1000 SC #996

[gter]

996. Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.
A) the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package
B) the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for it at the automobile company’s severance package
C) their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers.
D) their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company’s severance package is available to workers.
E) the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company’s severance package is available to workers.


Can someone please explain why the answer is d and not e? I don't like e because it seems to be missing some words after "scheduled'
scheduled <to work in order> to collect

[raja_asu]

Choice D is correct.
Choice E is ambiguous in refering to "the last day". Choice D clarifies it by refreing "their last day", which is emloyees' last day.

Rajesh

[RonPurewal]

i may be mis-reading your original post, but it appears that you're citing a reason that choice e is inferior to choice d, and then going ahead and asking why choice d is better. it seems that you've answered your own question.

the real problem with choice e involves clarity: 'the last day that they are scheduled to collect' means, literally, that the workers collect days, and that they are to wait until the last day that they're allowed to rip off the calendar, place in their backpacks, and take home to the kids. that doesn't make a lot of sense. never forget that you are to read the sentences very literally, like a robot, and that you are not under any conditions to use 'common sense' to justify improper, inaccurate, or ambiguous wording.

also, don't write periods at the end of the answer choices, especially if the end of the answer choice doesn't coincide with the end of the sentence; doing so makes all the choices look quite incorrect.

[RahulP153]

Hi Ron,

Could you please explain this "also, don't write periods at the end of the answer choices, especially if the end of the answer choice doesn't coincide with the end of the sentence; doing so makes all the choices look quite incorrect."

I was searching for the solution of this problem and bumped into your posts which are just gems, don't want to miss any word of advice you share.

Thanks,
Rahul.

[RonPurewal]

the original post has periods at the ends of answer choices -- which aren't the end of the sentence.

i'm locking this thread anyway, since 1000SC is a banned source (and is of INCREDIBLY low quality -- seriously, if you're using this source, you will actually get worse at GMAT SC. delete it, now, for your own good.)