EXCEPT /LEAST questions

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ArpanaAmishi: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 93; Joined: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:52 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 2 times

by ArpanaAmishi » Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:50 pm

How to better handle the EXCEPT/LEAST questions... I always find them difficult to handle as out of 5, 4 choices have to be correct and elimination becomes difficult & time consuming, moereover this is the time you are eliminating correct answer rather than incorrect....

Any strategic quick hit on this ?

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tpr-becky: GMAT Instructor; Posts: 509; Joined: Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:08 pmFollowed by: 85 members; Location: Irvine, CA; Thanked: 199 times; GMAT Score:750

by tpr-becky » Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:58 am

You are actually doing the same thing as you always do - evaluating each answer choice to see if it falls within a correct answer or not. Most people experience problems becuase they are trying to flip in their mind in this manner - A is correct as to the argument so it is not the answer - cross it off. This gets taxing and people make mistakes. So the best way to avoid this is to use your scratch paper - don't eliminate answers - simply write True/False/? next to each answer and then go back to the question to judge which answer correctly answers the question.

Becky

Becky
Master GMAT Instructor
The Princeton Review
Irvine, CA

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