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ID: LSAT-LR-207
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Chess club secretary: Our juniors' results have levelled off, and members blame the shorter time control the club adopted last autumn. The levelling is real, and I accept that less time on the clock can hold a young player back. But it had set in over the previous season, when the old control was still in use. Whatever stopped them, the clock did not.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning used in the club secretary's argument?

AIt accepts the explanation over one stretch and rejects it over another, the conditions differing between them.

BIt allows the clock its claimed power and denies it an effect under way a season earlier.

CIt rests on a comparison between the results in question and those of others who played that season with more on the clock.

DIt denies that the results its opponents describe have gone flat at all, and grants only that a season on a faster clock is capable of flattening them.

EIt puts a cause of its own in place of the one on offer, resting the substitution on the date at which the results turned.

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