Last visit was: 27 Apr 2026, 02:16 It is currently 27 Apr 2026, 02:16
Home
Messages
Tests
Schools
Events
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
User avatar
Bunuel
User avatar
Math Expert
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
Last visit: 27 Apr 2026
Posts: 109,921
Own Kudos:
811,501
 [7]
Given Kudos: 105,912
Products:
GMAT Club Tests Forum Quiz
Expert
Expert reply
Active GMAT Club Expert! Tag them with @ followed by their username for a faster response.
Posts: 109,921
Kudos: 811,501
 [7]
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 00:50
1
Kudos
Add Kudos
6
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
00:00
Start Timer
Pause Timer
Resume Timer
Show Answer
Hide
Show
History
D
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!

Difficulty:

65% (hard)

Question Stats:

49% (01:29) correct 51% (01:31) wrong based on 345 sessions

History

Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians.

(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians
(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians
(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients
(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them
(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust
ShowHide Answer
Official Answer
D
avatar
GMATXP
avatar
Joined: 08 Aug 2018
Last visit: 12 Aug 2020
Posts: 10
Own Kudos:
12
Given Kudos: 12
Posts: 10
Kudos: 12
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 01:04
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
I would go with C.

It is physicians that should be the subject of the second sentence, so A and B are out.

Develop growing trust (E) is awkward (pleonastic).

Between C and D, C sounds better.

Posted from my mobile device
User avatar
adkikani
User avatar
IIM School Moderator
Joined: 04 Sep 2016
Last visit: 24 Dec 2023
Posts: 1,223
Own Kudos:
1,359
Given Kudos: 1,207
Location: India
WE:Engineering (Other)
Posts: 1,223
Kudos: 1,359
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 01:28
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Quote:
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians.

(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians
Show more
The sentence tests parallelism. The marker AND suggests we need a parallel list
and noun- examination - in non-underlined portion suggests we need a list of nouns.
Diagnosing = verb-ing acting as action noun, out since it is not parallel

Quote:
(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians
Show more
We need adjective successful to describe more about treatment rather than a conditional statement. Main verb's usage - lead - is also incorrect since
now the intended meaning is distorted.

Quote:
(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients
Show more
Same error as A

Quote:
(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them
Show more
diagnosis, examination and treatment are now grammatically and logically parallel.
them refers back to physicians, no ambiguity here.

Quote:
(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust
Show more
growing without coma incorrectly modifies patients, we need a verb - grow - as in D, not a modifier.
User avatar
tapasgupta
User avatar
Joined: 10 Mar 2016
Last visit: 20 May 2023
Posts: 115
Own Kudos:
243
Given Kudos: 22
Location: India
Concentration: Finance, Real Estate
Schools: Desautels '22 Sauder '22 Alberta "22 Schulich "22 Queens'22 ISB'22
GMAT 1: 550 Q44 V23
WE:Corporate Finance (Commercial Banking)
Products:
My Reviews
Schools: Desautels '22 Sauder '22 Alberta "22 Schulich "22 Queens'22 ISB'22
GMAT 1: 550 Q44 V23
Posts: 115
Kudos: 243
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 01:30
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians - parallelism error
(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians - verb without subject
(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients - meaning error
(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them
(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust - redundancy error

My answer is D.
User avatar
ankaua
User avatar
Joined: 22 Jun 2018
Last visit: 10 Sep 2022
Posts: 139
Own Kudos:
182
 [1]
Given Kudos: 294
Location: Ukraine
Concentration: Technology, Entrepreneurship
GMAT 1: 600 Q44 V28
GMAT 2: 630 Q42 V34
GMAT 3: 660 Q48 V34
GPA: 4
GMAT 3: 660 Q48 V34
Posts: 139
Kudos: 182
 [1]
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 01:32
1
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians
(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians
A and B out as physicians have to be a subject.

(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients

Two issues:
(1) first "and" changes the list, making the list of two elements: careful examination, competent and successful diagnosing and treatment. Usage of comma to connect a list of two elements is incorrect.
(2) second reason is that "diagnosis" works better for this list of noun entities than "diagnosing"


(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them
(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust

Between D and E, I would say it is E; smth wrong with meaning in the option D.
Waiting for QA
User avatar
Archit3110
User avatar
Major Poster
Joined: 18 Aug 2017
Last visit: 27 Apr 2026
Posts: 8,631
Own Kudos:
5,191
Given Kudos: 243
Status:You learn more from failure than from success.
Location: India
Concentration: Sustainability, Marketing
GMAT Focus 1: 545 Q79 V79 DI73
GMAT Focus 2: 645 Q83 V82 DI81
GPA: 4
WE:Marketing (Energy)
Products:
GMAT Club Tests Forum Quiz
GMAT Focus 2: 645 Q83 V82 DI81
Posts: 8,631
Kudos: 5,191
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 05:21
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Bunuel
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians.

(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians
(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians
(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients
(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them
(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust
Show more

IMO C Through careful examination, competent and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients
develop trust in their patients is correct construciton of sentence ..
avatar
Shobhit7
avatar
Joined: 01 Feb 2017
Last visit: 29 Apr 2021
Posts: 239
Own Kudos:
432
 [1]
Given Kudos: 148
Posts: 239
Kudos: 432
 [1]
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 14 Apr 2019, 12:59
1
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients grow to trust their physicians :
DIAGNOSING, PARALLELISM ERROR.
START MODIFIER MODIFIES PHYSICIANS, NOT PATIENTS.

(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, lead patients to trust their physicians:
NO MAIN CLAUSE

(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians develop trust in their patients: OPPOSITE MEANING.

(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians help their patients grow to trust them: THEM IS AMBIGUOUS. OTHERWISE CORRECT.

(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians develop in their patients growing trust: MAIN CLAUSE IS AWKWARDLY CONSTRUCTED.

Posted from my mobile device
User avatar
VerbalBot
User avatar
Non-Human User
Joined: 01 Oct 2013
Last visit: 04 Jan 2021
Posts: 19,421
Own Kudos:
1,010
Posts: 19,421
Kudos: 1,010
Through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treat 07 Jan 2023, 10:31
Kudos
Add Kudos
Bookmarks
Bookmark this Post
Automated notice from GMAT Club VerbalBot:

A member just gave Kudos to this thread, showing it’s still useful. I’ve bumped it to the top so more people can benefit. Feel free to add your own questions or solutions.

This post was generated automatically.
Moderators:
GMATNinja
GMAT Club Verbal Expert
7390 posts
AbhishekP220108
507 posts
bhanu29
361 posts