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13 Jun 2017, 02:05
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Most CEO’s have either sales or marketing experience prior to becoming the CEO. Data shows that, over the past decade, 30% of CEO’s who have prior sales experience have successfully transformed the strategy of a company and taken a company into a completely new direction whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done the same. Therefore, it can be argued that CEO’s with prior sales experience are more successful in transforming the strategy of company than those with Marketing experience.
In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
13 Jun 2017, 13:27
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Most CEO’s have either sales or marketing experience prior to becoming the CEO. Data shows that, over the past decade, 30% of CEO’s who have prior sales experience have successfully transformed the strategy of a company and taken a company into a completely new direction whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done the same. Therefore, it can be argued that CEO’s with prior sales experience are more successful in transforming the strategy of company than those with Marketing experience.
In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
Dear olnata, In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
I'm happy to respond.
My friend, I don't have the highest opinion of this question. First of all, there's a suspect grammatical construction in the prompt:
Data shows that, over the past decade, 30% of CEO’s who have prior sales experience have successfully transformed the strategy of a company and taken a company into a completely new direction whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done the same.
This should be
. . . whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done so.
Substandard grammar is not exactly an endorsement for the question.
Similarly, in (C), there is something suspect and sloppy about calling one group "marketing CEOs," rather than "CEOs with marketing experience."
I think (C) is a reasonably good answer to the question. I think (B) is a little too good to be a wrong answer, and I think (A) & (D) & (E) are just out-in-left-field wrong, easy for most students to eliminate. The author of the question has utterly failed to write GMAT-like distractors.
Overall, this is not the highest quality question. As with many poor quality GMAT verbal practice questions, this replicates the general format of the question nad has an appropriate topic, and unlike many, it even has a solid OA, but the four incorrect answers are by far the weakest part of the question.
I would give this question a grade of a D.
Here's a much high quality CR practice question:
The National Farm Administration
Does all this make sense?
Mike
18 Jun 2017, 02:23
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Most CEO’s have either sales or marketing experience prior to becoming the CEO. Data shows that, over the past decade, 30% of CEO’s who have prior sales experience have successfully transformed the strategy of a company and taken a company into a completely new direction whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done the same. Therefore, it can be argued that CEO’s with prior sales experience are more successful in transforming the strategy of company than those with Marketing experience.
In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
Dear olnata, In evaluating the argument, it would be most useful to determine which of the following?
A. Whether there have been more CEO’s with sales experience than marketing experience in the past decade.
B. What skills does a prior Sales experience impart to a CEO that a marketing job does not.
C. Whether a greater percentage of CEO’s with Sales experience were required to transform the strategy of a company than the percentage of marketing CEO’s.
D. Whether the shareholder returns provided by the CEO’s with Sales experience were greater than those provided by CEO’s with marketing experience.
E. Whether CEO’s with Sales experience cost the organization more than CEO’s with marketing experience.
Could you provide your understanding of this question?
I'm happy to respond.
My friend, I don't have the highest opinion of this question. First of all, there's a suspect grammatical construction in the prompt:
Data shows that, over the past decade, 30% of CEO’s who have prior sales experience have successfully transformed the strategy of a company and taken a company into a completely new direction whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done the same.
This should be
. . . whereas only 20% of CEO’s with prior Marketing experience have done so.
Substandard grammar is not exactly an endorsement for the question.
Similarly, in (C), there is something suspect and sloppy about calling one group "marketing CEOs," rather than "CEOs with marketing experience."
I think (C) is a reasonably good answer to the question. I think (B) is a little too good to be a wrong answer, and I think (A) & (D) & (E) are just out-in-left-field wrong, easy for most students to eliminate. The author of the question has utterly failed to write GMAT-like distractors.
Overall, this is not the highest quality question. As with many poor quality GMAT verbal practice questions, this replicates the general format of the question nad has an appropriate topic, and unlike many, it even has a solid OA, but the four incorrect answers are by far the weakest part of the question.
I would give this question a grade of a D.
Here's a much high quality CR practice question:
The National Farm Administration
Does all this make sense?
Mike
Thanks a lot Mike for your response!
It was really helpful for me to see your deep analysis of this question.
