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57% (00:59) correct 43% (01:04) wrong based on 621 sessionsKAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Step 1: Read the Original Sentence Carefully, Looking for Errors
Comparisons are being tested in this sentence (your hint is the use of the words “at least as high”
and the words “higher” and “more” throughout the answer choices). Here you are looking for the
construction that makes the comparison as clear and correct as possible. This sentence compares
the previous figure, or “6 percent,” with today’s figure, so you want something that is as similar in
structure as possible to “6 percent.”
Step 2: Scan and Group the Answer Choices
The comparison sounds good as is, but scan the choices for the ways in which the choices use other
comparative words like “higher” (as in (B), (C), and (E)) and “more” (as in (D) and (E)).
Step 3: Eliminate Choices Until Only One Remains
(B) is awkward and redundant; it doesn’t make sense to have both “higher than” and “at least” next
to each other. (C) changes the meaning of the sentence by saying “higher by 40 percent,” which
means something different from “higher than 40 percent.” (D) introduces the awkward and confusing
“40 percent high,” which is hard to decipher. Finally, (E) uses the egregious construction “more
higher.” The best choice is (A), “at least as high as 40 percent.”
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