This English question involves literary analysis, grammar, or writing skills. The detailed response below provides a well-structured answer with supporting evidence and clear explanations.
ScanSolve AI Answer
Step 1: Identify the second weakness. The passage states: "Secondly, where there are different interviewers, each one assessing his or her group of candidates alone, it becomes more difficult to arrive at a uniform standard of scoring. Each listener is impressed by different factors in the candidate's performance. Hence, it is quite possible for a candidate to score a high mark if he appears before interviewer A and to fail woefully if he appears before interviewer B." Step 2: Identify the fourth weakness. The passage states: "Fourthly, the candidate might be unlucky purely because the interviewer is still fresh and is not bored by whatever the candidate says, whereas the last candidate might be unlucky because the interviewer may be tired, easily bored, and less interested in what he is being told." (Note: This point is identical to the "Thirdly" point in the passage). Step 3: State the second and fourth weaknesses. The second weakness is the difficulty in achieving a uniform standard of scoring when different interviewers assess different groups of candidates, as each interviewer may be impressed by different factors. The fourth weakness is that a candidate might be unlucky if the interviewer is tired, easily bored, and less interested in what is being told, especially if they are among the later candidates, while earlier candidates might benefit from a fresh and engaged interviewer. That's 2 down. 3 left today — send the next one.