SC - 750-800 lvl

Question 1

“On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are believed to be the rate that trees grow”, as seen in the rings visible in the cross sections of their trunks.

(A) On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are believed to be the rate that trees grow

(B) On Earth, among the surest indications of sunspot cycles are, it is believed, the rate of tree growth

(C) On Earth, the rate at which trees grow is believed to be among the surest indications of sunspot cycles

(D) Among the surest indications on Earth of sunspot cycles, believed to be the tree growth rate

(E) Among the surest indications on Earth of sunspot cycles is believed to be the rate at which trees grow

Answer 1

E) - key word is “their” and the pronoun proximity to what it prefers to

Question 2

The cathedrals of the Middle Ages were community centers just as much as they were purely religious edifices; and they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, the opposite of being a private one.

(A) community centers just as much as they were purely religious edifices; and they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, the opposite of being a private one

(B) community centers as much as purely religious edifices; they were structures representing a city’s commitment to a public realm, as opposed to private

(C) community centers as well as purely religious edifices; they were structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, not private ones

(D) as much community centers as purely religious edifices, structures that represented a city’s commitment to a public realm, as opposed to a private one

(E) as much community centers as they were purely religious edifices, structures representing a city’s commitment to a public realm, opposite of a private one

Answer 2

D) - require understanding of the appositive modifier structure

Question 3

The United Nations’ Human Development Index takes into account life expectancy, education, as well as income per person.

A. into account life expectancy, education, as well as income per person
B. life expectancy, education, as well as income per person into account
C. into account life expectancy and education, as well as income per person
D. into account life expectancy, and education, and income per person
E. life expectancy, education, and income per person in its account

Answer 3

C) - idiomatic form: A and B, as well as C

Question 4

T or F. ‘so….as to’ is never correct on GMAT

Answer 4

F

Question 5

T or F. The average price has risen at least 1 cent per gallon per day for eight consecutive days to $2.952, 10 cents as much as a week ago.

Answer 5

F. The sentence meant to say the price is higher now than before, so “more than” instead of “as much” is properly used.

Logical Predication

Question 6

One benefit of learning to speak a language while learning to read it rather than in a separate process is that the student can more efficiently apply his or her knowledge in social settings

point out the parallelism - is it adverb, noun, verb or prepositional phrase?

Answer 6

Preposition phrase: “while learning to read it” - “in a separate process”

Question 7

T or F: His food is so delicious as to send his friends into ecstasy

Answer 7

T

Question 8

T or F: In the six-month period that ended on Sep 30, the average number of Sunday papers sold by the company were 81,000 less than the comparable period a year ago

Answer 8

F.
1) were should be was since we talking about the number not the papers
2)there is a lack of parallel structure for a period of time: “in the six-month” & “the comparable period a year ago

Fix: less than [the average number] in the comparable period a year ago

Question 9

T or F: X is to y that a is to b (convey the comparison as ratio)

Answer 9

F.
x is to y what a is to b

Question 10

T or F: Refiners are paying about $5 a barrel more for crude oil than last year.

Answer 10

F
lack of parallelism structure in comparison
Fix: 1) Refiners are paying about $5 barrel more for crude oil this year than last year or
2) Refiners are paying about $5 barrel more for crude oil than they were/did last year

Question 11

T or F: Administration officials announced that they believe the gap will be $3.7 billion, a billion dollars more than they predicted it just two months ago

Answer 11

F-
a billion more than [the amount/gap] they predicted just two months ago

Question 12

Nuclear fusion is the force that powers the Sun, the stars, and hydrogen bombs, merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors.

