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Correctly measuring the productivity of service workers is complex. Consider, for example, postal workers: they are often said to be more productive if more letters are delivered per postal worker. But is this really true? What if more letters are lost or delayed per worker at the same time that mor...
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Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:35 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Help needed
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I got first one right. Marked "A". But in second question I got confused b/w "B" and "C".
A very silly confusion. 
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Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:21 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Prior to 1965 geologists assumed.
- Replies: 24
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Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:04 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Help PLease
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Since it has become known that several of a bank’s top executives have been buying shares in their own bank , the bank’s depositors, who had been worried by rumors that the bank faced impending fi nancial collapse,have been greatly relieved. They reason that, since top executives evidently have ...
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Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:02 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Help PLease
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I don't understand why the OA is C. As the argument never talked about those people who never suffered back pain. Argument is talking about those people who suffers from back pain. So, author's assumption can not be based on those people who is not suffering from back pain. I chose A. can anybody ex...
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Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:19 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: a really good defender question. How better can it get.
- Replies: 8
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In order to withstand tidal currents, juvenile horseshoe crabs frequently burrow in the sand. Such burrowing discourages barnacles from clinging to their shells. When fully grown, however, the crabs can readily withstand tidal currents without burrowing, and thus they acquire substantial populations...
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Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:05 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Help
- Replies: 4
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Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:27 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Help
- Replies: 5
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At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls’ high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level. (A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are (B...
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Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:11 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Help
- Replies: 5
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IMO is D. as not only but also is used in both C and D. But C lacks the parallelism, as of in the second part of the sentence is eliminated. D show the correct formation. Not only of but also of. So D is correct.
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Wed Jun 05, 2013 11:15 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Blueberries
- Replies: 28
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Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Please help
- Replies: 4
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According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s and the body like his wife’s. (A) modeled the face of the statue like his mother’s and the body like his wife’s (B) modeled the face of the statue...
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Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:10 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Please help
- Replies: 4
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Parul, in Except question in which weaken is mentioned, think to strengthen the argument or choose that one which does not affect the argument. It will work.parul9 wrote:"Except" qsn always gets me! Grr! X-(
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Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:39 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: You're fired!
- Replies: 40
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I do not agree with B at all, As I understand B only talks of a large library in which the principal plans to hold regular cultural sessions...how does this indicate if the principal should be fired? Read the question properly. Question asks you to pic the option in which principle should not be fi...
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Mon Jun 03, 2013 3:34 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: You're fired!
- Replies: 40
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Now, it is crystal clear..... Thanks for the help. The explanation was awesome. You gave me a new way to think. Thanks
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Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:32 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence Corection
- Replies: 4
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I Manhattan SC, it is clearly written that almost always "being" brings redundancy and awkward sentence formation.sank88 wrote:Why is option D wrong? What is wrong with 'being'? Can someone please provide the grammatical logic behind this?
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Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:25 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Modifier/Misc: PR Cat Question
- Replies: 41
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