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by arora007 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:49 am
Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

A)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
B)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and stiffer penalties for bounced checks.
C)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
D)# that they are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
E)# assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

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by BastiG » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:30 am
What is the source?

I think B is the correct answer because of parallelism.
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by arora007 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:32 am
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by finalshot123 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 3:22 pm
I believe E. assessing...reducing...stiffening parallel
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by boazkhan » Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:19 pm
I'd pick B. What is the OA?
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by aspirant2011 » Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:37 pm
I would go with B..............wats the OA?????

Sentence is using present tense so I feel E cant be correct as it's using Present Continous...........
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by AIM GMAT » Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:29 pm
IMO B.

Whats the OA ?
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by nayanikapawar » Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:58 am
E.... Parallelism...
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by tetura84 » Sun Feb 20, 2011 9:26 am
Here I am expecting a list of tactics, so they should be in parallel.
Also, I prefer list of nouns rather than list of actions. So I choose B over E
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by saurabh_maths » Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:00 am
arora007 wrote:Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

A)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
B)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and stiffer penalties for bounced checks.
C)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
D)# that they are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
E)# assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

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IMO it shd be B.

I have B & E as contender.

I prefer to go with B coz it has parallel structure. E is little awkard here. If you look at the entire sentence it will become

Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

In order it to be parallel we need 'the' in parallel components of the sentence.

Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are assessing the higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating the free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
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by arora007 » Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:37 am
yes OA is B, indeed parallelism.
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