LSAT 108 | Section 2 | Logical Reasoning: Q13

LR Question 13 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Ramona: One of the primary values …

QUESTION TYPE: Agreement

ARGUMENTS:

RAMONA’S ARGUMENT: * Intellectual growth from being exposed to many ideas is a key value of university

• Too many students miss out on this because they choose technical majors for job prospects
• Pressures to graduate quickly make this problem worse.

MARTIN’S ARGUMENT: We have to be realistic about jobs. My English-major brother is working as a waiter. Besides, even technical majors are required to take some liberal arts classes.

ANALYSIS: This is a rare question type. We need to find something that Ramona and Martin agree on.

There’s not much to work with here. One thing they both talk about is technical majors.

Ramona says exposure to a wide range of ideas comes from certain educational choices and that many technical majors miss out on it. That implies that some classes/paths provide less exposure than others.

Martin says that even students in technical majors are required to take some liberal arts classes. Why does he bring this up? Because he thinks liberal arts classes provide exposure to a wide range of ideas that technical classes may not. Otherwise, mentioning liberal arts requirements would be irrelevant.

So both agree that some classes expose students to a wide range of ideas more than others.

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1. Way too specific. Neither says this. Ramona talks about exposure to a wide range of ideas generally, and Martin mentions liberal arts classes.
2. Ramona definitely doesn’t say this. Martin only gives one anecdote about his brother being a waiter. He doesn’t claim only technical majors get good jobs.
3. CORRECT. See the analysis above.
4. Ramona might lean this way, but she never explicitly weighs the two. Martin certainly doesn’t.
5. Martin values realism and employment, but he never says it’s more important. Ramona probably wouldn’t agree.