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by AIM GMAT » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:58 am
[spoiler]I am not satified with the OA , kindly pour in your thooughts and opinions , OA : D[/spoiler]

The trustees of the Avonbridge summer drama workshop have decided to offer scholarships to the top 10 percent of local applicants and the top 10 percent of nonlocal applicants as judged on the basis of a qualifying audition. They are doing this to ensure that only the applicants with the most highly evaluated auditions are offered scholarships to the program.

Which one of the following points out why the trustees' plan might not be effective in achieving its goal?

(A) The best actors can also apply for admission to another program and then not enrol in the Avonbridge program

(B) Audition materials that produce good results for one actor may disadvantage another, resulting in inaccurate assessment

(C) The top 10 percent of local and nonlocal applicants might not need scholarships to the Avonbridge program

(D) Some of the applicants who are offered scholarships could have less highly evaluated auditions than some of the applicants who are not offered scholarships

(E) Dividing applicants into local and nonlocal groups is unfair because it favours nonlocal applicants
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by HSPA » Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:10 am
what is the goal: to select TOP 10% local and non local applicants
premise: 10% selected participants are highly evaluated and can get scholorships

Opinion: best actors have attended the audition but joined other audition

A) Matching my opinion.. the best actors went to other audition
B) No: passage never said different tests for diff test takers
C) No
D) equal evaluation of all same as B.
E) No
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by rohu27 » Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:16 am
I was not sure abt D coz of 'Some' but tht is the best option.

The trustees want only the highly evaluated applicants to receive the scholarship. we need to find an option tht undermines their efforts.
AIM GMAT wrote:[spoiler]I am not satified with the OA , kindly pour in your thooughts and opinions , OA : D[/spoiler]

The trustees of the Avonbridge summer drama workshop have decided to offer scholarships to the top 10 percent of local applicants and the top 10 percent of nonlocal applicants as judged on the basis of a qualifying audition. They are doing this to ensure that only the applicants with the most highly evaluated auditions are offered scholarships to the program.

Which one of the following points out why the trustees' plan might not be effective in achieving its goal?

(A) The best actors can also apply for admission to another program and then not enrol in the Avonbridge program
the trustees never said they want best applicants for the prog

(B) Audition materials that produce good results for one actor may disadvantage another, resulting in inaccurate assessment
Irrelevant - materials used are is not of a cocnern here.

(C) The top 10 percent of local and nonlocal applicants might not need scholarships to the Avonbridge program
Agan irrelevant, its nt abt the appliacnts need.

(D) Some of the applicants who are offered scholarships could have less highly evaluated auditions than some of the applicants who are not offered scholarships
now if the process of evaluation is not uniform for all,it causes a discrepnacy and undermines the trustees aim to select the top 10% highly evaluatedd.

(E) Dividing applicants into local and nonlocal groups is unfair because it favours nonlocal applicants
irrelevant
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by fitzgerald23 » Thu Mar 24, 2011 7:04 am
1. The top 10% of local and top 10% of nonlocal applicants will be offered scholarships
2. This will ensure the highest evaluated candidates are offered scholarships

A. Incorrect. The conclusion is only concerned with offering scholarships, enrollment is not a consideration

B. Incorrect. The process of assessment is not part of the conclusion. They just are concerned with giving it to the most highly evaluated under their own criteria for judging.

C. Incorrect. Need has nothing to do with offering scholarships.

D. Correct. Imagine that the candidates are evaluated on a scale of 1-100. 100 local people apply and the top 10 score above 90. The next 10 score between 75 and 85. Assume 100 nonlocals apply. Their top 10 scores range between 80 and 95. That means that some of the tier 2 locals have higher evaluations than the tier 1 nonlocals. Remember the goal is to get the highest evaluated people a scholarship offer, meaning the top 20 people. In this scenario the top 20 will not be offered a scholarship. At the very least the score of 85 is not going to get an offer, which means the highest evaluated will not all be given a scholarship offer.

E. Incorrect. There is no bias shown.
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