Question

In a few recent cases, some teenagers with advanced programming abilities used a new programming language, FANTOD, to hack into ETS and change their own SAT scores. All of the teenagers convicted of this crime were highly skilled in programming FANTOD. In light of these cases, some colleges have discounted the official SAT scores of applicants with knowledge of FANTOD, and have required them to take special admission tests in supervised conditions on their own campuses.
Which of following conclusions can most properly be drawn from the information above?

• A. Most people who learn to program in FANTOD do so to commit some kind of hacking.
• B. Colleges should rely on their own admissions tests instead of the SATs.
• C. Some students with knowledge of FANTOD are possibly placed at a disadvantage in the college admission process.
• D. Students who learn FANTOD tend to have much lower SAT scores than do their peers.
• E. Some colleges have not set any special requirements for applicants who have demonstrated knowledge of FANTOD.

Answer 1

The correct option is C Some students with knowledge of FANTOD are possibly placed at a disadvantage in the college admission process.

The passage here tries to make a connection with the learning of the programming language FANTOD and the hacking of the SAT’s. SAT’s were hacked by the use of FANTOD. But there is an implication in this that, people who learned this new programming language did so to hack into ETS. This is wrong argument. The decision hence of the College Board to make students rewrite the exam will have a number of students who knew the language but did not hack. They are at a significant disadvantage, Hence option(c) is the answer.