Just wanted to throw in my two cents on why Answer A is incorrect. For starters, "being" is an ugly GMAT word that is almost never correct, but that's not enough to eliminate the answer entirely. For A to be correct, we would need some other past participle to align with "born" f...

Checking out another test prep company or two is never a bad idea. Of course, there are no magic formulas for improving your score. But, if you're feeling a bit burned out by GMAT prep, there are some non-GMAT things you can do to improve. For example, I encourage all of my students to read the Econ...

Let's paraphrase the argument: To be agricultural, you need staple crops. Staple crops are not native to Western Africa; they are all "imported", like Yams and Rice were. Getting the date of Y & R's introduction to Western Africa would show the first agricultural society. A good assump...

This is a very dicey GMAT idea, given how frequently test-prep teachers talk about avoiding "being" at all costs. The fact is, "being" is wrong about 99 per cent of the time in this section. It often leads to wordy and awkward constructions. But, to give you a short answer, you s...

Additionally, since Group 1, at a probability of 30%, is your most formidable set of challengers, your chances of beating a randomly selected opponent will certainly be higher than 30%. I am a bit surprised by the answer choices, given how quickly someone could have used this reasoning and selected ...

Just wanted to add a couple more distinctions between "as" and "like," since this comes up relatively often on the GMAT SC. As can mean "in the capacity of" -- Like cannot. Correct: Ed spent four years as an accountant. Incorrect: Ed spent four years like an accountant....

Certainly this can help you in the AWA section; the sophistication of your writing can certainly impact your score. Having a good vocabulary in general helps on almost every section. I remember a Sentence Correction question that had the word "synaesthesia" as the subject of the sentence, ...

It seems to me that the answer you picked, Answer D , can be eliminated based on the structure of the first paragraph. We are told that, indeed, F and M want to limit the amount of data taken, but they want to do so in order to cut down on unnecessary spending. Additionally, F and M seem to acknowle...