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by David@VeritasPrep » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:08 pm
I wanted to share some new questions with the forum. As background, I teach for Veritas Prep and specialize in both the GMAT and the LSAT. I have written dozens of critical reasoning questions that have been published in books and in practice tests.

Here is a fun one to start with. This is for fans of OFFICE SPACE the movie from about 10 years ago - not the Office TV show although that is a good one, too.

I will post the analysis tomorrow ... please feel free to treat this as a serious question, it as and the logic works.



"Which of the following best completes the passage?

Milton: I believe that you have my red stapler.

Boss: Yeah...we switched from the Swingline to the Boston staplers some time ago. So I am just going to have to go ahead and confiscate this...

Milton: But I was told that I could keep this stapler, it is a better stapler and it does not jam.

Boss: Sorry, Milton. Oh and I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and move your desk to the basement...

Milton and the Boss are committed to disagreeing about whether___

A) Milton should move his desk to the basement.

B) The red Swingline stapler jams less.

C) Milton should be allowed to keep his red stapler.

D) The company previously switched to Boston staplers.

E) Milton needs to go ahead and come in on Saturday."
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by reply2spg » Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:49 pm
Hey David,

Thanks for reminding that scene again. Wow!!!!

And when boss says yeah, it should not be just yeah, it should be yeahhhhhh :)

Ok IMO answer here is C
David@VeritasPrep wrote:I wanted to share some new questions with the forum. As background, I teach for Veritas Prep and specialize in both the GMAT and the LSAT. I have written dozens of critical reasoning questions that have been published in books and in practice tests.

Here is a fun one to start with. This is for fans of OFFICE SPACE the movie from about 10 years ago - not the Office TV show although that is a good one, too.

I will post the analysis tomorrow ... please feel free to treat this as a serious question, it as and the logic works.



"Which of the following best completes the passage?

Milton: I believe that you have my red stapler.

Boss: Yeah...we switched from the Swingline to the Boston staplers some time ago. So I am just going to have to go ahead and confiscate this...

Milton: But I was told that I could keep this stapler, it is a better stapler and it does not jam.

Boss: Sorry, Milton. Oh and I'm going to have to ask you to go ahead and move your desk to the basement...

Milton and the Boss are committed to disagreeing about whether___

A) Milton should move his desk to the basement.

B) The red Swingline stapler jams less.

C) Milton should be allowed to keep his red stapler.

D) The company previously switched to Boston staplers.

E) Milton needs to go ahead and come in on Saturday."
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by David@VeritasPrep » Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:04 am
Thanks reply2spg. You are correct... the official answer (or as official as it can be) is "C," the two speakers disagree as to whether Milton should get to keep his stapler.

This would be an exotic question for the GMAT since it does not fall into the main categories as outlined by the Veritas Prep SWIMMER technique.

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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:09 pm
Hey David,

You're killing me with this - doesn't fit into SWIMMER?!

The question stem asks which point upon which they are "committed" to disagreement - or, essentially, which statement "Must Be" a point of disagreement.

That "must be true" standard is consistent with Inference questions - the other choices are things that they could disagree with, but "not necessarily". It may not be a pure Inference argument, but much like those "Plan/Policy/Strategy" questions that have you strengthen or weaken a plan, this is just another way to ask an Inference question.

SWIMMER is absolute! And you wrote an excellent Inference question!

(By the way - on the basis of this exchange...about what are David and Brian committed to disagreement?)
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