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Any other material recommendations? What about the other MGMAT books? To be quite honest with you, most of the material in the GMAT prep books can be found on the web and here: http://del.icio.us/beatthegmat . Also, Many users have posted notes which are written from the prep books. I attached Amat...

by luvaduva

Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:55 am
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: Beaten by the GMAT...560 - 45Q , 21V, 4.5AWA)
Replies: 12
Views: 6725

Awesome Score and Congrats!

I hope you beat the hell out of business school!

by luvaduva

Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:13 am
Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
Topic: Could not beat it - 750 (Q51, V41) AWA 6.0
Replies: 20
Views: 14011

BTW- If your numbers are showing up as two squares, double click the first one and it will open a window which will allow you to change them to numbers.

by luvaduva

Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:17 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Brutal SCs
Replies: 9
Views: 23947

Here is a link to a thread in a different forum: http://www.beatthegmat.com/best-practice-tests-t1327.html This is from another post: The website is http://www.gmatfocus.com it's $25 per test This is the diagnostic for the quant section only. You can also purchase paper tests from www.mba.com. They ...

by luvaduva

Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:34 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: tests
Replies: 1
Views: 3086

Great notes.

Thanks for sharing!

by luvaduva

Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:14 am
Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
Topic: Cheat sheet for SC and CR.
Replies: 58
Views: 110642

netigen wrote:Lets say,
We need to find all cases where only 2 items are purchased = (MA+MC+AC) - 2 x MAC = 45 - 2 x 10 = 25%
3. No of persons in exactly two of the sets: P(AnB) + P(AnC) + P(BnC) – 3P(AnBnC)

Should it be 15?

by luvaduva

Sun May 25, 2008 5:05 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: difficult problem?
Replies: 5
Views: 1714

Here is what I think: Sociologists state that since these sects are no more than 40 or 50 years old, it must be disaffection with modern, industrialized, urban living that have produced this. In my mind, they are saying these sects are only a recent occurence. So, if we can find another reason why t...

by luvaduva

Sun May 25, 2008 11:58 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Fill in the blank!
Replies: 4
Views: 2128

For (2): If # Students taking Japanese = 100 then the number of students taking Japanese and French = 10. # Students taking French = 4/100x = 10 = 250 250 > 100 If # Students taking Japanese = 200 then the number of students taking Japanese and French = 20. # Students taking French = 4/100x = 20 = 5...

by luvaduva

Sun May 25, 2008 12:01 am
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: Japanese and French
Replies: 4
Views: 1671

I forget where I have seen this problem, but the answer is (B).

If there are 10 rooms and 30 guests.

6 rooms with only 1 person staying and they didn't get the discount. 6/22 ppl
4 rooms have whole families of 4 staying in the room and got the discount.=> 16/22 ppl

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 6:04 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Confusing CR
Replies: 4
Views: 1922

Re: MGMAT CR Question

impact of decreased insourcing in America The decrease in such insourcing will hurt America’s competitiveness in basic research and applied technology, with serious consequences for years to come. The de-internationalization of graduate programs across the country will also negatively affect the gl...

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 5:45 pm
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: MGMAT CR Question
Replies: 8
Views: 3042

I get (D) The stem tells us the mean is 75. 75 = sum/6, So, the sum must equal 75*6 = 450 *both statements say n=6* (1) The only way for this statement to be true(which statements are ALWAYS TRUE) is for each number to be 75. (2) Same applies to this. You can spend some time on this and set up an eq...

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 4:13 pm
Forum: Data Sufficiency
Topic: DS Question - Not agreeing with the answer
Replies: 3
Views: 1568

netigen wrote: 6. No of persons in atleast one set:
P(A) + P(B) + P(C) - P(AnB) - P(AnC) - P(BnC) + 2 P(AnBnC)
I think this is a mistake. Number of persons in at least one set is just #1.

Also, notice that there is a space between 2 and P.

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 3:35 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Set question - 4GMAT
Replies: 7
Views: 2023

I normally draw the old trusty VENN diagrams for these. Again, hehe, a picture is worth a thousand words so I made a picture. http://sosprocessing.com/truck/pics/sets.jpg I do these in the following steps: 1) Determine how many students are in Physics, Chemistry, and Math => 60, 24, and 17. 2) Deter...

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 2:41 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: Set question - 4GMAT
Replies: 7
Views: 2023

charter vacations is plural.

they = plural

it = singular

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 10:42 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: SC question
Replies: 17
Views: 11728

I believe C.

B - incorrect- doesn't have an independant clause after the semicolon.
E - incorrect- sentence is incorrect "college is fifty-two that in Canada"
D - incorrect- Has a pronoun issue with who
A - incorrect- the comparison doesn't seem to be parallel like C

by luvaduva

Sat May 24, 2008 10:07 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates
Replies: 2
Views: 4221