Sentence Correction

"They" is not an acceptable singular pronoun on the GMAT, though it may well be accepted in your lifetime (after you no longer have to worry about being tested on it ).

E looks the best out of the options given.

Please provide OA.

Thanks.

Someone please provide the OA.

Thanks.

None of the options seem absolutely correct.
but if an answer choice has to be made, then E is the least of the devils I feel!

None of the answer choices are fully correct. Parallelism missing in E,too, which seems the closest bet.

My earlier post got me thinking. What should be the correct sentence here? -

'None of the answer choices are fully correct.'

Is none to be used in the singular form or the plural form?

I have used plural here, and it seems the right choice.... till an expert clarifies, that is.

A: to permit A CANDIDATE..b'cos THEY won..is like ranking [a candidate...they]WRONG
B: permitting A CANDIDATE...because THEY have won...[same as option A]WRONG
C: PERMITTING candidates because they....is LIKE TO RANK....[permitting is like to rank]WRONG
D: permitting A CANDIDATE because THEY...is like ranking[a candidate...they] WRONG
E: to permit candidates because they...is like ranking students higher than one
"one" refers to "studentS", a plural noun.
Shouldn't "one" be "ones"? That is "like ranking students who earned three A's and two F's higher than ones who got two A's and three B's.
Or rather, does "one" have a dual form -singular and plural?
In that case, the the two sentences below would be valid:

Ranking students who earned higher than one who got
Ranking a student who earned higher than one who got

My best bet is still E.

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We are still dealing with IMOs. Can someone please provide the OA? It will be very helpful if some expert could explain the OA.

Thanks
Mankey

could someone please provide some assistance to my inquiry:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/post421092.html

Personally, I think they are all suspect. No answer choice has both parallelism and candidateS+they

I killed A and E because the "to permit" does not sound correct in that context.

Killed B and D because of "a candidate" does not go with "they."

Left with C