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IDAT International Diagnostic and Admission Test — VIP Practice Exam
IDAT — The International Diagnostic and Admission Test (IDAT) is an academic aptitude and admissions assessment used by select universities and international educational programs to evaluate candidates across verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, logical/critical thinking, and reading comprehension; no single global standardizing body governs all IDAT administrations, so this practice set is an original comprehensive exam modeled on the domains and difficulty level common across IDAT-format assessments.
31
Questions
90m
Time Limit
70.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 31👑 VIP
Read the following passage and answer the question below. "The rapid urbanization of developing nations has created what demographers call a 'dual city' phenomenon: gleaming commercial districts coexist with sprawling informal settlements. Proponents of unregulated urbanization argue that the economic opportunities cities provide ultimately lift residents out of poverty. Critics counter that without adequate infrastructure investment, urban migration merely concentrates poverty rather than alleviating it. A 2022 UN-Habitat report found that 1.1 billion urban residents worldwide live in informal settlements, a figure projected to grow absent policy intervention." Which of the following best describes the author's primary purpose in this passage?
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