PrepTest 118, Section 3, Question 20
Dana: It is wrong to think that the(74 more words not shown)
The conversation lends the most(15 more words not shown)
- AAll children can(6 more words not shown)
- BAll children should(7 more words not shown)
- CMany children would(8 more words not shown)
- DThe main purpose(16 more words not shown)
- EIt is sometimes(12 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Learning most comfortably in a group doesn't mean you'll never need to work alone. Even if a familiar method helps a child learn today's material, using another method might teach a different valuable skill.
Dana says the child's accustomed learning style should always decide the teaching method. I have questions even before that conclusion: does growing up in a communal environment establish how a child learns best? But let's allow that connection for now. It still wouldn't settle whether immediate ease of learning is the only consideration.
Pat makes that second objection. Both group work and individual work are useful, so children should develop flexibility rather than stay entirely with the familiar approach. Notice the response is not always, not never.
What we’re looking for
For the disagreement question, ask whether children should have to adapt to different methods. Dana's rule keeps instruction tied to the accustomed style. Pat thinks learning to function in different settings is valuable enough to depart from that rule.
Working the answers
- A
Dana could agree that individual activities teach some valuable skills while thinking a particular child learns better in a group. A preference for one method doesn't require believing the other is worthless. This answer doesn't give us a clear disagreement.
- BCorrect
Pat favors children learning to adapt to different educational methods because both independent and group work matter. Dana instead says the child's accustomed style should always dictate the method. Those positions conflict over whether children should develop that flexibility rather than always be taught in the familiar way.
- C
Pat doesn't deny that many children currently learn better in groups. The point is that an immediate advantage of group learning needn't determine every educational choice. Children might also benefit from learning to work independently. Both speakers could accept C while disagreeing about what to do about it.
- D
Neither speaker establishes the main purpose of education. Pat says both skills are in demand, but that needn't refer only to employment; people also work alone and with others outside jobs. Even if employment were one benefit, citing it wouldn't make it education's main purpose. Dana doesn't supply an opposing view about that purpose either.
- E
Sometimes leaves room for the flexibility Pat wants. Pat rejects always using the accustomed style, not every instance of doing so. Dana's stronger rule also allows such tailoring sometimes. Their disagreement concerns whether the familiar method should always govern, so this weaker claim doesn't separate them.
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