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Nothing, D is the answer :)

It refers to oil. IMO "It" can only refer to a noun, not to a phrase as you described. B is just wrong because its awkward, wordy and grammatically wrong.

Thought i'd give you my scores on various tests I took. MGMAT 1..3 - 690 MGMAT 4 - 720 MGAT 5 - 700 GPrep1 - 690 Gprep2 - 700 Splits were almost identical in all tests (M 48, V ~ 37-40) Do let me know, if you guys have specific suggestion on verbal. I have been sucking equally badly in SC, RC and CR. SC and RC more than CR. My major focus in verbal preps was to go through OG, MGMAT verbal and testmagic SC questions. did go through bunch of tough RC and CR problems from SAT. I just don't know how to approach this verbal as even in the grand scheme of things, i've never exceeded 40+

I am going to spare folks from the details here as the score says it all. I have been pursuing this for 2-3 months now on a part-time basis, have been consistently scoring around 690-710 but on the d-day it just didn't work. I am not as bad as my verbal scores would suggest (have been hitting around 37-40 range in MGMAT and GPrep) and I still find it hard to believe that i got as low a score as I did. Being 31, working professional (9 yrs. work exp.) with demanding job and a kid (and another one in the horizon) and not the off-the-chart-brilliant types, I never expected to cross 720 and would have been quite happy with 700 but it was not to be. One thing that most certainly didn't work for me was that when i took a smoke break after my quant section, i couldn't immediately get in as the doors were locked. It was a weekend so there was nobody to hear my screams. Luckily, after about 10 mins. into the break, someone must have heard my persistent banging on the door and someone did show up. I was completely thrown off by the experience (not to mention 3 mins. that i lost in the process). I still managed to put up a good performance and thought i'd be in late 30s on verbal but that didn't happen. I am working on my applications for UCLA (deadline tomorrow) and would really be hoping that they accept my candidature. I have lot of experience in pure software development, systems analysis and now technical and product marketing to show off. I intend to apply in other top schools this and next year (i.e. kellog, haas, cmu, stearn) but i know that with this score and not a whole lot of non-academic, non-professional work to show off, i'd struggle to get in. If you folks have suggestions, ideas on this, do let me know. Not getting admission wouldn't bug me as much as the fact that I didn't do well on the test and that i have a 64% to show off on my verbal. On the test prep. side, wanna let you know that MGMAT and Gprep is by far the best things out there. MGMAT will lead you to work more on Math as it is considerably harder than real stuff, don't get distracted by that. If you have an eng. background and are good in Math. work on verbal. Good luck to all!! I may be back!! don't know yet.

I don't think its as straightforward as folks are making this out to be. I didn't have a bunch of time to do the research on this but did a quick google search on "their bodies" and did run into ton of articles and books (one such below) that use bodies after their. This is not to say that it is correct but i think this is more complicated than that and may be the answer is C because no other options are better. Amazon.com: When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession: Jane R. Hirschmann: Books

1.C 2 D I am pretty positive on the 1st one, can't articulate as to why a gerund (lending) is parallel to a participle (increased), This most certainly is the right choice though. 2nd is a bit tricky and my pick is D as it is correctly comparing the two participles originating and perpetuated. First one is present as it modifies the active subject language variations in the 1st clause whereas perpetuated modifies the active object (again language variation) in the 2nd part. I could be wrong though.

If it is not C than i am doomed at the test tomorrow :( C compares two gerunds (nouns), trying to tinkering. Hope C is the correct option.

Agree with A

If D is the OA than there's got to be a better explanation than the fact that it (D) maintains better parallelism than E and that E is wrong owing to the fact that it doesn't clarify who's awake/asleep. That to me doesn't make sense i'd take "i get more work done when/while awake" than "i get more done during waking hours" any day. IMO E has a slight edge as it is less wordy. Experts?

somehow none of the choices look ok to me. A. If we just focus on subject/verb agreement, i agree, it would just be A or B. But both of them compare arachnids with scorpion's blah and that is incorrect. B also has faluty comparison of scorpion's nerve cells to that of a mammal. B. If we just focus on parallelism, then C is the best bet but it uses body which IMO is incorrect. If we take both into account, none of the choices look ok.

I have the SC 1000 set with me. Question i had was, are there ranges in there that represent different difficulty level? I have about a week ago and would like to attack 700+ type questions.

OA pleeeese

Agree with Mitzi, gotta be E.

IMO D. What's the OA. I'll explain if it is indeed D.

C for parallelism. D is out beacause of chidrens', children is plural, there's no childrens

my initial instinct was B. I feel that is required. Not a grammar guru so can't talk intelligently about my selection.

78 D Rest of the choices show contrast where one is not needed. 80 C depicted as correct idiom, B, D, E should be out. Between C and A, C seems slightly awkward but IMO correct coz it is comparing (contrasting rather) coyotes qualities (solitary vs. gregarious) as opposed A which seems to compare films with gregarious animals

how did you arrive at the answer?

nice work. i hope there's an easy way to spot solutions to these kind of problems. i understand what's being done but hard to imagine thinking along the lines to get to the answer.

IMO E. I too hope that i am not missing something :)

IMO A too. Can weigh in on the options once I know if this is correct

should be E. Remains in this way in D doesn't make sense, remains in what way? E is concise and clear

I see. I thought so too. There was another thread that discussed this solution and no one ever objected to the fact that O is not the origin and hence i wasn't sure if there was anything from the question stem that implies that. Thx for the clarification.

This should be A. Basically this is a unit radius circle with origin at the center. The shortest distance is the distance from origin to the line - 1 (the radius). I guess i still fail to see your point here. I think you are trying to say that the shortest distance to the line is from origin which I understand but the main problem doesn't mention anything about the origin. Why do you assume that O is the origin in the question?

There was similar explanation elsewhere (may be it was you) but what i don't get it is why you are calculating the distance from origin and using that as the height?