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SC Integrated Test Step - 3

Description: Integrated Test - 3
Number of Questions: 12
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We have our responsibilities towards common man and our plans should give priority for their problems.

  1. common man and our plans should give priority for their problems

  2. common men and our plans should give priority in their problems

  3. the common man and our plans should give priority to his problems

  4. the common men and our plans should give priority for their problems

  5. common man and our plans should give priority to their problem


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

There are multiple errors in the sentence. The noun which represents the whole class should be preceded by definite article 'the' and priority must be followed by the preposition 'to' and not by 'for'. The possessive pronoun for the common man should be his. This option corrects the errors of definite article, preposition and pronoun agreement.

Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing, they are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  1. Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing, they are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  2. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing are unaware of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  3. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing are unaware of both the loss of creativity as well as the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.

  4. Many workers who prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing since they are unaware of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded at the end of the contract.

  5. Many workers prefer entering a contract instead of freelancing; but these workers are unmindful of both the loss of creativity and the likelihood of becoming jaded by the end of the contract.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; the option removes the coma error and converts the independent clause into a subordinate clause without introducing a new error.

In the titanic battle for survival, the ultimate survivors only manage to survive because they adapt fast.

  1. In the titanic battle for survival, the ultimate survivors only manage to survive because they adapt fast.

  2. In the battle for survival, the only ultimate survivors manage to survive because they adapt fast.

  3. The survivors manage to survive in a battle for survival only because they adapt faster.

  4. In the battle for survival, the survivors survive only because they adapt faster.

  5. Fast adaptation in the battle for survival only helps the ultimate survivors survive.


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; the sentence is pithy, removes redundancy, and uses 'only' as it should be. The use of the word 'survivors' instead of 'ultimate survivors' cuts down on over-stressing which GMAT frowns upon. Also, the use of 'only' suggests that the survivors survive just because they adapted faster. Additionally, the use of 'faster' correctly suggests that though other species/ members of their species might have adapted, the survivors managed to do so because they adapted faster.

Part of the expected hike in tax collections is due to higher number of taxpayers, since the number of taxpayers in the country have grown steadily since 1990's and, at 55 million, are at a record high.

  1. taxpayers, since the number of tax payers in the country have grown steadily since 1990's and, at 55 million, are at

  2. taxpayers, with a number of tax payers in the country growing steadily since 1990's and, at 55 million, reaching

  3. taxpayers; since taxpayers in the country have grown steadily since the 1990's and, at 55 million, have reached

  4. taxpayers; the number of taxpayers in the country has grown steadily since the 1990's and, at 55 million, has reached


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Correct; removes the subject-verb error by referring to 'the number of taxpayers' with a singular verb 'has' and following it up with another singular verb 'has reached'

Many people who used to drive big trucks now prefer hybrids, a type of car that uses a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of polluting diesel.

  1. Many people who used to drive big trucks now prefer hybrids, a type of car that uses a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of polluting diesel.

  2. Many people who used to drive big trucks now prefer hybrids, one of the types of car that use a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of polluting diesel.

  3. Many people who used to drive big trucks now choose to prefer hybrids, a type of car that uses a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of polluting diesel.

  4. Many people who used to drive big trucks now prefer hybrids type of cars that use a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of polluting diesel.

  5. Many people have chosen to drive hybrids, a type of car that uses a mixture of fossil and clean fuels instead of trucks, which use polluting diesel.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; the sentence is correct as it is, there is no need to change anything.

Many analysts believe that real democracy exists only when the right of citizens to freedom of speech as well as to vote freely is regarded as an undeniable right of a citizen's, and it is not a favor granted by the government that is revocable at an impulse.

  1. vote freely is regarded as an undeniable right of a citizen's, and it is not

  2. are regarded as citizen's undeniable rights, and that it cannot be

  3. is regarded as a citizen's undeniable right, not

  4. are regarded as a citizen's undeniable rights, not when they are


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; uses the right singular verb (is) for a singular subject (right to freedom of speech).

Some commentators comment that because workers are becoming accustomed to an economy heading south, businesses are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking strong public reaction.

  1. are finding that they can lay off employees without provoking

  2. find that they could lay off employees without provoking

  3. find that they were capable of laying off workers and not provoke

  4. are finding that they could lay off workers without provoking


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Correct; the sentence is correct in the original format as it uses the right parallelism (are becoming…are finding…without provoking)

The Group Discussion is something of an information overload reduction mechanism, a means to eliminate, in order to select, from among the nearly uncountable amount of aspirants that reach the campuses at admission time.

  1. a means to eliminate, in order to select, from among the nearly uncountable amount

  2. a means to eliminate, in order to select, from within the nearly uncountable number

  3. the means of eliminating for selecting from within the nearly uncountable number

  4. the means that reduces, in order to select, from the nearly uncountable amount

  5. the means for reducing in order to select from the nearly uncountable number


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct; removes the errors of wrong word usage by replacing 'among' with 'within'; and 'amount' with 'number'.

Confucius married a young girl named Qi Guan at nineteen and she gave birth to their first son, Kong Li, when he was twenty.

  1. Confucius married a young girl named Qi Guan at nineteen and she gave birth to their first son, Kong Li, when he was twenty.

  2. Confucius's first son, Kong Li, was born when he was twenty years old after he married a young girl named Qi Guan at nineteen.

  3. Confucius married a young girl Qi Guan at nineteen years of age and she gave birth to their first son, Kong Li, when Confucius was twenty years old.

  4. A young girl, Qi Guan, married Confucius when he was nineteen, and gave birth to their first son, Kong Li, when Confucius was twenty year old.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; unambiguous construction of the sentence clearly defines who got married to whom, and who was born when who was twenty years old.

Covering acres with several secondary trunks, Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and rain-god appeasers.

  1. Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and rain-god appeasers

  2. Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and appeasers of the rain-god

  3. banyan trees were worshipped by Indians as being the abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and appeasers of the rain-god

  4. abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity and, appeasers of the rain-god, banyan trees were worshipped by Indians

  5. being the abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity and appeasers of the rain-god, banyan trees were worshipped by Indians


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct; removes the error of misplaced modifier by putting 'banyan tress' after the defining phrase, and removes error of parallelism by correctly aligning the three elements (abode of gods, harbingers of prosperity, appeasers of rain-god)

For almost eighty years after its beginning after the revolt of 1857, the British rulers of India exiled thousands of political prisoners to Andaman Islands.

  1. For almost eighty years after its beginning after the revolt of 1857,

  2. For almost eighty years after having its beginning after the revolt of 1857;

  3. In a period of almost eighty years, beginning after the revolt of 1857,

  4. Over a period of almost 80 years beginning at the end of the revolt of 1857,

  5. Beginning at the end of the revolt of 1857, for a period of almost eighty years,


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Correct; the correctly placed commas separate the clauses and lay stress on the event and the beginning of the event, rather than the time period.

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