Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel

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Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are  subterfuge for discrimination, the academic peers of the professor under review are better equipped to evaluate the contributions and performance of their colleague in the review of potential termination due to neglect of duty.

a. Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are
b. Although the non-academics involved were of the belief of the panel proceedings being
c. Contrary to the non-academics involved believing that the panel proceedings are
d. Even though the non-academics involved believe that the panel proceedings are
e. Even with the non-academics involved believing that the panel proceedings are

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broall · Answer

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Paulli1982 · Answer

Could anyone explain why B is wrong? Is it just wordy?

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gmatexam439 · Answer

Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are  subterfuge for discrimination, the academic peers of the professor under review are better equipped to evaluate the contributions and performance of their colleague in the review of potential termination due to neglect of duty.

a. Unlike the belief of the non-academics involved that the panel proceedings are - wrong comparison between belief and peers. 
b. Although the non-academics involved were of the belief of the panel proceedings being - "were of the belief" --> not looking good. 
c. Contrary to the non-academics involved believing that the panel proceedings are - believing? 
d. Even though the non-academics involved believe that the panel proceedings are - Correct 
e. Even with the non-academics involved believing that the panel proceedings are - believing?

chetan2u · Answer

B can be discarded for following reasons:-
1) wordy
2) use of BEING
3) BELIEF..
what is being talked about is a CLAUSE after belief, so belief should be followed by THAT.
It can be belief of a person, belief in god, but belief that he is the best....

tapasgupta · Answer

Answer is D.

D option shows the correct comparison of peers.
B is wordy. C and E option incorrectly uses the word believing as the rest of the sentence is in simple tense.

Bunuel · Answer

Official Explanation

Creating a filter: once we get going with this prompt we see the word "unlike," so we know there's a comparison. That means that we want to confirm that the grammatical expression of comparison matches the intended meaning. It does not: stripping out the prepositional phrase starting with "of the non-academics," we see that "belief" is being compared with "peers." Since "belief" is the only of the two words in the underlined portion, that's the part that will have to change, so that we are comparing people with people. We go to the answer choices looking for this outcome.

Applying the filter: the other answer choices solve the comparison problem in (A), but they introduce other problems. In (B), "of the belief" and "proceedings being" are both questionable style. Choices (C) and (E) both have the same problem: "non-academics involved believing" is poor style -- we won't give the academics an -ing verb if we can give them a pure and simple verb. That's what (D) does.

The correct answer is (D).

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