Verbal Question of the Day Chat Group

CR Questions April- 17 :

Q1. New technology now makes it feasible for computer call-in help desk services to route calls they receive to almost anywhere, theoretically allowing employees to work from home, without the need for a daily commute.

The adoption of this policy would be most likely to increase productivity if employees did not _____________.


(A) commute from a distance of fewer than 10 miles

(B) commute by car as opposed to by rail

(C) live in areas with dependable phone service

(D) need to consult frequently with each other to solve callers’ problems

(E) have more than one telephone line

Q2. According to a recent report, the original tires supplied with the Impressivo, a new sedan-class automobile, wore much more quickly than tires conventionally wear. The report suggested two possible causes: (1) defects in the tires, and (2) improper wheel alignment of the automobile.

Which of the following would best help the authors of the report determine which of the two causes identified was responsible for the extra wear?


(A) a study in which the rate of tire wear in the Impressivo is compared to the rate of tire wear in all automobiles in the same class

(B) a study in which a second set of tires, manufactured by a different company than the one that made the first set, is installed on all Impressivos and the rate of wear is measured

(C) a study in which the level of satisfaction of workers in the Impressivo manufacturing plant is measured and compared to that of workers at other automobile manufacturing plants

(D) a study that determines how often improper wheel alignment results in major problems for manufacturers of other automobiles in the Impressivo’s class

(E) a study that determines the degree to which faulty driving techniques employed by Impressivo drivers contributed to tire wear

Yes, it should be C





please separate answer choices


Pleases separate answer choices







SC Questions April - 18 :

Q1. Despite sophisticated computer models for assessing risk, such a model is nevertheless limited in their ability to define what risk is.

(A) Despite sophisticated computer models for assessing risk, such a model is nevertheless

(B) Sophisticated computer models, which assess risk, are nevertheless

(C) Despite their sophistication, computer models for assessing risk are

(D) Assessment of risk can be achieved with sophisticated computer models, but these models are

(E) Assessing risk with sophisticated computer models is limited because such models are

Q2. A vocal opponent of the unequal distribution of wealth, the itinerant activist has spent time in several countries across the world, rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement.


(A) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(B) to rally against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(C) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and tried to forge a transnational people’s movement

(D) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(E) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the neglecting of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

Why its E? There is "them" in that option while the subject is singular "the deer".
For me its C. Whats wrong with option C ?

Corrected OA. It was a mistake







CR Questions April- 18 :

Q1. Exit polls, conducted by an independent organization among voters at five polling locations during a recent election, suggested that the incumbent mayor—a Democrat—was going to lose the election by a wide margin. But, in fact, by the time the final results were tabulated, the incumbent had won the election by a narrow margin.

Which of the following, if true, would explain the apparent contradiction in the results of the exit polls?


(A) The people chosen at random to be polled by the independent organization happened to be Democrats.

(B) The exit poll locations chosen by the independent organization were in predominantly Republican districts.

(C) The exit polls were conducted during the afternoon, when most of the districts’ younger voters, who did not support the incumbent mayor, were at work.

(D) The incumbent mayor ran on a platform that promised to lower taxes if elected.

(E) An earlier poll, conducted the week before the election, had predicted that the incumbent mayor would win.

Q2. Numismatist: In medieval Spain, most gold coins were minted from gold mined in West Africa, in the area that is now Senegal. The gold mined in this region was the purest known. Its gold content of 92 percent allowed coins to be minted without refining the gold, and indeed coins minted from this source of gold can be recognized because they have that gold content. The mints could refine gold and produced other kinds of coins that had much purer gold content, but the Senegalese gold was never refined.

As a preliminary to negotiating prices, merchants selling goods often specified that payment should be in the coins minted from Senegalese gold. Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain this preference?


(A) Because refined gold varied considerably in purity, specifying a price as a number of refined-gold coins did not fix the quantity of gold received in payment.

(B) During this period most day-to-day trading was conducted using silver coins, though gold coins were used for costly transactions and long-distance commerce.

(C) The mints were able to determine the purity, and hence the value, of gold coins by measuring their density.

(D) Since gold coins’ monetary value rested on the gold they contained, payments were frequently made using coins minted in several different countries.

(E) Merchants obtaining gold to resell for use in jewelry could not sell the metal unless it was first refined.

SC Questions April - 19 :

Q1. A recently concluded study indicates that the earnings of women employed in white-collar jobs continue to fall far behind men employed in similar jobs, because they make an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less a year by the time they reach the age of 40.

A. men employed in similar jobs, because they make an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less a year by the time they reach the age of 40.