(A) merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors
(B) merging the nuclei of atoms instead of splitting them apart, like nuclear reactors
(C) merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart, as nuclear reactors do
(D) and merges the nuclei of atoms but does not split them apart, as is done in nuclear reactors
(E) and merges the nuclei of atoms, unlike atomic reactors that split them apart

Answer 12

C)
1) “merging rather than splitting” modify how nuclear fusion powers the Sun.
2) “as nuclear reactors do [split them apart]” = adverbial modifier for “splitting them apart”

Question 13

Point out the unusual structure of this sentence:

Eugene Fama’s theory that financial markets are “efficient,” and therefore an investor given widely available information cannot consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns, is still respected

Answer 13

It has elliptical structure of “that”
….that financial market are “efficient,” and that therefore an investor given widely available information….., is still respected

Question 14

According to one expert, the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog is not so much that dogs are being bred for looks or to meet other narrow criteria as that the breeds have relatively few founding members.

(A) the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog is not so much that dogs are being bred for looks or to meet other narrow criteria

(B) the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog is not as much their being bred for looks or meeting other narrow criteria as much

(C) it is not so much the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog that they are being bred for looks or meeting other narrow criteria as much

(D) it is not so much the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog is their being bred for looks or meeting other narrow criteria so much

(E) it is not so much the cause of genetic irregularities in many breeds of dog to be bred for looks or to meet other narrow criteria

Answer 14

A) - Idiom: not so much X as Y

Question 15

Oberlin College in Ohio was a renegade institution at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept both men and women as students.

(A) at its 1833 founding for deciding to accept

(B) for the decision at its 1833 founding to accept

(C) when it was founded in 1833 for its decision to accept

(D) in deciding at its founding in 1833 to accept

(E) by deciding at its founding in 1833 on the acceptance of

Answer 15

D) - Try the inverse sentence technique

“its 1833 founding” gives the impression of several found - just as “20th/21st/22nd birthday” - and is not the intended meaning

Question 16

Dorn Consulting handles much more sophisticated issues than comparable consulting firms, and they have less percentage of employees with advanced degrees.

A) comparable consulting firms, and they have less
B) comparable consulting firms, and it has fewer
C) comparable consulting firms do, and it has a lower
D) do comparable consulting firms, and they have not as many
E) do comparable consulting firms, and it has less

Answer 16

C)
1) you need helping verb “do” to clarify meaning
2) we use “lower” to compare countable nouns = employees

Question 17

A derivative of the North American Echinacea flower, which has been effective in preventing colds, is grown by many small farmers out west.

A) A derivative of the North American Echinacea flower, which has been effective in preventing colds,
B) A derivative, which has been effective in preventing colds, of the North American Echinacea flower,
C) A North American Echinacea flower derivative, which has been effective in preventing colds,
D) The North American Echinacea flower has a derivative which has been effective in preventing colds, that
E) The North American Echinacea flower, a derivative of which has been effective in preventing colds,

Answer 17

E) -
what is grown by the farmer? The North American Echinacea

Question 18

Before its independence in 1947, Britain ruled India as a colony and they would relinquish power only after a long struggle by the native people.

(A) Before its independence in 1947, Britain ruled India as a colony and they would relinquish power
(B) Before independence in 1947, Britain had ruled India as a colony and relinquished power
(C) Before its independence in 1947, India was ruled by Britain as a colony and they relinquished power
(D) Before independence in 1947, India had been ruled as a colony by Britain, which relinquished power
(E) Before independence in 1947, India had been a colony of the British, who relinquished power

Answer 18

1) “before independence” must be closed to the subject being modifed “India” -> eliminate A & B
2) Past Perfect tense is needed due to time indicator -> Eliminate C)
3) Choice E) has a better rhetorical construction with “a colony of the British”

Question 19

In spite of discovering new sources of oil exploration in the Canadian oil sands and along the Norwegian coast, OPEC estimates oil companies, in order to conserve margins, to be more conservative in setting exploration targets than they have been in the past

