set 86
q1) (2) b , c
q2) (2) a, b ,e
q3) (2) a , b
q4) (3) c , e
q1) (2) b , c
q2) (2) a, b ,e
q3) (2) a , b
q4) (3) c , e
Set 86:
q1) (5) a, b , c
q2) (2) a, b ,e
q3) (2) a , b
q4) (5) e
q1) (5) a, b , c
q2) (2) a, b ,e
q3) (2) a , b
q4) (5) e
SET 86
(1) A , B
Q2)
(5) A, C , E
Q3)
(4) A,C,D
Q4)
(2) B,C,D
SET 87:
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
FIGHT----
1] A violent fight over the bill is expected in the parliament.
2] The Dean is fighting for his favorite candidate.
3] He fought of ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship.
4] The gauls had the uncanny ability to fight their way out of the most difficult of situations.
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
FIGHT----
1] A violent fight over the bill is expected in the parliament.
2] The Dean is fighting for his favorite candidate.
3] He fought of ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship.
4] The gauls had the uncanny ability to fight their way out of the most difficult of situations.
SET 87:
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
FIGHT----
2] The Dean is fighting(pushing) for his favorite candidate.
SET 87:
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
3] He fought of ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship. (fight off)
SET 83
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is INCORRECT or INAPPROPRIATE.
d. It was sheer luck that brought a bundle of boy-scouts to where I was lying wounded.
a. He is distinct about what is right and what is wrong.
a. Everyone appreciated the headmasters implication in raising flood relief in the village.
d. A virus has infected the host computer.
c. They serve tea of a sort on these trains.
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My takes for set 83
I have a doubt with detail vs details :
1.) Can I use the verb plural: details with singular Noun subject : college.
Ex : please find the details of the college below
2.) Can I write this way If I have to discuss a single point on a college
College - singular noun subject, detail : singular verb
Ex : please find the detail of the college below.
Set 88:
1.Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet's student and
protege when he was nineteen and, for a few years in
the 1940's, came as close to being a carbon copy of
the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever
come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
2. On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used
mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without
timber and nails.
(A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
doing it without
(B) settlers used mud and grass to build their
homes, did it without
(C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
making them while not having
(D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
making do without
(E) settlers' homes were built of mud and grass,
making do without
3. Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a
world in which the public and private realms of their
lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated
in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged
national leaders without receiving, or expecting,
intimate information about them.
(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the
distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and in which
4.A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
(A) flames spreading
(B) flame spreads
(C) flames are caused to spread
(D) causing flames to spread
(E) causing spreading of the flames
5.A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
6.A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million yars ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be
7.A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
8.A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
1.Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet's student and
protege when he was nineteen and, for a few years in
the 1940's, came as close to being a carbon copy of
the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever
come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
2. On the Great Plains, nineteenth-century settlers used
mud and grass to build their homes, doing it without
timber and nails.
(A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
doing it without
(B) settlers used mud and grass to build their
homes, did it without
(C) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
making them while not having
(D) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
making do without
(E) settlers' homes were built of mud and grass,
making do without
3. Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a
world in which the public and private realms of their
lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated
in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged
national leaders without receiving, or expecting,
intimate information about them.
(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the
distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and in which
4.A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
(A) flames spreading
(B) flame spreads
(C) flames are caused to spread
(D) causing flames to spread
(E) causing spreading of the flames
5.A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
6.A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million yars ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be
7.A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase
8.A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry's economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
SET 86
Q1)4
Q2)1
Q3)2
Q4)1
SET 87:
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
FIGHT----
3
I have a doubt with detail vs details :
1.) Can I use the verb plural: details with singular Noun subject : college.
Ex : please find the details of the college below
2.) Can I write this way If I have to discuss a single point on a college
College - singular noun subject, detail : singular verb
Ex : please find the detail of the college below.
yes you can use DETAIL/DETAILS as per the requirement.Here,you can exchange singular/plural subject with detail/details.
P.S- Nikhil Mishra9 bhai,a suggestion.It would be better if the questions are more CAT-centric.GMAT SC level is different altogether.So,it would be great of you put CAT level SCs from now on.Hope you don't mind.
SET 87:
FIGHT----
3] He fought of ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship.
.
3] He fought off ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship.
