Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Telemedicine Proposal Quiz — 5 Free Questions

📖 Read the passage, then answer the questions below

A regional hospital network is considering a proposal to replace routine in-person follow-up appointments for patients with well-controlled chronic conditions with video telemedicine consultations, for patients living more than thirty minutes from the nearest clinic. Proponents argue that video consultations take less time out of a patient's day, reduce the need for patients to arrange transportation or take time off work, and allow doctors to see more patients in the same number of clinic hours by freeing up in-person appointment slots for more urgent cases.

Based on a four-month trial involving patients with well-controlled diabetes at one clinic, the hospital network's quality committee has concluded that replacing these follow-up visits with telemedicine consultations would reduce missed appointments and free up clinic capacity for urgent cases, without reducing the quality of care patients receive.

Question 1

Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the specific claim that care quality would not be reduced?

Question 2

Which of the following, if true, would most directly support the proponents' claim that video consultations take less time out of a patient's day?

Question 3

Suppose a critic pointed out that many patients in the wider network have far less reliable home internet access than the trial clinic's patients. This criticism would be most relevant to which part of the quality committee's argument?

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as an advantage of telemedicine over in-person follow-up visits?

Question 5

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the trial and the quality committee's conclusion?

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About Critical Reasoning: Evaluating a Telemedicine Proposal

CLAT's Logical Reasoning section tests critical reasoning directly: a short passage lays out an argument, and the questions that follow test whether you can identify its conclusion, its assumptions, and what would strengthen or weaken it -- no prior knowledge of the topic is needed, since every answer follows from the passage itself.

This quiz works through a single original argument about a hospital network's care-delivery proposal, examining every angle CLAT actually tests: the argument's main conclusion, the assumptions it depends on, evidence that would strengthen or weaken specific claims within it, what can be validly inferred, and a weakness in its reasoning.

The twenty questions include an Assertion-Reason question and a multi-statement combination question alongside the dominant strengthen, weaken, and assumption format, keeping the same variety CLAT itself uses across a single passage.

Only five of the twenty questions are shown on any single attempt, so replaying this quiz brings a genuinely different set of questions rather than the same five memorised by rote.