Pronunciation problems most hurt scoring when they:
AAre slight regional accents
BMake the response difficult to understandCORRECT
CSound American
DSound British
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Why the answer is B, and why the others tempt you.
ETS does NOT penalise accent; they penalise when accent or pronunciation makes meaning hard to grasp.
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