IPMAT Indore 2023 · Verbal Ability · Question 3

The idiom. To go the extra mile means to do more than is required or expected.

Why it fits. Brands redesigning garments so that people with prosthetic legs can wear them easily are doing more than ordinary tailoring demands.

Why the others fail. All three are corruptions of the real phrase. The idiom is fixed — it takes no preposition and the noun cannot change:

go to the extreme level — inserts a preposition and swaps the noun.

go the entire mile — wrong adjective; “entire” loses the sense of beyond what was asked.

go to the extra level — inserts a preposition that the idiom does not take.

The origin helps fix it: the phrase comes from a biblical injunction — if compelled to go one mile, go two. The mile is essential to the image.

Answer: Option 4

Shortcut. Option (c) differs from the answer by two small words — a preposition and a noun — and both matter. This is the single most common way an idiom distractor is built.

The reliable test: can you drop or add a preposition in a fixed idiom? Never. You go the extra mile, you do not go to it, just as you take the plunge rather than take to the plunge. If an option inserts a preposition into a phrase you know, that insertion is the error.