeed and I agree to it .

Conclusion is : Reduction in undergraduate enrollments would would reduce the percentage of failing grads in the honors class.

That is If number of Undergraduate students are reduced in the honors class then the over result of the class will improve .

Now we need to find one answer that will support this conclusion .

In E as I have explained earlier Disproportionate could mean two things .

So my point here is : If number of undergraduates who score lower than B+ and fail are less than the number of graduates who fail . We still satisfy the condition in E the bridge is still there .

But look at the conclusion . Are we still correct in saying that the honors class result is poor because of Undergraduate students ?