Critical Reasoning: Evaluating an Online Lecture Proposal Quiz — 5 Free Questions

📖 Read the passage, then answer the questions below

A large public university is considering a proposal to convert its largest introductory courses, those with more than two hundred enrolled students, from in-person lectures to fully online, asynchronous video lectures, while keeping smaller weekly discussion sections in person. Proponents argue that online lectures let students watch at their own pace and rewatch difficult sections, free up large lecture halls for other uses, and allow the university to hire fewer lecturers for large introductory courses without increasing class sizes further.

Based on a one-semester trial converting one large introductory course to this format, the university's academic committee has concluded that converting all large introductory courses to this format would improve average exam scores and reduce the university's costs for large-course instruction, without reducing student satisfaction with the course.

Question 1

Which of the following, if true, would most directly support the proponents' claim that online lectures let students learn at their own pace?

Question 2

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the claim that costs would fall?

Question 3

Consider the following three statements based on the passage: I. The academic committee's conclusion is based on a study covering every large course over several years. II. Proponents argue that online lectures free up lecture halls for other uses. III. The trial converted only one large introductory course. Which of the statements is/are true according to the passage?

Question 4

Based on the passage, proponents believe the new format is advantageous primarily because of which combination of factors?

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as an advantage of the online lecture format?

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About Critical Reasoning: Evaluating an Online Lecture 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 university's course-format 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.