Familiar yourself with the Sentence Correction section of the GMAT test. Try the questions below, and then download the answers and explanations to find out how you did.
Directions: The following questions consist of sentences that are either partly or entirely underlined.
Select the answer choice that represents the best revision of the underlined text. Choice A duplicates the original version. If the original seems better than any of the revisions, then select it.
Question 1
Uninformed about students’ experience in urban classrooms, critics often condemn schools’ performance gauged by an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that in higher-level reasoning.
A. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that
B. an index, such as standardized test scores, that are called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
C. an index, such as standardized test scores, that is called objective and can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
D. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as what is made
E. a so-called objective index, such as standardized test scores, that can be quantified and overlook less measurable progress, such as that
Question 2
A common social problem in the workplace occurs when workers accept supervisory positions, and it causes them to lose the trust of their former co-workers.
A. when workers accept supervisory positions, and it causes them to lose
B. by a worker accepting supervisory positions, which causes him to lose
C. when workers accept supervisory positions, and so lose
D. when a worker who accepts a supervisory position, thereby losing
E. if a worker accepts a supervisory position, he would lose
Question 3
Glaciologists believe that the frozen corpse recently found in a melting Alpine glacier, apparently the body of a shepherd who is thought to have lived about 4,600 years ago, was preserved uncrushed by snow and ice because of the body’s unique topographical position.
A. apparently the body of a shepherd who is thought to have lived
B. the body of a shepherd, apparently, who was thought to live
C. the body of an apparent shepherd who was thought to live
D. the body of a shepherd who is thought of as apparently living
E. the body of a shepherd who was apparently thought to live
Question 4
In contrast to Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound considered that late nineteenth-century American poetry is not a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, and is essentially an outgrowth of the British poetic tradition.
A. Ezra Pound considered that late nineteenth- century American poetry is not a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, and is
B. Ezra Pound considered late nineteenth-century American poetry not as a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, but
C. Ezra Pound considered late nineteenth-century American poetry not a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, but
D. it was considered by Ezra Pound that late nineteenth-century American poetry is not a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, but
E. late nineteenth-century American poetry was considered by Ezra Pound not to be a distinct formal repertoire informed by its own ideology, and is
Question 5
Local reporters investigating the labor dispute reported that only half of the workers in the plant were covered by the union health plan; at least as much as a hundred and more others had not any health insurance whatsoever.
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