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Hey Abhinav, congratulations on beating the GMAT and all the best for your essays followed by interviews and selection process. Your beginning stage replicates mine. Nonetheless, I the draw line between you and I on the scores you secured. I worked(I don't know whether it is right to say that I work...
- by smileforever41
Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:37 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 740 - V40 Q50 - A long and hard prep got me through!
- Replies: 18
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I understood why A is correct and E is wrong. It's not because of "such that" etc. The problem with E is the initial part. "because the climate in Europe is fairly humid," If we use this in the original sentence, it becomes: "Books in European libraries last longer than boo...
- by smileforever41
Mon May 14, 2012 11:30 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: European Libraries
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7357
I urge the experts to rate my Issue Essay
I urge the experts to rate my Issue Essay and to give my tips to bring about the improvement. I am open to feedback, and I realized that it is hard to wade through AWAs without some proper management. Here the essay is: "The best way to give advice to other people is to find out what then want ...
- by smileforever41
Sun May 13, 2012 10:39 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: I urge the experts to rate my Issue Essay
- Replies: 0
- Views: 992
Hi Nikhil, I am no expert but i'll give it a shot. The quality of unrefined olive oil is not actually defined in terms of acidity, yet extensive tests have shown that the less free oleic acid an unrefined olive oil contains per liter, the higher its quality. The proportion of free oleic acid that a...
- by smileforever41
Sun May 06, 2012 2:45 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: unrefined olive oil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10298
If 2^x - 2^(x-2) = 3(2^13), what is the value of x? a) 9 b) 11 c) 13 d) 15 e) 17 We can plug in the answer choices for x. Answer choice C: x= 13 2^13 - 2^(13-2) = 3(2^13) 2^13 - 2^11 = 3(2^13) 2^11(2^2 - 1) = 3(2^13) 2^11(3) = 3(2^13) Plugging in x=13 made the exponent on the left 2^11. To match 2^...
- by smileforever41
Tue May 01, 2012 4:05 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: 2^x - 2 ^ (x-2) = 3(2 ^ 13) , what is x?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7419
Club, I am confused as to what the question is asking The author of this passage would probably give his greatest support to which of the following actions by the corporate management of an American company? Is the question asking - what would the author most likely agree to the behavior of the Amer...
- by smileforever41
Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:57 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: What would you chose? :)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9647
Immigration law by the ACLU
I need clarification on the below SC question. I have gone through the explanation posted in the forum. Regrettably, I couldn't get the crux of it. You have been impetus in touching up on such complicated questions(at least it is complicated to me). I am banking on you to get an explanation as to ho...
- by smileforever41
Sat Apr 21, 2012 1:12 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Immigration law by the ACLU
- Replies: 3
- Views: 942
Great explanation, arora! One thing I want to chime in with - this is a fantastic example of just a pure "GMAT Problem". It's really easy for people to see a problem that only includes arithmetic (in this case addition) and see it as "easy" or even "too easy", and then...
- by smileforever41
Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:21 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: INTEGER
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11101
I broke my head, but I failed to comprehend as to why we would treat first part of the first sentence as "Platform length + Train length" and second part of the sentence as "Train length".
Thanks a ton in advance. 
- by smileforever41
Mon Apr 02, 2012 3:27 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: What is the length of the platform in meters...............
- Replies: 46
- Views: 27481
The antecedent of "it" in choice C is "the sight" -- this is the only logical antecedent here, so the pronoun use is fine. There can be multiple potential grammatical antecedents for a pronoun, but if only one is logical then the usage is correct. But C still has the other issue...
- by smileforever41
Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:22 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: After arduous months of fighting........
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16110