very challenging Inference question...

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Good students learn more than what their parents and teachers compel them to learn. This requires that these students derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity, and one cannot experience such pleasure unless one is capable of concentrating on a topic so intently that one loses track of one's own identity. If the statements above are true, each of the following could also be true EXCEPT:

(A) Some people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are nevertheless incapable of deriving pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.

(B) Most good students do not derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.

(C) Many people who derive pleasure simply from the satisfaction of their curiosity are not good students.

(D) Some people who are not good students derive pleasure from losing track of their own identities.

(E) Most people who are capable of becoming so absorbed in a topic that they lose track of their own identities are not good students.


The OA given is B. I really want to know that how many questions like these does actual gmat has in the test....

it is given that form a diagram of Conditional elements and you will get the answer...

It is something of the form like this as follows:


IF A then B ;

If B then C ;

and All the three parameters are defined as follows:

A = Good Students who learn more than their parents compel

B = Students who derive pleasure from the satisfaction of their curiosity.

C = One is capable of concentrating on a topic so intently that one loses track of one's own identity.


Based on the above, see and cancel out each of the answer choices properly and you will find that B is the correct answer choice...

[Gaurav 2013-fall]

very good question by my standards. In my opinion, you might see max 2 such questions given your verbal score is 45-46. But this is my personal opinion.