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A long journey from 540 to 710.. perserverance and hard work
Dear All, Yesterday, I took my second attempt at GMAT and scored 710( Q50/V35 and IR 3). I have hardly contributed much to this awesome forum but, have received lot of motivation and guidance from the experts and other fellow members. I would finally like to thank "beat the gmat" community...
- by abhi.iitb
Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:03 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: A long journey from 540 to 710.. perserverance and hard work
- Replies: 5
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HI Rich, Thanks for the solution. I was actually confused with the wording of the question stem. Hi abhi.iitb, The prompt mentions that planes retired and acquired at the END of each year. You can create a quick table to track what you're looking for: Start: 60 A and 0 B Yr 1: 57 A and 4 B Yr 2: 54 ...
- by abhi.iitb
Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:02 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Airline fleet problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3553
Thanks a lot Mitch. I understood it now, I was some how confused with the wording of the problem. It took x years BEFORE y happened means that y happened AFTER x years had passed. Here, Type A planes constituted less than half the fleet at the end of the 9th year. At the end of the 9th year, 9 years...
- by abhi.iitb
Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:52 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Airline fleet problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3553
Artist Pierre Augustee
Need expert help to understand the approach for this problem. Problem is from GMAT prep.
- by abhi.iitb
Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:39 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Artist Pierre Augustee
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1189
Thanks a lot Mitch for the solution. But, my confusion is in the language of the question stem which says" How many years did it take before the number of type A planes left in the Airline's fleet was less than 50% of the fleet". So, As per my understanding question in other words is askin...
- by abhi.iitb
Sun Mar 23, 2014 11:35 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Airline fleet problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3553
Airline fleet problem
http://s27.postimg.org/iplp25ldb/GMAT_Prep_Math_Q.jpg Need help in the above question. As per the language of the question(How many years did it take before the number of type A planes left in the Airline's fleet was less than 50% of the fleet) I think answer should be "C". But OA is &quo...
- by abhi.iitb
Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:01 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Airline fleet problem
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3553
Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities in seventeenth-century Massachusetts is a model of meticulous scholarship on the detailed microcosmic level, and convincing up to a point. Allen suggests that much more coherence and direct continuity existed between English and co...
- by abhi.iitb
Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:44 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: GMAT PREP I passage Query : Please help !
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2822
Need expert help on GMAT prep Q
Hi All,
I got this question wrong on GMAT prep test. Can any expert guide me how to approach this Question.
Thanks
Abhishek
- by abhi.iitb
Tue Mar 04, 2014 10:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Need expert help on GMAT prep Q
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2907
Thanks a lot Bill. But, i found both of these questions very tricky. I really don't know any clear cut strategy to tackle these kind of questions..... Abhishek Regarding Q. 2 Author mentioned in the passage that "Indonesian rhinos are protected on the Ujung Kulon peninsula, which is unsettled b...
- by abhi.iitb
Tue Feb 11, 2014 10:36 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Request expert help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2263
Hi Bill, Thanks a lot for the answers Regarding Q.1, in the starting of the passage author mention "The decline of the species may have progressed too far to be reversed" while later on author express that "The Indonesian rhinos are protected on the Ujung Kulon peninsula, which is uns...
- by abhi.iitb
Mon Feb 10, 2014 7:57 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Request expert help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2263
Request expert help
Source for the below Questions is MGMAT test series. IMO "E" in both questions but answers are different. Need expert help to understand the solution for these questions and what is the mistake in my answer. Measuring more than five feet tall and ten feet long, the Javan rhinoceros is ofte...
- by abhi.iitb
Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:02 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Request expert help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2263
- by abhi.iitb
Wed Jan 15, 2014 10:48 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT prep problem. Need help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1159
- by abhi.iitb
Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:56 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT prep problem. Need help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1159
IMO B: The whole passage outline the importance of Smith' skills in creating a sword.
What is the original answer??
- by abhi.iitb
Sat Dec 14, 2013 11:49 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Historians have long recognized the Japanese sword
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4656
Hi Patrick,
I didn't understand the example " Wrong: She took books with herself on the plane. ("with herself" is not the object of the verb, but rather the object of books)"
How is herself the object of books?? Can you please help me to understand it.
Thanks,
Abhishek
- by abhi.iitb
Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:09 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Pronouns- Using '-self' or '-selves'
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2269