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CR: Gym membership and marketing campaign
So I was having a look at the amazing CR guide by GmatPrep Now and came across this question: To attract members away from other fitness clubs in the city, FitnessTown recently launched a new marketing campaign in which each new member receives a free locker rental, free fitness consultations, and u...
- by ale_434
Sun Dec 20, 2015 8:00 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: CR: Gym membership and marketing campaign
- Replies: 1
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I'm sure that the prompt stipulates that A and B are each equally (and independently) likely to arrive at ANY time from 5:00 to 6:00. Assuming that, we could solve the problem as follows. (If you haven't done any geometric probability before, here's a good introduction .) A and B will arrive in the...
- by ale_434
Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:43 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Probability
- Replies: 3
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The treaty is set up in such a way that the actions of each county are conditional on simultaneous action taken by the other countries. In other words, whether one country is required to or supposed to engage in certain actions depends on whether other countries have. This setup leaves open the pos...
- by ale_434
Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:22 am- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Seven countries signed a treaty binding each of them to perf
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1878
Hi ale_434, Yes, I do have some suggestions - but I think that this serves as a great critical thinking exercise. What do YOU think you can do during your two breaks that would help you to clear your head and re-energize you for the next section of the GMAT? (hint: sitting down in the lobby is NOT ...
- by ale_434
Wed Dec 16, 2015 2:53 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
Hi ale_434, With the information that you've provided in this post, we have a few more 'red flags' that almost certainly impacted your performance. You can train yourself to perform under any number of conditions, but the key element is consistency - you have to get 'used to' the situation so that ...
- by ale_434
Mon Dec 14, 2015 10:25 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
Hi ale_434, From your prior post, there were a couple of minor 'red flags' (taking the CATs at home and at an hour earlier than your Official GMAT are aspects of your practice that were not realistic). I have a few additional questions about the lead-up to Test Day and Test Day itself: 1) What did ...
- by ale_434
Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:17 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
Hi ale_434, I'm sorry to hear that Test Day didn't go as well as planned. When these types of score drops occur, the two likely "causes" involve either something that was unrealistic during practice or something that was surprising (or not accounted for) on Test Day. If you can answer a f...
- by ale_434
Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:38 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
I'm sorry to that you had such a drop in your verbal score. I know that you felt that things were going fine on test day, but one of the paradoxical features of the GMAT is that feeling that things are going well can sometimes mean that things are going poorly. Here's what I mean: if, for example, ...
- by ale_434
Sun Dec 13, 2015 8:43 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
My disappointing first take on the GMAT
Hi guys, I took the GMAT for the first time last Thursday and it didn't go as expected. I had been getting around q35-40 and v31-36 on my practice tests. Surprisingly on test day, I managed to score q42 but I only got v15, and I couldn't figure out what went so wrong, as I didn't feel nervous, confu...
- by ale_434
Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:46 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: My disappointing first take on the GMAT
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3478
Hi ale_434, With these latest CAT scores, you could easily be scoring 600+ right now. You've identified the primary reason that you are NOT though - silly mistakes. You don't need to be practicing co-ordinate geometry or work problems; those are relatively rare subjects that won't get you more poin...
- by ale_434
Tue Dec 08, 2015 8:40 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Test Day on 2 days
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1652
Test Day on 2 days
Hi guys! How's it going? So test day is Dec 10th, I've covered pretty much all the prep materials, done a ton of exercises, and 5 practice tests (3 ManhattanPrep CAts and the 2 free official Gmat Prep tests). I've started preparation about 2 months ago, and since then I've studied 3-4 hours a day, 7...
- by ale_434
Mon Dec 07, 2015 9:36 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Test Day on 2 days
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1652
For quant you might want to do the following. Choose three types of questions that you find challenging and at the same time learnable. Then work to learn all about how to handle those three types one at at time, doing dozen of topic focused questions for each type before moving onto the next type....
- by ale_434
Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:41 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Help improving my verbal?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3004
Hi ale_434, Assuming that you took your two CATs in a realistic, test-like fashion, you're remarkably close to a 600+ score right now. As such, you really have to 'nitpick' WHY you're getting questions wrong and focus on eliminating as many of those mistakes as possible. The good news is that many ...
- by ale_434
Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:58 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Help improving my verbal?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3004
- by ale_434
Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:45 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Help improving my verbal?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3004
- by ale_434
Mon Nov 23, 2015 6:06 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Help improving my verbal?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3004