Start with the fictional source
Assume a made-up office rule: entering a request does not reserve a room; the coordinator checks overlap and sends confirmation. If overlap exists, the request goes to the room owner. This is invented instructional material, not advice about a real booking system. The lesson’s job is to distinguish request receipt from confirmation, not to teach every administrative screen.
Write the decision and the distractor
Case A has no overlap and all required details. Case B overlaps an existing confirmed reservation. Ask which request can proceed to confirmation and which requires the owner. A plausible incorrect choice is “both are booked because both appear in the sheet.” That choice exposes the exact misunderstanding the explanation should address, without using a trick or irrelevant detail.
Give feedback that shows the rule
For Case B, explain that presence in the request sheet is not confirmation and point to the overlap condition. Then let the learner try a different fictional example. Avoid merely displaying “incorrect.” Keep the expected action within the coordinator’s role: recognizing and routing the conflict, not unilaterally cancelling another person’s reservation. The practice is not proof of general job competence.
Show what a revision affects
Suppose the source later adds an approved waiting-list state. The author must review the initial explanation, the sheet-status example and any question that treats every unconfirmed request identically. The room-location reference may remain unchanged. Use this dependency pattern in the revision worksheet with your own authorized internal records; do not upload real bookings or employee details into this site.
An explicit limit of the example
The invented office rule has no urgent override, priority ranking or automatic cancellation. Adding one would change the scenario and require a new source rule. That absence is deliberate: a useful lesson should not invent authority to make a story feel complete.
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