Women enrolled in Higher Education

[Dean Jones]

Hi All,

I am facing difficulty in nailing this CR question, from 300+ CR question(source).

Please help me.

The proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades. This is partly shown by the fact that in 1959, only 11 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college, while in 1981, 30 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college. To evaluate the argument above, it would be most useful to compare 1959 and 1981 with regard to which of the following characteristics?

A. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-one who were not enrolled in college

B. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-five who graduated from college

C. The percentage of women who, after attending college, entered highly paid professions

D. The percentage of men between twenty and twenty-one who were enrolled in college

E. The percentage of men who graduated from high school

OA after some discussions.

[cans]

IMO B

[gauravgundal]

I would go with answer choice D
Conclusion: Proportion of women among students who enrolledhas increased over decade..
that means we have three things to look into.
1. Proportion of women.
2. Proportion of men. (since the conclusion of argument i.e is proportion of women increase is based on total students).
3.If data is compared with some different era(time period).

One of the authors assumption is that women between 20 and 21,inclusive contribute to the proportion of women in higher education programs.


A.Do it matter who were not enrolled in college? Nope. A is out
B. Graduated from college doesn't mean that the women enrolling and graduating from college are same.
It can happen that some women students failed multiple times and then all those who failed before were graduated in 1981 ,leading to increase in proportion of women graduated
C. nope.
E. same as B.

[Surev]

The question is to "To evaluate the argument" and the argument is that the proportion of women among students has increased.
The two percentage figures mentioned in the question compare the increase in the women enrollment in 1959 and 1981 but it does not compare the ratio between women enrollments in proportion to total students in each of those years.
If we have the enrollment figures for male students for the two years, proportion between male and female students can be made and thus the argument can be truly evaluated.
So D.

[jainnikhil02]

IMO C..
i concluded that one by elimination method..

[zaarathelab]

A) The comparison is between women and the entire student population (women and men). Info on women who are not enrolled does not give any indication of increase of women %age wrt to student population

B) Irrelevant
C) Irrelevant
D) CORRECT. This will provide info on the rest of the student population percentage and validate the increase
E) Irrelevant

[M09]

Hi All,

I am facing difficulty in nailing this CR question, from 300+ CR question(source).

Please help me.

The proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades. This is partly shown by the fact that in 1959, only 11 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college, while in 1981, 30 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college. To evaluate the argument above, it would be most useful to compare 1959 and 1981 with regard to which of the following characteristics?

A. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-one who were not enrolled in college

B. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-five who graduated from college

C. The percentage of women who, after attending college, entered highly paid professions

D. The percentage of men between twenty and twenty-one who were enrolled in college

E. The percentage of men who graduated from high school

OA after some discussions.

percentage of woman enrolled = w'/S
w' enrolled out of W women
S total student = M + W -> M men & W women
Depends upon men
so D

[ace.gmat]

My answer is B

[tuanquang269]

imo D

[mankey]

Some expert please explain this one.

Thanks.

[hultt]

Hey,
Sorry to re-open this question but i have one query.

D option> does this not assume that the men enrolled in the college belong only to twenty and twenty one. Assumption looks like that we are comparing men and women from only twenty and twenty one age group...why this assumption?

i too opted for D option as none other could fit in but still feel D also has some gaps.

please someone clarify..

[dhonu121]

None of the choices seem good.
However, only D seems close.
If I had to pick a choice, I would choose D.

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'The proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades.'

This is the conclusion in the above question. It clearly states the proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades.

proportion of women among students. so you need to D to evaluate the argument.

[hultt]

Seems like yes we need to make the assumption that we are considering people b/w age of 20 and 21 only...and hence keep the argument within in the SCOPE..
sometimes i tend to go beyond the scope by inserting unnecessary reasoning...

Thanks people

[karthikpandian19]

The main stimulus here is:

The proportion of women has increased which indirectly means some possibilities:

1. proportion of men went down by keeping women constant or increasing
2. proportion of women increasing is more than the men increasing


Either way we need to find the proportion of the men to find the statement to be true. So in order to evaluate this statement we need something that relates to men

Hi All,

I am facing difficulty in nailing this CR question, from 300+ CR question(source).

Please help me.

The proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades. This is partly shown by the fact that in 1959, only 11 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college, while in 1981, 30 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college. To evaluate the argument above, it would be most useful to compare 1959 and 1981 with regard to which of the following characteristics?

A. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-one who were not enrolled in college - This information will not be helpful for evaluating the increase in the proportion because if the rise in men is also same then the proportion will not change

B. The percentage of women between twenty and twenty-five who graduated from college - Irrelevant to the topic, as it deals btwn 20 & 25, as we need only 20 &21

C. The percentage of women who, after attending college, entered highly paid professions - Again this is irrelevant as it tells about after graduation

D. The percentage of men between twenty and twenty-one who were enrolled in college - This info as we discussed earlier is very useful in determining the proportion increase.

E. The percentage of men who graduated from high school - This is tempting but irrelevant as it tells abt after graduation.

OA after some discussions.