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GMAT STUDY GRID - HOC PHAN Test:

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01:08:54

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06:54

Wrong:

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# of Q: Percent:

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Time

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Type:

Feeling D

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Result Careless error

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A group ofstudents is singular

x X X

To suggest is Ok way to sayingthe things. i.e. evidence to suggest is ok. Moreover E maintains paralleleism Condition that is right in this case. It is of subjunctive mood. Hence be verb will be used

X

There are is required for having a correct reference for that in the second part of the sentence. Also no contrast is required

D X

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Time left: In this case, the right answer might actually look wrong to many people (which often happens on tricky questions). opening phrase Verbal The Question to be on: is talking about her work and saying "in addition to" her work on the fossil record - so we need to say what it is that is referring to this work. Her work on the fossil record was one of her discovery of hominid activity Concept contributions, just as her Notes The insurance impose strict was one construct. of her contributions. Butwill that's pretty subtle error Logical limits and require doctors. i.e. a and, and bb shoould if you're reading too quickly, you'll think that the x not be paralel with a since it is a different thing opening modifier is referring to Mary Leakey and so we need to have her follow the comma. (But that's not really what's going on - what's actually going on is that we have a list of 3 contributions, but one comes at the beginning of the sentence and the other two come towards Agree with OA, answer should be D. the end.) the stress was on female students hence the same should x A. Commas are unnecessary--they meaning to have been sentence maintained. Also andthe straight A simpler with theconcise samecause set-up: change. In addition to food, the mother's contributions to her B. Commas unnecessary; "would" child include shelter and love.refers to past tense C. "they" refers to wrong noun. Think is required to have the as prenoun reference to the reactors. think parallel And a straight list: viewmother's in the start of the sentence The contributions to her child include food, C completely changes the meaning. Whereas in case of D D. Correct. shelter, and love. the infinitive brings out the on meaning of the E. "would" refers to past tense Mary Leakey's contributions tofocus archaelogy include her sentence. Which "canhominid …….." fossil record, her discovery work on the Miocene Having more than the usual number Gerund phrase of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity, and To have moreThe than the Infinitive phrase her painstaking documentation of East African paintings. verb tense. act ofusual king number alfred act was before the act of Danes. When there are two dates mentioned then the Be care ful with "incanaddition to" itact Both Gerunds and Infinitives be used as the subject mentioned for the earlier date should betense. in past perfect X laid is present perfect and lay is past of a sentence.How to choose between them : changes meaning case thein tense is thethe act in the later in date this has been mentioned X past tense. focus was brought on to her work than Gerunds Actions that are more real, and completed, Rates are supposed to fall. -Ing sentence should be factual etc. X to herinformation avoided as long as possible. reason is that participial Infinitive - Actions that are unreal, abstract and phrases tend to refer to further nouns (most often the tenses should be kept parallel. "would be" shows the X future. subjects. In E, "starting a cycle of layoffs leading future not past. In the current sentence "have" afterto and even lower employment rates," needs "that leads," rather X has been taken away but is implicit than "leading," because otherwise the sentence seems like Japan cannot be the culture. Japan's implicitly refers to a run-on andof there does seem to be a change in the the culture japan meaning as others have eluded to.

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B X

X

estimate is in present. Based on will be past. On the basis of will be present

X X

The analsyt will study the sales of the novel not that the novel was result of the cold war but the cold war had pushed the sales of the novel. Land cannot be the pre--clo form of ownership. A makes the meaning very clear

D C

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Now will at the end as the comparision is between now and 1990. it cannot refer to generated hence C. it should the later partnoun. of the sentence has such hence the refer to some Here it cannot referfirms to the energy earlier part of the sentence will need to have a refernce for the same

C B

X X

X

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X

have will be used as the sentence refers to the future tense. When the sentences refer to future tense then plural form of verb should be used

B A

x

Rise sharply is the correct usuage not sharply rise

D

X

The sentence sense is that the current levels of the waste that are allowed to dump were reduced by the agreement

B

X

The comparision dictates that the comparision should be between the civilization and the city

A X X

Beaware of the So as to sentence. If possible donot choose the same

C X

A B

Each person will file a tax retur. Here has the sentence been "theirtax returns" it would have been correct.

A E

X

X

E

If C were correct as written (which is possible grammatically), it would mean this: The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local times, which were determined by when the sun reached the observer’s meridian and which were differing from city to city, and to the establishment of regional times. In other words, which were determined would be parallel with which were differing; or, if it were "reduced," determined and differing would be parallel.

X

I think you'll agree that the verb tense of which were differing is incorrect, so C is out.

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