Qn:15 A new phenomena, which is visible at Managuas major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include

many children andmob cars at the stoplights.

(A) A new phenomena, which is visible at Managuas major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and (B) Visible at Managuas major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new phenomena that (C) A new phenomenon visible at Managuas major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who (D) Phenomenally new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managuas major intersections, which (E) A wave of vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managuas major intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and

Comment [CS1]: Phenomena-Plural Phenomenon-Singular

A Phenomena is Incorrect

Qn:57
Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. (A) Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. (B) Added to the increase in hourly wages, which had been, requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. (C) The railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits added to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July.
Comment [CS4]: Distorts the sequence of Events Comment [CS3]: A&B Modifies Railroad Employees Comment [CS2]: Modifier Phrase

(D) In addition to the increase in hourly wages that wererequested last July, Sthe railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. (E) In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. ANS-E

Comment [CS5]: Not Required

Qn:58
Adult survivors of child abuse traditionally have had little or no chance that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated. (A) that they could get their symptoms recognized and treated (B) to recognize and treat their symptoms (C) of getting their symptoms recognized and treated (D) of recognizing and treating symptoms (E) of getting his or her symptoms recognized and treated
Comment [CS8]: Implies Survivor treating themselves Comment [CS9]: Wordy due to unnecessary Phrase, his or her Comment [CS7]: The Idiom is No Chance of Comment [CS6]: Wrong Idiom

ANS- C

Qn:59
Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure. (A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure (B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure (C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it (D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria (E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it
Comment [CS10]: Makes the sentence wordy. Comment [CS11]: Appropriate use as its in past Comment [CS12]: Wordy, No clear antecedent to They Comment [CS13]: No clear antecedent to they

ANS- B

Qn:60
After a few weeks experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds. (A) genuine diamonds from imitation diamonds (B) genuine diamonds apart from imitations (C) between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds (D) among genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds (E) whether diamonds are imitation or genuine
Comment [CS14]: Idiom-Discriminate between X and Y

ANS-C

Qn:61
After crude oil, natural gas is the United States second biggest fuel source and supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America. (A) After crude oil, natural gas is the United States second biggest fuel source and supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America. (B) Natural gas, after crude oil the United States second biggest fuel source, supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America. (C) Being supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America, natural gas, the United States second biggest fuel source after crude oil. (D) Natural gas, the United States second biggest fuel source after crude oil, is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America. (E) Natural gas is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America, being the United States second biggest fuel source after crude oil. ANS-D
Comment [CS20]: Same as C Comment [CS19]: Rightly modifies sources of fuel Comment [CS18]: Not accepted in GMAT Comment [CS17]: Changes sequence, Wrong Modifier Comment [CS16]: Modifies Natural Gas Comment [CS15]: Modifier

Qn:62
After gradual declension down to about 39 hours in 1970, the workweek in the United States has steadily increased to the point that the average worker now puts in an estimated 164 extra hours of paid labor a year. (A) After gradual declension down (B) Following a gradual declension down (C) After gradual declining down (D) After gradually declining (E) Following gradually declining
Comment [CS21]: Redundancy

Comment [CS22]: Redundant

Comment [CS23]: Continous form is appropriate as Now in later stage spports the tense. Comment [CS24]: Ungrammatical

ANS-D

Qn:63

After July, anyone disposing of or servicing refrigerators must capture the chlorofluorocarbons in the refrigerant chemicals. (A) Anyone disposing of or servicing (B) those who dispose or service (C) anyone disposing of or who services (D) the disposal or repair of
Comment [CS27]: Person is gone Comment [CS25]: No noun to modify

Comment [CS26]: Changes the meaning

(E)someonewho disposes or repairs ANS-A

Comment [CS28]: Unspecified person

Qn:64
After Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), which was newly discovered, he had reachedfor a sheet of paper, crumpled it, and said, It looks like thatbeyond the mountains, more mountains. (A) After Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), which was newly discovered, he had reached (B) On being asked to describe the new discovery of the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti) by Queen Isabella, Admiral Columbus, reaching (C) Queen Isabella asked Admiral Columbus to describe the newly discovered island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), then he reached
Comment [CS31]: Wrong Comment [CS30]: Wrong use, also Being Comment [CS29]: Had reached is wrong

(D) When asked by Queen Isabella to describe the newly discovered island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), Admiral Columbus reached (E) After Queen Isabella had asked Admiral Columbus to describe the discovery of the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), he had reached
Comment [CS32]: Wrong

ANS-D

Qn:65
After suffering $2 billion in losses and 25,000 layoffs, the nations semiconductor industry, which makes chips that run everything fromcomputers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears to have made a long-awaited recovery. (A) computers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears to have (B) computers, spy satellites, and dishwashers, appears having (C) computers, spy satellites, and dishwashers, appears that it has (D) computers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears that it has (E) computers and spy satellites as well as dishwashers, appears to have ANS-A
Comment [CS33]: Right use of Idiom From X to Y Comment [CS34]: Wrong Idiom, and Having Comment [CS35]: Wrong idiom, and it has

Comment [CS36]: Same as D

Comment [CS37]: Wrong Idiom

Qn:66
After the Arab conquest of Egypt in A.D. 640, Arabic became the dominant language of the Egyptians, replacing older languages and writing systems. (A) became the dominant language of the Egyptians, replacing older languages (B) became the dominant language of the Egyptians, replacing languages that

were older (C) becomes the dominant language of the Egyptians and it replaced older languages (D) becomes the dominant language of the Egyptians and it replaced languages that were older (E) becomes the dominant language of the Egyptians, having replaced languages that were older

