Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Classroom Technology Proposal Quiz — 5 Free Questions

📖 Read the passage, then answer the questions below

A school district is considering a proposal to replace printed textbooks with tablets loaded with digital editions of the same course material, in every classroom from grade six onward. Proponents argue that tablets weigh far less than a full set of textbooks, can be updated with corrected editions instantly at no additional printing cost, and allow the district to track how much time each student spends reading assigned material.

Based on a one-semester pilot conducted in a single grade at one school, the district's curriculum committee has concluded that switching to tablets would reduce the district's annual textbook budget and improve how consistently students complete assigned reading, without requiring any additional teacher training.

Question 1

Which of the following, if true, would most directly support the proponents' claim that tablets are more convenient to carry than textbooks?

Question 2

Which of the following most accurately summarizes the overall structure of the passage?

Question 3

Which of the following most accurately describes a weakness in the committee's reasoning?

Question 4

To evaluate the committee's conclusion, it would be most useful to know which of the following?

Question 5

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the specific claim that no additional teacher training would be needed?

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About Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Classroom Technology Proposal

CLAT's Logical Reasoning section tests critical reasoning directly: a short passage lays out an argument, and the questions that follow test whether you can identify its conclusion, its assumptions, and what would strengthen or weaken it -- no prior knowledge of the topic is needed, since every answer follows from the passage itself.

This quiz works through a single original argument about a school district's technology proposal, examining every angle CLAT actually tests: the argument's main conclusion, the assumptions it depends on, evidence that would strengthen or weaken specific claims within it, what can be validly inferred, and a weakness in its reasoning.

The twenty questions include an Assertion-Reason question and a multi-statement combination question alongside the dominant strengthen, weaken, and assumption format, keeping the same variety CLAT itself uses across a single passage.

Only five of the twenty questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different set of questions rather than the same five memorised by rote.