Multiple choice

The admission officers at Punjab College's Summer Political Science Seminar are offering special financial aid packages to applicants from the area, which score above the 90 percentile in a local competition. Applicants from other areas who score above the 90 percentile in the national competition will also be offered the package. The officers want to make sure that the applicants who are offered packages are the top scorers.

Which one of the following statements would serve to undermine the admission officers' intent?

  1. The highest scoring applicants can also apply to other seminars and choose not to attend the Punjab College's seminar.

  2. Competitions can be biased and therefore are the unfair measures of an applicant's potential performance.

  3. Those applicants scoring above the 90 percentile in the competition might be able to afford to attend the seminar without the financial aid package.

  4. Some of the applicants offered the financial aid package might have lower scores in the competition than some who are not offered packages.

  5. None of these
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Explanation

The admission officers want to offer the overall highest scorers the package, yet they are basing the scores on a national and local test. It is possible that the top 10 percent of the local people are not nearly as successful at the competition as the top half of the national people. But, the best among locals, who are not, in this instance, the top scorers, would still be offered the package.

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