Sentence Correction

Please help:

Q 1. Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.

a. Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled.
b. Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation.
c. The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology.
d. Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements.
e. Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled.


Answer coming soon.

Would go with D.

Maintains parallelism and logical in structure.

Let me know if I should explain why others seem wrong

Hope this helps:

a. Except for one class in history and one in biology, all the student's graduation requirements have been fulfilled. - don't need possessive form
b. Except for needing to take one class in history and one in biology, the student has fulfilled all of his requirements for graduation. - 'needing' wordy awkward
c. The student has fulfilled all his graduation requirements except for one class in history and one in biology. - missing 'of' and modifier problem
d. Except for one history class and one biology class, the student has fulfilled all of his graduation requirements. - correct
e. Aside from the history class and biology class that he needs to take, the student's graduation requirements have all been fulfilled. - don't need possessive form

Has to Be D.
If d IS CORRECT then I can explain why others are wrong

Got it:

Class in history
or history class ?

Split is here : history class is a good option.

Straight A,B,C are out.
E has pronoun ambiguity, "He" has no reference.

So D is answer.

OA is D

Can anyone please let me know why to prefer D to C?
Is "Except for" wrong idiom?

My understanding is like this:

In D, the modifier ( the first phrase before comma) correctly points to the student ..

In C, one class in history and one in biology ..is not parallel.. one ( class is missing) in biology

i think there is no flaw in parallelism in C "one in biology" should be acceptable enough.
My guess is the difference in C&D is between "all of his requirements" and "all his requirements"

IMO: D

same reason as viji9162