SET 86
In each question there are five sentences or parts of sentences that
form a paragraph. Identify the sentence(s) or part(s) that is/are correct in terms of grammar and usage. Then choose the most appropriate option.
Q1)
A. It is an irony given that Brasilia was built at breakneck speed.
B. The dream of moving the capital from Rio on the Atlantic coast to the
C. centre of the country, had existed for above a century but Kubitschek pursued it with urgency.
D. Commercial and residential zones were seeming meticulously demarcated.
E. Cars zipped alongside wide highways past buildings that projected simplicity and modernity with
fine lines and waves.
(1) A , B (2) B , C (3) A, B, D , E (4) A, B , E (5) A, B , C
Q2)
A. Young describes the sight of a room full of
B. major celebrities as overpowering seductive.
C. I think they look silly parked alongside one another, like the Ferraris at the super car show I stumbled
upon on a recent trip to Florida.
D. The owners of these status symbols thought they would be looking even cooler clustered together
with others of their kind.
E. Big mistake! Once your eyes had adjusted to the glare from the bonnets, you saw them for what
they were - a paltry collection of consumer durables.
(1) A, B ,C (2) A, B ,E (3) A, C, D ,E (4) C , E (5) A, C , E
Q3)
A. Obviously, they have to be extended and silly, but still characters that you
B. could definitely meet rather than over-the-top caricature.
C. They also have to be fun to do;
D. You have to enjoy playing the character. If people look alike theyre
E. enjoying themselves, that comes across on screen and thats how you find your fan base.
(1) A , D (2) A , B (3) B, D , E (4) A, C , E (5) A, B , C
Q4)
A. If staying outside the park boundaries precludes dawn and dusk animal sighting, daytime drives
and walks make up for that.
B. This rolling wilderness, studded with the great angular-branched baobab trees, and intersected by
the Ruaha river,
C. is known for its magnificent elephant population as well as for other mammals and, in particular, its
bird life.
D. A driving safari can cover the ground and will deliver you to concentrations of animals - anxious
zebras, shifty buffaloes, distinguished elephants but
E. walking safaris take you closer, physically and mentally both, to the soil.
(1) A , B (2) B, C , D (3) C , E (4) C, D , E (5) E only
Here are the OAs:-
(1)Option 1
The correct option is 1 because A and B dont have any error. In C it should be over not above. D is incorrect because it should be seemed not were seeming. In E the correct preposition should be along not alongside.
(2)Option 5
The correct option is 5 because A, C and E have no errors. In B the correct word (adverb) is overpoweringly and not overpowering. In D it should be would look, since the sentence is in past tense.
(3)Option 4
The correct option is 4. A, C and E dont have any grammatical error. In D it should be people look like.. not ..alike, because alike is incorrect contextually. In B it should be caricatures and not caricature
(4)Option 2
The correct option is 2. There are no errors in B, C and D. A is incorrect because it should be sightings not sighting since it is referring to more than one situation, that is dawn and dusk animal . E is incorrect because both should precede physically and mentally, since both is a distributive pronoun.
Set 88:
1. (A) as anyone has ever come
2. (A) settlers used mud and grass to build their homes,
doing it without
3. (E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the
distinction, and in which
4. (D) causing flames to spread
5. (E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,
6. (A) believed to be
7. (D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
8. (B) and make the construction industry's economic health much more robust than five years ago
yes you can use DETAIL/DETAILS as per the requirement.Here,you can exchange singular/plural subject with detail/details.
P.S- Nikhil Mishra9 bhai,a suggestion.It would be better if the questions are more CAT-centric.GMAT SC level is different altogether.So,it would be great of you put CAT level SCs from now on.Hope you don't mind.
Thanks for the answer 😃 . I will take care to put the question in the correction section. 😃
SET 88:
My Take-
b
a
e
d
e
c
d
c
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set 86
1)(2) b , c
2)(2) a, b ,e
3)(2) a , b
4)(2) b, c , d
Set 88:
1.B
2.B
3.B
4.D
5.A
6.A
7.D
8.C
SET 87:
Choose the option in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
FIGHT----
1] A violent fight over the bill is expected in the parliament.
2] The Dean is fighting for his favorite candidate.
3] He fought of ten challengers on his way to the finals of the championship.
4] The gauls had the uncanny ability to fight their way out of the most difficult of situations.
OA is 3 (It should be off and not of)