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by gmat1978 » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:00 pm
The Academia Sectrorum Naturae, the first scientific community, was founded in 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission.

a) 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission
b) 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, you had to have made the discovery of a new law of nature
c) 1560 with a prerequisite for admission: the discovery of a new law of nature
d) the year 1560, including the prerequisite that to be admitted, you needed to have discovered a new law of nature
e) 1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite

Please explain each answer choice. OA after some discussion.

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by garima99 » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:23 pm
D looks good to me.
a)included in membership .
b)a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, seems redundant
c)looks incomplete
e)1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite

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by vikram4689 » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:42 pm
IMO C
a) 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission - redundant and wrong usage of 'included in'
b) 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, you had to have made the discovery of a new law of nature - redundant
c) 1560 with a prerequisite for admission: the discovery of a new law of nature - correct
d) the year 1560, including the prerequisite that to be admitted, you needed to have discovered a new law of nature - founding did not INCLUDE prerequisite & second "," is not required
e) 1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite
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by garima99 » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:12 pm
vikram4689 wrote:IMO C
a) 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission - redundant and wrong usage of 'included in'
b) 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, you had to have made the discovery of a new law of nature - redundant
c) 1560 with a prerequisite for admission: the discovery of a new law of nature - correct
d) the year 1560, including the prerequisite that to be admitted, you needed to have discovered a new law of nature - founding did not INCLUDE prerequisite & second "," is not required
e) 1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite

on second thoughts,D looks wrong..
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:43 pm
gmat1978 wrote:The Academia Sectrorum Naturae, the first scientific community, was founded in 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission.

a) 1560, and in order to be included in membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, a prerequisite for admission - parallelism error
b) 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission: in order to be included, you had to have made the discovery of a new law of nature - parallelism error
c) 1560 with a prerequisite for admission: the discovery of a new law of nature
d) the year 1560, including the prerequisite that to be admitted, you needed to have discovered a new law of nature
e) 1560 with the rule that in order to be admitted for membership, you had to discover a new law of nature, that was the prerequisite - Wordy


IMO C seems to be best among all.

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by gsinghal » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:04 am
hi bubliiiiii....

Can you please make me understand why there is a parallelism error in B.

The Academia Sectrorum Naturae was founded in 1560, and included a prerequisite for admission... removing the appositive.. isn't it says.. The Academia Sectrorum Naturae was founded in 1560 and The Academia Sectrorum Naturae included a prerequisite for admission... I think that is fine. I understand that there are other problems in B as mentioned by Vikram, but I guess parallelism problem acc. to you is not an issue at hand.

Please let me know whether I am correct or not.


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by xxpatzz » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:05 am
IMO: C

Although I am not a big fan of "with" but in this case, op C is the best answer among others.
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:40 pm
The Academia Sectrorum Naturae was founded in 1560 and The Academia Sectrorum Naturae included a prerequisite for admission... I think that is fine.
Here, I think you are making included parallel to was founded, which is wrong.

Ideally, included should be parallel to founded. When we try to do that we see that,

was founded ... included ..

which means, verb was is applicable to included and founded. Now read the statement as under,

The Academia Sectrorum Naturae was founded in 1560[/b] and The Academia Sectrorum Naturae was included a prerequisite for admission.

To me, though they are parallel, it doesnot make sense to me. Thus, I feel that there is parallelism issue.

Please let me know if you have any further concerns.
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by mirantdon » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:12 am
+1 for C . Concise and Grammatical correct as opposed to the other options
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by mirantdon » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:18 am
*grammatically..
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by gmat1978 » Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:16 pm
OA: C
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by Ozlemg » Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:52 pm
IMO C
GMAT test makers do not like "in order to" and most of the times wrong answer choices involve this!
The more you suffer before the test, the less you will do so in the test! :)
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