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Congratulations on a truly stellar score and I'm glad you found our list of common GMAT idiomatic expressions so useful.
Best of luck with your apps.
J.
- by prepfortests
Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:39 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: My GMAT Experience (760 - V46/Q49/AWA 5.0)
- Replies: 15
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Which edition of the Manhattan GMAT did you find this question in?
I ask because I wrote a very similar question for PrepForTests in 2006.
- by prepfortests
Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Manhattan SC: Subject Verb Agreement Q15
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3332
The more I look at the more I think you are right (this question is ambiguous). If you were not constrained by answers A to E what do you think the answer should be?
- by prepfortests
Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:14 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: As Wagner, the 'modernistic' traits in Scriabin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2190
- by prepfortests
Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:47 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: As Wagner, the 'modernistic' traits in Scriabin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2190
For more explanation of how to approach this type of problem see this combined work rate problem tutorial.
- by prepfortests
Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:54 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: PowerPrep PS Question
- Replies: 3
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This is a tough question. Does the statement (1) provide sufficient information? Statement (1) tells us that the min and max numbers have the same sign i.e. both are positive or both are negative. This means that all the numbers are positive or all the numbers are negative. This on its own is insuff...
- by prepfortests
Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:50 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMATPrep Quetion: DS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2213
The improvement you made on the verbal section is really impressive and congratulations on your final score.
I hope you don't mind but I have added your account to tips from successful GMAT takers.
Best of luck with your applications.
Joel
- by prepfortests
Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:22 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Ouups, I did it, 710 on the March 5th
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12640
Data sufficiency tutorial and practice questions
I've just published our new data sufficiency tutorial and a corresponding set of practice questions.
Give them a go and tell me what you think.
Joel
- by prepfortests
Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:49 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: Data sufficiency tutorial and practice questions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6352
Nearly there.
These accounts of the day of taking the GMAT contain some good tips on how to prepare in the last day or two.
Best of luck and do tell us how it goes
- by prepfortests
Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:36 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: 4 more days to the real test
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2053
PrepForTests.com's analysis of an issue scoring guidelines include 6 sample essays for you to take a look at, one which would score a 6, one that would score a 5 etc..
- by prepfortests
Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:44 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: samle anaylysisof issue
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4113
Thanks for the great recommendation, I hadn't seen it. I have added Mukul's story to the list. I'll keep adding links over time and so it should get better and better, particularly if I continue to get recommendations like this one. As you say there are so many good stories out there that it would b...
- by prepfortests
Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:20 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: "I just Beat The GMAT!"s from around the web
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5922
"I just Beat The GMAT!"s from around the web
Tips from successful GMAT takers is a compilation of the some of the best accounts of the experience of preparing for the GMAT published on the web. It includes links to a number of posts from Beat the GMAT as well accounts from other forums and individual blogs. Best of luck with your preparation!
- by prepfortests
Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:26 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: "I just Beat The GMAT!"s from around the web
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5922
GMAT prep recommendations
The GMAT Review 11th Edition A.K.A. The Official Guide is essential for anyone studying for the GMAT. This contains 800 questions from GMAT tests and is the only place you can find really realistic GMAT practice questions. If you have worked through the majority of the questions in this book then th...
- by prepfortests
Thu Nov 09, 2006 11:19 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: How to start from Scratch.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10829
Plural vs. singular tricks
This sounds wrong because the last word of the plural subject, 'laws of motion', does not end with an 's' and so it doesn't sound plural. This is a common trick in the GMAT. Other examples of plural subjects that may sound singular could be 'cars which run on natural gas', or 'students of the GMAT' ...
- by prepfortests
Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:20 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Singular verb vs plural. Question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2946