medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A study found that students who listen to classical music while studying scored higher on exams than those who studied in silence. Therefore, listening to classical music improves a student's ability to learn.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
- The music listeners' higher scores were not simply a result of those students being stronger performers to begin with.
- Most students find classical music to be more relaxing than other types of background noise.
- The students in the study were all majoring in the same academic subject.
- Classical music improves learning more than any other genre of music does.
- Classical music has a more pronounced effect on exam scores than on day-to-day retention of material.
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