GMAT (Sentence Correction) Sample Questions Set-3

Categories: GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)

Question: Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

A. Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

B. Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.

C. Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, analytical skills bring out a disinclination in many people to recognize that they are weak to a degree.

D. Many people, willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills, are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.

E. Many people have a disinclination to recognize the weakness of their analytical skills while willing to admit their lack of computer skills or other technical skills.

Answer: (d)

Question: While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive.

A. cost associated with

B. costs associated with

C. costs arising from

D. cost of

E. costs of

Answer: (b)

Question: The golden crab of the Gulf of Mexico has not been fished commercially in great numbers, primarily on account of living at great depths-2,500 to 3,000 feet down.

A. on account of living

B. on account of their living

C. because it lives

D. because of living

E. being they live

Answer: (c) 

Question: In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

A. In Holland, a larger percentage of the gross national product is spent on defense of their coasts from rising seas than is spent on military defense in the United States.

B. In Holland they spend a larger percentage of their gross national product on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

C. A larger percentage of Holland's gross national product is spent on defending their coasts from rising seas than the United States spends on military defense.

D. Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product defending its coasts from rising seas than the military defense spending of the United States.

E. Holland spends a larger percentage of its gross national product on defending its coasts from rising seas than the United States does on military defense.

Answer: (e)

Question: Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.

A. huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport

B. without the benefits of animal transport or the wheel, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya

C. the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel

D. there were built, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, huge palace and temple clusters by the Maya

E. were the Maya who, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, built huge palace and temple clusters

Answer: (c)