Start here · the first lesson of Statement-assumption (I/II implicit)
Statement-assumption (I/II implicit)
Critical Reasoning / Verbal Reasoning · for IPMAT Indore, IPMAT Rohtak and JIPMAT
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The idea
A statement (advice, a decision, a notice, an advertisement) is followed by two assumptions. An assumption is implicit if the speaker has to believe it for the statement to make sense. It is not something the statement says; it is something the statement needs. Rohtak sets two or more of these most years; JIPMAT occasionally.
Textbook vs exam method
Textbook method
Find the purpose of the statement (what does the speaker want to happen?) and the reason (why?). An assumption is implicit if it is (a) part of the reason, (b) the belief that the step will work, or (c) the belief that people will respond.
Exam method
- Name the speaker's goal. in five words ("get students to class during rain").
- Negation test. for each assumption: if it were false, would the speaker still say this? If the statement becomes pointless, it is implicit.
- Kill extreme versions. "never", "all", "no one", "only" are rarely needed.
- Kill reversals. an assumption that says the plan will fail contradicts the speaker.
- Pick both, one or neither. ; "Either" is almost never right for assumptions.