OG Verbal Review Q10

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OG Verbal Review Q10

by sumidi » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:39 pm
My answer doesn't agree with OG. Could someone tell what they think the answer is and why...- cheers?

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

At a recent conference on environmental threats the North Sea, most participating countries favored uniform controls on the quality of effluents, whether or not specific environmental damage could be attributed to a particular source of effluent. What must, of course, be shown, in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls, is that ___

A. any uniform controls that are adopted are likely to be implemented without delay.
B. any substance to be made subject to controls can actually cause environmental damage.
C. the countries favoring uniform controls are those generating the largest quantities of effluents
D. all of any given pollutant that is to be controlled actually reaches the North Sea at present
E. environmental damage already inflicted on the North Sea is reversible.
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by Jatinder » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:18 pm
IMO A

If uniform controls could be implimented without delay, we can avoid Excessive uniform controls

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by jyotiistalking » Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:36 am
IOB B, The authors point is to avoid restrictive control and that is well communicated by point B

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by gmat009 » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:18 am
IMO B

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by rohitkale » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:47 am
IMO

B

question asks........what must be shown...to restrict accessive control...

ie...actually to demonstrate..that any particular substance which causes some problem should b restricted and not the substance which dont..

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by rohitkale » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:48 am
IMO

B

question asks........what must be shown...to restrict accessive control...

ie...actually to demonstrate..that any particular substance which causes some problem should b restricted and not the substance which dont..

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by SYim » Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:24 am
IMO B

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by Jatinder » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:25 am
I understand the rationale behind B

But i think, My thought process of putting A,B and C as contender is wrong
In order to correct my course, I just want to air out what did i think when making A ,B and C as contendors. Pls explain me what went wrong in my thought process.

A--- If uniform controls would not be applied immediately, then North Sea would have been polluted to the alarming extent. So we need to put restrictive controls in this case...thus employing the uniform controls immediately would avoid the restrictive control

C-- If the uniform controls have been applied to the countries emitting very less effluent, the North sea again would be polluted to the alarming level in no time and thus , we need to incorporate restrictive controls. On the contrary, if uniform controls are applied to the countries emitting largest effluents, we can avoid excessive restrictive controls.

Pls explain what is wrong in my thinking ?

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by rohangupta83 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:38 am
to avoid excessive restrictions, control only those substances which do cause environmental damage. hence (B)

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Re: OG Verbal Review Q10

by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:54 pm
sumidi wrote:My answer doesn't agree with OG. Could someone tell what they think the answer is and why...- cheers?

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

At a recent conference on environmental threats the North Sea, most participating countries favored uniform controls on the quality of effluents, whether or not specific environmental damage could be attributed to a particular source of effluent. What must, of course, be shown, in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls, is that ___

A. any uniform controls that are adopted are likely to be implemented without delay.
B. any substance to be made subject to controls can actually cause environmental damage.
C. the countries favoring uniform controls are those generating the largest quantities of effluents
D. all of any given pollutant that is to be controlled actually reaches the North Sea at present
E. environmental damage already inflicted on the North Sea is reversible.
As with the vast majority of argument completion questions, we need to focus on key words and phrases near the end of the argument.

Here, our key indicator is "in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls". We need a completion that will be in line with this instruction.

Only (b) and (d) offer factors that would avoid "excessively" restrictive controls, and the word "all" in (d) takes it out of the running (if (d) had said "at least some of any given pollutant that is to be controlled can potentially reach the North Sea" it would have been great).
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Re: OG Verbal Review Q10

by Jatinder » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:36 pm
Stuart Kovinsky wrote:
sumidi wrote:My answer doesn't agree with OG. Could someone tell what they think the answer is and why...- cheers?

Which of the following best completes the passage below?

At a recent conference on environmental threats the North Sea, most participating countries favored uniform controls on the quality of effluents, whether or not specific environmental damage could be attributed to a particular source of effluent. What must, of course, be shown, in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls, is that ___

A. any uniform controls that are adopted are likely to be implemented without delay.
B. any substance to be made subject to controls can actually cause environmental damage.
C. the countries favoring uniform controls are those generating the largest quantities of effluents
D. all of any given pollutant that is to be controlled actually reaches the North Sea at present
E. environmental damage already inflicted on the North Sea is reversible.
As with the vast majority of argument completion questions, we need to focus on key words and phrases near the end of the argument.

Here, our key indicator is "in order to avoid excessively restrictive controls". We need a completion that will be in line with this instruction.

Only (b) and (d) offer factors that would avoid "excessively" restrictive controls, and the word "all" in (d) takes it out of the running (if (d) had said "at least some of any given pollutant that is to be controlled can potentially reach the North Sea" it would have been great).
Thanks Stuart for the explanation...but i need to know the flaw in my reasoning.
I actually understood why B is the answer but didn't understand why A and C are not even contendors.

Please take little pain to understand my reasoning for A and C [as explained above] and point out the flaw there.

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by khanshainur » Thu May 12, 2016 11:56 am
In my opinion B is the most logical one

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by Knitgeek » Thu May 12, 2016 12:09 pm
Jatinder wrote:I understand the rationale behind B

But i think, My thought process of putting A,B and C as contender is wrong
In order to correct my course, I just want to air out what did i think when making A ,B and C as contendors. Pls explain me what went wrong in my thought process.

A--- If uniform controls would not be applied immediately, then North Sea would have been polluted to the alarming extent. So we need to put restrictive controls in this case...thus employing the uniform controls immediately would avoid the restrictive control

C-- If the uniform controls have been applied to the countries emitting very less effluent, the North sea again would be polluted to the alarming level in no time and thus , we need to incorporate restrictive controls. On the contrary, if uniform controls are applied to the countries emitting largest effluents, we can avoid excessive restrictive controls.

Pls explain what is wrong in my thinking ?
Jatinder,

For A your logic isn't necessarily incorrect but it doesn't really address what is being asked. We are being asked to avoid excessively restrictive controls so just because uniform controls can be implemented without delay it does not mean they are not excessively restrictive. Adopting uniform controls quickly may in fact impose excessive restrictions and potentially not have any real effect on pollution levels if the effluents being controlled are not in fact environmentally damaging.

For C you missed the part in the prompt that the effluents being considered for uniform controls are not proven to be the sources of environmental damage. So while it would be good to know if the countries favouring the controls are the biggest contributors to the levels of effluent it, like with A without knowing if the effluent is the cause of the issues it could be a case that the excessive restrictions are being put in place with no real benefit to the environment they are designed to protect.

Hope that makes sense.