gmat_perfect wrote:A study on couples' retirement transitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring from their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more than when retiring completely.

(A) more than when retiring
(B) more than if they were to retire
(C) more so than those who retired
(D) which was more so than those retiring
(E) which was more than if they had retired

[spoiler]OA: Later[/spoiler]

A good question. The power of prephrasing is borne out by this question. It also tests the detailed reading skills of the test takers.

Let us break it down, it talks about retired couples and specifically women in such couples. The comparison is between women in such couples who retire and take up new jobs with totally retired women, and it says that the former's marital satisfaction > that of the latter.

Given this backdrop let us analyze the answer choices:
All choices except C change the meaning.

What makes the question good here is that if the logic of the question is not understood all choices are very enticing! One could easily go down the path of looking for "more.....than" and parallelism and then selecting A. Also since the majority of choices are forcing us towards answers like A one tends to ignore C the lone warrior!

Hope this helps!