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by kvcpk » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:48 am
When Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with him.

A. When Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with him.

B. Being that Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with him

C. Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, after which he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with him

D. When Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with them

E. When Preetham was accepted to a prestigious MBA program in another city, since he had to decide whether or not to move his whole family with him

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by clock60 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:57 am
hi kvcpk
something is wrong with my mind, but i can`t catch any obvious difference between A and D
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by kvcpk » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:01 am
clock60 wrote:hi kvcpk
something is wrong with my mind, but i can`t catch any obvious difference between A and D
Nothing wrong with your mind. :) Thats the same mistype in Grockit too. I edited one of them.

Give a try now.
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by clock60 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:16 am
ok now A is reasonable answer
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by kvcpk » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:21 am
Please post explanations, so that it helps others reviewing.
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by clock60 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:40 am
ok i will try, but i am not sure in my ans,
first i don`t like whether.. or not in any anwer,i don`t remember any problem in OG or GmatPrep with this construction,( but i saw only few)
B) being that- very rare to be true,
C) wrong sequence of events, looks like: at first he decided to move family, and then he was enrolled
D)with them need with him, as first part of the sentence Preetham was
E)both when and since are redundant, here since in the meaning of from this event, but we already have time designator when
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by shovan85 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:47 am
I thought "Whether or Not" is a wrong usage?
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by clock60 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:52 am
whether or not can be true, but definitely it is not best construction in Gmat apply to the MG sentence corection page 171 (fourth edition) they did not reject it
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by selango » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:55 am
The below one are correct.

1.whether to do X

2.whether to do X or not



Whether or not to do X-Have anyone seen this usage in OG?Is this correct?
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by ankurmit » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:45 pm
I will go with A

same explanation as given by Clock60
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by kvcpk » Tue Oct 26, 2010 12:43 am
OA A.

My concern here is:

Whether whether or not is right usage or not

whether or not whether or not is right usage

Whether whether or not is right usage

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by kapur.arnav » Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:45 am
kvcpk wrote:OA A.

My concern here is:

Whether whether or not is right usage or not

whether or not whether or not is right usage

Whether whether or not is right usage

;)

Request experts opinion.
Refer: https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/whe ... t8376.html for RON's Explanation
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by lunarpower » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:37 am
kvcpk wrote:OA A.

My concern here is:

Whether whether or not is right usage or not

whether or not whether or not is right usage

Whether whether or not is right usage

;)

Request experts opinion.
i laughed.

yeah, "whether or not" here is pretty clearly not ok.

i can't speak in general about the quality of this company's problems -- i've only seen two or three of them -- but this one is pretty bad, too:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/management-c ... tml#312695
maybe these are just two bad ones out of hundreds, but, be careful.
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by kvcpk » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:41 pm
lunarpower wrote:
i laughed.

yeah, "whether or not" here is pretty clearly not ok.

i can't speak in general about the quality of this company's problems -- i've only seen two or three of them -- but this one is pretty bad, too:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/management-c ... tml#312695
maybe these are just two bad ones out of hundreds, but, be careful.
Thanks for your response Ron.
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by GMATMadeEasy » Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:10 pm
one of the reasons I completely stopped using Grockit practise game is the same. Not only in sentence correction but also in RC and CR , there are many erros. Explanations are not proper and are written in haste. I had clearly written this to Gorckit in the survey they asked. Some people in their debrief has recommended , but I wonder now. I hope Grockit experts watching this space.
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