American Society of Civil Engineers

How do you start dissecting this question? Thanks.

+1 C

A - wrong: It seems that the bridges are finding..
B - wrong: a study...HAVE found?
C - Correct
D - wrong: found requires THAT
E - wrong: the second THAT needs AND.

The answer is C for maintaining the //ism of the introductory connector ‘that’; that apart, my point is that this Kaplan’s topic is a mere reproduction of another topic, with slight changes in inessential things. Here is the one.

Almost a decade after New York State passed laws to protect patients by reducing the grueling hours worked by medical residents, twelve hospitals have been investigated by state medical officials, finding that all twelve consistently break the laws, many residents work longer than 24 hours straight, and that more than half the surgical residents work more than 95 hours a week.

A. twelve hospitals have been investigated by state medical officials, finding that all twelve consistently break the laws, many residents work longer than 24 hours straight, and that more than half the surgical residents work
B. an investigation by state medical officials of twelve hospitals have found all twelve consistently breaking the laws, that many residents work longer than 24 hours straight, with more than half the surgical residents working
C. an investigation of twelve hospitals by state medical officials has found that all twelve consistently break the laws, that many residents work longer than 24 hours straight, and that more than half the surgical residents work
D. twelve hospitals were investigated by state medical officials who found all twelve breaking the laws, with many residents working longer than 24 hours straight, and more than half the surgical residents work
E. an investigation by state medical officials has found that, of twelve hospitals, all twelve consistently break the laws, that many residents work longer than 24 hours straight, with more than half the surgical residents working

The OA is C in this topic also.


The focal question is whether it is really helpful to teach students this way or it is required of reputed institutions that they use more original examples.

The question is just not about Kaplan alone but in general about every other institute that uses this technique.