GMAT STUDY GRID - HOC PHAN

Test:

Start 00:02:00 Total: 06:54 Wrong: 27 # of Q: 50 Time

In left:
this 90:24
case, the right answer might actually look wrong
Percent: 46.00% to many people (which often happens on tricky questions).
Stop 01:08:54 Avg T/Q: 01:10 Right: 23 Type: Verbal The opening
Question to bephrase 1
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.
Time Question Feeling Result Her work on the fossil record was one of her
Careless Concept contributions, just as her Notes discovery of hominid activity
Time Length # A B C D E Slow Not sure Correct Wrong
error error Logical
was one construct. The insurance
of her contributions. Butwill
that'simpose strict
pretty subtle -
limits and require doctors.
if you're reading too quickly, i.e. a and,
you'll and b-
think thatb shoould
the
00:03:53 01:52 1 X X D x not be paralel with a since it is a different
opening modifier is referring to Mary Leakey and so we thing
00:05:09 01:16 2 X E need to have her follow the comma. (But that's not really
what's going on - what's actually going on is that we
00:05:59 00:50 3 X E have a list of 3 contributions, but one comes at the
beginning of the sentence and the other two come towards
00:06:58 00:59 4 X D Agree
the with OA, answer should be D.
end.)
the stress was on female students hence the same should
00:08:54 01:56 5 X X B x A.
have
A Commas are unnecessary--they
been sentence
simpler maintained. withAlso samecause
theconcise andthe
set-up: meaning to
straight
change.
In addition to food, the mother's contributions to her
B. Commas
child unnecessary;
include shelter and "would"
love.refers to past tense
C. "they" refers to wrong noun. Think is required to have
00:10:08 01:14 6 X D the as
And prenoun reference
a straight list: to the reactors. think parallel
viewmother's
The in the start of the sentence
contributions to her child include food,
C completely
D. Correct.
shelter, changes
and love. the meaning. Whereas in case of D
the infinitive
E. "would"
Mary Leakey'srefersbrings out the
to past tense
contributions tofocus on meaning
archaelogy of the
include her
sentence.
work on the Which "canhominid
Miocene …….." fossil record, her discovery
00:10:18 00:11 7 X A Having more than the usual number - Gerund
of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity, and phrase
To
her have moreThe
painstaking than theofusual
king number
documentation of East- Infinitive
African phrase
paintings.
00:11:50 01:32 8 X D verb tense. act alfred act was before the act
Be care
of
Both
Danes.
Gerunds ful
When
and with "incanaddition
there are
Infinitives
two dates
be
mentioned
used as to"
then
the itact
the
subject
14:08:28 00:00 9 X X E X mentioned
laid is for the
present earlier
perfect anddate
lay should
is past betense.
in past perfect
changes
tense is thethe
of a sentence.How
act inmeaning
to the later in
choose date this
between them
has been: case thein
mentioned
00:16:07 01:50 10 X X B X focus
past was
tense. brought on to her work than
Gerunds - Actions that are more real,
Rates are supposed to fall. -Ing sentence should be and completed,
00:17:48 01:41 11 X D X to
factual
avoidedherinformation etc.
as long as possible. reason is that participial
Infinitive
phrases tend- Actions
to refer that are unreal,
to further nouns abstract
(most and
often
00:23:44 00:05 12 X D X the tenses
future.
subjects.
should be kept parallel. "would be" shows the
future not past. In the current sentence "have" afterto
In E, "starting a cycle of layoffs leading and
00:25:17 01:33 13 X A X even lower employment rates,"
has been taken away but is implicit needs "that leads," rather
than "leading," because otherwise the sentence
Japan cannot be the culture. Japan's implicitly refers to seems like
00:27:58 02:41 14 X X D X a
therun-on
cultureandofthere
japandoes seem to be a change in the
meaning as others have eluded to.
00:31:26 03:27 15 X X C
00:33:15 01:50 16 X X B
00:33:59 00:43 17 X A
00:35:00 01:02 18 X A
00:35:51 00:51 19 X A
00:36:48 00:57 20 X A X A group ofstudents is singular
00:38:09 01:21 21 X C x
To suggest is Ok way to sayingthe things. i.e. evidence
00:39:07 00:57 22 X E X to suggest is ok. Moreover E maintains paralleleism
Condition that is right in this case. It is of
00:40:46 01:39 23 X A X subjunctive mood. Hence be verb will be used
00:41:25 00:40 24 X D There are is required for having a correct reference for
that in the second part of the sentence. Also no contrast
00:43:26 02:01 25 X X D X is required
 estimate is in present. Based on will be past. On the
00:44:27 01:00 26 X B X basis of will be present
00:45:42 01:16 27 X D
00:46:04 00:22 28 X C The analsyt will study the sales of the novel not that
the novel was result of the cold war but the cold war had
00:47:23 01:19 29 X E X pushed the sales of the novel.
Land cannot be the pre--clo form of ownership. A makes
00:48:27 01:04 30 X A X the meaning very clear
00:49:23 00:56 31 X D
Beaware of the So as to sentence. If possible donot
00:49:58 00:35 32 X D X choose the same
00:51:00 01:02 33 X D Now will at the end as the comparision is between now and
1990. it cannot refer to generated hence C. it should
00:51:41 00:40 34 X C the later
refer partnoun.
to some of the sentence
Here has such
it cannot referfirms hence
to the the
energy
earlier part of the sentence will need to have a refernce
00:52:24 00:43 35 X B for the same
00:54:32 02:09 36 X X E
00:55:36 01:04 37 X C
00:56:38 01:02 38 X E
00:57:43 01:05 39 X A have will be used as the sentence refers to the future
tense. When the sentences refer to future tense then
00:58:57 01:13 40 X B plural form of verb should be used
00:59:28 00:32 41 X A x Rise sharply is the correct usuage not sharply rise
00:59:57 00:29 42 X A
The sentence sense is that the current levels of the
01:00:55 00:57 43 X D X waste that are allowed to dump were reduced by the
agreement
01:01:36 00:42 44 X C
The comparision dictates that the comparision should be
01:02:57 01:21 45 X B X between the civilization and the city
01:03:54 00:56 46 X A
01:05:14 01:21 47 X B Each person will file a tax retur. Here has the sentence
been "theirtax returns" it would have been correct.
01:06:21 01:07 48 X A
01:06:45 00:23 49 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.
01:08:46 02:01 50 X E
In other words, which were determined would be parallel
with which were differing; or, if it were "reduced,"
determined and differing would be parallel.

I think you'll agree that the verb tense of which were

X differing is incorrect, so C is out.
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