LSAT 21 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q27

RC Question 27 Explanation

DISCUSSION: See lines 59-61. The author criticizes Tollefson for not making his solutions clear and easy to implement.

The educational institutions are part of a complicated bureaucracy. A complicated system may required a complicated solution to fix.

The author is disappointed in Tollefson. Tollefson knew that the system was complex, but he only made general suggestions.

Most of the wrong answers are nonsense that presume the author is criticizing Tollefson for something other than the quality of his suggestions.

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1. This makes no sense. We have no evidence that Tollefson combined a description with suggestions. It’s more likely that the description came earlier in the book, while suggestions came at the end.
    
   Further, there’s no problem with describing a system and then suggesting improvements.
2. CORRECT. Since Tollefson was dealing with a complicated system, it was especially important that he make clear, specific recommendations. Tollefson failed to do so.
3. Since Tollefson concluded the system was bad, why shouldn’t he propose changes? There’s no irony.
4. The author agrees with Tollefson’s description of the problem. Their only criticism of Tollefson is that his criticisms should have been more specific.
5. The author never said Tollefson’s arguments were too complex. They just said that his recommendations should have been clearer.