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Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.


(A) Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.

(B) Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation.

(C) The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology.

(D) Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements.

(E) Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled.


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Re: Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's [#permalink] New post   31 May 2023, 16:37
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(A) Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.
Doesnt mention who fulfilled the student's requirements. Incorrect option.

(B) Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation.
Needing to take one class cannot be a part of a requirement due to redudancy. Incorrect option.

(C) The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology.
Should be "all of his". Also "one class in history" is slightly wordier than the next option. Incorrect option.

(D) Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements.
Correct option.

(E) Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled.
"He" has no referent in this sentence. Incorrect option.
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Re: Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's [#permalink] New post   04 Jun 2023, 09:46
Can someone please help explain the correct answer & eliminate the incorrect ones?
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Bunuel wrote:
Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.


(A) Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.

(B) Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation.

(C) The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology.

(D) Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements.

(E) Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled.


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One of the reasons this question is difficult is because except for and aside from do not create modifiers; the phrases they begin don't describe an unnamed subject or object. Once you realize that, you can see that what really differentiates the answer choices is expression, not grammar. Scanning for differences, you can see that have been fulfilled is a passive and wordier alternative to has fulfilled. Eliminate (A) and (E). Next, graduation requirements is superior to requirements for graduation so eliminate (B). Finally, the meaning of (C) is less clear than that of (D) because of the confusing word order of (C). Therefore, (D) wins.

An 800 test taker knows that many sentences are challenging primarily because they contain unfamiliar syntax or sentence structure. He pauses to understand the sentence before looking for familiar errors.
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Re: Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's [#permalink] New post   12 Jun 2023, 11:31
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Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2023, 03:34
Bunuel wrote:
Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.


(A) Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.

(B) Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation.

(C) The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology.

(D) Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements.

(E) Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled.


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Basically a rhetorical question. The original sentence contains a passive voice, and wordiness concerning the one class. Also except for modifies the requirements for graduation.

B is incorrect because the continuous tense is irrelevant, since it modifies the student and they cannot need those 2 classes continuously.

C & D are very similar but C contains minor drawbacks. Usually, gmat indicates more than one problems in the incorrect choice to not create a huge ambiguity between choices. So they did with the C. First, the absence of the preposition of. It is a rule of thumb in English that we should use of after all when there is a proceeding pronoun(in our case it is his). Secondly, the except modifies requirements in the choice C, while in D the student is modified. Also, C copied the wordy construction of the original sentence.

E has a verb form parallelism problem. In the first part the verb is active, albeit passive in the second part of the sentence.
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