IMO A .

As it sounds correct .

For D] and E] we cannot compare Micheal Phelps to realm of dedication and hard work .

Nonetheless & Nevertheless means "in spite of that" so the meaning changes .

None of these is correct - B or C have a chance it you add a modifier to the beginning to necessitate the use of a transition like "nevertheless", for example:

Despite some well-publicized brushes with drugs and alcohol, Michael Phelps is nevertheless exemplary...

But without that there isn't a rationale for using the transition, and in A "no less" needs to have a comparison attached to it. You're definitely correct that D and E create an improper comparison between Phelps and virtues.



Just because I've seen a lot of these recently, I'd urge everyone to be careful with the SC questions that you choose to practice from - for whatever reason early 2011 seems to have created a boom in the number of lackadaisically-written practice Sentence Correction questions that are now in circulation. For the sole purpose of practice with eliminating poor answer choices, I suppose it's not that bad, but be careful putting too much emphasis on from-out-of-nowhere practice questions - there are still plenty of good ones out there so I'd prioritize those.

Thanks a lot Brian , for your guidance , sometimes we become so engrossed in answering the question and eliminating weak answer choices that lose the track in our wrongdoing. Really needed to be corrected for our wrong approch .

I would go with A because no less refers to singular, none can refer to both singular or plural and other choices looks weird........wats the OA?

I echo Brian's remarks, stay away from gmat club sc and cr(my opinion). However the quant at gmat club is superb