Sukant2010 wrote:
The academia secretorum naturae, the first scientific community, was founded in 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission.
A. 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission
B. 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, you had to have made the discovery of a new law of nature.
C. 1560 with a prerequisite for admission: the discovery of a new law of nature.
D. the year 1560, including the prerequisite that to be included, you needed to have discovered a new law of nature.
E. 1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite.
aditya8062 wrote:
if option C is really the answer then i feel that the intended meaning is very awkward . the implied meaning of C is that The academia secretorum naturae was founded with the intention of having a prerequisite for admission,a meaning that does not make any sense !!. institute can have a prerequisite for admission and so this fact should have been presented with a parallelism .also institutes are opened with much broader intentions and not with such narrow intentions as is described in option C
i don't feel good about this question !!
Dear
Sukant2010 &
aditya8062,
I'm happy to respond.
This is a truly horrible question. This question apparently was written by someone who had absolutely no understanding of the rigorous standards of the GMAT.
I could see, maybe, testing the colloquial "
you" mistake in one answer choice, but testing this in four answer choices is preposterous. The OA,
(C), indeed is awkward. This doesn't have the feel of the types of splits the real GMAT would use. This question is an unremitting disaster.
aditya8062 wrote:
honestly i really do not believe into the theory of "meaning of original sentence" ,because 80 % of the time option A is wrong !! so there is no reason as why i should preserve the original meaning but yes, as i have said, i find meaning of C awkward
I would caution you here. While's it's true that 80% of the time,
(A) is wrong, nevertheless, the real GMAT communicates clearly a meaning in
(A), and it is very important not to change that meaning. This is not a "theory" --- this is part and parcel of how the question is structured. The problem comes with looking at low quality practice questions, such as this one --- in many ways, these questions can be quite misleading, because they fall so short of the high standards of the GMAT.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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