A recent study on private universities in Bangladesh indicates that students who receive full scholarships tend to maintain higher grade point averages than students who must work or take loan to finance study. The survey concluded that scholarships enable students to achieve high grade point averages by alleviating the stress related to financial concerns and freeing up students' time to study more. The conclusion drawn in the argument above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?
A. Students who take out loans maintain higher grade point averages than those who work to finance schooling.
B. Finance-related stress affects student performance in a manner similar to that of restricted study time.
C. Students who must work to pay for their studies cannot maintain high grade point averages.
D. High grade point averages were not the primary criterion upon which the scholarship awards were based.
E. Controlling stress level is less important to student performance than is intensive studying.
Explanation: If scholarships were awarded based on GPA, then the conclusion can not hold good. So, it should be assumed that GPA did not qualify as a criteria to award scholarships.
