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Thanks sooooo much really inspiring. i will retake the gmat in 15 days. may you please share the link for the 700-800 level GMATPREP questions [SC & CR] download Also may you please elaborate more on ow you improved on RC, what more material you studied for the strategies and practice thank you...
- by ankit0703
Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:10 am- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: From 550 > 640 > 710. Self-Belief is the key !!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8783
- by ankit0703
Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:43 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: From 550 > 640 > 710. Self-Belief is the key !!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8783
From 550 > 640 > 710. Self-Belief is the key !!!
Hi, First of all I want to say thanks to the BeattheGMAT community for resolving my problems, boosting my confidence, helping in learning and much more. There is always a cause behind everything you do. And that cause let you push you the to the extreme limit. People attempting GMAT surely wants to ...
- by ankit0703
Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:58 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: From 550 > 640 > 710. Self-Belief is the key !!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8783
Present Perfect vs Simple Present
In electing conservative incumbents governing for years over upstart mavericks who appeal to younger voters, potentially influential swing voters have rejected a modernist movement that conflicts with their conventional beliefs. D. By electing conservative incumbents with years of government experie...
- by ankit0703
Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:37 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Present Perfect vs Simple Present
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1558
Due to automobile-related jobs [GMATPREP SC]
Due to automobile-related jobs in the 1920's employing one of every eight workers, the automobile industry dominated the American economy. (A) Due to automobile-related jobs in the 1920's employing one of every eight workers, the automobile industry dominated the American economy. (B) One out of ev...
- by ankit0703
Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:31 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Due to automobile-related jobs [GMATPREP SC]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3609
OG SC question
Biologists working in Spain say that their discovery of teeming life in a highly acidic river may not only broaden the search for life, or for evidence of past life, no other planets but also show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought ho...
- by ankit0703
Mon Dec 10, 2012 11:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG SC question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1082
Sentence starting with "THAT".
Could any one throw light on sentences starting with THAT?
Most of the time I saw that the sentences starting with THAT are wrong but it is not always true.
Thanks in Advance.
- by ankit0703
Thu Nov 08, 2012 2:52 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Sentence starting with "THAT".
- Replies: 1
- Views: 987
But "upgrading data-processing equipment" is a simple gerund phrase. How can this be parallel to "the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff"? ... because, well, it can. see og12 #64 for another example in which the same thing happens. again, the most im...
- by ankit0703
Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:47 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG Parallilism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2013
I received a PM asking me to comment. So, beater, you're right - that's part of why these are wrong! They're not parallel and they're not even used in the correct form anyway. If I'm talking about "changing the strain" - that implies something IS changing the strain. Same with "varyi...
- by ankit0703
Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:11 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC: Geologists
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9359
The GMAT does NOT subscribe to the contention that COMMA + FANBOYS must be followed by an independent clause. Hence, the comma that precedes but in the OA is NOT AN ERROR. In the OG question Incorrect: The Scandinavian assault on Western Europe culminated in the early eleventh century with the Dani...
- by ankit0703
Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:54 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG SC question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2953
"To amount to" is a VERB and it means "to be equivalent with" or "to reach a total of..." So it is not connected to the noun "amount" used with uncountable nouns. Kasia, You are BACK. :) From past some days I was not able to see your replies over the threads....
- by ankit0703
Sat Oct 20, 2012 4:29 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Usage of "AMOUNT" in OG question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1083
Usage of "AMOUNT" in OG question
For the first time in the modern era, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California, amounting to a little less than half the population of the state, down from nearly three-quarters a decade ago. How is the use of "amounting" is correct here as it refers to non-countable nou...
- by ankit0703
Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Usage of "AMOUNT" in OG question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1083
I think the dilemma here would have been to use "that" or "which" and "that" is right usage here as is limits the focus to neutrinos. Here author does not simply wish to add information about neutrinos but is giving focussed information about them. Thanks for your valu...
- by ankit0703
Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:34 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Usage of "THAT" in OG question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1160
Usage of "THAT" in OG question
As a result of a supernova explosion, every human being on Earth was bombarded on February 23, 1987, by about 100 billion neutrinos; fortunately, neutrinos are harmless elementary particles that are produced in nuclear reactions and that interact very weakly with matter. As far as I understand "...
- by ankit0703
Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:42 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Usage of "THAT" in OG question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1160
EducationAisle wrote:Yes, both are noun phrases.
But "upgrading data-processing equipment" is a simple gerund phrase. How can this be parallel to "the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff"?
- by ankit0703
Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:55 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG Parallilism
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2013