Indian army - Cr question

[stupidrahul26]

Source : Not from the Banned sources . Took it from a newspaper[Hindu]

The Indian Military Academy will not be able to attract a greater number of able and talented applicants than they currently do, unless the problem of low wages and high stress working conditions is solved. If the pool of able applicants to the academy does not increase, either the academy will have to lower its entrance standards, or there will be an acute shortage of officers. However, it is not certain that the lowering of standards will solve the problem. It is clear that with either a shortage of officers or lowered entrance standards of the profession, the current high standards of the academy cannot be maintained.


Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

1 If the Military Academy is not able to solve the problem of low wages and high stress working conditions, there will be an acute shortage of officers.

2 The government has not paid sufficient attention to the training standards in the academy.

3 Even if the Military Academy solves the problem of low wages and high stress working conditions, it will not be able to maintain its high standards.

4 Stringent entry requirements deter many able and talented candidates from entering into the academy.

5 The current high quality of services will not be maintained if the problems of low wages and high stress conditions in the academy are not solved.




I believe correct answer is A but the orginal answer is different .Please explain why not A and which one is correct.

[sunny.jain]

IMO:D

Very strange kind of CR. Is it for CAT or GMAT?

Please let me know if i m right? I will explain you the solution.

[tpsharma2u]

must be E

[stupidrahul26]

Please give explaination for your answer

[sunny.jain]

I believed its D, because of following:

in order to attract more candidate ==> need to resolve problem of low wages...
But author is not sure whether this will solve the problem.
that's why he says:
Still if pool of candidate doesn't increase ==> ANOTHER SOLUTION ==> lower the standard.
Again He is not sure whether this will solve the problem or not?
But one thing the author is sure that this will lower the standard of IMA.

So it is clear that candidate are not coming to join IMA because of
LOW WAGES and Stringent entry requirements


Options A) if low wages problem solved:--> there will be shortage. Skeptical choice,candidate may get attract.
Option B) Irrelevant
Option C) if low wages problem solved :--> it can maintain high standard if candidate are attracted. { again high stress working is not mention in the answer}
Option D) This is one of the region why they are falling short of candidate.
Option E) "current high quality of services" ?? i think we are not talking about Services here. Here the main concern was high standard of IMA. so its kind of diversion. Still:
if low wages problem is not solved --> no high standard.
i found this is the first line of the paragraph given. so it can not be inference. But its very close.


I found D is more close to my thinking. anyway what is the OA?
I would prefer to skip this CR if i encounter this in main exam. Too much time consuming.

[StaceyKoprince]

Please read (and follow!) the forum guidelines before posting. This folder if for general strategy questions. Post moved to General Verbal folder.
Thanks!

[stupidrahul26]

sorry sunny OA is not D

Please some answer this question.

[RonPurewal]

source please? specifically?

it seems ... quite unusual that a hindu newspaper would contain a gmat-style problem, complete with answer choices.

what's the NAME of the source? and if it really is a newspaper article, then where'd you get the question and the answer choices?

thanks.

[stupidrahul26]

The argument is from Hindu newspaper
But my aunt(she is an instuctor at a training institute for CAT-IIM) gave this Cr question .She made choices herself. I got it wrong
She told me the answer but i wasn't satisfied with her answer , so posted it here .

[RonPurewal]

The argument is from Hindu newspaper
But my aunt(she is an instuctor at a training institute for CAT-IIM) gave this Cr question .She made choices herself. I got it wrong
She told me the answer but i wasn't satisfied with her answer , so posted it here .

well, the only answer that is formally justified is (e).

you can diagram the flow of the argument as follows:

not solve problems --> not more applicants --> EITHER lower standards OR officer shortage --> can't maintain high standards
so (e).

the only statement in the passage that's irrelevant (i.e., not used in this logical flow) is "However, it is not certain that the lowering of standards will solve the problem."

not a bad question, actually; i'm impressed. although this isn't really what gmat questions are like. (this is much more like an lsat question than like a gmat question.)