B. men employed in similar jobs, by an average of nearly $6,000 a year at the start of their careers, to almost $20,000.

C. what men employed in similar jobs are paid—making an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less.

D. those of men employed in similar jobs —by an average of almost $6,000 a year at the start of their careers, and by nearly $20,000.

E. those of men employed in similar jobs —by an average of nearly $6,000 a year at the start of their careers to almost $20,000 less.
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Q2. To make figures appear to exist in space on a two-dimensional surface, a few artists in the Renaissance art period developed a system of one-point perspective, a mathematical system where all edges and forms follow orthogonal lines converging on a single point.


(A) figures appear to exist in space on a two-dimensional surface, a few artists in the Renaissance art period developed a system of one-point perspective, a mathematical system where all edges and forms

(B) figures appear to exist in space, a few artists in the Renaissance art period developed a system of one point perspective on a two-dimensional surface, a mathematical system where all edges and forms

(C) figures on a two-dimensional surface appear to exist in space, a few artists in the Renaissance art period developed a system of one point perspective, a mathematical system in which all edges and forms

(D) figures appear to exist in space on a two-dimensional surface, a few artists in the Renaissance art period developed a system of one point perspective, which is a mathematical system where each edge and form

(E) figures on a two-dimensional surface appear as if they are existing in space, a system of one point perspective was developed by a few artists in the Renaissance art period, a mathematical system where each edge and form

CR Questions April- 19 :

Q1. The bird species Myiobius barbatus (the bearded flycatcher), which forages in relatively dense vegetation, and Platyrinchus saturatus (the cinnamon-crested spadebill), which forages in open areas or low density vegetation, share territory in French Guiana with Thamnomanes caesius (the cinereous antshrike), which emits a loud alarm call when it detects predators. Biologist Ari Martinez and colleagues, who studied the ecological community the species share, hypothesized that there is an inverse relationship between birds’ field of vision while foraging and their sensitivity to alarm calls from neighboring species

Which finding, if true, would most directly support Martinez and colleagues’ hypothesis?

A. When Martinez and colleagues played T. caesius alarm calls. M. barbatus and P. saturatus displayed no reaction, whereas T. caesius displayed predator-avoidance behavior.

B. Many local bird species with similar foraging habits to those of M. barbatus displayed no reaction when Martinez and colleagues played T. caesius alarm calls, whereas M. barbarus displayed predator -avoidance behavior.

C. Some individuals of P. saturatus displayed predator-avoidance behavior when Martinez and colleagues played T. caesius alarm calls, whereas nearly all did when M. barbatus alarm calls were played.

D. P. saturatus displayed no reaction when Martinez and colleagues played T. caesius alarm calls, whereas M. barbaris displayed predator avoidance behavior in response to the calls.

Q2. During the past year, nationwide membership in health and fitness clubs has declined by about 7 percent. Over the same time period, sales of fast-food products widely known to contribute to health problems have risen by about the same percent. These statistics clearly show that consumers have become decreasingly concerned about their health and level of fitness during the past year.

The argument that consumers have become decreasingly concerned about their health and fitness over the most recent one-year period depends most heavily on which of the following assumptions?


(A) Concern about health is a major reason that consumers join fitness clubs and maintain their memberships.

(B) The overall level of health and fitness among consumers declined over the most recent one-year period.

(C) Consumers spent less money on health- and fitness-club memberships than on fast food during the past year.

(D) Fitness equipment designed for home use has become increasingly affordable over the past year.

(E) Consumers who have a low level of health and fitness tend to spend more money than other consumers on fast food.

Can anyone help in analyzing the below SC question?

The presence of both plant impressions and phytoliths led --- researchers analyzing soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel to conclude there was habitual use of plants, and particularly of flowering and aromatic varieties, in the rituals associated with burial of the dead at Raqefet.---

A.researchers analyzing soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel to conclude there was habitual use of plants, and particularly of flowering and aromatic varieties, in the rituals associated with burial of the dead at Raqefet
B. researchers who would analyze soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel to conclude there had been habitual use of plants, and particularly flowering and aromatic varieties, in the rituals in association with burial of the dead at Raqefet
C. researchers who had analyzed soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel to conclude that in the rituals associated with burial of the dead in Raqafet, there had been habitual plant use, and particularly flowering and aromatic varieties
D. researchers, analyzing soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel to conclude there was habitual use of plants in the rituals associated with burial of the dead at Raqefet, and particularly of flowering and aromatic varieties
E. researchers analyzing soil in and around Mesolithic graves in Israel in concluding particularly flowering and aromatic varieties of plants were in habitual use in the rituals associated with burial of the dead at Raqefet

A and B are Run-on sentence; D is a sentence fragment; E has both Run-on and idioms issue. Correct idioms - ....lead researchers ...to .... C seems to be fine

hi, i dont see any correct answer. In A and B "that" is not present. C has two past perfect form dependent clause that creates time issue. D is a sentence fragment. E has idioms issue. would in B is incorrect. probably answer should be A or C. Though A has no connector and C has time issue, you can see post explanation for better understanding. Exception can happen

SC Questions April - 20 :

Q1. William Sydney Porter, who began writing while he was in prison for embezzlement, was seeking anonymity when he chose the pseudonym O. Henry.

