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I think answer should be E;
1. verb+ing is needed to refer to customer after comma
2. Rather than is used for preference; Instead of is used for different action

I think answer should be E;
1. verb+ing is needed to refer to customer after comma
2. Rather than is used for preference; Instead of is used for different action

CR Questions May - 31 :

Q1. The plastics commonly used in household garbage bags take, on average, 100 years to decompose in landfills. From an environmental standpoint, the plastic bag industry should be forced to switch to newly developed plastics, which begin to decompose after only 20 years.

Which of the following pieces of information would be most helpful in evaluating the argument above?


(A) the rate of growth or decline in sales of plastic garbage bags

(B) the number of plastic garbage bags sold last year that eventually wound up in landfills

(C) the feasibility of enforcing legislation that regulates the plastics used in garbage bags

(D) the length of time it takes the newly developed plastic to fully decompose in landfills.

(E) a comparison of the production cost of one bag made with the old plastics and of one bag made with the new plastics

Q2. Politician: Five years ago, when we streamlined the screening operations of the Transportation Security Administration to decrease excessive expenditures under the new budget guidelines, critics claimed that the streamlining would have a detrimental effect on the ability of the TSA to detect dangerous airline passengers and cargo, thereby leading to diminished air-travel safety. However, recently-compiled TSA statistics clearly show that the critics’ claims were unfounded. Throughout the years following the implementation of our streamlining procedures, there has been an overall decrease in reports of dangerous passengers and dangerous cargoes that have made it through TSA screening checkpoints and onto airplanes.

The politician’s argument is flawed because it fails to consider the possibility that:

A. not every screening expenditure decreased by the TSA streamlining procedures was excessive
B. budget-driven streamlining of airplane maintenance procedures might also have led to diminished air-travel safety
C. a drop in reported observations of a phenomenon might not indicate a corresponding drop in the actual incidence of that phenomenon
D.decreases in excessive expenditures related to screening operations might have enabled the TSA to hire more employees dedicated to improving air-travel safety
E. decreases in excessive expenditures related to screening operations were not sufficient to meet the requirements of the new budget guidelines

SC Questions June - 01 :

Q1. Based on recent box office receipts, the public’s appetite for documentary films, like nonfiction books, seems to be on the rise.

(A) like nonfiction books

(B) as nonfiction books

(C) as its interest in nonfiction books

(D) like their interest in nonfiction books

(E) like its interest in nonfiction books



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry, and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.

(A) and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent,

(B) and lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, so that

(C) her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that

(D) lobbying for wage and hour reform was so persistent,

(E) so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that


Difficulty - Hard

E
Too tempted to go with C, but this is comparison for appetite not example of films

E
Too tempted to go with C, but this is comparison for appetite not example of films

E

CR Questions June - 1 :

Q1. Country X’s recent stock-trading scandal should not diminish investors’ confidence in the country’s stock market. For one thing, the discovery of the scandal confirms that Country X has a strong regulatory system, as the following considerations show. In any stock market, some fraudulent activity is inevitable. If a stock market is well regulated, any significant stock-trading fraud in it will very likely be discovered. This deters potential perpetrators and facilitates improvement in regulatory processes.

In the argument, the portion in boldface plays which of the following roles?


(A) It is the argument’s only conclusion.

(B) It is the conclusion for which the argument provides support and which itself is used to support the argument’s main conclusion.

(C) It is argument’s main conclusion and is supported by another explicitly stated conclusion for which further support is provided.

(D) It is an assumption for which no explicit support is provided and is used to support the argument’s only conclusion.

(E) It is a compound statement containing both the argument’s main conclusion and an assumption used to support that conclusion.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. For-profit hospital managers generally work independently of hospital owners and thus may not always make maximum financial efficiency their highest priority.

Which of the following about the managers mentioned in the passage must be true?

(A) These managers have generally been motivated to streamline hospital services as a result of direct intervention by hospital owners.

(B) These managers are more likely than managers of nonprofit hospitals to use unnecessary amounts of resources to provide services.

(C) Managers’ most important self-acknowledged goal is to achieve maximum financial efficiency so that hospitals show a profit.

(D) Managers’ decisions regarding services provided by their hospitals may not reflect hospital owners’ priorities.

(E) These managers do not place a high priority on maximizing profits, despite their desire to achieve efficiency



Difficulty - Hard

SC Questions June - 02 :

Q1. Although decisive victories at Midway and in the Guadalcanal campaign had raised hopes in a readily attainable Allied victory going against Japan, the fierce battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa forced the conclusion that defeating the Japanese home islands would be neither quick nor easy.

A. had raised hopes in a readily attainable Allied victory going against Japan

B. had raised hopes that an Allied victory against Japan was readily attainable

C. had raised hopes for there being Allied victory toward Japan that was a readily attainable

D. raised hopes that an Allied victory over Japan would be readily attainable

E. raised hopes in an Allied victory toward Japan as readily attainable

Q2. If the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer was written 500 years ago, hardly anyone would have understood a word of it.

A. was written 500 years ago, hardly anyone

B. were written 500 years ago, hardly anyone

C. had been written 500 years ago, hardly anybody

D. were written 500 years ago, hardly anybody

E. had written 500 years ago, hardly anyone



Difficulty - Hard

B; past perfect for 1st battle; A&C poorly constructed

C; for Impossible condition

CR Questions June - 2 :

Q1. The mayor of town T decided to lower the sales tax in order to boost the sales volume and therefore increase the budget by eventually receiving more sales tax as the result of the increased sales volume. The mayor wants to follow the example of town J, where such an experiment helped increase the budget twice in a three-year term.

