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ID: LSAT-LR-087
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Medium

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Registrar: A student is admitted to the seminar only if she has completed the preliminary essay. Beatriz has completed the preliminary essay, so she will be admitted. In any case the seminar has never yet turned away a student who finished the essay on time, and Beatriz finished hers a fortnight early.

The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Afails to say how many students apply for the seminar each year, or how many places it has for them

Brelies on what has happened in the seminar's previous terms to establish what must happen now, when a practice that has held without exception so far may still admit of one

Ctreats a condition that the seminar requires of every student it admits as though meeting that condition were enough to secure admission

Dtakes the absence of any rejection in the seminar's past terms to show that a rejection could not occur in Beatriz's case this term

Eassumes, without any warrant for doing so, that every student the seminar has admitted had completed the preliminary essay first

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