Slump in U.S. economy is encouraging many young professionals

Answer - C
‘doubling’ here indicates behaviour of Slump in economy, which doesn’t make sense. ‘,which’ here indicates behavior of MBA which is correct.


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hey can you help me with this.IS the OA-C?
Slump in U.S. economy is encouraging many young professionals to look at MBA, which doubles to twice the number of applicants five years ago.

A. which doubles to twice the number of applicants five years ago

B. doubling to twice the number of applicants five years ago

C. which doubles to twice the number of applicants that were five years ago

D. doubling to twice the number of applicants five years before

E. which doubles to twice the number of applicants five years before

Hello Experts,

Is the correct answer as stated, B? If so, is this because doubling here modifies the action of 'to look'? The action of 'to look' is being performed by young professionals?
Leading to : 'young professionals doubling in number'?

Please assist! Thanks for your help!

I'm afraid this question has so many problems of grammar and usage, even in the OA, that it is not possible to verify the answer. It's best to avoid studying from such questions. However, you can learn a great deal from studying the official question this was copied from: https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-cameras- ... 79178.html

A few issues in this one:

*We can't just start the sentence with "slump" without an article. It needs to be "a slump" or "the slump."
*We also can't say "look at MBA." We need to say something like "consider obtaining an MBA."
*"Doubling" means multiplying by 2, so combining it with "twice" is redundant. This renders all five choices incorrect!
*Even if we cut out "to twice," the sentence would not be valid/complete. We can't double the number of applicants from five years ago. We can have twice as many applicants as we had five years ago, but the original number isn't doubling. It's already history!

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