Luring students

[Ludacrispat26]

This is from the free practice paper GMAT administered by Princeton Review this weekend. It is numbered 5411.

Some private schools have been successful in their attempts to lure middle-income students from public school and that educate these students in specialized subjects.

(A) to lure middle-income students from public schools and that educate
(B) to lure middle-income students from public schools and educate
(C) to lure middle-income students from public schools for educating
(D) which lure middle-income students from public school to educate
(E) at luring middle-income students from public schools and by the education of

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I unfortunately don't know the OA because I haven't gotten my official results back in the mail yet, but I was stuck between B and D and wound up choosing B.

Hopefully an expert can chime in.

[Testluv]

Hi Ludacrispat26,

I would go with B. "Which" will only be correct in two situations: first, when it is a part of a prepositional phrase such as "with which" or "for which"; and, second, when there is a comma before the word "which". Because there is no comma or preposition here, you can safely eliminate D.

[xcusemeplz2009]

attempt to is the correct idiom

so eliminate D and E

among rest only B is having parallelism in the verb lure and educate

IMO B is correct.

Do post the OA ?? one's you find it

[Shawshank]

GUys ... I was confused between "B" and "C"..

IMO -- C

i dont think "and educate" makes any sense in this sentence.

[kartik1979]

Ans should be c

attempt to - right idiom

B is wrong beause orignal sentene is stating that the schools are doing a single action

lure them for educating them

not two

lure them and educate them

[Ludacrispat26]

Got the official test back today. The OA is B.

[Testluv]

It is kind of an awkward sentence. However, if you were to replace the "these students" that comes after the underlining with "them" it makes a lot more sense.

To test whether the "for educating" that ends choice C is stylistically acceptable, sound it to your ear like this: "Some private schools have been successful in their attempts...for educating these students in specialized subjects." Does that sound good? It should sound clearly unidiomatic.

The reason we can ignore the "to lure middle income students from public schools and" is because of the "and". Because "and" is a conjunction, often we can simply remove it and either one of the parts it is conjoinging and sound it to our ear.