It can be inferred from the passage that the author would most likely describe the current understanding of neurogene...
Matt12October 7, 2022
Most Likely
I'm so sick of these "most likely" type questions. Half the time the answer is subjective. For instance, I can see why we'd say the author thinks the research is incomplete; he certainly does. But he also thinks it's inaccurate (or whatever C said). He says so explicitly. And I'm sick of the games this test plays by getting way out in the weeds to say why one answer is technically wrong if you look at it from a certain angle, when it doesn't apply that level of scrutiny to every question. How do you know when it is looking for that level of scrutiny?
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Hi, I agree these questions tend to be the toughest. More so, these older tests (this is from the mid 90s) often tend to be written a little less clearly than they do today. This is a great example. I think one could indeed argue that the passage provides evidence to think the author thinks the current understanding is incorrect. In the first paragraph, we are told that the current understanding is that it doesn't happen, but then we are given evidence that it does happen.
However, the author doesn't seem to spend time telling us that the current understanding is wrong. Rather, they seem to devote their efforts to showing that there is a lot of uncertainty, particularly in the final paragraph. This matches incomplete far better than incorrect.
My personal take is that this is a poorly written question that would not appear on a more modern test, but even so, we can still make a far stronger case for C than for E.
