Kaplan test

[reply2spg]

Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit in chronological order rather than art movement.

1. to organize the exhibit in chronological order rather than art movement.
2. to organize the exhibit in chronological order rather than by art movement
3. to organize the exhibit according to chronological order rather than according to art movement
4. that organized the exhibit in chronological order rather than art movement
5. that organized the exhibit by chronological order rather than by art movement

OA later

[kvcpk]

IMO B

[pradeepkaushal9518]

i m stucked between B and E

i will take chance to go wid E

[niksworth]

In D and E the relative clause starting with that - that organized... modifies decision. This means that the decision organized the exhibit, which is clearly illogical. This rules out D and E.

A lacks parallelism. A preposition before art movement is missing.
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit in -
1) chronological order
rather than
2) art movement

C is wordy and needlessly uses according to twice when one would have sufficed to maintain parallelism.
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit according to -
1) chronological order
rather than
2) art movement

B is correct because it maintains parallelism by introducing a preposition before art movement.
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit -
1) in chronological order
rather than
2) by art movement

A technique which I use to check parallelism is to make a list like that shown above whenever parallelism is evident and then read the two parts alternately to see if they individually make grammatical sense.

E.g. In the list for A shown above, I would read -
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit in chronological order - Correct.
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit in art movement - Incorrect. Wrong preposition.

If I read the list for B, it says -
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit in chronological order - Correct.
Many critics reproved the curator's bold decision to organize the exhibit by art movement - Correct

Thus B is perfect.

[debmalya_dutta]

my pcik is B

[samarpan_bschool]

HI reply2sg - nice question. Though B looks parallel, I am not sure whether we can have a parallel structure with 'two different prepositions' - (in our case 'in' & 'by').

I don't see anything wrong with C though!

[samarpan_bschool]

HI reply2sg - nice question. Though B looks parallel, I am not sure whether we can have a parallel structure with 'two different prepositions' - (in our case 'in' & 'by').

I don't see anything wrong with C though!

Hi stuart, can you weigh in? Thanks

[BastiG]

What would be with the possible answer choices?

to organize the exhibit by chronological order rather than by art movement?

to organize the exhibit in chronological order rather than in art movement?

Would some expert pls comment on that?

[pradeepkaushal9518]

can somebody say which one is more parallel for a moment we forget .........to organize and that organize...........




by chronological order ......by art movement or in chronological order...........by art movement

[ansh.kumar]

hi, the idiom is "in chronologcal" order. we wudn,t say "by chronologcal".
iN "A" LACKS OF PARALLELSM & CHANGES THE MEANING=(in chronological order rather than art movement)
IN "D" THAT REFERRENT IS WRONG.

[Stuart@KaplanGMAT]

hi, the idiom is "in chronologcal" order. we wudn,t say "by chronologcal".
iN "A" LACKS OF PARALLELSM & CHANGES THE MEANING=(in chronological order rather than art movement)
IN "D" THAT REFERRENT IS WRONG.

Correct!

Choosing the right preposition is idiomatic - in fact, if you don't put in the proper preposition, the answer becomes grammatically incorrect.

If the two parts of the sentence take different prepositions, we have to put them both in.