Official Solution:Just as learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, so too can memorizing formulas.A. Just as learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, so too can memorizing formulas.
B. Just as learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, memorizing formulas can also.
C. Just like the learning of commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, so too can memorizing formulas.
D. Just like learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, also memorizing formulas can.
E. As learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, memorizing formulas can.
A. CORRECT. This is a commonly tested idiom on the GMAT:
just as X, so too Y. The phrases learning…idioms and memorizing formulas are parallel.
The basic structure of the sentence is as follows:
Just as (learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score), so too (memorizing formulas can improve one’s GMAT score).
Here X = learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score and Y = memorizing formulas can improve one’s GMAT score.
By eliminating the repeated part “can improve one’s GMAT score“ from Y, the sentence becomes:
Just as learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, so too memorizing formulas can.
Finally a subject verb flip gives the form in option A:
Just as learning commonly tested idioms can improve one’s GMAT score, so too can memorizing formulas.
(B) The construction Just as x…y can also is incorrect
(C) The construction Just like x…so too y is incorrect
(D) The construction Just as x…also y is incorrect
(E) The construction as x can…y can is incorrect
Answer: A