RAS question
Statement: 'If you want to improve your English, join ABC Language Institute.' Assumption I: ABC Language Institute provides good English training. Assumption II: Only ABC Language Institute can improve your English. Which assumption(s) is/are implicit?
Correct answer: (A) Only I is implicit.
The statement implicitly assumes that ABC Language Institute provides good English training, but it does not imply that only ABC can improve English.
Explanation
In a statement-assumption question, the implicit assumption is the unstated premise that must be true for the statement to make sense. The advice, "If you want to improve your English, join ABC Language Institute," works only if ABC is being presented as capable of giving useful English training, so Assumption I is implicit. Assumption II goes beyond the statement. The advertisement recommends ABC, but it never says that every other institute or method is ineffective. SATHEE's statement-assumption guidance treats advertisement-type claims as assuming that the claimed benefit matters or is available, while warning against extreme words such as "only" in assumption options unless they are unavoidable. Here, "only ABC" is not unavoidable, so it is not implicit.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Assumption II is too restrictive because the statement recommends ABC but does not exclude every other way of improving English.
- (C) Both assumptions cannot be implicit because Assumption II adds an exclusive claim that the advertisement has not made.
- (D) Assumption I is necessary: the recommendation to join ABC for English improvement depends on ABC providing worthwhile English training.
Concept
This tests statement-assumption reasoning, especially the distinction between a necessary premise and an overextended claim. It recurs in RAS reasoning because advertisements and advisory statements often hide a valid benefit assumption while tempting candidates with extreme options.