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by jasminejasmine » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:34 am
Hi all,

I do not get the answer to this CR question....can anyone help to explain? Thanks!

A vicious cycle ensues when students cheat on exams. Grade inflation drives schools to raise standards, which increases the pressure on non-cheating students. In turn, this drives even more students to start cheating on exams.

The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?

A. When standards rise, it tends to give students an incentive to try raising their grades honestly.

B. The ways to expel cheaters and counteract grade inflation are achievable through various means, but some single out innocent students, and effectiveness rates fluctuate yearly.

C. When schools set grades standards to evaluate student performance, they do not adequately allow for cheating by some percentage of students.

D. No regular cheaters will be discouraged from cheating by a lowering of the standards, unless stronger penalties are also added.

E. All students will begin cheating when the standards reach the same level.

The answer is C...but WHY?

Thanks!
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Source: — Critical Reasoning |

Re: loop question

by ranell » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:01 pm
jasminejasmine wrote:Hi all,

I do not get the answer to this CR question....can anyone help to explain? Thanks!

A vicious cycle ensues when students cheat on exams. Grade inflation drives schools to raise standards, which increases the pressure on non-cheating students. In turn, this drives even more students to start cheating on exams.

The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?

A. When standards rise, it tends to give students an incentive to try raising their grades honestly.

B. The ways to expel cheaters and counteract grade inflation are achievable through various means, but some single out innocent students, and effectiveness rates fluctuate yearly.

C. When schools set grades standards to evaluate student performance, they do not adequately allow for cheating by some percentage of students.

D. No regular cheaters will be discouraged from cheating by a lowering of the standards, unless stronger penalties are also added.

E. All students will begin cheating when the standards reach the same level.

The answer is C...but WHY?

Thanks!
A. if it is so, when the statement that higher standards drive more students to start cheating on exams is doubtful

B. how effectiveness rates change over the year and the mentioned various means are out of scope in the argument

C. CORRECT as if it's so it means that some percentage of students will definitely start cheating and thus this assumption supports the conclusion of the argument.

D. penalties are out of scope in the argument

E. the argument is not about all student and the definite level students begin cheating.

:) hope this helps
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hi jasmine

by siddharth rastogi » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:27 am
the answer is c

as the question is to find the fact which should be there to alow vicious cycle.


and the option c says that When schools set grades standards to evaluate student performance, they do not adequately allow for cheating by some percentage of students.

to check this option negate the answer choice:

the school adequately allow for cheting by some percentage of people. However, if the school allow adequate percentage to cheat then the vicious cycle would not occur as the grade standards would not rise too much to create pressure on non-cheating students.

hope this helps.
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by kris77 » Sun May 15, 2016 3:49 pm
C seems to be the best choice here
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