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Please review this AWA for me.
Took a MGMAT test yesterday. Would like you guys to review it and give me tips to develop. Dont know how points much these two essays would fetch me. AWA ESSAYS: Analyze Argument ESSAY QUESTION: The following appeared in a proposal for a high school's annual fundraising event: "In order to earn...
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Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:43 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: Please review this AWA for me.
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Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:38 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Brussels Sprouts
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I still haven't understood how statement 3 holds.
III. X^4 - x^5 < x^2 - x^3
I reduced it as x^(-1)< x^(-1) and got stuck. I probably did something very silly.what did i do wrong?
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Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:16 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT Prep inequality
- Replies: 11
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Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:29 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: OG 12 DS #97
- Replies: 3
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Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:38 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: OG DS - Work problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2820
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Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:11 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: 600-700 level question Manhattan
- Replies: 14
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IMO A P1: Pell grants improve access to higher education for those who have historically been disadvantaged in our society by financial or other life circumstances, thereby helping recipients elevate themselves to the middle class. P2: Without that access, the gap between the rich and poor in this ...
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Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:41 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pell Grants
- Replies: 8
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IMO A P1: Pell grants improve access to higher education for those who have historically been disadvantaged in our society by financial or other life circumstances, thereby helping recipients elevate themselves to the middle class. P2: Without that access, the gap between the rich and poor in this ...
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Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:40 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Pell Grants
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2235
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Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:43 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: 'EXCEPT' type of questions
- Replies: 3
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:24 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Canned Tuna
- Replies: 13
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Also, our common usage of english in regular life sometimes put a very general meaning of a word in our mind but GMAT consider those words as per thier legal or dictionary meaning. For example: Explain Describe Contrast Compare refer infer imply argue Now untill we put some extra stress to distingu...
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:51 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Yet another shocking low GMAT score!
- Replies: 22
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Hi, It cannot be C IMO. "Despite" doesn't make sense here, because the author is contrasting two groups of people. One group of people is afflicted while the other group is spared. So, "while" is more appropriate to the context. I chose C because there is a contrast here. whats'...
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:20 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: despite sparing
- Replies: 4
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'EXCEPT' type of questions
I always go wrong in the assumption and weaken questions which have 'Except' in them. I mean, let's say I have an assumption question.For example.. “The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last ...
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Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:09 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: 'EXCEPT' type of questions
- Replies: 3
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One Common mistake to avoid don't multiply z to 0 without knowing the nature of 'z' Statement 1: x < y b) z is unknown z can be less than 0. In that case (x+y) < 0. or x<-y.This satisfies as x<y and x<-y both takes x to negative direction. z can be greater than 0. In that case (x+y) < 0 or x<-y.Doe...
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Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:11 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: If (x+y)/z < 0, is x <0? (1) x<y (2)z<0
- Replies: 18
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A recent article stated that only 5.5% of American colleges grant the majority of their degrees in the liberal arts. Citing this, a reader wrote to lament that this was further evidence of the decline of academic rigor in American post high school education. Which of the following is an assumption ...
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Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:27 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: hard assumption question
- Replies: 11
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