This article is a part of a series of articles on SC Misconceptions. In this series, I’m going to address many misconceptions prevalent among GMAT aspirants. The misconception addressed in this post is: Which always presents non-essential information In other words, a ‘which clause’ is never an essential (restrictive) modifier and must always be separated …
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Question There are several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been the forming of bricks out of mud or clay, and, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, they are laid in the wall in mud mortar. Option A Option B Option C …
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Question The automotive conveyor-belt system, which Henry Ford modeled after an assembly-line technique introduced by Ransom Olds, reduced from a day and a half to 93 minutes the required time of assembling a Model T. Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E (This question is from Official Guide. Therefore, because of copyrights, …
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Question Over the next few years, increasing demands on the Chattahoochee River, which flows into the Apalachicola River, could alter the saline content of Apalachicola Bay, which would rob the oysters there of their flavor, and to make them decrease in size, less distinctive, and less in demand. Option AOption BOption COption DOption E (This …
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Question According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications, increases in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales of the 9,850 prescription medicines that companies did not …
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Question Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else. Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E (This question is from Official Guide. Therefore, because …
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Question Because an oversupply of computer chips has sent prices plunging, the manufacturer has announced that it will cut production by closing its factories for two days a month. Option AOption BOption COption DOption E (This question is from Official Guide. Therefore, because of copyrights, the complete question cannot be copied here. The question can …
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Question According to scientists who monitored its path, an expanding cloud of energized particles ejected from the Sun recently triggered a large storm in the magnetic field that surrounds Earth. which brightened the Northern Lights and also possibly knocking out a communications satellite. Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E (This question …
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Question To map Earth’s interior, geologists use a network of seismometers to chart seismic waves that originate in the earth’s crust and ricochet around its interior, most rapidly traveling through cold. dense regions and slower through hotter rocks. Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E (This question is from Official Guide. Therefore, …
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Question In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing many more prescriptions for higher-cost drugs. Option A Option B Option C Option D Option E (This …
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