A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education

I think the ans is D. Generally would and could are used to indicate past action. Here, the sentence is telling about future. So, I avoid 'could'. All the options except D have could. So, D is the answer.

D is the best answer.

A,B ambiguous pronoun They is used. "They"can either refer to educators or subjects.

To maintain paralleism we choose D/E.. View that ...believe that.

The phrase "in the near future" requires the future tense verb will/can.
Would refers to a case of future action in the past. So E is incorrect.

I believe the answer is D

The educators do not view the higher education-as a whole- as outdated. They view a subset of higher education, say engineering, as outdated.
C has the meaning issue. D:- such education clearly states the meaning.

E:- "would or could" - redundancy.

A & B- "they"- wrong pronoun

A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

If we Remove the prepositional phrases and modifiers, the sentence becomes :

A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

Now evaluating the answer choices :

A. that they will, or could, - They seems inappropriate. Also , no parallelism before and after 'or'

B. that they would, or could, - Same as above

C. it will be or could - The Best answer

D. believe that such education will be or can - Unnecessarily wordy . Usage of 'can ' seems incorrect

E. believe that such education would or could- Same as above

"believe that..." adequately describes who the clause is referring to (educators).
A, B, and C have ambiguous pronouns.

Would and could are past tenses of "can" and "will."
E is incorrect in this sense.
Di is the right answer.

Hi, my take is D for the following reasons:

A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

but is introducing contrast surveyed view higher education is outdated.... and it can be made contemporary in near future .... make the two clauses parallel.
A. that they will, or could,
Incorrect. "They" is used wrongly here , incorrectly pointing to educators instead it should point to education.

B. that they would, or could,
Incorrect. Same mistake here.

C. it will be or could
Incorrect. will be and could not parallel also but makes two clauses parallel both must begin with that ...

D. believe that such education will be or can
Correct. Parallelism is correct here with the use of "view that" and "believe that". Since the sentence makes prediction and believe/view conveys the simple present tense, usage of will and can is correct here.

E. believe that such education would or could
Incorrect. Parallelism is correct here with the use of "view that" and "believe that". Since the sentence makes prediction and believe/view conveys the simple present tense, usage of would and could is used for past elements also, it conveys uncertainty . whereas the main sentence uses Can to denote the certainty.

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A large number of educators surveyed view,
that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but
that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

A. that they will, or could,

B. that they would, or could,

C. it will be or could – Correct Answer. The pronoun it correctly refers to the subject “higher education” since both are at the subject location in the comparison. The parallelism is correct with “will be or could be” both serving as the verb for the subject IT ( higher education)

D. believe that such education will be or can

E. believe that such education would or could

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Can someone explain this GMATNinja style. Doesnt the "it" in C correctly refer to higher education?

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