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Official guide 12 + supplements and the Manhattan Strategy guides.

I found the Powerscore bible useful too, but it was too voluminous to finish.

by bryan88

Wed May 30, 2012 9:39 pm
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 710(Q49,V38)- Content and consistent
Replies: 4
Views: 2699

710(Q49,V38)- Content and consistent

I have just come back from the testing centre after scoring a 710. It certainly is not the best score around but considering I work 11 hours a day and worked till last Friday without a day's leave makes me thank my stars. A big shout and thank you to all the experts that i follow and a big thank you...

by bryan88

Mon May 28, 2012 1:04 am
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: 710(Q49,V38)- Content and consistent
Replies: 4
Views: 2699

algebraic way? OG Quant

Michael arranged all his books in a bookcase with 10 books on each shelf and no books left over. After Michael acquired 10 additional books, he arranged all his books in a new bookcase with 12 books on each shelf and no books left over. How many books did Michael have before he acquired the 10 addit...

by bryan88

Tue May 22, 2012 7:40 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: algebraic way? OG Quant
Replies: 2
Views: 2116

Gmat prep- Experts pls

Before scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth hormone, removing it painstakingly in small amounts from the pituitary glands of human cadevers. A) B) scientists had learned about making a synthetic growth hormone, they had to remove it painstakingly. C) scientists learned how to synthesize...

by bryan88

Mon May 21, 2012 10:54 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Gmat prep- Experts pls
Replies: 2
Views: 1334
by bryan88

Sun May 20, 2012 10:47 am
Forum: Reading Comprehension
Topic: GMAT prep
Replies: 13
Views: 8665

How important is the north / south reference here?

by bryan88

Sun May 20, 2012 3:45 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: GMAT prep!
Replies: 3
Views: 1748

GMAT prep!

Every fall Croton's jays migrate south. The jays always join flocks of migrating crookbeaks with which they share the same summer and winter territories. If a jay becomes separated from the crookbeaks it is accompanying, it wanders until it comes across another flock of crookbeaks. Clearly, therefor...

by bryan88

Sun May 20, 2012 3:44 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: GMAT prep!
Replies: 3
Views: 1748

OG doubt

Historians of women's labor in the United States at first largely disregarded the story of female service workers - women earning wages in occupations such as salesclerk, domestic servant, and office secretary. These historians focused instead on factory work, primarily because it seemed so differen...

by bryan88

Mon May 14, 2012 10:33 am
Forum: Reading Comprehension
Topic: OG doubt
Replies: 1
Views: 1854

MGMAT doubt.

The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future. it will try that it tried it had tried it would have tried that it would try Why ca...

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 9:48 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: MGMAT doubt.
Replies: 2
Views: 1041

I think A is sufficient because the mean/median of consecutive integers cannot be an integer if the number of integers is even. IMO we dont need to check for "even" / "odd". Experts help By your reasoning A is sufficient as it answers Yes /No I don't get your query. If you are as...

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 9:38 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Manhattan GMAT 4.
Replies: 6
Views: 1492

Bold face-MGMAT

Scientists have long searched for magnetic monopoles, hypothetical particles left over from the Big Bang. In 1982, a detector at Stanford recorded a single event that seemed to be the passage of a monopole. However, despite the fact that the Stanford experimental design has withstood all serious cha...

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 9:26 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Bold face-MGMAT
Replies: 4
Views: 3776

Manhattan 700-800 level

If there are x men and y women in a choir, and there are z more men than there are women in that choir, what is z?

(1) x² – 2xy + y² – 9 = 0

(2) x² + 2xy + y² – 225 = 0

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 7:13 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Manhattan 700-800 level
Replies: 1
Views: 1708

By your reasoning A is sufficient as it answers Yes /No If S is a finite set of consecutive even numbers, is the median of S an odd number? (1) The mean of set S is an even number. In an equally spaced set mean = median. So if mean is even median is even. NO. SUFF (2) The range of set S is divisible...

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 7:04 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Manhattan GMAT 4.
Replies: 6
Views: 1492

Quick solution ? MGMAT

If x is an integer, then x(x – 1)(x – k) must be evenly divisible by three when k is any of the following values EXCEPT

A)-4

B)-2


C)-1

D)2

E)5

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 6:39 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Quick solution ? MGMAT
Replies: 2
Views: 945

Manhattan GMAT 4.

If S is a finite set of consecutive even numbers, is the median of S an odd number?

(1) The mean of set S is an even number.

(2) The range of set S is divisible by 4.


Any useful/quick way for verifying 2?

by bryan88

Sun May 13, 2012 6:27 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Manhattan GMAT 4.
Replies: 6
Views: 1492