The Talmud briefly recounts the core story of Hanukkah, invo

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The Talmud briefly recounts the core story of Hanukkah, involving the single day's supply of oil lasting eight days, although placing this story in context are events described by the two books of the Maccabees, appearing only in the Roman Catholic Old Testament instead of in the Jewish and Protestant bibles.
(A) The Talmud briefly recounts the core story of Hanukkah, involving the single day's supply of oil lasting eight days, although placing this story in context are events described by the two books of the Maccabees, appearing only in the Roman Catholic Old Testament instead of in the Jewish and Protestant bibles
(B) The Talmud, briefly recounting the core story of Hanukkah, with the single day's supply of oil lasting eight days, and only Roman Catholic Old Testament contains the two books of the Maccabees, which places this core story in context, unlike the Jewish and Protestant bibles
(C) The core story of Hanukkah, involving the single day's supply of oil that lasts eight days, appears briefly in the Talmud, although the events that place this story in context are described in the two books of the Maccabees, which appear in neither the Jewish nor Protestant bibles, but only in the Roman Catholic Old Testament
(D) The core story of Hanukkah involves the single day's supply of oil which last eight days, appearing briefly in the Talmud, while the events to place this story in context, described in the two books of the Maccabees, which does not appear in the Jewish and Protestant bibles, but instead in the Roman Catholic Old Testament
(E) Appearing neither in the Jewish bible nor the Protestant bible, but in the Roman Catholic Old Testament, the two books of the Maccabees provide the context for the core story of Hanukah, and involves the single day's supply of oil which last eight days, while it appears briefly in the Talmud.


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by aditya8062 » Tue May 27, 2014 9:05 pm
got all three correct however i took a huge amount of time
for SC 1 --->2.15 min
for SC 2 ---->3.15 min
for SC 3-----> 4.10 min

what should be the ideal timing for working these questions

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by aditya8062 » Tue May 27, 2014 9:18 pm
though C seems best in the above question however i feel there is something not OK about the implied meaning

C says : The core story of Hanukkah, involving the single day's supply of oil that lasts eight days, appears briefly in the Talmud, although the events that place this story in context are described in the two books of the Maccabees, which appear in neither the Jewish nor Protestant bibles, but only in the Roman Catholic Old Testament

my concern: "which" seems to refer to "two books of the Maccabees". However it seems weird to think that books can appear in "Jewish Bibles" .logically "which" should refer to "events". However it seems improbable for "which" to refer to such far flung noun and that too when that noun is separated from "which" by a working verb "ARE"

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by [email protected] » Tue May 27, 2014 9:43 pm
Hi aditya8062,

To properly pace yourself through the entire Verbal section, there are certain general timing guidelines that you need to train yourself to follow:

For SCs, you don't have that much time per question, since CRs and RC prompts/questions take considerably more time to solve. As a general rule, 60-90 seconds per SC should be the norm. Anything more than that and you have to ask WHAT you were doing during that time. Rereading and rereading and rereading answer choices is NOT an ideal way to approach SCs.

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by aditya8062 » Tue May 27, 2014 9:47 pm
well if i talk of above mentioned question then it was my concern about "which" (as cited above) that i took so much of time

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