Agatha Christie's travels

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atulmangal: Legendary Member; Posts: 1112; Joined: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:16 am; Thanked: 77 times; Followed by:49 members

by atulmangal » Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:09 am

Night reader wrote:Before I start judging others I let the others judge me in advance.

@gmatmachoman: why don't you quit your meaningless thinking of GMAT score as some one's intelligence level indicator. There's tempting feeling to think that if one scores 300 or 400 that person is AN IDIOT or one crossing 700-level is A GENIUS. That's just not true. Responding on your naming my GMAT experience "debacle" I have registered for GMAT 28th March retake and should be sending my unofficial PDF report with the score of YOUR DREAM (I promise) to your mail if you like. Also if my pic scares you - that's not too macho! Let's have a deal. If you change your name in this forum - because macho and man are the same sort of things, man+man - I will post new pic. Are you having some problems because of masculinity, your name suggests for having ones - extra desire for man+man.

@Target: do we need to interpret logically what is not supposed to be known by a test-taker - personal names and places? These must be introduced by the examiner and not interpreted by us. Here, Agatha Christie is implied as the writer/novelist by you and MGMAT test writer.

@Atulmangal: you started explaining something then proceeded with that "I won't agree with your points". BUT there was no point made by yourself. You have just followed Target with the logical interpretation hint, which is not required at all.

All the best to you guys! I am out of this forum through March 28, my G Day. As you may observe I am leading our community WELL ENOUGH and should be doing so without EVEN participating here for the next two weeks.

Cheers

@NR

All the best buddy....Do well

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by Target2009 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:46 am

Night reader wrote: @gmatmachoman: I have registered for GMAT 28th March retake and should be sending my unofficial PDF report with the score of YOUR DREAM (I promise) to your mail if you like.

You seems to be confident this time. Very Good. All the Best. I wish you not only score 750+ but also get into your DREAM B School.

Night reader wrote: Here, Agatha Christie is implied as the writer/novelist by you and MGMAT test writer.

Yeah!! But you are still free to imply it your way.

Night reader wrote: I am out of this forum through March 28, my G Day. As you may observe I am leading our community WELL ENOUGH and should be doing so without EVEN participating here for the next two weeks.

I believe forum is to use to help in my study at the same time to help others ( If i can). I am never in competition to lead this community. Am confident Forum will still run without our participation.

Lastly All the best. Do post you Test day experience.

Regards
Abhishek
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by aspirant2011 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 8:32 am

I don't agree that the answer can be E because according to GMAT rules "her" has no clear antecedent as in the sentence possessive form is being used...................................

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Jim@Grockit: GMAT Instructor; Posts: 641; Joined: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:07 pm; Location: Madison, WI; Thanked: 162 times; Followed by:45 members; GMAT Score:760

by Jim@Grockit » Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:21 am

Wow. This thread makes me sad.

Anyway, to answer a question raised here, "can we know her refers to Agatha Christie?" . . . yes, we can. Agatha Christie wrote a lot of books (with billions sold, only the Bible has sold more copies of books than she has), and the author of that sentence probably assumed the reader would have heard of her . . .

. . . but it doesn't matter if you had. On GMAT SC, you cannot and should not ever imagine that there could be hypothetical other people in earlier sentences that "her" might refer back to. There are only two people in the sentence, a woman and her husband, so any female pronouns would not refer to the man. Grammatically, we would prefer to stick with the possessive pronouns (as opposed to the objective), but in spoken English it would be absolutely clear, and I am not sure that even a newspaper editor would care about the switch when the only female mentioned is Agatha Christie.

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by force5 » Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:00 pm

Lets try to concentrate on questions rather than getting personal. I would request the participants and moderators of the forum to ensure that the decorum is maintained and thin line is not breached. I really don't appreciate personal comments regarding ANYONE on the forum. I am sure that people will realize this and act in a more matured manner.

thanks mate.

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