Entry checkpoint: choose a starting point

Entry checkpoint: choose a starting point: original cases with explanations after your first response.

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1. What you will learn

Attempt this reserved sample without notes or hints. Record your first answers and confidence. An entry sample suggests a starting point; a delayed sample checks retention after study and a gap. Neither certifies readiness or predicts an official score.

2. Practice

Read the shared passage and answer every question. Each question is graded separately; select-all questions require the exact set.

A city compared bicycle counts before and after installing protected lanes. Counts rose sharply on the treated streets, and officials announced that the lanes had converted drivers into cyclists. Yet counters on nearby untreated streets recorded an almost equal decline in bicycle traffic. The total across the whole monitored area changed little. These figures do not show that protected lanes are ineffective: concentrating existing riders on safer routes could itself be valuable. They do, however, leave the claim about conversion unproved. A study of travelers' previous modes of transport would address that claim more directly than counts at individual locations.

Which statement best expresses the passage's main point?

A local increase in cycling does not by itself establish a change in travelers' transport modes.
Protected lanes necessarily reduce the number of cyclists.
Counts on untreated streets are inherently unreliable.
Safety improvements have no value without more cyclists.
The city's data prove that no driver changed modes.

Which conclusion is best supported by the passage?

Redistribution of existing cyclists could explain much of the reported local increase.
All cyclists now prefer protected lanes.
Every monitored cyclist previously drove.
Area-wide counts must have fallen sharply.
The proposed traveler study would measure road injuries.

Select all statements supported by the passage.

Counts increased on treated streets.
Counts declined on nearby untreated streets.
The study tracked each traveler's previous mode.

3. What you can do now

Classify each error as interpretation, method, execution or response format. Revisit the relevant worked lesson, then retry after a study gap. A remembered item is review, not fresh assessment evidence.