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The Veritas prep video lessons regarding sentence correction are excellent!!! Thank you for sharing this.


Ah I figured it out. So the piece of the puzzle I was over looking is that if a conference attendee does not book a room at the block rate(BR) than they booked one at the lowest rate(LR). Therefore in order to lose money BR>LR+0.25BR which can be rewritten as 0.75BR>LR which can be simplified as 0.7...

by freiter1

Thu May 14, 2015 7:18 pm
Forum: The 60-Day GMAT Study Guide
Topic: Not Understanding IR Problem Statement
Replies: 1
Views: 1308

Not Understanding IR Problem Statement

In the OG Online IR question bank a Multi-source reasoning question about hotel states, hotel recieves reimbursement from conference organize for 25% of the block rate per night for each unoccupied roon the conference block. Then it gives you information on the block rate and lowest rate in the host...

by freiter1

Thu May 14, 2015 6:56 pm
Forum: The 60-Day GMAT Study Guide
Topic: Not Understanding IR Problem Statement
Replies: 1
Views: 1308

I figure I'd update my progress on using the advice that you provided. I haven't gotten back to studying SC yet but I've been implementing it on RC and it's a night and day difference. Just having the positive attitude you mentioned and taking the extra time has been getting me a string of right ans...


That's really sound advice! Thank you for pointing out that my outlook needs to change and how it makes sense to take longer on harder questions. To your point emotions, such as anxiety and anger, along with speed reading are holding me back and are preventing me from thinking clearly. I will rememb...


Strategy for sentence correction when down to two choices?

I often find myself in the position where I have downselected to two answers in sentence correction questions. 9 out of 10 times one of the downselected answers is right, but half the time I pick the wrong one. My miss rate goes up for harder questions maybe 7 out of 10 times I get the wrong answer ...


Strategy for sentence correction when down to two choices?

I often find myself in the position where I have downselected to two answers in sentence correction questions. 9 out of 10 times one of the downselected answers is right, but half the time I pick the wrong one. My miss rate goes up for harder questions maybe 7 out of 10 times I get the wrong answer ...


MGMAT Sentence Structure Quiz question #3

I'm working through the MGMAT SC study guide and took a mid chapter quiz, the answer to question 3 is not very clear to me. The sentence to be corrected is "The proliferation of computer games designed to involve many players at once were first developed before the widespread availability of hi...

by freiter1

Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:52 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: MGMAT Sentence Structure Quiz question #3
Replies: 1
Views: 1370

Hi Brent thanks for the response. I tend to work sines and cosines in terms of square roots. Fair point if I saw 1/0.707 I wouldn't recognize that as 1/sqrt(2) while under pressure. I learned that Sines and cosines of an angle are as easy as 1-2-3,3-2-1 just make this chart 30 ; 45; 60 Sin 1 ; 2 ; 3...

by freiter1

Sat Apr 18, 2015 5:36 pm
Forum: The 60-Day GMAT Study Guide
Topic: Triangle Rules vs Sines and Cosines
Replies: 3
Views: 2012

Triangle Rules vs Sines and Cosines

The 30-60-90 and isosceles triangle rules regarding side ratios are difficult for me to remember... I did undergraduate and graduate school in engineering (7+years) thinking of triangles in terms of sines and cosines. Since the angles on the gmat are either 30, 45, 60, or 90, I can easily compute th...

by freiter1

Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:34 pm
Forum: The 60-Day GMAT Study Guide
Topic: Triangle Rules vs Sines and Cosines
Replies: 3
Views: 2012