A. oil companies, in order to conserve margins, to be more conservative in setting exploration targets than they have been
B. oil companies, in order to conserve margins, to set exploration targets more conservatively than they were
C. oil companies to conserve margins and to set exploration targets more conservatively than they have
D. that oil companies conserve margins, set exploration targets more conservatively than they have been
E. that oil companies, so that they conserve margins, will be more conservative than they have been in setting of exploration targets

Answer 19

1) knowing correct form idiom of “estimate” will quickly help us eliminate B & C
2) Understand the LP will help us eliminate D
3) Choice E changes meaning with “in setting of exploration targets” ? –> choice A

Question 20

Not only are companies interested in mining social media data for insights regarding consumer products and marketing, they also want data in order to better guide product development and plan manufacturing schedules, as well as to generate predictive models that incorporate such factors as weather and employee data.

A. they also want data in order to better guide product development and plan manufacturing schedules, as well as to generate
B. they also want data in order to better guide product development and planning manufacturing schedules, as well as to generate
C. also wanting data in order to better guide product development, planning manufacturing schedules, as well as generating
D. but also want data in order to better guide product development to plan manufacturing schedules, as well as generating
E. but also wanting data in order to better guide product development and planning manufacturing schedules, as well as to generate

Answer 20

A) idiom: “P and Q, as well as R”

Question 21

That the new managing editor rose from the publication’s “soft” news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.

(A) her being a woman
(B) being a woman is
(C) her womanhood
(D) that she was a woman
(E) that she is a woman

Answer 21

E) That the new managing editor…is more of a land mark….than that she is a woman
- parallelism

Question 22

Some scientists contend that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like a warm-blooded mammal’s than a cold-blooded reptile’s.

(A) that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like
(B) that the metabolism of many dinosaur species were more like
(C) that the metabolisms of many species of dinosaurs were more like those of
(D) there were many species of dinosaurs that had metabolisms more like those of
(E) there were many dinosaur species that had a metabolism more like that of

Answer 22

1) From Rhetorical Construction, you can eliminate D &E
2) Eliminate C because it has extra “those” when it has possessive [’s] after mammal’s & reptile’s
3) Subject- metabolism plural doesnt match with object single “a” mammal & reptile -> eliminate B

Question 23

Rap artists had trouble breaking into the daily rotation of videos on television channels such as MTV in the 1980s, despite the fact that they gained exposure on radio charts and in record stores for several years.

A) despite the fact that they gained exposure on radio charts and in record stores for several years.

B) even though for several years they gained exposure on radio charts and in record stores.

C) despite the fact that these artists gained exposure for several years with radio charts and record stores.

D) despite the fact that for several years these artists gained exposure on radio charts and in record stores.

E) even though these artists had been gaining exposure on radio charts and in record stores for several years.

Answer 23

E) Past perfect continuous tense is required due to durator indicator: “for several years”

Question 24

T or F: This is a run-on sentence because of “and” within “but”

The hognose snake puts on an impressive bluff, hissing and rearing back, broadening the flesh behind its head the way a cobra does and feigning repeated strikes, but it has no dangerous fangs and no venom, and eventually, if its pursuer is not cowed by the performance, will fall over and play dead.

Answer 24

F - Two conjunctions “but” & “and” are correctly used as “and” is the connector seperately for second clause

Question 25

The game of Rugby began in the Middle Ages as a daylong free-for-all between neighboring villages, without limit of the numbers of players on a side or of the boundaries.

(A) without limit of the numbers of players on a side or of the boundaries
(B) with no limit on the number of players on a side and with no boundaries
(C) without limitation as to how many players on each side or as to boundaries
(D) and it was without a limit on the number of players on a side or on boundaries
(E) with no limits on the numbers of players or boundaries

Answer 25

1) the number should be single -> Eliminate A & E
2) Rhetorical Construction -> Eliminate D & C
3) Choice B fit best with correct idiom: “limit on” and parallelism, as well as LP

Question 26

Stocks and portfolio investment failures have caused many concerned investors to move major accounts, such as 401-K and other retirement accounts.
(A) Stocks and portfolio investment failures
(B) Failures of stocks investments and portfolio investments
(C) Failures in the investment of stocks and other portfolios
(D) Failures of stock and other portfolio investments
(E) Portfolio investment failures, including stocks

Answer 26

1) Narrow down to choice B & C due to proper LP
2) Pick C because “other” correctly implies that stocks are type of portfolios

i.e: “I like to drink Coke or soft drinks with dinner.”
“I like to drink Coke or other soft drinks with dinner.” –> This does make sense. Coke is a type of soft drink, so you need that “other” there.

