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The primary Q from this passage shows that why one must focus as mush as possible on Official Q's. I am not convinced by the explanation here and also at the MGMAT Forum: http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/in-the-early-to-mid-1980s-a-business-practice-mgmat-rc-t9953.html My Summary of the passage: ...
- by bgs4gmat
Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:04 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: MGMAT RC - Leveraged
- Replies: 4
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- by bgs4gmat
Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:29 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Improving RC time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9569
Improving RC time
I suggest: Plan A) See if your accuracy remains high if you speed up your reading. If it does, then problem solved. No :-( Accuracy reduces significantly if i speed up reading and avoid taking notes :-( For many students, a reduction in reading time will drastically decrease their accuracy. For mos...
- by bgs4gmat
Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:24 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Improving RC time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9569
How to reduce 'time to solve' for CR Q's
I have studied CR from Powerscore LR Bible and MGMAT LSAT CR and GMAT CR guide. I like the MGMAT's concept of Argument Core (P --> C). As suggested in Manhattan LSAT CR, I take abbreviated notes of only P --> C relationship in case of Assumption Family Q's and in case of non-Assumption Q's i take ab...
- by bgs4gmat
Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:17 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: How to reduce 'time to solve' for CR Q's
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1790
I took my tests and scored 690 (Q47, V37). My Verbal timing on an average were close to in Mocks: 100+ seconds for SC 120-150 seconds for CR 6-7 minutes for Short Passages with 3Q 8-10 minutes for Long Passages with 4Q I took following Mock tests: GMATPrep 2 (AWA + IR) 710 (06th Aug) Kaplna 610 (28t...
- by bgs4gmat
Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:43 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Improving RC time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9569
If i have to go by the responses to my posts, I find that BTG community is not as active as GMATClub. a) Here are my BTG posts: http://www.beatthegmat.com/need-guidance-in-taking-the-decision-to-give-gmat-in-2-weeks-t111983.html#474562 http://www.beatthegmat.com/improving-rc-time-t112212.html#472816...
- by bgs4gmat
Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:33 am- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: GMATClub or BEATtheGMAT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3919
GMATClub or BEATtheGMAT
Though i did look at few posts on BTG, I have been following mostly GMATClub in last 3 months of my preparation. I gave my GMAT recently and scored 690 (Q47, V37). Though there are exceptions, this score isn't enough for a Non-IIT, Indian Software Engineer (7 years of Work experience in Oracle and H...
- by bgs4gmat
Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:54 am- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: GMATClub or BEATtheGMAT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3919
Thanks buddy ! I do look back to the passage in Inference and specific detail Q's. With more practice i am able to take my accuracy to 100% but timing is still not very good. Tough RC passage with 4 Q is taking 10+ minutes and with 3Q it is going into 8+ min zone. Following is what happened in the M...
- by bgs4gmat
Tue May 22, 2012 6:07 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Improving RC time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9569
I have been preparing for GMAT for last 3 months very seriously. I took the date for Exam date in April and planned to give it on 25th May. I am yet to finish all the practice sets i posses e.g. LSAT RC, LSAT CR, latest Quant etc but felt comfortable to try the FULL GMATPrep1 test i.e. i sat for 4 h...
- by bgs4gmat
Tue May 22, 2012 1:02 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Need guidance in taking the decision to give GMAT in 2 weeks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1718
Improving RC time
Hi guys, need a more directed and case (mine) specific advise on RC pacing. I have already gone through most of the RC advises and this what i am following: 1. Read the first question 2. Read the passage attentively (no skimming), paraphrase after each paragraph in my own understanding, map it in my...
- by bgs4gmat
Wed May 16, 2012 12:33 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: Improving RC time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9569
Need guidance in taking the decision to give GMAT in 2 weeks
Forum, I have been preparing for GMAT for last 3 months very seriously. I have taken the date for Exam in April for 25th May. I am yet to finish all the practice sets i posses e.g. LSAT RC, LSAT CR, latest Quant etc but felt comfortable to try the FULL GMATPrep1 test i.e. i sat for 4 hours and wrote...
- by bgs4gmat
Sun May 13, 2012 6:15 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Need guidance in taking the decision to give GMAT in 2 weeks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1718
i re read the passage and ans answer by 'scoobydooby' . My mistake was that i didn't go back to first para (but the third para) for 'proponents of the second argument' and missed the 'insufficient regard' altogether :-( The Author discuss the flaw in 2nd Argument in third para and hence i went back ...
- by bgs4gmat
Wed May 09, 2012 7:40 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: United States budget
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5090
Can anybody please explain why Q1 answer is not (A) but (C)?
I am not able infer that Govt. careless. From where this 'careless' is coming from?
- by bgs4gmat
Wed May 09, 2012 7:31 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: United States budget
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5090