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by crazy4gmat » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:01 am
A study on couples' retirement transitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring from their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more so than those who retired completely.
A. more so than those who retired
B. which was more than if they had retired
C. more than when retiring
D. more than if they were to retire
E. which was more so than those retiring

OA A
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Re: retirement transitions

by duke » Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:04 am
crazy4gmat wrote:A study on couples' retirement transitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring from their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more so than those who retired completely.
A. more so than those who retired
B. which was more than if they had retired
C. more than when retiring
D. more than if they were to retire
E. which was more so than those retiring

OA A
I see only A is close to the right answer.
IN B and E, 'which' tries to refer the fact of getting more satisfied from getting a job after retirement, which is not possible and better with "so" in choice A.
C and D...no reason to choose as right answer...no comparison of 'when' and no condition of 'if' exist in the sentence given.
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by nervesofsteel » Mon Dec 15, 2008 12:23 am
A is correct

Women are compare with other women.. thus the use of those is necessary in comparison...

E is awkward and doesn't contain past tense...
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by 4meonly » Mon Dec 15, 2008 7:01 am
found that
women who took new jobs after retiring .....,
more so than those who retired completely.

parallel structure
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by orel » Thu Apr 02, 2009 3:07 am
why "so" should be in A?
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by blackarrow » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:32 pm
IMO A

Correct comparison, More so ... compares marital satisfaction of A type of women with Marital satisfaction of women of Type B
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by ken3233 » Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:36 am
Feruza Matyakubova wrote:why "so" should be in A?
The idiom "more so" means "more that way". It indicates more of a certain quality or characteristic. In this case, that quality is the women's increased feeling of satisfaction.

Ultimately, the comparative puts "so" inside of "more....than".
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