GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning

The school board has determined that it is necessary to reduce the number of teachers on the staff. Rather than deciding which teachers will be laid off on the basis of seniority, the school board plans to lay off the least effective teachers first. The school board’s plan assumes that

(A) there is a way of determining the effectiveness of teachers
(B) what one individual defines as effective teaching will not be defined as effective teaching by another individual
(C) those with the most experience teaching are the best teachers
(D) those teachers who are paid the most are generally the most qualified
(E) some teachers will be more effective working with some students than with other students

Written by Take GMAT Team on September 6th, 2008 with 32 comments.
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Anchal
#1. September 15th, 2006, at 1:04 PM.

farhaan
#2. September 15th, 2006, at 3:17 PM.

himakar
#3. September 15th, 2006, at 7:00 PM.

nakul_mukerjee
#4. September 15th, 2006, at 11:45 PM.

V Pat
#5. September 16th, 2006, at 1:27 AM.

(A) there is a way of determining the effectiveness of teachers

Take GMAT Team
#6. September 16th, 2006, at 2:18 AM.

saurabh
#7. September 17th, 2006, at 12:21 AM.

1. a

kar
#8. April 19th, 2007, at 2:21 PM.

kar
#9. April 19th, 2007, at 2:22 PM.

HOW DO WE FIND CORRECT ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION A DAY ??

Ishika
#10. April 19th, 2007, at 3:26 PM.

Ankit Jain
#11. April 19th, 2007, at 7:28 PM.

AP
#12. April 20th, 2007, at 12:36 AM.

d0tc0mguy
#13. April 20th, 2007, at 3:07 PM.

Swami
#14. April 10th, 2008, at 7:04 AM.

A.
What is the correct Answer?

Take GMAT Team
#15. April 12th, 2008, at 9:19 PM.

Official answer is A.

Maulik
#16. April 24th, 2008, at 1:01 PM.

Amar
#17. April 24th, 2008, at 5:26 PM.

Will
#18. April 24th, 2008, at 6:52 PM.

pranaysad
#19. April 25th, 2008, at 2:03 AM.

pranaysad
#20. April 25th, 2008, at 2:03 AM.

Check

pranaysad
#21. April 25th, 2008, at 2:06 AM.

Should use the -ve test for assumption questions.

Negate each of the answer choices.

If choice “A was not possible would the argument fall apart ? Yes

Therefore A is the correct answer.

Ritula
#22. April 25th, 2008, at 9:49 AM.

kv
#23. April 28th, 2008, at 7:00 PM.

Archana
#24. May 16th, 2008, at 10:15 AM.

nothimpossible
#25. September 6th, 2008, at 10:18 PM.

Charles Robert
#26. September 6th, 2008, at 10:53 PM.

Oh Puhhleasee!!!
‘A’, obviously.

jaspreet
#27. September 6th, 2008, at 11:03 PM.

shakya
#28. September 7th, 2008, at 11:13 AM.

Basant
#29. September 7th, 2008, at 4:28 PM.

Ramz
#30. September 9th, 2008, at 6:44 PM.

utkarsh
#31. September 12th, 2008, at 3:03 PM.

A - there is a way of determining the effectiveness of teachers

Janet
#32. October 2nd, 2008, at 6:47 PM.

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