Question 27

Isabelle so loved her dead husband that when forced to sell his collection of Genghis Khan’s diaries to raise money, she first made copies of more than 50.

(A) she first made copies of more than 50
(B) first she made more than 50 copies
(C) more than 50 copies first were made
(D) copies of more than 50 were made
(E) she copies more than 50 of them beforehand

Answer 27

1) Recognize the “so..that” structure require full sentence with subject + clause -> Eliminate C & D
2) Eliminate E due to wrong tense
3) Stick to the strategy of picking original sentence for closest meaning -> Choose A

Question 28

The supposedly hundred-century old fossilized excavations of a pyramid known as Takra are so small compared with many other excavated structures thought to be of the same century, and so some archeologists have argued that Takra represents a different time period.

(A) thought to be of the same century, and so

(B) thought to be of the same century that

(C) thought that they are of the same century, and so

(D) that they have thought to be of the same century, so that

(E) that they have thought are of the same century, and

Answer 28

B) so….that

Question 29

McDonough’s book is an effective piece of writing, allowing the reader to develop an intimate sense of the characters, and to maintain a detachment from the culture in which it takes place.

A. and to maintain a detachment from the culture in which it takes place
B. and to maintain, from the culture in which the story takes place, a detachment
C. and maintaining a detachment from the culture in which it takes place
D. but maintaining a detachment from the culture in which the story takes place
E. but to maintain a detachment from the culture in which the story takes place

Answer 29

1) Eliminate A,B, C due to intended meaning of contrast and also incorrect parallelism (no comma)
2) Choose E because of correct parallelism

Question 30

This is a run-on sentence:
On the lawn at Leeuwin when we arrived were two kinds of birds: one was a helicopter, waiting perhaps to whisk a moneyed client to Perth, and swooping around it were flocks of noisy little green parrots called 28s, supposedly because their chatter sounds a bit like that number.

Answer 30

F
1) colons has correct struture: two full independent clauses are required
2) after FANBOYS “and” conjunction, “because” as subordinate conjunction is also correct

Question 31

SAS is a database-forming programming language, a means to organize, in order to analyze, the huge amount of seemingly unrelated facts on a topic.

(A) a means to organize, in order to analyze, the huge amount
(B) a means to organize, in order to analyze, the huge number
(C) the means of organizing for analyzing the huge number
(D) the means that organizes, in order to analyze, the huge amount
(E) the means for organizing in order to analyze the huge amount

Answer 31

1) Quickly eliminate A,D,E due to incorrect quantifier “amount”
2) Choose A because the sentence starts with ‘SAS is a database’ ; had it been ‘SAS is the database ‘, we would have used ‘the means’

Question 32

The Mayans believed that Universe exists at both physical level and spiritual level of being, and many individual Mayans claimed to have direct contact with it by the way of an ichana(dream) experience.

A. direct contact with it by the way of
B. contact with it directly with it
C. contact with the last directly through
D. direct contact with latter by means of
E. contact directly with the spiritual level due to

Answer 32

1) Quickly eliminate B, C & E due to rhetorical construction (adverb needs to be closed to verb)
2) Eliminate A as “it” is ambiguous -> D is correct answer

Question 33

A question for investors is whether there will be an end to the pattern according to which a social network attains an unprecedented number of customers, which is dethroned by a new company with a slightly different product concept.

