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by NSNguyen » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:48 am
Knowledge of an ancient language is essential for reading original ancient documents. Most ancient historical documents, however, have been translated into modern languages, so scholars of ancient history can read them for their research without learning ancient languages. Therefore, aspirants to careers as ancient history scholars no longer need to take the time to learn ancient languages.
The argument is vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?
(A) It concludes that something is never necessary on the grounds that it is not always necessary.
(B) A statement of fact is treated as if it were merely a statement of opinion.
(C) The conclusion is no more than a restatement of the evidence provides as support of that conclusion.
(D) The judgment of experts is applied to a matter in which their expertise is irrelevant.
(E) Some of the evidence presented in support of the conclusion is inconsistent with other evidences provided.
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by Anon » Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:23 am
Most ancient historical documents

t concludes that something is never necessary on the grounds that it is not always necessary.

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Re: Ancient language

by lunarpower » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:27 pm
yeah, it goes from "most ancient documents ... have been translated" to "aspirants ... no longer need to ... learn ancient languages." this logical leap neglects those documents that haven't been translated; scholars who don't learn the languages won't be able to read those documents.

by the way, is this an lsat question? this question type is very typical of the lsat, and very atypical of the gmat. if it is an lsat question, note that if you plan to take the gmat, you should be studying gmat questions instead.
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by svaradhan » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:08 am
Ron, I am practising questions from 1000 CR most of them are from LSAT, I guess. Many people suggested that it is a good practice to gain control in CR. What is your suggestion on this? Please advice.
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by chidcguy » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:58 am
IMO, LSAT Q's are longer and tougher than GMAT Questions. You might not directly benefit from them but you will indirectly benefit from them as you work more.

A is my pick as well.
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by lunarpower » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:04 pm
svaradhan wrote:Ron, I am practising questions from 1000 CR most of them are from LSAT, I guess. Many people suggested that it is a good practice to gain control in CR. What is your suggestion on this? Please advice.
if you're going to do that, you should become familiar with the format of the questions that appear on the gmat, so that you can tell which lsat questions are actually relevant to you gmat review.

in any case, though, you shouldn't use lsat questions until you have completely exhausted the available supply of gmat questions (in the official guides and gmatprep). this means that not only can you solve the problems, but you can also explain why the solutions are correct (using diagrams if necessary) and can also explain why the wrong answers are incorrect.
in addition, if you have achieved suitable mastery of the official guide cr problems, you should actually be able to create your own analogue problems that use the same kind of reasoning. once you can create analogue problems, then you have achieved true mastery of the gmat problems.

in any case, i don't terribly recommend using lsat problems, because there are too many of them lacking relevance (or having only tangential relevance) to the gmat. don't ever forget that your goal here is (presumably) to study for the gmat, not to become proficient in as many different problem types as possible.

summary:
* first recommendation: go back to the official cr problems and review them in much more depth, to achieve true mastery (as detailed above)
* make sure you understand what kinds of things show up in official CR problems and what kinds of things don't
* only use lsat problems if you have completely exhausted your storehouse of gmat problems (harder than you think to do this)
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by peter.p.81 » Wed May 11, 2016 12:32 am
I am pretty sure that the right Answer is A.
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