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Why "have tried" must be followed by "Have found"? Present perfect can't pair with simple present tense?

by catty2004

Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:42 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: sc-1000
Replies: 4
Views: 2349

hey hmboy17, The key to answering this question is knowing what it is testing. First, there's a framework #5 idiomatic expression : "between A and B" Notice you cannot say "between A or B"---therefore, scanning through the answer choices, D is wrong. This leaves you with A, B, a...

by catty2004

Sat Aug 24, 2013 10:40 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: sc-1000
Replies: 4
Views: 2349

i received a private message about this thread. Experts please comment if " A, B and C, and D and E " is correct structure for a list. unfortunately, this is exactly the kind of analysis that is going to get you nowhere in general: you're trying to strip away all of the context and act as...

by catty2004

Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:12 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: The BATS !!! Sentence correction
Replies: 12
Views: 4223

Is a/b < c/d?

If a, b, c, and d, are positive numbers, is a/b < c/d?

1) 0 < (c-a) / (d-b)

2) (ad/bc)^2 < (ad)/(bc)

by catty2004

Sun Jul 08, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Is a/b < c/d?
Replies: 6
Views: 7841

Problem Solving

From the consecutive integers -10 to 10 inclusive, 20 integers are randomly chosen with repetitions allowed. What is the least possible value of the product of the 20 integers?

A) (-10)^20
B) (-10)^10
C) 0
D) –(10)^19
E) –(10)^20






Answer: E

by catty2004

Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:31 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Problem Solving
Replies: 4
Views: 1312

Can someone please explain why the "parallelism" in option C (see below) is wrong? Please for now ignore the sub-verb disagreement. Found throughout Central and South America, sloths use their long rubbery limbs to hang from trees, sleep 15 hours a day, and move so infrequently that two sp...

by catty2004

Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:22 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Throught Process for #124 OG 12
Replies: 6
Views: 1871

Though the language of Beowulf is practically incomprehensible to contemporary readers, careful linguistic analysis reveals a multitude of similarities to modern English. A] Though the language of Beowulf is practically incomprehensible to contemporary readers, careful linguistic analysis reveals a ...

by catty2004

Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:01 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: A good SC!!!
Replies: 4
Views: 1357

Help needed to improve SC from 60% accuracy to above 90%

My accuracy rate when answering OG SC is about 60% (~21/47 wrong). I have 1 week until my exam, can experts or someone please please help me analyze what else I can do? I read MGMAT SC and SC Grail twice and made a small heap of index cards of all the key fundamentals. Then this is how i approach a ...

by catty2004

Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:43 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Help needed to improve SC from 60% accuracy to above 90%
Replies: 2
Views: 2475