albertrahul wrote:Here is something I found on other forum, might be of some help.
Assumption is something you need for you to draw your conclusion. Inference is a judgement that you draw from existing facts. Inference is the stage just before the conclusion, it may or may not correct. Say, there is a factor of 'doubt' attached with inference but not with conclusion.
This summary isn't accurate.
An assumption is a missing but necessary piece of evidence. Basically, it's an essential building block of an argument. An assumption is something that must be true
in order for the argument to make sense.
An inference is (at least on the GMAT) a conclusion; not necessarily the "main conclusion", but a conclusion nonetheless. A valid inference is something that must be true
based on one or more of the statements in the stimulus.
Assumptions are always found in arguments: i.e. stimuli that can be broken down into evidence and conclusion. Inferences, on the other hand, can be drawn from a set of facts, rather than an argument. On the GMAT, we always presuppose that the statements in the stimulus are true when drawing inferences.
