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GMAT Prep Question

by Vasudha » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:13 pm
Hi
Need help with this question. It is pretty confusing...

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by Badri » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:02 pm
The answer seems to be B

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by 800GMAT » Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:19 pm
The above question, among other things, is testing the idiom usage-

Not so much X as Y

Hence A is correct.

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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Apr 02, 2007 10:19 pm
This is a classic case of "the original sentence doesn't sound good, so most people will cross it off and pick something else." This happens on harder questions - they're trying to trick you! (This is also a more obscure idiom, so more evidence that this is a harder question.)

(Oh - Badri - B is what the tester picked, not the correct answer.)
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by Cybermusings » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:29 am
Whats wrong with A...It falls perfectly into sense....Whats the OA guys?

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by Vasudha » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:11 pm
The answer is A

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by mankey » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:22 am
Kindly explain this one.

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