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ID: LSAT-LR-056
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Role Play
Difficulty level: Medium

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Supporters of the new grading scheme say it will make marks comparable between schools. That is what it is for, and if it worked it would be worth having. But comparability requires that every school read the descriptors the same way, and the descriptors were drafted by a committee that could not agree on what they meant. The scheme will not do what it is for.

The claim that the scheme would be worth having if it worked plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

AIt is the conclusion the argument is meant to establish, and the observations about the descriptors and the committee are offered in support of it.

BIt concedes the value of the scheme's aim so that the argument can turn on whether the aim can be reached.

CIt states the general principle about grading schemes from which the argument's conclusion about this particular scheme is drawn.

DIt is a claim the argument first sets out and then goes on to reject, the rejection arriving in the sentence about the descriptors and the committee that drafted them.

EIt is evidence offered for the claim that the descriptors were badly drafted by the committee.

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