Belorechensk, A Once Poor Import Dependent Country, Is Now a Major Exporter in the World.

Question: Belorechensk, a once poor import dependent country, is now a major exporter in the world. Twenty years ago Belorechensk's government introduced a strategy it hoped would engender industrialization; a ten years tax rebate for exporters who export goods listed in the government's export hot-list. Paknachkuioth Brothers, a struggling import oriented business, soon began exporting several goods that the world market demands. In twenty years, Paknachkuioth grew to become one of the richest companies in the region. Paknachkuioth established numerous branches in the South-West region of Belorechensk and transformed the economic destiny of a once impoverished region. Recently, the government of Belorechensk won the Nobel Peace Prize for transforming the economic destiny of the people of Belorechensk using ideal methods.

Which of the following, if true, would lend the MOST support to the opinion of commentators who recently said that it would have been more sensible had the Nobel Peace Prize been given to Paknachkuioth instead of to the government of Belorechensk?

1. Belorechensk actually used very fraudulent means to grow.
2. Good people find it ridiculous that the government of Belorechensk won the Nobel Peace Prize thereby destroying the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize among good people.
3. A newspaper company with a very poor readership had many decades ago published a report in which a certain nondescript business firm was boasting it could grow businesses by using ideal styles such as emitting zero carbon in all its industrial operations and ultimately the newspaper company published a verified scientific report that predicted that the ideal methods cannot succeed.
4. Paknachkuioth will not use the government hot-list if it becomes a new policy.
5. It has been proven three days ago that Paknachkuioth was penned down as the winner of the award, but an eleventh hour very secret discussion ensured that the name was hastily changed.

“Belorechensk, A Once Poor Import Dependent Country, Is Now a Major Exporter in the World.” – is a GMAT Critical question. This particular GMAT Critical Reasoning topic has been taken from the book ‘ GMAT Official Guide Verbal Review’.This particular question is inference type. For this type, the candidates need to provide logical conclusions based on evidence as given in the passage. GMAT critical reasoning tests the logical and analytical skills of the candidates. GMAT critical reasoning requires candidates to find the strengths and weaknesses of the argument, or find the logical flaw in the argument.  The GMAT CR section contains 10 -13 GMAT critical reasoning questions out of 36 GMAT verbal questions.

Answer: C

Explanation: GMAT critical reasoning can be solved by finding the keywords in the passage. This will help in finding the claim/conclusion made in the text. Since the question is directly connected with the conclusion, finding it will save time.

Let us check the given option to find the correct answer:

1. Belorechensk actually used very fraudulent means to grow.
   - In option A we see how it strengthens the decision. It did not show the way it could be more suitable for the company to get the award.
2. Good people find it ridiculous that the government of Belorechensk won the Nobel Peace Prize thereby destroying the credibility of Nobel Peace Prize among good people.
   - In option B states about Good people. But it is nowhere discussed in the award. So option B is off the scope.
3. A newspaper company with a very poor readership had many decades ago published a report in which a certain nondescript business firm was boasting it could grow businesses by using ideal styles such as emitting zero carbon in all its industrial operations and ultimately the newspaper company published a verified scientific report that predicted that the ideal methods cannot succeed.
   - Option C implies that the ideal method was used by the company and not by the government. So giving the award to the user would be the ideal method. Hence option C is the correct choice.
4. Paknachkuioth will not use the government hot-list if it becomes a new policy.
   - Option D uses future tense by using ‘will’ in the argument. But the argument states that everything has happened in the past. So option D is incorrect.
5. It has been proven three days ago that Paknachkuioth was penned down as the winner of the award, but an eleventh hour very secret discussion ensured that the name was hastily changed.
   - Option E is irrelevant.

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