Hi GMATGuru: Of course I agree. I didnt mean to say that 'so as to' is correct. I wrote so sth as to to mean exactly what you're saying here as so X as to Y . I think i should have been more clear by adding the sth too as in so sth as to sth Thanks for your comment and pasting that link here. It goe...

so sth as to is a correct idiom. here is another example from official source- Often major economic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the financial markets. A. so gradual as to be indistinguishable B. so gradual so that they can be indistinguish...

I ruled out A as: I thought since the sentence is giving two examples 'having been prescribed ..' and 'having been taken off...' both should follow after 'for example'. So it should look like - "for example, having been prescribed a drug as a dosage too low to be effective or having been" ...

HI Mitch, Regarding option B: Can we join two independent clauses with 'whether'? Until this point, I always thought 'use of whether' is justified in this way as long as we are talking about two alternate possibilities. So I thought option B was talking about the following two alternatives 1) Chimps...

Ron, can you explain the rationale pls? Thanks I have one more example...where LESS is used this way... Even though the direct costs of malpractice disputes amounted to less than one percent of the $541 billion the nation spent on health care last year, doctors say fear of lawsuits plays a major rol...

GMATGuruNY, other experts:

Would E be fine if it read - "as fast as, and in some parts even faster than they did" i.e. sans 'what'?

Thanks

Public health expert: Increasing the urgency of a public

Public health expert: Increasing the urgency of a public health message may be counterproductive. In addition to irritating the majority who already behave responsibly, It may undermine all government pronouncements on health by convincing people that such messages are overly cautious. And there is ...

Hi Mitch,

If 'that' refers to 'reactions' (based on the context we can clearly see that it does), shouldnt the right word to use is 'those' instead of 'that'. Don't we write 'those reactions' instead of 'that reactions' What am I missing here?