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by sameerballani » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:18 am
Law firms and other professional services groups, academic institutions, and research divisions
often have informal talent marketplaces where senior employees strive to identify the best
employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they
find most attractive.A)where senior employees strive to identify the best employees junior to them and the junior
employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive
B)in which senior employees strive and identify the best junior employees and the junior
employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive
C)where senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior
employees compete for the most attractive assignments
D)that enable senior employees to strive and identify the best junior employees and the best
junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments
E)in which senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior
employees compete for the most attractive assignments

[spoiler]OA: LATER[/spoiler]
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by arun@crackverbal » Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:52 am
Law firms and other professional services groups, academic institutions, and research divisions
often have informal talent marketplaces where senior employees strive to identify the best
employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they
find most attractive.

A)where senior employees strive to identify the best employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive
Can be used only for actual physical places - not metaphorical ones like this. Check out another GMATPrep problem similar to this one "In Greek theology the supreme being was Esaugetu Emissee (Master of Breath), who dwelt in an upper realm in which the sky was the floor..."

B)in which senior employees strive and identify the best junior employees and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive
Senior employees are not doing 2 things (a) strive (b) identify. It has to be used in the infinitive form "strive to identify"

C)where senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments
Same reason as A

D)that enable senior employees to strive and identify the best junior employees and the best junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments
Not only does it repeat the same mistake as in B but it also brings in a new idea that these places only "enable" them.

E)in which senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior
employees compete for the most attractive assignments

Though E is the "best of the lot" I am not too comfortable with the change in meaning from the original sentence by introduction of "best" junior employees.

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by sameerballani » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:14 am
arun@crackverbal wrote:Law firms and other professional services groups, academic institutions, and research divisions
often have informal talent marketplaces where senior employees strive to identify the best
employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they
find most attractive.


B)in which senior employees strive and identify the best junior employees and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive
Senior employees are not doing 2 things (a) strive (b) identify. It has to be used in the infinitive form "strive to identify"

E)in which senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior
employees compete for the most attractive assignments

Though E is the "best of the lot" I am not too comfortable with the change in meaning from the original sentence by introduction of "best" junior employees.

Arun
I had two major doubts:
1) Can you please explain what's wrong if its STRIVE AND INDENTIFY. I understand its an action and infinitive should be preffered, but still whats wrong in case they are doing two tasks.
2) The answer choice E has BEST junior EMPLOYEES. This also seems ambiguous to me. How can me have multiple best emplyees.

Also,
2nd in option B, the meaning seems much clear. Senior employees does X and Junior employees does Y.

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by cyrwr1 » Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:12 pm
E is my choice.

Strive to Identify = try to identify, not try and identify
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by sanabk » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:32 pm
C
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by ov25 » Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:39 pm
IMO a
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by gmat062011 » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:16 pm
E

a) where is used only for physical location. -> option A
b) strive and identify --> wrong in option B.
c) enable -> not required in option D.
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by HSPA » Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:51 pm
Aint E changing the meaning: It says only the best junior members compete. All junior members compete and the best are found out of them using the test.

Shouldnt the answer be B. (strive to identify is better than strive and identify)
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by arun@crackverbal » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:01 am
I googled around for this question and here is what Stacey from ManhattanGMAT has to say about it [i]"By the way, I brought this up with our curriculum director and he went ahead and removed that second "best" in choices C, D, and E. :) "[/i]

I guess that speaks about the quality of this question. Also I have seen many examples where some of the questions made by the test prep companies look odd. Sample this:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/knewton-rest ... 64842.html. Why would the word entree enter in the answer choice?

Don't get me wrong i have a lot of respect for such companies - it is just that some questions are not the best representation of their overall quality.

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by ov25 » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:25 am
Thanks Arun what is the Official explanation? The second 'best' swayed me away from the claimed correct answer I guess.

Question:
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.

Do you consider 'community' a physical location? in the above example?
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by sameerballani » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:31 am
ov25 wrote:what is the OA?

Question:

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.

Do you consider 'community' a physical location? in the above example?
What's the source? I don't think this will be correct on the GMAT.
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by ov25 » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:34 am
OG 10 Sentence Correction #165
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by ov25 » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:37 am
Herez the actual question:

165. 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) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes
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by sameerballani » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:48 am
ov25 wrote:Herez the actual question:

165. 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) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes
WHat's the OA? I ma confused between A and E.
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by ov25 » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:58 am
neither....C

here, we have 2 issues: agreement and tense

1) Eliminate 'them' as none of the nouns in the sentence is a plural one -- team, community and college
2) 'perennial' should clue an active situation ...so use 'are'. 'has' should be construed as possessive in this case as used in 'community has 49% of all incomes below poverty line'
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