(A) was seeking anonymity when he chose
(B) was seeking that he might be anonymous when he chose
(C) was seeking for anonymity and therefore chose
(D) sought anonymity in the choosing of
(E) sought to be anonymous in that he chose

Q2. While the term ‘sublimation’ has several meanings, in scientific terminology it is a process where a substance changes from solid to gaseous state, without entering the liquid state.


(A) While the term ‘sublimation’ has several meanings, in scientific terminology it is a process where

(B) The term ‘sublimation’ has several meanings, in scientific terminology it is a process in which

(C) While the term ‘sublimation’ has several meanings, in scientific terminology it refers to a process in which

(D) The term ‘sublimation’ has several meanings, in scientific terminology it refers to a process when

(E) The term ‘sublimation’, having several meanings in scientific terminology, refers to a process where

Parkhivatsa, for which question? please add question







CR Questions April- 20 :

Q1. State X requires employers to pay hourly-wage employees 50 percent more than their regular wage for every work hour in excess of 8, on any workday. State Y requires employers to pay these employees the same overtime rate, but only for work hours in excess of 40 during any given week. Most hourly-wage employees prefer to work in state Y over state X.

Based only on the statements above, which of the following best explains why most hourly-wage employees prefer to work in state Y over state X?


(A) Most hourly-wage employees work at least five days per week.

(B) Most hourly-wage employees prefer to work for employers that do not provide overtime work.

(C) Most hourly-wage employees prefer to work for employers that provide overtime work.

(D) Overtime work hours for most hourly-wage employees exceed regular work hours by at least 50 percent.

(E) Most hourly-wage employees work fewer than 40 hours per week.

Q2. During the past year, nationwide membership in health and fitness clubs has declined by about 7 percent. Over the same time period, sales of fast-food products widely known to contribute to health problems have risen by about the same percent. These statistics clearly show that consumers have become decreasingly concerned about their health and level of fitness during the past year.

The argument that consumers have become decreasingly concerned about their health and fitness over the most recent one-year period depends most heavily on which of the following assumptions?


(A) Concern about health is a major reason that consumers join fitness clubs and maintain their memberships.

(B) The overall level of health and fitness among consumers declined over the most recent one-year period.

(C) Consumers spent less money on health- and fitness-club memberships than on fast food during the past year.

(D) Fitness equipment designed for home use has become increasingly affordable over the past year.

(E) Consumers who have a low level of health and fitness tend to spend more money than other consumers on fast food.

Thanks winterschool. I had same issues and there were no expert responses in posts. Just wanted to know whether I am missing anything.

SC Questions April - 21 :

Q1. As is the case for other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens consists of a large eruptive cone containing lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice, and other deposits, is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean.

(A) As is the case for other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens consists of a large eruptive cone containing

(B) Similar to other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens consists in a large eruptive cone that contains

(C) Like other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens consists of a large eruptive cone that

(D) Like other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens, which consists of a large eruptive cone containing

(E) Like other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens, which consists in a large eruptive cone and contain

Q2. A recently concluded study indicates that the earnings of women employed in white-collar jobs continue to fall far behind men employed in similar jobs, because they make an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less a year by the time they reach the age of 40.

A. men employed in similar jobs, because they make an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less a year by the time they reach the age of 40.

B. men employed in similar jobs, by an average of nearly $6,000 a year at the start of their careers, to almost $20,000.

C. what men employed in similar jobs are paid—making an average of almost $6,000 a year less at the start of their careers and nearly $20,000 less.

D. those of men employed in similar jobs —by an average of almost $6,000 a year at the start of their careers, and by nearly $20,000.

E. those of men employed in similar jobs —by an average of nearly $6,000 a year at the start of their careers to almost $20,000 less.

CR Questions April- 21 :

Q1. A certain mayor has proposed a fee of five dollars per day on private vehicles entering the city, claiming that the fee will alleviate the city’s traffic congestion. The mayor reasons that, since the fee will exceed the cost of round-trip bus fare from many nearby points, many people will switch from using their cars to using the bus.

