GMAT Question of the Day :Critical Reasoning

Anchal
#1. November 9th, 2006, at 11:30 AM.

A

Shriram
#2. November 9th, 2006, at 4:06 PM.

A

V Pat
#3. November 9th, 2006, at 7:52 PM.

(A) The number of applicants for summer jobs in the government office exceeded the number of summer jobs available.

Milind
#4. November 10th, 2006, at 12:41 AM.

A

gks80
#5. January 21st, 2007, at 12:59 AM.

a

Jaimin
#6. January 21st, 2007, at 9:51 AM.

A

prakashchandra
#7. January 21st, 2007, at 11:28 AM.

A

Valmik Desai
#8. January 21st, 2007, at 7:35 PM.

(A) The number of applicants for summer jobs in the government office exceeded the number of summer jobs available.

SS
#9. January 7th, 2008, at 9:50 AM.

C

Anirban
#10. January 7th, 2008, at 1:40 PM.

A

Yogesh
#11. January 7th, 2008, at 2:28 PM.

IMO C.
Also confused with B.

A: It may be possible that jobs are available but due to funding restrictions government office could not offer them to candidated. Hence IMO A can be eliminated.

TG Team,
What is OA?

Buvan
#12. January 7th, 2008, at 4:46 PM.

Ans : A

Lan
#13. January 7th, 2008, at 10:27 PM.

A

Husain
#14. January 7th, 2008, at 10:28 PM.

“A” is most suitable response

Rajib Banerjee
#15. January 8th, 2008, at 12:48 AM.

(C) Very little funding was available for summer jobs in the government office

I believe the letter has mentioned about the shortage of fund and not about shortage of vacancy. So IMO (In my opinion), C is suitable.

The reason for rejecting “A” : From the letter, it can be inferred that the organization lacks fund. It never said that it has shortage of available posts.

Siva
#16. January 8th, 2008, at 3:35 AM.

A

Charu
#17. January 8th, 2008, at 6:46 PM.

I would mark A.

But I was confused with B. I think the main concern for the letter was that the applicant was rejected and the cause for this is explained in Option A, not B.
Hence, A

Srinivas
#18. January 9th, 2008, at 3:56 AM.

I think it is A too.
What is the correct answer ?

jdizzle
#19. January 9th, 2008, at 8:54 PM.

IMO it should be B. If the applicant wasn’t highly qualified, the letter shouldn’t have included the last sentence. Where the heck is the answer?!?1 This is stupid.

SS
#20. January 10th, 2008, at 1:02 PM.

TakeGMAT team, please provide ans.

john
#21. January 10th, 2008, at 4:11 PM.

ans A…
take gmat team…pls provide the answer

mani kant
#23. January 11th, 2008, at 12:25 PM.

The answer is A .B cannot be the option as it is mentioned in the last sentence and hence can’t be inferred.

pranav
#24. January 15th, 2008, at 9:52 AM.

A

TL
#25. April 7th, 2008, at 11:36 AM.

A

B) They turned down many highly qualified candidates, but not all of those who were rejected were qualified.
C) The passage explicitly states that funding was little. We can’t infer that from the passage if it is explicitly stated.
D) The passage says nothing about how carefully they considered each candidates.
E) Much like B.

Hiten
#26. April 7th, 2008, at 9:07 PM.

A

But C also looks like a probable answer.

Arkesh Sharma
#27. April 8th, 2008, at 8:45 AM.

I think “A” is the right answer as the candidate was rejected for the primary reason of limited number of summer jobs.
Option “B” is irrelevant.
Option “C” is also a probable answer.
“D” and “E” are also irrelevant.
Could anyone pls lemme know thr ight answer ?

(A) The number of applicants for summer jobs in the government office exceeded the number of summer jobs available.
(B) The applicant who received the letter was considered highly qualified.
(C) Very little funding was available for summer jobs in the government office.
(D) The application of the person who received the letter was considered carefully before being rejected.
(E) Most of those who applied for summer jobs were considered qualified for the available positions.

urefriendforever
#28. April 8th, 2008, at 12:23 PM.

IMO answer is A

B: They rejected highly qualified applicants, it could be said that we are rejecting people with higher qualifications than you dude…so back off

C: It says limited funding was available…limited could mean 1$ or 1 million $’s…which is definately not little(cant assume amount)

D: Again cant make this out, maybe they considered it and then rejected it, or they just rejected it cause of no more openings

E: Hell no….way…

Richa
#29. April 8th, 2008, at 11:33 PM.

A

Maulik
#30. April 9th, 2008, at 1:38 PM.

A

Manisha
#31. May 14th, 2008, at 4:45 PM.

A

Archana
#32. May 16th, 2008, at 10:19 AM.

A

sanjeev
#33. September 15th, 2008, at 2:42 PM.

D,
we can inferred from the letter that
1. large no of applicants,
2 . less funding .
now as the person has been rejected, the mejor reason should be his high qualification, n as per his qualification he should get high salary , Hence his application was considered carefully before being rejected.

meena
#34. September 15th, 2008, at 7:29 PM.

#c - Very little funding was available for summer jobs in the government office.

jaspreet
#35. September 15th, 2008, at 11:08 PM.

A

Shobhit Bhargava
#36. September 15th, 2008, at 11:59 PM.

‘limited’ does not mean ‘little’… So C is completely wrong!!

pratyush
#37. September 16th, 2008, at 12:57 AM.

E,

1. large no of applicants,
2 . less funding .
now as the person has been rejected, the mejor reason should be his high qualification, n as per his qualification he should get high salary ,
but the problem is less funding so company will prifer of those worker who work well with low salery so i think highly qualified person infected.

sandeep
#38. September 16th, 2008, at 3:25 AM.

A

Khalid
#39. September 16th, 2008, at 9:13 AM.

A

kapil
#40. September 16th, 2008, at 12:00 PM.

A

An
#41. September 16th, 2008, at 3:02 PM.

D.
“we forced to reject many highly qualified applicants” but you’ve been rejected. You are not qualified enough to get one in these limited jobs.
–>The application of the person who received the letter was considered carefully before being rejected.

rajesh
#42. September 17th, 2008, at 9:56 AM.

I will go with C.

nothimpossible
#43. September 18th, 2008, at 12:03 AM.

a

nagaraj
#44. September 22nd, 2008, at 1:14 PM.

C…is the answer

Ashwin
#45. September 22nd, 2008, at 7:29 PM.

C cannot be the answer .

Since in question clearly ask “What do you infer”.

when infer is asked in question .Then the choices having words already given in the question are always wrong .

Since most part of c is given in the question it cannot be best choice .

I believe that choice A is best among other choices.

Ken
#46. September 24th, 2008, at 1:13 PM.

I will go with A too.

But i am curious, I thought E is quite logical too. Can anyone qualify that?

Janet
#47. October 2nd, 2008, at 6:46 PM.

A