Comment [CS38]: Wrong use Comment [CS39]: Wrong tense

Qn:67
After the Civil War, contemporaries of Harriet Tubmans maintained that she has all of the qualities of a great leader, coolness in the face of danger, an excellent sense of strategy, and an ability to plan in minute detail. (A) Tubmans maintained that she has (B) Tubmans maintain that she had (C) Tubmans have maintained that she had (D) Tubman maintained that she had (E) Tubman had maintained that she has ANS-D
Comment [CS41]: Use of has is wrong, contemporaries is plural. Comment [CS40]: Possesive distorts the meaning

Qn:68
After the Colonial periods 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six. (A) After the Colonial periods 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but
Comment [CS42]: Awkward

(B) Even though childrens life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial periods 50 percent mortality rate, (C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent, (D) While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50 percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still

Comment [CS43]: Awkward

Comment [CS44]: Implies that the expectancy improved due to the mortality rate

(E) Despite childrens life expectancy improvement from the Colonial periods 50 percent mortality rate, ANS-C

Comment [CS45]: Alkward

Qn:69
After the Vietnam war Bettye Granther, a U.S. Army nurse, continued her efforts on behalf of injured Vietnamese children, providing medical care, helping to reunite estranged families, and the establishment of a fund for the childrens future education. (A) the establishment of a fund for the childrens future education (B) the establishing of a fund for the future education of children (C) establishing a fund for the childrens future education (D) establishing a fund for the childrens future education (E) the establishment of a fund for the childrens future education ANS-C
Comment [CS49]: Children is already plural Comment [CS46]: Parallel structure

Comment [CS47]: Distorts PS

Comment [CS48]: Same as A

Qn:70
After this years record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the countrys best new group in decades;

no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians. (A) the ensemble were touted as the countrys (B) the ensemble was touted as the countrys (C) the country touted the ensemble like the (D) touting the ensemble as the countrys (E) they were touting the ensemble as the countrys

Qn:70
After this years record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the countrys best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians. (A) theensemble were touted as the countrys (B) the ensemble was touted as the countrys (C) the country touted the ensemble like the (D) touting the ensemble as the countrys (E) theywere touting the ensemble as the countrys ANS-B
Comment [CS52]: Changes the meaning Comment [CS51]: Singular subject Comment [CS50]: Sub-Verb Agreement

Comment [CS53]: Changes the meaning

Comment [CS54]: No clear reference

Qn:71
Aging is a property of all animals that reach a fixed size at maturity, and the variations in life spans among different species are far greater as that among individuals from the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150. (A) among different species are far greater as that among individuals from (B) among different species are far greater than that among individuals from
Comment [CS56]: That is used for singular sub. Comment [CS55]: Wrong composition

(C) among different species are far greater than those among individuals of (D) between different species are far more than that between individuals of (E) between different species are greater by far than is that between individuals from ANS-C

Comment [CS57]: Correct idiom

Comment [CS58]: Awkward

Comment [CS59]: Unidiomatic

Qn:72
Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home, they featured the preparation of great quantities of ceremonial food, the wearing of many layers of colorful clothing adorned with silver, and the recounting of traditional tribal jokes and stories. (A) Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home, they featured (B) Festivals were held in Aho, a Kiowa matriarchs home, which featured (C) Aho, who was a Kiowa matriarch in her home, held festivals featuring (D) In her home, Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals that featured (E) Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home that featured ANS-D
Comment [CS63]: Wrongly modifies home. Comment [CS60]: No clear Reference

Comment [CS61]: Which wrongly modifies Home Comment [CS62]: Implies home held festivals

Qn:73
Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the states economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.

(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the states economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves (B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the states economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves (C) fund intended to sustain the states economy after oil reserves are exhausted (D) fund intended to sustain the states economy after exhausting its oil reserves (E) fund that they intend to sustain the states economy after oil reserves are exhausted ANS-C
Comment [CS67]: Changes the meaning Comment [CS65]: Wordy Comment [CS64]: Passive

Comment [CS66]: Rightly modifies funds

Comment [CS68]: Should have been, Economy with

Qn:74
All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nations recreational areas. (A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging (B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to (C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging (D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to (E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to
Comment [CS73]: Not parallel Comment [CS70]: Out of the attributes of structure Comment [CS71]: Not parallel Comment [CS69]: Parallel Structure

Comment [CS72]: Not parallel

ANS-D

Qn:84
Although it was expected that workers under forty would show hostility to the plan, the research report indicates that both younger and the older people approve of governmental appropriations for Social Security. (A) younger and the older people (B) younger people and the older (C) the younger and the older people (D) younger and older people (E) people who are younger and those who are older
Comment [CS74]: parallel but "the younger" makes noun and here it meaning requires to be adjective. (if it is "the younger people and the older people then it is correct.

Qn: 86
Although just inside the orbit of Jupiter, amateur astronomers with good telescopes should be able to see the comet within the next few weeks. (A) Although just inside the orbit of (B) Although it is just inside the orbit of (C) Just inside the orbit of (D) Orbiting just inside (E) Having orbited just inside
Comment [CS76]: Correct answer Comment [CS75]: Modifier