Which of the following statements, if true, provides the best evidence that the mayor’s reasoning is flawed?


(A) Projected increases in the price of gasoline will increase the cost of taking private vehicle into the city.

(B) The cost of parking fees already makes it considerable more expensive for most people to take a private vehicle into the city than to take a bus.

(C) Most of the people currently riding the bus do not own private vehicles.

(D) Many commuters opposing the mayor’s plan have indicated that they would rather endure traffic congestion than pay a five dollar per day fee.

(E) During the average workday, private vehicles owned and operated by people living within the city account for twenty percent of the city’s traffic congestion.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. When companies’ profits would otherwise be reduced by an increase in the minimum wage (a wage rate set by the government as the lowest that companies are allowed to pay), the companies often reduce the number of workers they employ. Yet a recent increase in the minimum wage did not result in job cutbacks in the fast-food industry, where most workers are paid the minimum wage.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the increase in the minimum wage did not affect the number of jobs in the fast-food industry?

(A) After the recent increase in the minimum wage, decreased job turnover in the fast-food industry allowed employers of fast-food workers to save enough on recruiting costs to cover the cost of the wage increase.
(B) If, in any industry, an increase in the minimum wage leads to the elimination of many jobs that pay the minimum wage, then higherpaying supervisory positions will also be eliminated in that industry.
(C) With respect to its response to increases in the minimum wage, the fast-food industry does not differ significantly from other industries that employ many workers at the minimum wage.
(D) A few employees in the fast-food industry were already earning more than the new, higher minimum wage before the new minimum wage was established.
(E) Sales of fast food to workers who are paid the minimum wage did not increase following the recent change in the minimum wage.

SC Questions April - 22 :

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



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Britain’s representative government, in which citizens vote for lawmakers to uphold their wishes, functions on the belief that if people were unhappy with their circumstances, they have more of an impetus to make their voices heard.

(A) they have more of an impetus to make their voices heard

(B) they would have more of an impetus to make their voices heard

(C) they will have more of an impetus to make their voices heard

(D) it would have more of an impetus to make its voice heard

(E) it will have more of an impetus to make its voice heard

Q1. Casino X advertises that it has the “loosest” one-dollar slot machines in town, which means that the statistical odds of winning money playing a one-dollar slot machine are greater at Casino X than at any other casino. Meanwhile, Casino Y claims to have the loosest five-dollar slot machines in town. In any event, the statistical odds are always against any slotmachine player. Elaine has five dollars to spend on gambling and has decided to play a five-dollar slot machine at Casino Y.

Assuming Elaine hopes to win money, which of the following, if true, provides the strongest evidence that she made a good decision as to how to gamble her money?


(A) Casino Y’s total gambling revenues far exceed those of Casino X.

(B) At Casino Y, more gamblers win money playing slot machines than at any other casino game.

(C) One of the two casinos is providing accurate information about its slot machines, but the other casino is not.

(D) Each of the two casinos has both types of slot machines: one-dollar and five-dollar.

(E) Casino X and Casino Y are the only two casinos in town that claim to have the loosest slot machines of any type.

Q2. The city of Exitur recently began providing recycling bins to every household in the city, along with a brochure explaining what types of trash residents should put in the bins for pickup by city workers. Previously, the city’s residents had no means of recycling any of their trash. Exitur’s residents, who generate a significant amount of recyclables, have all cooperated conscientiously with the new program. Nevertheless, the total amount of trash they have been putting in their garbage cans for disposal—and not for recycling— remains about the same as before.

If the information provided is true, which of the following must on the basis of it also be true about Exitur since the program’s implementation?


(A) The city’s trash collection workers are not performing their jobs properly.

(B) The average number of trash cans used by each household has increased.

(C) The amount of trash generated by the city’s residents has increased.

(D) Some items put in recycling bins are being disposed of rather than recycled.

(E) The city’s residents have not been generating any trash that can be recycled.

SC Questions April - 23 :

Q1. After many years of feeling separated by a great divide, the doctor now finds himself besides the lawyer, working with one another against HMOs and big tobacco.

A. besides the lawyer, working with one another

B. besides the lawyer, working with each other

C. beside the lawyer, working with each other

D. beside the lawyer, working with him

E. beside the lawyer, working with one another.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising.

(A) Depending on skillful suggestion, argument is seldom used in advertising.
(B) Argument is seldom used in advertising, which depends instead on skillful suggestion.
(C) Skillful suggestion is depended on by advertisers instead of argument.
(D) Suggestion, which is more skillful, is used in place of argument by advertisers.
(E) Instead of suggestion, depending on argument is used by skillful advertisers.