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I have faced the situation very often in this forum! When someone posts his queries, he/she generally mentions the answers also! At least in Verbal section where u r not very sure to chose the best answer, this can lead to build any reason to meet the answer specified by the questioner. By this, there may be a situation where we failed to catch the actual problem in the question but blindly create an approach to the mentioned option. I think, it affects every one. Obviously, after a certain time, the questioner will provide the correct answer.
Is it not possible to raise a forum rule (or something so that everyone can follow) to resolve this issue.
Suggestion - answers not to mention in the question
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Thanks for the suggestion Amitava,
Eric will probably answer it... here's my take on it:
I, in fact, learned many of the GMAT SC tactics by this I admit the way I learned my lessons was not traditional or methodical but who cares if I am getting good results now. That's one of the way to do it but I obviously dont recommend it on open forum... it's like driving car fast & then telling your kid not to drive it fast...
Still, coming to your suggestion: (by my experience) while I know that all you people who take part in problems solving ( I mean PS CR SC DS) discussions dont like to hear/read the answer in the first post. It simply kills the curiosity and your purpose of taking part in the thread or attempting the problem.
But I know many times if the thread starter dont provide the answer at first he most probably loss the track and forgets to mention the OA or the source of the problem & such thread losses it's direction.
If I would set some rules I would insist members to mention the answer in it too; because some of our resident experts recommend that.
How about asking thread starter to provide answer in hidden text?
Just like this : select the next portion you will will know what I am talking about>> You can change the font color of the text as white 8)
Eric will probably answer it... here's my take on it:
Yeah but what's wrong in developing such approaches?camitava wrote:..., this can lead to build any reason to meet the answer specified by the questioner. By this, there may be a situation where we failed to catch the actual problem in the question but blindly create an approach to the mentioned option. I think, it affects every one.
I, in fact, learned many of the GMAT SC tactics by this I admit the way I learned my lessons was not traditional or methodical but who cares if I am getting good results now. That's one of the way to do it but I obviously dont recommend it on open forum... it's like driving car fast & then telling your kid not to drive it fast...
Many other similar prep forums sites have set of rules. Maybe it's hightime for us to do it too. But BeatTheGMAT is lenient forum & we dont like to setting up too many rules.Obviously, after a certain time, the questioner will provide the correct answer.
Is it not possible to raise a forum rule (or something so that everyone can follow) to resolve this issue.
Still, coming to your suggestion: (by my experience) while I know that all you people who take part in problems solving ( I mean PS CR SC DS) discussions dont like to hear/read the answer in the first post. It simply kills the curiosity and your purpose of taking part in the thread or attempting the problem.
But I know many times if the thread starter dont provide the answer at first he most probably loss the track and forgets to mention the OA or the source of the problem & such thread losses it's direction.
If I would set some rules I would insist members to mention the answer in it too; because some of our resident experts recommend that.
How about asking thread starter to provide answer in hidden text?
Just like this : select the next portion you will will know what I am talking about>> You can change the font color of the text as white 8)
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I think I have a nice solution to hiding the OA. More to come shortly...
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I was expecting something like that ...beatthegmat wrote:I think I have a nice solution to hiding the OA. More to come shortly...
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Thanks a lot for your open discussion! Yop, Aim-WSC - your appraoch [To provide the answer by some invisible font color] is a nice one. And obviously BeattheGMAT is coming with some other eye-catching appraoch. What do u say, Aim-WSC?
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It feels great when somebody write WSC in block letterscamitava wrote: What do u say, Aim-WSC?
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Thanks again for the solution, Camitava. I hope to have something to address your problem over the next week.
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After receiving ur post, I just checked it. Its awesome! I think it will be helpful to many of us! Thanks BeattheGMAT! Thanks a lot for ur effort...
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