LSAT Question Explanation
PT 108, Section 2, Question 13
AgreeExplanation
Ramona indicates that a great part of the value of a university education is intellectual growth from an exposure to wide ideas. But she says that technical majors may miss these wide ideas, and too many students choose the technical majors because they are useful in the job market.
Martin gives an example indicating that people maybe should consider job opportunities when they choose a major. Then he says that Ramona also needs to consider that technical majors still have to take liberal arts classes. We can infer from Martin's statements that he agrees technical classes may not expose people to wide ideas, as he indicates they are exposed to the wide ideas through liberal arts classes.
Answer choices
This is not indicated by either person.
This is too strong. It's very possible that many non-technical majors get good jobs, the speakers are just saying that technical majors may have even better opportunities.
They both agree with this. Ramona says that technical majors may not get exposure to wide ideas, and Martin counters by noting that even technical majors have to take liberal arts classes. They indicate that liberal arts classes, but not technical classes, introduce student's to wide ideas.
Ramona seems to agree with this statement, although Martin indicates the opposite. He seems to thing that actually it's ok to consider job prospects when choosing a major.
Similar to (D), they seem to disagree about which consideration is more important.