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Posted on May 4, 2011

Remember that GMAT asks you to choose the best answer. So many times you will have two options which are grammatically correct. In such cases GMAT prefers the sentence that is CORRECT, CONCISE & CLEAR. This gives us the golden rule of 3 C’s. Here it goes… Keep it short Longer sentences introduce unnecessary complexity, awkwardness and redundancy. Everything else being equal, choose the shorter, simpler version over the longer, more complex one. One of the problems with wordy answer choices is that they contain redundancies; that is, they essentially say the same thing twice. Be careful to preserve the meaning of the original sentence. This is another...