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GMAT GMAT SECTION 3: VERBAL ABILITY Exam
GMAT Section 3: Verbal Ability (Page 4 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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In the United States, injuries to passengers involved in automobile accidents are typically more severe than in Europe, where laws require a different kind of safety belt. It is clear from this that the United States needs to adopt more stringent standards for safety belt design to protect automobile passengers better.
Each of the following, if true, weakens the argument above EXCEPT:

  1. Europeans are more likely to wear safety belts than are people in the United States.
  2. Unlike United States drivers, European drivers receive training in how best to react in the event of an accident to minimize injuries to themselves and to their passengers.
  3. Cars built for the European market tend to have more sturdy construction than do cars built for the United States market.
  4. Automobile passengers in the United States have a greater statistical chance of being involved in an accident than do passengers in Europe.
  5. States that have recently begun requiring the European safety belt have experienced no reduction in the average severity of injuries suffered by passengers in automobile accidents.

Answer(s): D



The school board has determined that it is necessary to reduce the number of teachers on the staff. Rather than deciding which teachers will be laid off on the basis of seniority, the school board plans to lay off the least effective teachers first.
The school board’s plan assumes that

  1. there is a way of determining the effectiveness of teachers
  2. what one individual defines as effective teaching will not be defined as effective teaching by another individual
  3. those with the most experience teaching are the best teachers
  4. those teachers who are paid the most are generally the most qualified
  5. some teachers will be more effective working with some students than with other students

Answer(s): A



Since applied scientific research is required for technological advancement, many have rightly urged an increased emphasis in universities on applied research. But we must not give too little attention to basic research, even though it may have no foreseeable application, for tomorrow’s applied research will depend on the basic research of today.
If the statements above are true, which of the following can be most reliably inferred?

  1. If future technological advancement is desired, basic research should receive greater emphasis than applied research.
  2. If basic research is valued in universities, applied research should be given less emphasis than it currently has.
  3. If future technological advancement is desired, research should be limited to that with some foreseeable application.
  4. If too little attention is given to basic research today, future technological advancement will be jeopardized.
  5. If technological advancement is given insufficient emphasis, basic research will also receive too little attention.

Answer(s): D



The First Banking Group’s decision to invest in an electronic network for transferring funds was based on a cost advantage over a nonelectronic system of about ten dollars per transaction in using an electronic system.
Executives reasoned further that the system would give them an advantage over competitors.
Which of the following, if it is a realistic possibility, most seriously weakens the executives’ projection of an advantage over competitors?

  1. The cost advantage of using the electronic system will not increase sufficiently to match the pace of inflation.
  2. Competitors will for the same reasons install electronic systems, and the resulting overcapacity will lead to mutually damaging price wars.
  3. The electronic system will provide a means for faster transfer of funds, if the First Banking Group wishes to provide faster transfer to its customers.
  4. Large banks from outside the area served by the First Banking Group have recently established branches in that area as competitors to the First Banking Group.
  5. Equipment used in the electronic network for transferring funds will be compatible with equipment used in other such networks.

Answer(s): B



Which of the following best completes the argument below?
One effect of the introduction of the electric refrigerator was a collapse in the market for ice. Formerly householders had bought ice to keep their iceboxes cool and the food stored in the iceboxes fresh. Now the iceboxes cool themselves. Similarly, the introduction of crops genetically engineered to be resistant to pests will

  1. increase the size of crop harvests
  2. increase the cost of seeds
  3. reduce demand for chemical pesticides
  4. reduce the value of farmland
  5. reduce the number of farmers keeping livestock

Answer(s): C



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