Comparison doubt..Experts please help..

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Comparison doubt..Experts please help..

by rjain84 » Thu Jun 06, 2013 7:37 am
Unlike the United States, where students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, students in Europe enjoy a wholly different system, in which they take exams on specified subjects before leaving secondary school, essentially choosing a major at sixteen or seventeen years of age.

A) Unlike the United States, where students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, students in Europe

B) Unlike United States students who usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, the schools in Europe

C) Unlike those of the United States, in which students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, most of Europe's students

D) In contrast to the United States, whose students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, the students in most of Europe

E) In the United States, students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, but in most of Europe, students

OA: E
Source: Kaplan CAT

I get why choices A, B and D are incorrect because of faulty comparison but why choice C is incorrect?
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by snigdha1605 » Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:46 am
C) Unlike those of the United States, in which students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, most of Europe's students
This is incorrect because 'Those' here stands for students.

Now keeping this in mind, place the meaning of 'those' in the sentence ...

Unlike students ["those"] of the United States, in which students usually select a major in their sophomore or junior year of college, most of Europe's students

The sentence does not make sense. Unlike Students of the US in which students select...??? WRONG!!!!

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by aaggar7 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:03 pm
those of the United States and most of Europe's students are not parallel.

Students of A is parallel to students of B.

OR

A's students is parallel to B's students.


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by Imsukhi » Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:05 pm
imo E

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