In order to ensure that talented individuals continue to

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In order to ensure that talented individuals continue to reside in the state, some states now offer  to high ranked in-state students merit scholarships that are of higher value even than offered to low-income students .

to high ranked in-state students merit scholarships that are of higher value even than offered to low-income students
 to high ranked in-state students merit scholarships even higher in value than to low-income students
 highly ranked in-state students merit scholarships even higher in value than the scholarships offered to low-income students
 merit scholarships for in-state students who are ranked even higher than low-income students
 merit scholarships for even higher amounts to highly ranked in-state students than what's offered to low-income students

Sudhanshuacharya · Answer

IMO the answer should be D.
The second phrase says "...some states now offer" the question is what?? and the answer should be scholarships.
hence ruling out A,B and C.

Now from D and E. D clearly states the relationship between "scholarships" and "in-state students" giving a clear meaning to the statement

DeeptiM · Answer

ufffffffff after boiling down to C & D..I chose C...hunh..

crick20002002 · Answer

I will go with C here.

D clearly distorts the meaning.

Crick

Fistail · Answer

D. This is not an ideal Gmat question however I choose D for SV agreements and logical comparisons.

Sudhanshuacharya · Answer

Thanks Crick. I looked closely at option D and will agree with you that it distorts the meaning, although the sentence is grammatically correct.

The actual sentence says "... merit scholarships that are of higher value..." will be given to high ranked students and NOT 
" ... merit scholarships for in-state students who are ranked even higher..."

Frozenace · Answer

How can merit scholarships be ranked higher than low-income students

merit scholarships != low-income students.

Could someone please dig up the OA, since it's not very constructive if you have to guess the answer...

LifeChanger · Answer

IMO C--
D distorts the meaning..original sentence says that the value of scholarships are higher..but D says the ranks are higher
OA??

Jacksparrow1906 · Answer

I believe the answer is E, although wordy and I am unsure as to the use of "higher amounts...than"

I didn't pick C because of "offer highly ranked students merit scholarships". Doesn't that distort the meaning as well? Are they offering students or offering merit scholarships. That's the only aspect stopping me from picking C.

malar · Answer

i think its B. offer to X merit scholarships even higher in value than to Y

prab · Answer

Why not E, its a bit wordy, but conveys the meaning appropriately.

DexDee · Answer

I peg E as well. Have the explanation as below.

kuttingchai · Answer

I will vote for - B

the infinitive "to high ranked" after the verb "offer" is a valid case.

what is the OA?

reatsaint · Answer

I will chose E. but as said by the others conveys the correct meaning.

nishtil · Answer

IMO with C ... D distorts the meaning.... what is OA

HD05 · Answer

E in my opinion.
Conveys the meaning without distorting the intended data.
Plus, on 'offer' are the 'scholarships', not the highly ranked students.

arzad · Answer

I picked E...correct meaning and parallelism "higher amounts to...than what's offered to..."

arjunbt · Answer

shortlisted D and E, 
my vote goes to E. 
what is the OA ?

immaculatesahai · Answer

I chose E. D is the trap and clearly distorts the intended meaning. Merit scholarships should come after offer, hence I eliminated A,B and C.

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