A. customers, which is dethroned by a new company with a slightly different product concept

B. customers, then is dethroned by a new company with a slightly different product concept

C. customers but is dethroned by a new company with a slightly different product concept

D. customers, which is dethroned by a new company that has a slightly different product concept

E. customers and then is dethroned because a new company has a slightly different product concept

Answer 33

1) Eliminate A, B &D due to LP
2) Prefer C to E due to RS

Question 34

Assuming that the new drug is approved, it will remain to be seen whether it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans after it is widely administered.

A. whether it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans after it is widely administered

B. whether it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans once they widely administer it

C. whether it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans once it has been widely administered

D. if it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans once it is widely administered

E. if it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans after it has been widely administered

Answer 34

1) Eliminate D& E due to picking option choice “whether” instead of condinational statement “if”
2) Eliminate B - “they” is incorrect pronoun
3) Prefer C to A due to logical predication: it will remain to be seen indicate some effects are still true and continue to be true (present perfect tense) - has been widely administered

Question 35

Whereas in genetic mutation by insertion extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, in mutation by substitution one base in the sequence is replaced for another.

A. Whereas in genetic mutation by insertion extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, in mutation by substitution one base in the sequence is replaced for another.

B. Whereas in genetic mutation by insertion extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, mutation by substitution occurs when one base in the sequence is replaced for another.

C. Unlike genetic mutation by insertion, where extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, one base in the sequence is replaced for another in mutation by substitution.

D. Unlike genetic mutation by insertion, where extra base pairs are inserted into the DNA, mutation by substitution replaces one base in the sequence with another.

E. Unlike the case of extra base pairs inserted into the DNA, which is genetic mutation by insertion, in mutation by substitution one base in the sequence is replaced with another.

Answer 35

1) Eliminate B, C & E due to incorrect parallelism
2) Prefer A to D due to change of meaning in D (mutation by substitution replaces one base in the sequence with another)

Question 36

A recent study has proved that children are more capable at picking up languages than are adults, from their mother tongue to even foreign ones, and remembering them lifelong.

A. children are more capable at picking up languages than are adults,
B. children are more capable at picking up languages than adults,
C. children are more capable than adults at picking up languages,
D. children, more capable than adults at picking up languages,
E. children pick up languages more capably than adults,

Answer 36

1) Eliminate D & E due incorrect grammar structure
2) Prefer C to A & B due to correct parallelism: at picking up…,and remembering

Question 37

How do these structure differ on GMAT meaning?
raised fears of insufficient supplies vs raise fears that supplies would be insufficient

Answer 37

1) 1st one implies that the fears (supplies already insufficient) already exist
2) 2nd implies what was feared was the following: future supplies would be insufficient

Question 38

Why is the verb vote incorrect in this sentence?
The city council voted that they are denied permission

Answer 38

When we vote for ST, what we vote for is ST that perhaps should happen rather than a fact or a description of an actual state or affairs - that they are denied/ they be denied
Possible Fix: demand, order, request

Question 39

How do these sentences differ in meaning?
1) Nubia was the principal corridor through which cultural influences were transmitted
2) Nubia was the principal corridor which was transmitting cultural influences

Answer 39

1st implies that Nubia is a conduit or a channel
2nd implies that Nubia directly does the act

Question 40

How is this sentence strange and ambiguous on GMAT?
Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them vanishing

Answer 40

1) The structure of the sentence do not clearly express a coherent temporal relationship among the species’ appearing on Earth, their vanishing & the current situation
2) The sentence strangely indicates that each of species had the characteristing of vanishing (due to participle)

Question 41

As opposed to adults, pound for pound, children breathe twice as much air, drink two and a half times as much water, eat three to four times as much food, and have more skin surface area.

