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by raunekk » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:35 am
11. Some teachers claim that students would not learn curricular content without the incentive of grades. But students with intense interest in the material would learn it without this incentive, while the behavior of students lacking all interests in the material is unaffected by such an incentive. The incentive of grades, therefore, serves no essential academic purpose.
The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument
(A) take for granted that the only purpose of school is to convey a fixed body of information to students
(B) takes for granted that students who are indifferent to the grades they receive are genuinely interested in the curricular material
(C) fails to consider that the incentive of grades may serve some useful nonacademic purpose
(D) ignore the possibility that students who lack interest in the curricular material would be quite interested in it if allowed to choose their own curricular material
(E) fails to consider that some students may be neither fascinated by nor completely indifferent to the subject being taught

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by raviagni » Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:27 am
E is the answer,as we are not taking those students into consideration who are vulnerable to both effects, and have no bias towards any side

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by chidcguy » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:04 am
Yep E is my pick. The stimulus considers the extremes. Students who have intense interest and students who do not have any interest at all.

What about the students in the middle?
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by agent47 » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:25 pm
IMO B

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by raunekk » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:41 pm
E is the OA...but still not getting it...:(

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by john83.amar » Wed May 11, 2016 4:25 am
I will Go with option E in this case