* GMAT Prep Verbal Question SC

[sudaif]

After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.
(A) After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but
(B) Even though children’s life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate,
(C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent,
(D) While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50 percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still
(E) Despite children’s life expectancy improvement from the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate,

Can someone explain each answer choice...and most specifically, why D is wrong?

[Viswanathan.harsha]

What is the OA? I would guess E, but I could easily be wrong.

[debmalya.dutta]

Is the answer C?
I adopted the elimination method because I wasnt sure of the correct answer

[adiagr]

After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.
(A) After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but
(B) Even though children’s life expectancy, which improved over the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate,
(C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent,
(D) While there was an improvement in life expectancy for children after the 50 percent mortality rate of the Colonial period, still
(E) Despite children’s life expectancy improvement from the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate,

Can someone explain each answer choice...and most specifically, why D is wrong?

In 'D': should be "after colonial period" and not "after the 50 percent mortality rate".

A, B & E are incorrect because of Colonial period’s, usage.

Apostrophe usage like this is incorrect.

(Remember a question labor's unqualifying support--> it was wrong)

C remains.

[mschwrtz]

Before any more work on this, please verify that it is from the GMAT Prep.

I ask for two reasons. First, even C, the best of these answers, is pretty awkward. Second, I know that this is one of the 1000sc questions. Of course, some real questions are pretty odd, and there's overlap between GMAT Prep and 1000sc, so....

[sandeep.19+man]

The subjectline says it's from GMAT prep.

Option A) After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate, life expectancy improved for children, but as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

Is A wrong because it says: After mortality rate, life expectancy improved?

Option C) Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

Can you explain why this structure is acceptable? Obviously there is no parallelism between Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period and as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

The latter would have been parallel if it were written as about one child in three died before reaching the age of six as late as the nineteenth century
So should my takeaway from this question be:
1. sentences that are not parallel can be correct if there is no better option?
2. Anything else I have missed out with C?

[RonPurewal]

the subject line is lying.
i did about ten seconds of googling, and found that this question actually comes from a 1996 paper GMAT test.

we will therefore delete the thread in a week or two, unless someone comes up with a GMAT PREP SCREEN SHOT to prove otherwise.