SonGoku wrote:
MikeScarn,
GMATNinja,
GMATNinjaTwo,
hazelnut,
generisHi, I couldn't find a reason to eliminate D.can someone explain what is wrong with it.
Yeah, I don't really like this particular SC question.
Here are (B) and (D) again:
Quote:
Just as reading Samuel Pepy's diary gives a student a sense of the seventeenth century—of its texture and psyche—so Jane Freed's Guileless Child Narrator takes the operagoer inside turn-of-the century Vienna.
(B) so listening to Jane Freed's Guileless Child Narrator takes the operagoer
(D) listening to Jane Freed's Guileless Child Narrator takes the operagoer
Obviously, the only difference between (B) and (D) is the word "so". Why do we care about it? One (unsatisfying) answer is that "just as (X...), so (Y...)" is an idiom that the GMAT used to like. That's pretty much the end of the explanation of what the GMAT is thinking here. Crappy, right?
And I wouldn't worry about this AT ALL. For starters, I'm not 100% sure that this actually came from
OG 11 -- I don't remember this question, but to be fair, I haven't used
OG 11 much since 2007, when
OG 12 came out (and my copy of
OG 11 is literally in storage right now, so I can't check it right now, sadly). Even if it did come from
OG 11, it's a really, really old question, and it's hard to find newer questions that test this silly little idiom in the same way. And in general,
it's hard to get much benefit from studying the 25,000 or so idioms in English.
Bottom line: don't lose sleep over this one, because you're incredibly unlikely to see this same issue tested in the same way on your actual GMAT.