Last visit was: 19 Nov 2025, 23:00 It is currently 19 Nov 2025, 23:00
Home
GMAT
Messages
Tests
Schools
Events
Rewards
Chat
My Profile
Close
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.

Customized
for You

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History

Track
Your Progress

every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance

Practice
Pays

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Go to My Error Log Learn more
Close
Request Expert Reply
Confirm Cancel
Back to Forum
Create Topic
   1   2 
Poor Quality|      
avatar
750orNothing
avatar
Joined: 16 Jun 2020
Last visit: 25 Jun 2021
Posts: 4
Own Kudos:
1
Given Kudos: 5
Posts: 4
Kudos: 1
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 18 Jun 2020, 21:54
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Correct me if I am wrong, but another issue with D is that it uses preposition object and participle?

"Compared with that enforced by members of the European Union in 2000"

I thought GMAT does not like using particle in the object of a preposition as it creates too much action.
avatar
Yellkrishna
avatar
Joined: 12 Dec 2019
Last visit: 21 Apr 2021
Posts: 53
Own Kudos:
41
Given Kudos: 33
Posts: 53
Kudos: 41
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 19 Jun 2020, 11:15
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
A does not have a full sentence. Also, tightened must have loosened as the parallel word.
B. Doesn’t have the parallel feature.
C. ‘It’ refers to whole -verb+subject- the follows. Wrong. Also, parallelism.
D. Good.
E. Due to the comma before ‘that’ it seems like the twin commas have a non essential modifier between them and like ‘that’ is modifying EU. Also, parallelism.

Posted from my mobile device
avatar
astr
avatar
Joined: 01 Dec 2018
Last visit: 29 Nov 2023
Posts: 2
Own Kudos:
1
Given Kudos: 47
Location: India
GRE 1: Q164 V156
GRE 2: Q167 V158
GPA: 3.7
GRE 1: Q164 V156
GRE 2: Q167 V158
Posts: 2
Kudos: 1
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 22 Aug 2020, 11:49
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
My approach may be wrong, but it gave me D

-> When we look at last sentence we see "needed to be tightened in order to harmonize with the EU’s requirements and not to loosen it "- there are is a pronoun in every option except D and all of them didnt refer to correct noun.
avatar
PhantomDeath
avatar
Current Student
Joined: 21 Jul 2020
Last visit: 22 Sep 2022
Posts: 4
Own Kudos:
9
Given Kudos: 6
Location: Canada
Schools: Yale '23 (A)
Schools: Yale '23 (A)
Posts: 4
Kudos: 9
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 22 Aug 2020, 12:03
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Shouldn’t it be “such as” instead of “like” in the OA? Using “like” as an example should be incorrect, if I’m not mistaken...

Posted from my mobile device
User avatar
richirish
User avatar
Joined: 25 May 2020
Last visit: 09 Feb 2021
Posts: 127
Own Kudos:
60
Given Kudos: 40
Schools: Kenan-Flagler'23 (D)
Schools: Kenan-Flagler'23 (D)
Posts: 127
Kudos: 60
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 22 Aug 2020, 21:22
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
astr
My approach may be wrong, but it gave me D

-> When we look at last sentence we see "needed to be tightened in order to harmonize with the EU’s requirements and not to loosen it "- there are is a pronoun in every option except D and all of them didnt refer to correct noun.
Show more


Your approach is perfectly fine.

The question is daunting but if you know your "parallelism" rules well, you can solve it under a minute, D compares perfectly and uses the right tenses "tightened .... loosened" and only D does that, so no confusion among options too. You cannot always solve questions in this manner but for this question the logic is sound.
User avatar
Sapnilbhatnagar
User avatar
Joined: 28 Jun 2020
Last visit: 12 Apr 2022
Posts: 48
Own Kudos:
17
Given Kudos: 64
Location: India
Schools: Smurfit Darden '23
GMAT 1: 660 Q48 V33
GPA: 3.5
Schools: Smurfit Darden '23
GMAT 1: 660 Q48 V33
Posts: 48
Kudos: 17
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise 05 Sep 2020, 15:50
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
daagh GMATNinja egmat mike can you please shed some light on why we can use 'LIKE' here to present examples? Like can never be used to present examples, if so(conditionally), my universe will be shattered. I can never take LIKE for something that presents examples!!
Please Help!!

Prajat
The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise duties, that were enforced in Lithuania was less strict when compared to the European Union’s members’ in 2000, which imposed tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed to be tightened in order to harmonize with the EU’s requirements and not to loosen it for the purpose of remaining competitive with trading partners outside of the EU.


(A) The policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise duties, that were enforced in Lithuania was less strict when compared to the European Union’s members’ in 2000, which imposed tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed to be tightened in order to harmonize with the EU’s requirements and not to loosen it

(B) The policy of applying indirect taxes, including value added tax and excise duties, enforced in Lithuania was less strict when compared with the policy applied by the European Union’s members in 2000, imposing tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed to be tightened so that the country would harmonize with the EU’s requirements rather than loosening them

(C) When it was compared with that enforced by members of the European Union in 2000, the policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise duties, that were enforced in Lithuania and that were less strict, were imposing tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed to be tightened in order to harmonize with the EU’s requirements rather than loosening them

(D) Compared with that enforced by members of the European Union in 2000, the policy of applying indirect taxes, like value added tax and excise duties, that was enforced in Lithuania was less strict, imposing tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed to be tightened so that the country would harmonize with the EU’s requirements rather than loosened

(E) In 2000, Lithuania, compared with the members of the European Union, had a policy of applying indirect taxes, including value added tax and excise duties, that were enforced less strictly, since it imposed tax rules and tariffs that, for the most part, needed tightening in order that they would harmonize with the EU’s requirements and not to loosen
Show more

This Question is Locked Due to Poor Quality
Hi there,
The question you've reached has been archived due to not meeting our community quality standards. No more replies are possible here.
Looking for better-quality questions? Check out the 'Similar Questions' block below for a list of similar but high-quality questions.
Want to join other relevant Problem Solving discussions? Visit our Sentence Correction (SC - EA only) Forum for the most recent and top-quality discussions.
Thank you for understanding, and happy exploring!
   1   2 
Moderators:
GMATNinja
GMAT Club Verbal Expert
7443 posts
GMATNinjaTwo
GMAT Club Verbal Expert
231 posts
miag
189 posts