The school board implemented a mandatory after school progra

[ghong14]

The school board implemented a mandatory after school program that requires the teachers of underachieving students to be tutored in core academic subjects.

A) teachers of underachieving students to be tutored in core academic subjects
B) the tutoring of teachers of underachieving students in core academic subjects
C) teachers to tutor underachieving students in core academic subjects
D) underachieving students be tutored in core academic subjects by their teachers
E) students who are underachieving to be tutored by their teachers in core academic subjects

This is a question from a thursday with RON class filled in by Tommy Wallach on January 5, 2012.

I had a question about choice
D) underachieving students be tutored in core academic subjects by their teachers.

Other than the to be issue is there anything wrong with the choice? I feel like the sentence may be ambiguous because of the academic subjects by their teachers construction. Make it sound as if the academic subject were created by their teachers. Is that a correct interpretation?

[jlucero]

That's the big error in this sentence (also, the word "the" should be underlined in your original sentence). There's also a subtle change in meaning between using active and passive tense here. I'm not sure that the GMAT would ever isolate this issue as the only reason to eliminate D, but you generally say that. It's much cleaner to say "the program requires teachers to do something" rather than "the program requires students to have something done to them". It would be awkward to require cars to have annual checks done to them. Rather, you require people to check their cars.

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