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Criticizing someone or some idea means that the author actually thinks the person or idea is wrong / misguided and the author believes something else to be a better idea. Calling some idea into question means that the author is questioning whether this idea is true, but the author is not necessaril...
- by iamcste
Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:01 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
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FYI: another forum is a location , not a source. A source is the author of the question. That's the difference between saying, "I found this book at my local library" and "The book was written by James Joyce." :) So, I'll just address your questions generally, as you suggested. ...
- by iamcste
Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:13 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5866
Received a PM asking me to respond. Please remember to cite the source (author) of the text; then, I'll be happy to respond! :) stacy I am not sure who PMed but I would like to clairfy source: I have take this question from some other forums http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-reading-comprehension/682...
- by iamcste
Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:18 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5866
Timing issue in verbal and strategy for specific questions
Hi experts I have an acute timing issue in verbal. the two situations where I invest time: 1. I do not want to give up when I am really close to the answer, I try to buy more time. I often invest time for initial questions ( absorbed the incorrect myth somewhere in my brain and its not going out) an...
- by iamcste
Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:20 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Timing issue in verbal and strategy for specific questions
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1824
well, IMO you are in right path but with practice try to reduce time you take for these activities, should be fine then.
- by iamcste
Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:25 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: I'm so math driven, my RC is bleeding...Help?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1160
Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as Line 99 percent of the value of (5) any useful product can be attributed to “the effects of labor.� For Locke’s intellec- tual heirs it was only a short step to the “labor theory of (10) value,� whose formulators held that 1...
- by iamcste
Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:14 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5866
- by iamcste
Sun Mar 07, 2010 2:37 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5866
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:02 am- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: RC Main idea questions practice -GMATprep
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5866
what if you do not understand the Argument?
lets say if you do not understand the Argument in an assumption qtn when you read for the first time while the second read even more obfuscates and whole thing goes into loop of confusion, wasting time with no effective output..How do you face such a situation and get out of it with minimal loss?
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:52 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: what if you do not understand the Argument?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 886
one event that occured in the past is being compared to all the events that have occured till now. So the past event is denoted with a simple past . This past event (ie. one specific event that has occured in the past- that event that got 12 million immigrants) is compared to all the events until n...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:17 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Have swept or Had swept from OG12/4
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5624
I made sure again checked the Kaplan premier online, it says had been in the answer choice A ,my take was also D because of the past perfect issue. I was trying to paste the screen short but it does not let me explain tion is something like this Don’t hypercorrect. About one fifth of sentenc...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:26 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Kaplan SC George Elliot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1770
Note: Past perfect is applied when there are 2 events in the past. The one occuring later in the past time line is assigned the past tense and the event occuring after the first event is assigned simple past. Here we are referring to all the migration that have occured in history. Note: Present per...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:14 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Have swept or Had swept from OG12/4
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5624
14. A Don’t hypercorrect. About one fifth of sentence corrections will be correct as is.Many of these sound like something you’d never say or write unless you were writing a term paper. George Eliot didn’t become George Eliot, as (B)–(E) have it. She became known as George Eliot. The word â...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:55 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Kaplan SC George Elliot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1770
I know this has been posted before but I went through complete post but I was not staisfied with the explaination. May be a Kaplan instructor can help me with this Before George Eliot became the popular and respected novelist known as George Eliot, she had been an anonymous translator and essayist ...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:40 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Kaplan SC George Elliot
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1770
guys, just a clue, dont know it really helps present perfect tense is used when the event started in the past and still in action or event has completed and its effect is still being observed. Clearly, this example is latter case...the migration happened in the past but arent those migrated people ...
- by iamcste
Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:08 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Have swept or Had swept from OG12/4
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5624