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Meaning/Clarity SC Question Bank by Carcass_Souvik

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Hi souvik,
I have a query about question # 27 in the said file...
"The Principal, having increased..............students to a teacher"
The correct answer as per the OA is D:
Although the principal has increased the number of teachers in the school, he is still being accused of maintaining a poor ratio of students to a teacher"
Isnt the "still" in this answer choice redundant? since the sentence starts off with "although"..

Please clarify.
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Hi Soumya,
Still can be used in two ways

1. Contrast use: I am new at work, still I am bombarded with assignments. Here still is used to set contrast, similar to although. Although and still (used for contrast), cannot be used together

2. Temporal (to use time: He is still coming to school. This is used to denote time. This can be used with although.

In your sentence the still is used to denote the time AFTER he has increased the number of teachers.

Hope this makes sense.

Dear Souvik,
Thanx a ton for the great explanation! Will keep that in mind! :-D

warm regards
Soumya

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Great work carcass. Really a wonderful compilation and I would go as far to say that in many respects it can be as useful as solving OG itself. I went through some questions and even these helped me to gain some more conceptual clarity. Kudos !!

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Hi Carcass and Soumya,
I don't understand the OE for answer (E) in question 21. You said this answer is missing a verb, but from what I am concerned, "be" here is the main verb. I am confused, could you please help me?

Thanks~~~
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I have a query in Question 54. The Official Answer is given as 'C', but in option C, the pronoun 'his' has no antecedent in the sentence?
Where am I going wrong?

P.S: Great collection guys

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Thanks for all the questions. And even more, the explanations.

I am not sure if this is the right place, but I had a doubt about a basic thing.
Hope you can help.

Which of these is correct:
1. I, as well as John, are short.
2. I, as well as John, am short.

I feel 1. but the books say that when "other phrases are used to separate the subject from the verb, these phrases do not affect the verb." So then, logically, "as well as John" should not alter the regular verb "am".

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Great compilation guys. A question, does this document contain any GMAT Prep question?

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Great compilation guys. A question, does this document contain any GMAT Prep question?

No, Atom

regards

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hello everyone.I have tried allquestions from the extra official guides but not the big green one.Does this pdf contain questions from the main official guide?Thanks!!!

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THANK YOU CARCASS
this bank is great. though the sentences are shorter than those in og, they present the gmat thinking on sc, meaning clearity

practice these question before doing og, longer questions is great.

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Salute carcass and souvik101990 !!
Each question is a carefully crated gem!
btw, where did you get these questions?

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Please post the correct answers for all the questions

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I joined the topics made by Me and Souvik (also dowanlodable in PDF version - see below at the bottom of this post)

You can find 70 valuable SC on meaning and not only with OA and OE.

keep in mind:
- quality over quantity
- study each question very carefully to improve your correct answer rate
- try to understand each question first of all from the meaning stand point

Please, avoid statements such as: some questions are not so tough. your goal is to solve questions of each level and range. I do not stress this point enough: is unuseful to solve a 700 level question if then you do not know how to solve question from 500 or 680 level. You never reach the legendary threshold if you think so.

here you have tough questions and easier questions (well not so easy) but the overall lesson is: try to understand each concept tested. That's it

last but not least: do not forget to give kudos to the authors

. Thanks a lot.

Hi,
Are any of these questions from the source GMATPREP ??

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Thanks for the post. I have downloaded it.

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I joined the topics made by Me and Souvik (also dowanlodable in PDF version - see below at the bottom of this post)

. Thanks a lot.

I have completed OG and VR 2017 .. I am using this file since the past few days. I am finding it very easy.Is it that easy or I have improved(my accuracy is 90% in this file).

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I joined the topics made by Me and Souvik (also dowanlodable in PDF version - see below at the bottom of this post)

You can find 70 valuable SC on meaning and not only with OA and OE.

keep in mind:
- quality over quantity
- study each question very carefully to improve your correct answer rate
- try to understand each question first of all from the meaning stand point

Please, avoid statements such as: some questions are not so tough. your goal is to solve questions of each level and range. I do not stress this point enough: is unuseful to solve a 700 level question if then you do not know how to solve question from 500 or 680 level. You never reach the legendary threshold if you think so.

here you have tough questions and easier questions (well not so easy) but the overall lesson is: try to understand each concept tested. That's it

last but not least: do not forget to give kudos to the authors

. Thanks a lot.

Great initiative (y). Can you please tell the sources(ex GmatPrep, OG etc) from which the questions have been taken.

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Great stuff touching the basics !
Thanks for the compilation, especially of the OEs.

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I joined the topics made by Me and Souvik (also dowanlodable in PDF version - see below at the bottom of this post)

. Thanks a lot.

Are these questions from Manhattan ? I have to give Test from Manhattan so should I practice these all questions?

Please reply urgently

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Thanks a lot carcass and souvik for the post. Does this include questions from gmat prep as well? I am looking forward to give my gmat prep tests without knowing any questions already. Many thanks again.

Got my answer in one of the replies. No need to answer this. Thanks a lot