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by kvcpk » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:08 am
In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only
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People who work sincerely are the happiest."
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by beatthegmatinsept » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:10 am
IMO B
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by FightWithGMAT » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:18 am
kvcpk wrote:In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only
IMO A
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by kvcpk » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:19 am
Provide explanations Please!!
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by beatthegmatinsept » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:30 am
In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.

Since they know it'll take a lot of effort to fire them, then have a sense of job security and hence are slacking off --> thus it's having a negative influence on them.

Since the author is concluding that the govt is inefficient because of the cvil employees' attitude, it must mean that the Govt has civil service employees. These has to be a link between the premise and the conclusion, and III fills that gap.

Hence, B
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by kvcpk » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:39 am
I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.
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by beatthegmatinsept » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:40 am
kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.
I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
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by kvcpk » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:19 am
beatthegmatinsept wrote:
kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.
I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?
Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced :(
OA is A.
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by beatthegmatinsept » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:21 am
kvcpk wrote:
beatthegmatinsept wrote:
kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.
I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?
Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced :(
OA is A.
I am not either. :(
III has to be an assumption in order to get to the conclusion that the author states.
what's the source?
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by FightWithGMAT » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:35 pm
kvcpk wrote:
beatthegmatinsept wrote:
kvcpk wrote:I have a query:

Is it OK to infer a Generalised statement from a particular example?

Here I is Generalisation, while the passage only has example.
I am no expert, but I think it is. I in this case is like a given, the question is probably whether you pick or don't pick the other option.
What's the OA?
Thankyou!! But I am not completely convinced :(
OA is A.
This is an inference question....
Does the passage say that inefficiency in gov is proportional to number of employees in gov.

It could be the case that gov is inefficient because the civil service officers are responsible for most of inefficiency, and such officers are only 10%.
90 % are not civil service officers.
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by SeemaSkl » Wed Aug 25, 2010 2:58 pm
IMO E seems correct.
I is over-generalized.
What is the OE and the source?
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by ankurmit » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:18 pm
B and C cant be inferred from stem.

A too is difficult one.

None of them should be answer :)

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by nipunkathuria » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:22 pm
I is correct.
III should also hold true as "This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient"-- that means most of the employees are CS at government jobs

Hence B should have been the answer..

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by mundasingh123 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:54 pm
kvcpk wrote:In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only
Hi can u reveal the source ?
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by prachich1987 » Fri Jan 07, 2011 12:31 am
What's the OA?
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