Evaluating examination reform claims — from 'Stop the present examination system and replace it with methods that measure real merit', infer whether exams should be abolished and whether the current system fails to measure true merit

Given data

• Statement: Present examination system should be stopped and replaced by other methods that measure real merit.
• Conclusions:
  • I: Examinations should be abolished.
  • II: The present examination system does not measure real merit.

Concept/Approach

The speaker targets the present system, not the existence of all examinations. The rationale stated explicitly is that current exams fail to capture real merit.

Step-by-step logic
1) Conclusion I overgeneralises (abolish all exams). The statement allows replacement by better assessments; abolition isn't demanded ⇒ I does not follow.2) The reason offered — to use 'other methods which would measure real merit' — implies the present system does not ⇒ II follows.

Verification/Alternative

If current exams already measured true merit, there would be no need to stop them and replace with merit-measuring methods.

Common pitfalls

• Equating 'stop the present system' with 'ban all examinations'.

Final Answer
Only conclusion II follows.