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By the time Tim appears for the GMAT,
he will have completed a minimum of eight practice tests, three hundred practice questions, and more than seventy hours spent browsing through the various GMAT forums.
(A) he will have completed a minimum of eight practice tests, three hundred practice questions, and more than seventy hours spent
(B) he will complete a minimum of eight practice tests, three hundred practice questions, and he will spend more than seventy hours
(C) he would have completed a minimum of eight practice tests and three hundred practice questions, spending more than seventy hours
(D) he would complete a minimum of eight practice tests in addition to completing three hundred practice questions, having spent more than seventy hours
(E) he will have completed a minimum of eight practice tests and three hundred practice questions, and spent more than seventy hours
Official Explanation:
Answer: E
(A) Since the sentence talks about a completed action in the future, you need to use the future perfect tense (
will have completed). Another problem with this option is that it does not maintain parallelism by making the last part passive—
and more than seventy hours spent—which doesn’t have any meaning.
(B) You require the future perfect tense (
will have completed) and not the simple future tense (
will complete). You need an
and before
three hundred practice questions.
(C) Since we are talking about the future in the present time, the usage of
would is incorrect.
(D) Same as C. The parallelism is also not maintained.
(E) The correct answer. He
will have completed...and spent also gets the parallelism right.