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strategies to convince your employer to support your MBA
I need some ideas about how to convince my employer to support my MBA degree. I am working for a fairly large multinational corporation. I am a senior engineer in R&D. As you can understand I like to get an MBA degree. However, my employer sounded like they are not quite interested in supporting...
- by arawamis
Sun May 18, 2008 6:12 am- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: strategies to convince your employer to support your MBA
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5990
any possibilty to get scholarship for Professional MBA?
I am a working professional with a PhD degree. I got 660 in GMAT. I know that it is not a great score. But with this much effort and time I can spend for GMAT, I believe I did ok. Afterall I suck at verbal part of GMAT. Anyway, does a working professional applying to a Professional (or part time) MB...
- by arawamis
Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:47 pm- Forum: The Application Process
- Topic: any possibilty to get scholarship for Professional MBA?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2864
Lets see, it looks like A to me.
r+s>2t ==> r>2t-s
(1) t>s ==> 2t-s>t (if t=s then 2t-s=t)
r>2t-s>t ==> r>t sufficient
(2) r>s , so what? byitself INSUFFICIENT
- by arawamis
Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:54 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Inequalities: If r + s > 2t, is r > t ?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5839
Re: Pls answer
34. On Jane's credit card account, the average daily balance for a 30-day billing cycle is average (arithmetic mean) of the daily balances at the end of the 30 days. At the beginning of a certain 30-day billing cycle, Jane's credit card account had a balance of $600. Jane made a payment of $300 on ...
- by arawamis
Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:42 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Pls answer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2827
GMAT Prep PS question
Please somebody explain me this question and its answer. It is either me or the english in the question. I do not get it. What does "100 units of Country R's currency mean"?
Thanks,
- by arawamis
Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:02 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT Prep PS question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1317
lets see # of female students in class are F # of male students in class are M %80F and %72M applied college or 0.80*F and 0.72*M (1) says that F+M=840. Info has no use byitself. NOT SUFFICIENT (2) says that 0.75*(F+M) applied college so 0.75*(F+M) = 0.80*F+0.72*M ==> 0.75F+0.75M=0.80F+0.72M ==> 0.0...
- by arawamis
Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:30 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Ratio Propotion DS - GMAT Prep
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1856
Re: Princeton hard math - set1- q 6
If there are 400 women at College X and 200 students live off-campus, how many students does College X have? (1) 120 women live off-campus. (2) There are half as many men at College X as there are students who live on-campus. Does anyone know the ans to this problem? Answer should be C. (1) and (2)...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:36 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Princeton hard math - set1- q 6
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2757
what about rounding 0.456 to units digit? does it go like this 0.456 -> 0.46 -> 0.5 -> 1??? When possible, please type out the question instead of posting a link. Makes it much easier to respond. Q: what is the result when X is rounded to the nearest hundredth? (1) when x is rounded to the nearest t...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:36 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Math DS
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6254
Arawamis, I am not clear about the reasoning on 2. Can you please explain in more detail ? Thanks for responding . cheers, T Slope information byitslef is not sufficient where the line intercepts x-axis. Line can intercept x at 1,2,3,4,-100,1000 with -1/10 slope. See that when x-intercept changes y...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:33 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Geometry DS 1- GMAT PREP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1904
Answer is E. (1) is not sufficient alone, as well as (2). A line can intercept x at >1 and can intersect circle for infinite number of cases (there are infinite number of lines going through one point). Or slope can be -1/10 and still can instersect for infinite cases (imagine the line moving along ...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:03 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Geometry DS 1- GMAT PREP
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1904
Lets say warehouse sold n sofas last year: (1) this year number of sold sofas will be 1.1n with %10 increase. Cannot compute revenues without price information. NOT SUFFICIENT (2) Say last year one sofa was sold for P dollars. This year it is sold for P+30. No info about how many sold so NOT SUFFICI...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:57 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Persentage DS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1682
Consider (1) only: x/y and 1/3's LC denom is 6. So y can be 2 or 6 (minimum). Indeed x/y can also be for example 18/36 can can satisfy (1) after simplification. NOT SUFFICIENT Consider (2) only: x=1. no info regarding y's value available wahtsoever NOT SUFFICIENT Consider (1) and (2) together: So, x...
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:49 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Geometry DS 2- GMAT PREP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1738
- by arawamis
Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:30 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Inequality DS - GMAT PREP
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1426
how are the GMAT section scores computed?
I got Q50 with 9 wrong answers (that is my interpretation of what I saw on the screen. I saw something like 9/37) at GMAT Prep test. I believe 9 wrong answers out of 37 questions are horrible. I don't understand how come someone can get Q50 with that many mistakes. Is something wrong with the softwa...
- by arawamis
Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:43 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: how are the GMAT section scores computed?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1311
median Question from GMAC GMAT Prep test
Can somebody please explain me how to solve the question below? Thanks Amount Earned per day: $96 $84 $80 $70 $48 Number of Days: 4 7 4 3 2 A student worked for 20 days. For each of the amount showed in the first row above, the second row gives the number of days that the student earned that amount ...
- by arawamis
Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:31 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: median Question from GMAC GMAT Prep test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5778