|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
C
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
75%
(hard)
Question Stats:
42% (01:21) correct
58%
(01:19)
wrong
based on 964
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
A new study of old data on roughly 30,000 U.S. children found that children of older fathers have a reduced cognitive ability and an increased chance of schizophrenia or autism when compared to children of younger fathers.
(A) of schizophrenia or autism when compared to children of younger fathers.
(B) of schizophrenia or autism as compared to children from younger fathers.
(C) of schizophrenia and autism when compared with children of younger fathers.
(D) of schizophrenia and autism when you compare it to the children of younger fathers.
(E) of schizophrenia or autism, comparing it to children from young fathers.
Debatable Question
(A) of schizophrenia or autism when compared to children of younger fathers.
(B) of schizophrenia or autism as compared to children from younger fathers.
(C) of schizophrenia and autism when compared with children of younger fathers.
(D) of schizophrenia and autism when you compare it to the children of younger fathers.
(E) of schizophrenia or autism, comparing it to children from young fathers.
Debatable Question
19 Nov 2010, 11:25
Kudos
Bookmarks
I read in some GMAT material that When two similar things are compared to show dissimilarity then 'compare with' should be used and when two different things are compared to show similarity then 'compare to' should be used.
So in this SC question, 2 similar things are compared to show dissimilarity so option C, which uses 'compare with', is correct one.
So in this SC question, 2 similar things are compared to show dissimilarity so option C, which uses 'compare with', is correct one.
21 Nov 2010, 06:08
Kudos
Bookmarks
Here is the official explanation of this question From Verbal question bank for GMAT Winners (SC):
A glance through the choices indicates there may be a problem with the preposition following “compare.” The word “compare” should be followed by “to” when used to compare things in the metaphorical or poetic sense. It should be followed by “with” when used in the literal sense. You compare “Juli with Jill” and “her test scores with his test scores.” But you compare Jill’s temper to a storm. In the given sentence, the author is making a literal comparison between children of older fathers and children of younger fathers. So, options (A), (B), (D), and (E), can be eliminated for that reason alone. The answer, therefore, is (C).
FRANKLY SPEAKING I do not like this explanation because it does not give a true lecsicological difference between "compare with" and "compare to". As in the Official GMAT Guide editions it may be explained in a better way: "compare with" is to be used when two different things or features have to be compared, whereas "compare to" when two similar things or features have to be compared.
A glance through the choices indicates there may be a problem with the preposition following “compare.” The word “compare” should be followed by “to” when used to compare things in the metaphorical or poetic sense. It should be followed by “with” when used in the literal sense. You compare “Juli with Jill” and “her test scores with his test scores.” But you compare Jill’s temper to a storm. In the given sentence, the author is making a literal comparison between children of older fathers and children of younger fathers. So, options (A), (B), (D), and (E), can be eliminated for that reason alone. The answer, therefore, is (C).
FRANKLY SPEAKING I do not like this explanation because it does not give a true lecsicological difference between "compare with" and "compare to". As in the Official GMAT Guide editions it may be explained in a better way: "compare with" is to be used when two different things or features have to be compared, whereas "compare to" when two similar things or features have to be compared.