A) As opposed to adults, pound for pound, children
B) Compared pound for pound with adults, children
C) Unlike an adult, pound for pound, children
D) Pound for pound, a child, unlike an adult, will
E) Pound for pound, children compared to adults will

Answer 41

1) Eliminate D & E due to GS
2) Eliminate C: an adult doesnt agree with plural children & unlike fail to make meaningful comparison: children have characteristics that adults lack
3) Eliminate A for the same reason as unlike
4) Use invert structure, you can see B is a correct answer

Question 42

Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract

(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting

(E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract

Answer 42

Understand the logical meaning is crucial to solve this question:
1) There are large number of communities (on the Great Lakes) that are looking to their waterfronts; Cleveland is but one of them
-> Eliminate A & B
2) Eliminate E due to incorrect idiom: looking at
3) Eliminate D due to pronoun error: its
4) C is correct answer

Question 43

Frank Lloyd Wright was a preeminent architect of the twentieth century, and there have been many less talented people who, both in the past and today, have imitated his style.

(A) there have been many less talented people who, both in the past and today, have

(B) a great number of less talented people of today, as well as in the past, have

(C) many less talented people, both in the past and today, have

(D) there are many less talented people, today as well as in the past, who

(E) many people less talented than Wright who, today as well as in the past, have

Answer 43

1) Eliminate E due to incorrectly grammar comparison
2) Eliminate A & D due to rhetorical structure
3) Between B & C, many is preferred to a great number of -> C is the right answer

Question 44

Mammals are more effective at maintaining homeostasis than are reptiles, in regard to consistent body temperatures, and sustaining it in various environments.

A. Mammals are more effective at maintaining homeostasis than are reptiles,
B. Mammals are more effective at maintaining homeostasis than reptiles,
C. Mammals are more effective than reptiles at maintaining homeostasis,
D. Mammals, more effective than reptiles at maintaining homeostasis,
E. Mammals maintain homeostasis more effectively than reptiles,

Answer 44

1) Eliminate B,D & E due to ambigutity in comparison
2) Since there is parallelism needed for sustaining it (homeostasis)… choice C is a correct answer, which also has correct modifer in regard to next to homeostasis

Question 45

Defense attorneys have occasionally argued that their clients’ misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but in attributing criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their actions.

T or F: the participle modifier is correct

Answer 45

Grammatically correct but logically incorrect
The sentence is saying the perpetrators attribute criminal or delinquent behavior to some food allergy but THAT’s NOT THE INTENDED MEANING: attorney does

Question 46

On this issue, this state’s elected officials ignored the wishes of their electorate, which cannot reasonably be disputed in light of the legislative record.

(A) On this issue, this state’s elected officials ignored the wishes of their electorate, which

(B) This state’s elected officials, ignoring on this issue the wishes of their electorate,

(C) That this state’s elected officials ignored the wishes of their electorate

(D) On this issue, the wishes of the electorate were ignored by this state’s elected officials, and

(E) That the wishes of the electorate on this issue were ignored by this state’s elected officials

Answer 46

Logical meaning plays an important role in solving this question:
Ask this instead: What cannot reasonably be disputed in light of the legislative record?
–> the fact that state’s elected officials ignored wishes of their electorate
-> C matches this meaning and the correct grammar.

Question 47

In astronomy the term “red shift” denotes the extent to which light from a distant galaxy has been shifted toward the red, or long-wave, end of the light spectrum by the rapid motion of the galaxy away from the Earth.

(A) to which light from a distant galaxy has been shifted
(B) to which light from a distant galaxy has shifted
(C) that light from a distant galaxy has been shifted
(D) of light from a distant galaxy shifting
(E) of the shift of light from a distant galaxy

Answer 47

Common idiom for usage of extent
extent to which or to the extent of/that/to such an extent that or the extent of __

1) Eliminate C for incorrect idomatic ussage
2) Eliminate E due to incorrect modifier shifting
3) Eliminate D due to logical meaning connecting with by the rapid motion
4) A is correct answer for the reason in 3)

Question 48

T or F: A commemorative silver dollar coin was issued in the same year as the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s expedition was celebrated,

Answer 48

F - in the same year as that of the bicentennial..
or in the same year as that when the bicentennial of Lewis…..was celebrated

Question 49

Scientists calculated that the asteroid, traveling at 46,000 miles an hour, is on an elliptical path that orbits the Sun once a year and regularly brings it back toward Earth.

