economic recession

[sanj]

An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.

my pic is E but sc 1000 answer is C Ron or stacey please help

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[RonPurewal]

An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.

my pic is E but sc 1000 answer is C Ron or stacey please help

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no, c would definitely be considered wrong on the official test. the pronoun 'which' is committed to the nearest noun - 'investment', or, if you're being really permissive, 'drop in investment' - and so can't be followed by the plural verb cause, as both possible antecedents are singular. i like (e) better as well.

in any case, i would advise against relying on an online bricolage such as 1000sc for quality problems; the departures from the style and rules of the official test are frequent and often severe. instead, you should go through official problems (og11, og verbal supplement, gmatprep) with an extremely fine-toothed comb, looking for subtleties and connections. (an extremely thorough review of a single problem, including cross-referencing it in our strategy guide to find related problems and looking between related problems to find common threads, can easily take five to ten minutes. i'm not saying that you should review every official problem to that degree - there are only so many hours in a day, after all - but i'm saying that your time would be better spent in that sort of intensive review than in doing random online problem collections.)

[Guest]

An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.

my pic is E but sc 1000 answer is C Ron or stacey please help

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no, c would definitely be considered wrong on the official test. the pronoun 'which' is committed to the nearest noun - 'investment', or, if you're being really permissive, 'drop in investment' - and so can't be followed by the plural verb cause, as both possible antecedents are singular. i like (e) better as well.

in any case, i would advise against relying on an online bricolage such as 1000sc for quality problems; the departures from the style and rules of the official test are frequent and often severe. instead, you should go through official problems (og11, og verbal supplement, gmatprep) with an extremely fine-toothed comb, looking for subtleties and connections. (an extremely thorough review of a single problem, including cross-referencing it in our strategy guide to find related problems and looking between related problems to find common threads, can easily take five to ten minutes. i'm not saying that you should review every official problem to that degree - there are only so many hours in a day, after all - but i'm saying that your time would be better spent in that sort of intensive review than in doing random online problem collections.)

thanx a lot. mannnnnyyyyy thanx for your kind advice. its really great

[rfernandez]

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[krajyk]

Is there a difference between 'a lowering of' and 'fallen' here? Lowering seems to imply that someone actually did the lowering whereas fallen is the end result. I did a split here and choose fallen but the answer choice does not mention either as the better choice. Are both ok in this situation?

[esledge]

Is there a difference between 'a lowering of' and 'fallen' here? Lowering seems to imply that someone actually did the lowering whereas fallen is the end result. I did a split here and choose fallen but the answer choice does not mention either as the better choice. Are both ok in this situation?

I agree: lowering implies action (as if someone is pushing a lever that magically controls the economy) while falling implies something that just happens.

I think a lowering of employment rates is grammatically OK here, as no action noun form of the verb to lower exists. (Imagine lowerification or lowerization, or some such nonsense!) The GMAT tends to prefer action nouns--that is why we see a drop rather than the complex gerund a dropping in this sentence.

In falling employment rates, we have falling as adjective and rates as noun. This too is grammatically OK, as falling rates parallel a drop in investment, both logically (things that cause a recession) and structurally (modified nouns).

In sum, since a lowering and falling rates are both grammatically OK, the choice must hinge on the meaning difference you cite.

[mikrodj]

I came across this thread and I'd like to point out that the problem in the 1000 SC document is just a bad transcription of the problem number 17 in the MGMAT SC question bank.

The correct answer choice for that problem is C, but the answer choice provided is different from that of the 1000 SC problem.

[RonPurewal]

I came across this thread and I'd like to point out that the problem in the 1000 SC document is just a bad transcription of the problem number 17 in the MGMAT SC question bank.

The correct answer choice for that problem is C, but the answer choice provided is different from that of the 1000 SC problem.

thanks.