Which of the following statements is the best proof that the opponents to the mayor’s proposal can use in order to persuade the population of town T not to support this decision?

(A) Town J is located very close to the borders of other three states, which causes residents of other states to shop in town J, as the sales taxes in those other states are higher than in this state. Town T is located far from any state border.

(B) Town T is not big enough to make the difference of the sales tax received to budget positive as the result of the proposed change.

(C) Town J has many more industrial plants that purchase raw materials from the town’s mines.

(D) This kind of an experiment did not work in any other of the six towns that lowered the sales tax.

(E) The mayor is corrupted by several groups of residents of town T. These groups are highly interested in lowering the sales tax as the move will make them much richer.



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. An inadequately diversified product line rather than the poor economy is responsible for the drop in sales of Company A’s products over the past 3 years. The product line of Company B, Company A’s largest competitor, has sold at the same rate for the past decade.

The conclusion above depends on which of the following assumptions?

(A) Company A is significantly smaller than Company B.

(B) Company A did not suffer a very damaging public scandal 3 years ago.

(C) Company B is the only one of Company A’s competitors that has experienced no decline in product sales during the recent economic downturn.

(D) Several of Company A’s competitors have gone out of business.

(E) Company A is not the only one in its industry experiencing decreased sales.



Difficulty - Hard

SC Questions June - 03 :

Q1. Since it defines the customer experience, the mobile phone OS is of strategic importance to engineers at Nokia, who assume that if they did not control it, they will not be able to differentiate themselves.

A. if they did not control it, they will not be able to differentiate themselves

B. without controlling it, they would not be able to differentiate themselves

C .they will not be able to differentiate themselves if they did not control it

D. without controlling it, they could not be able to differentiate themselves

E. to be able to differentiate themselves would not be possible, had they not control it




Difficulty - Hard

Q2. There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,” a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them.

(A) allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them

(B) allows voters to propose, pass, and to repeal laws

(C) allows voters to propose, to pass, and repeal laws

(D) will allow the voter to propose, pass, as well as to repeal laws

(E) will allow laws to be proposed, passed, as well as repealed by voters




Difficulty - Hard

Hi WInterschool,
Could you please check this question, or share source?
I think all options are incorrect, If this is a case of First condition;
If (simple present), then (simple future)
A&C- uses simple past
BDE-Do not use will (simple future) ; Usage of would is accepted when stating future in the past or hypothetical

Hi, question is alright.

your reasoning is wrong. "would" has various uses in all types of tenses. In this case, "would" represent future possibility

As per SC Powerscore by Victoria Wood and below discussion thread on gmatclub, reasoning is correct.
usage-of-will-vs-would-249705.html

Also, experts global in the below link confirms that B is better due lack of better choice
since-it-defines-the-customer-experience-the-mobile-phone-os-is-of-st-322785.html

Will is preferred. I read similar rule by manhattan as well

Hi everyone. I have a general question. After preparing a topic, let’s say CR..and revisiting it after a couple of days for revision, how am I supposed to revise the questions I did? Am I supposed to solve them again? (I have this fear constantly that what if I might not be able to solve them correctly again) Or should I skip the questions and just revise the theoretical dos and don’ts? How do you all revise? Please help me.

if you mean reviewing, then you absolutely need to review every single question you have a fear of not being able to solve again…. The only way to improve is address that issue. The goal is to answer r set single question you got right or wrong if you encounter it again.

When you review a question, you may not need to solve it if you remember the question and the solution and the answer choices. I had some questions I would revisit every week for four weeks. What I would do is explain to myself where the problem in the question was, why I got it wrong, and what to watch out for next time so I don’t get it wrong .

hi, you wrote " Usage of would is accepted when stating future in the past or hypothetical". but in this sentence ""would represent future possibility". please read the thread thoroughly.

SC Questions June - 04 :

Q1. A discussion of our nations foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being an independent Western Europe which now thinks of itself in trans-nationalist terms.


A. A discussion of our nations foreign policy must begin with the fact of there being

B. Beginning any discussion of our nations foreign policy must be the fact of there being

C. Any discussion of our nations foreign policy must begin with the fact that there is

D. Any discussion of our nations foreign policy must begin by acknowledging the existence of

E. To begin discussing our nations foreign policy thee must be an acknowledgment of the fact that



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. As one step in their plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, the town council organized a series of public meetings when residents could air grievances about the opacity of decision making, a tendency to award contracts to cronies, and their failure to follow through on promised reforms.


A. As one step in their plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, the town council organized a series of public meetings when residents could air grievances about the opacity of decision making, a tendency to award contracts to cronies, and their failure to follow through on promised reforms.

B. As one step in its plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, the town council organized a series of public meetings at which residents could air grievances about the opacity of decision making, a tendency to award contracts to cronies, and a failure to follow through on promised reforms.

C. As one step in its plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, the town council organized a series of public meetings at which residents could air grievances about the opacity of decision making, tendency to award contracts to cronies, and failing to follow through on promised reforms.

D. As one step in its plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, a series of public meetings was organized by the town council so that residents could air grievances about the opacity of decision making, a tendency to award contracts to cronies, and a failure to follow through on promised reforms.

E. The town council, as one step in their plan to engender greater goodwill in the community, organized a series of public meetings for residents at which they could air grievances about their opacity of decision making, tendency to award contracts to cronies, and failure to follow through on promised reforms.



Difficulty - Hard

Hi Winterschool
As I mentioned, I’m referring to expert comment by Expert’s Global not intern’s. Attaching the highlighted screenshot for your reference.

Also, you may refer to other gmatclub link for difference between will & would