The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory...

IMO B

In A, Comma is not used properly after revised.

In C, much recent attacks doesn't make any sense. it makes attacks as dated and culturally biased.

D meaning distorted, awkward

E, same as D

M Not an expert, but must say some of the Kaplan questions are really awful and nonsensical questions...

Is it from Kaplan premier or Kaplan 800?

@atul
Why do u feel so? I mean for this question

@amar
It's from kaplan premier.
And u eliminated A (reasoning comma issue), but GMAT doesnt tests on punctuation, i mean to eliminate an option only on a basis of comma is not sensible

And Guys please reply for th additional sentences also.

Thanks

Ideally two events should be in proper sequence FIRST " something attacked as dated and culturally biased" and THEN "revised".

or Something is "revised" AFTER "the same thing has been attacked as dated and biased".

A) unnecessary comma before "AFTER"

B ) uncommon usage of two tenses talking about two different events in two different time period. Whenever you suspect a sentence ,and you do not have a immediate CORRECT OR INCORRECT sound in your head, keep it!

C) Because of lack of word "AFTER" its unclear whether "Test HAS BEEN under attack as dated and biased" OR "Test IS RECEIVING attack as dated and biased NOW (& was not under attack in the past).

D) was finally revised recently two opposite indicating words blend together.

E) "is finally to be revised" still sounds OK!! but " after recent attacks as dated and culturally biased" does not clearly modify "Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory"--> basically dangling modifier.

best among worst is B

@smackmartine

Its good to see that even i dropped Op A, D and E for the same reasons as you drop.

One question: in OA B....the word "recently" is used with ""present perfect" right??? I tried to understand the meaning of this combination but didn't get. The "present perfect" states an even started in the Past and continues to Present...means the action " attacked as dated and culturally"
is already continued to present...so using an adverb "recently", is this add any extra meaning to the sentence???

sameerballani wrote:The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a test developed in the 1930s to assess character, attitudes, and behavior, is finally being revised, after many attacks recently as dated and culturally biased.
(A) is finally being revised, after many attacks recently as dated and culturally biased
(B) has recently been attacked as dated and culturally biased and is finally being revised
(C) is finally under revision for receiving much recent attack as dated and culturally biased
(D) was finally revised recently because it is being attacked as dated and culturally biased
(E) is finally to be revised after recent attacks as dated and culturally biased

[spoiler]OA:B[/spoiler]

Also, please clarify whether the following sentences are correct or not-
F) is being finally revised because recently it was attacked as dated and culturally biased
G) was being finally revised because recently it had been attacked as dated and culturally biased
H) is finally under revision due to recent attacks on it as dated and culturally biased
I) was recently attacked as dated and culturally biased and is finally being revised

Option A is wrong as the adverb "recently" can not talk about the noun "attacks".It should have been "recent attacks"

Option C gives out the meaning that attack was dated and culturally biased.

Option D changes the sequence of events.The test was first attacked and then is being revised, but the option uses past tense for the event of revising and present tense for the event attacking.This could actually mean that the test was first revised and then is being attacked.

Option E has the same problem as Option C.

Option F has no error.

Option G has a tense problem. Two tenses simple past and past perfect are being used, but there is no clear indication as which event occurred first.
If the sentence were
"was being finally revised after it had been attacked as dated and culturally biased"
the usage of tense wud be correct.

Option H is not grammatically wrong, but "due to" is usually avoided in GMAT.

Option I is also not grammatically wrong, but it does not convey the meaning that because of the attacks the test is being revised.
It just talks about two facts that It was attacked and it is being revise.

@atulmangal,

I have observed that 99% of the times "recently" has been associated with an event in the present perfect tense.In fact no additional meaning. I can remember few sentences in which "recently" was placed between two words in such a manner that it was not clear which word/verb it is modifying. Basically this modifier error occurs in incorrect answer choices only. eg.

The DVDs released recently started making more than $1 million per month. (This may not be an excellent example of incorrect sentence , but the intent is to highlight the placement of word "recently" )
In the above sentence its not clear that "DVDs have gotten released recently" or "these DVDs recently started making more than $1 million per month."

Hope this helps!

smackmartine wrote:@atulmangal,

I have observed that 99% of the times "recently" has been associated with an event in the present perfect tense.In fact no additional meaning. I can remember few sentences in which "recently" was placed between two words in such a manner that it was not clear which word/verb it is modifying. Basically this modifier error occurs in incorrect answer choices only. eg.

The DVDs released recently started making more than $1 million per month. (This may not be an excellent example of incorrect sentence , but the intent is to highlight the placement of word "recently" )
In the above sentence its not clear that "DVDs have gotten released recently" or "these DVDs recently started making more than $1 million per month."

Hope this helps!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge...i thought that may be there is some extra added meaning which this word "recently" is making, which m not able to get....but as u said its been used 99% times so i will accept this without even knowing how this word creating a difference in meaning.

Thanks