LR Question 25 Explanation
QUESTION TEXT: We are in a new industrial revolution…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Business school curricula should be developed by business executives and then taught by academics.
REASONING: Business school has been too theoretical and not practical enough.
ANALYSIS: The argument assumes that business executives could add value and it is also assumes that the academic professors could effectively teach the curriculum.
___________
- This is pretty extreme. It’s only necessary that academics don’t have enough practical experience. They could have some.
- As with A, this is also pretty extreme. It’s only necessary that academics don’t deal with enough real situations.
- The stimulus actually assumes that academics are able to teach the curriculum. The conclusion says that academics should teach what business executives design.
- This would support the argument by showing how useless business schools have become. But it isn’t necessary. It’s only necessary that business schools aren’t responsive enough.
- CORRECT. If business executives don’t have any relevant knowledge to add then it’s not clear how they could improve the situation.
Free Logical Reasoning lesson
Get a free sample of the Logical Reasoning Mastery Seminar. Learn tips for solving LR questions
Hi, I'm Graeme Blake
I run LSAT Hacks, and got a 177 on the LSAT. The single best thing I've ever made is the set of LSAT Mastery seminars. They show you how to think like a 170+ scorer when doing questions. Get them here: Mastery Seminars
I guarantee you'll like them, or you get your money back within 7 days. There's no risk. Check the reviews, people have said they improved within a few days.
---------
Photos and Updates: You can follow me on Instagram here
For updates, sign up for my email list. I update whenever I have new posts.
1. How is E correct?? It is not necessary for business executives to have insight that the academics don’t have, being that it’s possible that really the academics have the insight, just that they’re unable to tear away from their roots, like the paragraph said!
2. D should be the correct answer!
E is correct because this argument is assuming that business executives are able to facilitate “action learning”, which the stimulus says that business school academics can’t. This ability of theirs is the “valuable insight” which the business schools don’t have.
D is out of scope. We don’t care about academic training outside of business schools. The last sentence of the stimulus tells us that they want business executives to set curricula for business schools. Not external training.