Critical Reasoning

The verb tense stugglles here are very nice. Regardless of what the tense "WILL" or "WOULD" the negation still works. We are picking the best out of the five not the perfect. We can sit back and name off 100 assumptions but we have to clearly delete the ones we know are wrong. Some of the tricks in the choices point you towards a fake conclusion. So those ones are deleted but when you see E it is better then all others because its the only one that hurts the conclusion regardless of the tense. Granted, the assumption is a bad and less classy choice but its correct.

In my humble opinion, it is E.

FYI, I prephrased an assumption that "viewers like personal stories, weather and sports" I was looking for that in the choices but as you can see I too need to settle for a less than nice answer choice.

On analyzing the options I narrowed down to B and C.

b) The programming content of Nighttime News is more closely aligned with the interests of the overall audience that is the content of World News
If the both the channels air the same content of news, no audiendce will turn up and switch the programme which they are used to watch. This point has made me to think that, this may not be the assumption

C: Some World News viewers like the new Nighttime News programming better than they liked the World News programing

This rightly fit the assumption of argument. You need todo something diffrent, if you have to attract viewers, so the new NT news has attracted some world news viewrs.

Any other views...

OA C

Source MGMAT CR Guide, 3rd Edition

Ok after thinking about this question for the whole night I've finally reasoned out why B and E are incorrect.

B: The programming content of Nighttime News is more closely aligned with the interests of the overall audience that is the content of World News

As slash and rohangupta83 said, if the content are closely aligned why would there be an audience shift, unless the quality of NN news is better. But since no such information is given, this option is incorrect.

E: The quality of World News will remain constant even if Nightime News improves.

OK you can apply the negation test here

Negation: The quality of WN will NOT remain constant even if NN improves.
NOT remain constant could have 2 meanings

1. The quality could decline: In this case the conclusion will still hold, in fact in this case it actually supports the conclusion. So the conclusion does not fall apart.

2. The quality improves: In this case it would call are conclusion into question. If the quality improves or is similar to NN why would there be a shift of viewers.

Hence since we don't know which of the above 2 situations will take place, this option cannot be an assumption and is hence incorrect.

My advise:

According to the stimulus the switch from viewers from one program to another is due to THE DIFFERENCES IN PROGRAMMING...so, Nighttime News chose the right subjects that interest people...

However, another explaination of the switch of viewers could be the fact that world news quality has decreased a lot, which means that the subjects are not so important as the conclusion said...

If customer changed program because World News quality has decreased, then the conclusion is false, because the subjects have much lower impact...

So...E

So..the answer is...C!

one more for C..

sorry for participating late..

P1:For several years, Nighttime News attracted fewer viewers than World News, which broadcasts its show at the same time as Nighttime News.

p2:. Recently The producers of Nighttime News added personal interests stories and increased coverage of sports and weather. The two programs now have a roughly equal numbers of viewers

conclusion:Clearly, the recent programing changes persuaded viewers to switch from World News to Nighttime News.


assumption:


) Viewers are more interested in sports and weather than in personal interest stories.
cant Be- there is no comparison.Infact both of them helps..

b) The programming content of Nighttime News is more closely aligned with the interests of the overall audience that is the content of World News

nope- if this is the case.number of viewers cant be same.

c) Some World News viewers like the new Nighttime News programming better than they liked the World News programing .

our assumtion-then only the number of veiwers can become equal

d) There are other possible causes for an increase in the number of viewers of Nighttime News, including a recent ad campaign that aired on
many local affiliates.

can be-but doesnt help to explain how the number of veiwers became equal.

e) The quality of World News will remain constant even if Nightime News improves.

not necessary- what if the quality of world news deteriorate a bit and that of night time news improved a bit.

thanks.

raunekk wrote:
sorry for participating late.. .

Next time, please be here on time!

doesnt matter ....

the explanations will be helpful to other members of the community...

Raunekk,
You seem to be rocking this CR house for quite sometime.

Logitech,

Both of us joined late(spend little too much time in Quant atleast me definitely knowing inc in points on Verbal has more impact on the overall score than Quant).

Good luck people!

Cramya

In my opinion C is the most logical one.