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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 15 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Reviewer: The book Art’s Decline argues that European painters today lack skills that were common among European painters of preceding centuries. In this the book must be right, since its analysis of 100 paintings, 50 old and 50 contemporary, demonstrates convincingly that none of the contemporary paintings are executed as skillfully as the older paintings.
Which of the following points to the most serious logical flaw in the reviewer’s argument?

  1. The paintings chosen by the book’s author for analysis could be those that most support the book’s thesis.
  2. There could be criteria other than the technical skill of the artist by which to evaluate a painting.
  3. The title of the book could cause readers to accept the book’s thesis even before they read the analysis of the paintings that supports it.
  4. The particular methods currently used by European painters could require less artistic skill than do methods used by painters in other parts of the world.
  5. A reader who was not familiar with the language of art criticism might not be convinced by the book’s analysis of the 100 paintings.

Answer(s): A



The pharmaceutical industry argues that because new drugs will not be developed unless heavy development costs can be recouped in later sales, the current 20 years of protection provided by patents should be extended in the case of newly developed drugs. However, in other industries new-product development continues despite high development costs, a fact that indicates that the extension is unnecessary.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the pharmaceutical industry’s argument against the challenge made above?

  1. No industries other than the pharmaceutical industry have asked for an extension of the 20-year limit on patent protection.
  2. Clinical trials of new drugs, which occur after the patent is granted and before the new drug can be marketed, often now take as long as 10 years to complete.
  3. There are several industries in which the ratio of research and development costs to revenues is higher than it is in the pharmaceutical industry.
  4. An existing patent for a drug does not legally prevent pharmaceutical companies from bringing to market alternative drugs, provided they are sufficiently dissimilar to the patented drug.
  5. Much recent industrial innovation has occurred in products — for example, in the computer and electronics industries — for which patent protection is often very ineffective.

Answer(s): B



Bank depositors in the United States are all financially protected against bank failure because the government insures all individuals’ bank deposits. An economist argues that this insurance is partly responsible for the high rate of bank failures, since it removes from depositors any financial incentive to find out whether the bank that holds their money is secure against failure. If depositors were more selective, then banks would need to be secure in order to compete for depositors’ money.
The economist’s argument makes which of the following assumptions?

  1. Bank failures are caused when big borrowers default on loan repayments.
  2. A significant proportion of depositors maintain accounts at several different banks.
  3. The more a depositor has to deposit, the more careful he or she tends to be in selecting a bank.
  4. The difference in the interest rates paid to depositors by different banks is not a significant factor in bank failures.
  5. Potential depositors are able to determine which banks are secure against failure.

Answer(s): E



One way to judge the performance of a company is to compare it with other companies. This technique, commonly called “benchmarking,” permits the manager of a company to discover better industrial practices and can provide a justification for the adoption of good practices.

Any of the following, if true, is a valid reason for benchmarking the performance of a company against companies with which it is not in competition rather than against competitors EXCEPT:

  1. Comparisons with competitors are most likely to focus on practices that the manager making the comparisons already employs.
  2. Getting “inside” information about the unique practices of competitors is particularly difficult.
  3. Since companies that compete with each other are likely to have comparable levels of efficiency, only benchmarking against non competitors is likely to reveal practices that would aid in beating competitors.
  4. Managers are generally more receptive to new ideas that they find outside their own industry.
  5. Much of the success of good companies is due to their adoption of practices that take advantage of the special circumstances of their products of markets.

Answer(s): A



The interview is an essential part of a successful hiring program because, with it, job applicants who have personalities that are unsuited to the requirements of the job will be eliminated from consideration.
The argument above logically depends on which of the following assumptions?

  1. A hiring program will be successful if it includes interviews.
  2. The interview is a more important part of a successful hiring program than is the development of a job description.
  3. Interviewers can accurately identify applicants whose personalities are unsuited to the requirements of the job.
  4. The only purpose of an interview is to evaluate whether job applicants’ personalities are suited to the requirements of the job.
  5. The fit of job applicants’ personalities to the requirements of the job was once the most important factor in making hiring decisions.

Answer(s): C



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