Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• relieving financial pressure through targeted grants and income-based repayment programmes.: These instruments belong to the middle position. The speaker instead favours wider subsidies linked to clear outcomes.
• keeping tuition low through sustained public investment in education's wider social benefits.: This expresses the supporters' investment argument. It leaves out the accountability attached to the speaker's support for expanded subsidies.
• protecting university income while recognising the pressure that fees place on family budgets.: This captures concerns about affordability and university resources. It does not identify the speaker's preferred expansion of accountable public support.

Correct Answer: financial help while keeping some personal responsibility for education costs.

Why this is correct: The neighbour received substantial needs-based aid but still values a student contribution. That contribution signals commitment to studying.

Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• financial help because debt and everyday living costs put families under pressure.: Debt and household costs explain the debate's urgency. The neighbour's expressed view concerns retaining a student contribution after receiving aid.
• financial help because higher education creates benefits beyond the individual student.: The public-investment argument concerns wider productivity and social mobility. The neighbour instead values a student contribution despite receiving substantial aid.
• financial help balanced against spending on healthcare and public infrastructure.: Healthcare and infrastructure are competing provincial demands raised by critics. The neighbour instead discusses the value of students paying something.

Correct Answer: the change in undergraduate tuition over a decade after allowing for inflation.

Why this is correct: The figure measures undergraduate tuition over the past decade. The reported increase remains after inflation has been taken into account.

Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• the change in student debt over a decade after allowing for inflation.: Rising student debt is part of the opening context. The national figure measures real tuition growth, not real debt growth.
• the change in provincial university funding over a decade after allowing for inflation.: Provincial university funding is discussed throughout the report. The national figure does not measure its change over the decade.
• the change in provincial healthcare spending over a decade after allowing for inflation.: Healthcare spending creates pressure on provincial budgets. The national figure instead measures the change in undergraduate tuition.

Correct Answer: doubt that good intentions can fund improvements to university facilities.

Why this is correct: The remark says goodwill cannot upgrade laboratories and libraries. Its practical scepticism concerns supportive intentions being insufficient without financial resources.

Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• concern that other public needs limit the funds available for universities.: Competing public needs are a separate budget concern. The Toronto remark questions what goodwill alone can achieve for facilities.
• doubt that a general subsidy is a good use of public money.: The concern about inefficient general subsidies is separate. The Toronto remark does not evaluate which families should receive assistance.
• confidence that public spending on education will bring benefits over time.: The supporters describe future productivity and social mobility. The Toronto remark instead stresses the practical limits of goodwill.

Correct Answer: blanket subsidies benefit higher-income families who would attend university without aid.

Why this is correct: The final objection concerns higher-income families who would attend regardless of assistance. The report then introduces the middle position.

Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• a tuition freeze can reduce university services when the lost fee revenue is not replaced.: The service warning appears earlier in the opposing view. The final objection turns to recipients who would attend without assistance.
• university support must compete with healthcare and infrastructure for provincial money.: Competing provincial obligations begin the opposing argument. The final objection instead concerns the efficiency of aid to particular recipients.
• universal caps are not necessarily the right way to relieve families' worries about tuition.: Questioning universal caps belongs to the middle position itself. It is not the objection immediately preceding that position.

Correct Answer: no increase in university participation among students whose parents did not attend university.

Why this is correct: Morin connects sustained funding and lower fees with higher first-generation participation. No participation increase in that group would challenge the benefit she identifies.

Tips: Read each choice carefully, then compare it with what you hear.

Why the other options are wrong:

• no increase in the overall rate of university participation across the province.: Overall participation can stay unchanged while participation in one group rises. Morin identifies first-generation students rather than the entire provincial population.
• no increase in university participation among students from households with limited financial resources.: Low household income and first-generation status are different categories. Morin's comparison specifically concerns students without a family history of university study.
• no reduction in the education debt carried by students and their families.: Unchanged education debt would challenge a debt-relief expectation. It would not establish whether the participation benefit in Morin's example occurred.