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by [email protected] » Mon Jun 30, 2014 9:54 pm
Hi shibsriz,

I assume that you recognized the "Comparison issue" in this SC and narrowed it down to 2 choices: answers A and B.

From there, you have a couple of rarer grammar rules to help you make the correct choice:

1) Idiom: "well below" vs. "much below" - I've never seen, nor personally used, the phrase "much below" in a sentence, so this might just be a usage issue ("well below" is correct and "much below" is not). However, this might be a rare issue of "countable" vs. "non-countable." The sentence refers to "test scores", which we CAN actually count, so the phrase "well below" would be a match.

2) "Increasing" - In answer A, the word "increasing" is used as an adjective. In answer B, it's used as a verb. Since "expenses" can't actually do anything, using the word "increasing" as a verb doesn't make any sense.

Either way, you'd eliminate B.

Final Answer: A

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by sukkhi » Mon Jun 30, 2014 10:41 pm
[email protected] wrote:Hi shibsriz,

I assume that you recognized the "Comparison issue" in this SC and narrowed it down to 2 choices: answers A and B.

From there, you have a couple of rarer grammar rules to help you make the correct choice:

1) Idiom: "well below" vs. "much below" - I've never seen, nor personally used, the phrase "much below" in a sentence, so this might just be a usage issue ("well below" is correct and "much below" is not). However, this might be a rare issue of "countable" vs. "non-countable." The sentence refers to "test scores", which we CAN actually count, so the phrase "well below" would be a match.

2) "Increasing" - In answer A, the word "increasing" is used as an adjective. In answer B, it's used as a verb. Since "expenses" can't actually do anything, using the word "increasing" as a verb doesn't make any sense.

Either way, you'd eliminate B.

Final Answer: A

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

can i say in (e)-"that of" is incorrect bcoz there is no "scores of" present in the sentence ??
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