(A) hour, is on an elliptical path that orbits the Sun once a year and regularly brings it
(B) hour, is orbiting the Sun once a year on an elliptical path that regularly brings it
(C) hour, once a year orbits the Sun, regularly bringing it on an elliptical path
(D) hour and orbiting the Sun once a year on an elliptical path, regularly bringing it
(E) hour, orbits the Sun on an elliptical path once a year and that regularly brings it

Answer 49

1) Quickly eliminate D due to incorrect grammar
2) Eliminate C & E due to illogical meaning
3) A is correct answer since it sounds more logical (asteroid orbits the Sun) than B (elliptical path orbits the Sun)

Question 50

The volatility of a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds, less than 80 percent of the overall stock market.

a. The volatility of a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds, less than 80 percent of the overall stock market.

b. A balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds is less than 80 percent as volatile as the overall stock market.

c. A balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds is less than 80 percent as volatile as that of the overall stock market.

d. Volatility is less than 80 percent for a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds compared to the overall stock market.

e. The volatility of a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds is less than 80 percent of the overall stock market.

Answer 50

Understanding the meaning is crucial in solving this question
1) Quickly eliminate A: incorrect grammar
2) Eliminate C & E due to illogical meaning: volatility is less than 80% of overall market and balanced portfolio of the overall stock market (sentences indicates the only portfolio of entirely overall stock market)
3) D is incorrect - compared to when it should be compared with
4) B is correct answer: A balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds is as volatile as the overall stock market (by how much of the probability? - less than 80%)

Question 51

T or F:
Today, greater than 37 percent of Indians under the age of forty are diabetics, compared with less than 15 percent a decade ago.

Answer 51

T - compared with less than is adverbial phrase

Question 52

While shale gas use has increased dramatically particularly in the United States, where it has brought down gas prices, global emission have continued to rise as the coal that would otherwise have been used exported elsewhere.

A)that would otherwise have been used exported elsewhere.
B)that would otherwise have been used has been exported elsewhere.
C)that would be used otherwise has been exported elsewhere.
D)that would otherwise have been used has been elsewhere exported.
E)otherwise that would have been used elsewhere has been exported.

Answer 52

1) Eliminate E due to LP
2) Quickly Eliminate A due to the active verb export
3) Eliminate C due to incorrect hypothetical form- would be (rather would have been)
4) Prefer B to D due to LP - coal has been exported elsewhere is logically sound than coal has been elsewhere exported

Question 53

The CEO of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts, who has built some incredibly tech-savvy retail stores, where people can use their smart-phones to learn more about a product , is influential on fashion industry, has joined Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores.

C. The CEO of Burberry, Angela Ahrendts, building some incredibly tech-savvy retail stores, where people can use their smart-phones to learn more about a product, and influencing fashion industry,

E. Angela Ahrendts, who, as CEO of Burberry, had built some incredibly tech-savvy retail stores, where people can use their smart-phones to learn more about a product, and has been influential on fashion industry,

Answer 53

E) is a better option to correctly specify the timeline of events
Note: option C) has building - present participle as an incorrect modifer (shouldn’t it be having been building!?)

Question 54

Uninformed about students’ experience in urban classrooms, critics often condemn schools’ performance gauged by an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that in higher-level reasoning.

A. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that

B. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made

C. an index, such as standardized test scores, that is called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made

D. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made

E. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that

Answer 54

1) Eliminate A,B & C due incorrect parallelism and
2) E is correct