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firstly congrats on a good score, can you tell us the material you used for prep and how many hours you put in on an average? The first book I got way back in December was a Kaplan book called Math foundations or something like that, it helped provide a very basic refresher, but I blew through it v...
- by aerodan1
Tue Apr 27, 2010 4:27 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 710 (47Q/40V)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3146
A 710 is 92 percentile right? You may not have gotten a 760 or something like that, but you did do better than 184,000 other test takers this year so that's something to be proud of. since many people take the gmat multiple times, i wonder what the percentiles and averages would look like for 1st t...
- by aerodan1
Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:45 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 710 (47Q/40V)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3146
710 (47Q/40V)
well have just taken the gmat for the first time (and hopefully only time) today, and got a 710. while the score was in my acceptable range (700-730), it was well below my target score of 740. my undergrad. gpa was bad, and it was an easy major. things have changed since then, and i have been back o...
- by aerodan1
Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:28 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: 710 (47Q/40V)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3146
the sentence does not contain 2 independent clauses though...the first clause has no working verb. the first clause does not contain a relative noun or subordinate indicator or any of that stuff, but without a verb, cannot be considered an independent clause. I think the only possible sentence that ...
- by aerodan1
Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:42 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: editorial
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1933
editorial
taken from monday, april 19, 2010 editorial in the metrowest daily news. "A national sales tax imposed at each stage of the supply chain from production to cash register, it raises consumer prices, sometimes substantially". the pronoun it refers correctly to the antecedent "a national...
- by aerodan1
Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:00 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: editorial
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1933
question from my essay
taken from one of awa issues essays.... " So, an employee resides in the middle, feeling the forces from his bosses, his customers, and those who work in the same environment." Would this sentence be incorrect on the gmat, due to parallelism issues? i know that if i added from to the 2nd a...
- by aerodan1
Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:19 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: question from my essay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1363
disappointed with manhattan gmat...
just finished taking the 6th mgmat cat, and my test is next saturday. anyways, got a 740, which is 30 points higher than my previous high of 710. the quant. section was tough and nasty like always, so im ok with that. however, the verbal section was PATHETIC. it was way too easy, and i had loads of ...
- by aerodan1
Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:04 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: disappointed with manhattan gmat...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1227
indians
While at the gym tonight, I saw a message on the ticker of the TV that said: "A study shows that more people in India have access to cellphones than to toilets". So my question is, would it be ok to say: "A study shows that more people in India have access to cellphones than toilets&q...
- by aerodan1
Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:36 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: indians
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1221
roots
if you have sq. rt. (27), how can you reduce that to (3)(sq. rt. (3)) ? i know to reduce it to to 3^(3/2), and then to 3^1.5, but am just a little foggy with all the different ways to express numbers that involve square roots.
thanks very much kevin, i suppose that the conclusion will always, or perhaps almost always, be stated in these awa arg. problems. once the clock is ticking (and i time all of my practice problems), sometimes its hard to slow down and figure out exactly what is going on. so i realize that this probl...
- by aerodan1
Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:14 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: confusing awa argument
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1571
confusing awa argument
The following appeared in an announcement issued by the publisher of The Mercury, a weekly newspaper: “Since a competing lower-priced newspaper, The Bugle, was started five years ago, The Mercury’s circulation has declined by 10,000 readers. The best way to get more people to read The Mercury is...
- by aerodan1
Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:48 pm- Forum: GMAT Essays (AWA)
- Topic: confusing awa argument
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1571
in this sentence, which modifies "restricted free agent". now, the fact that he is a restricted free agent means Memphis can match any offer. so i am not sure if his status as a restricted free agent, and the term "restricted free agent" are close enough to consider them the same...
- by aerodan1
Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:00 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: real gm
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1051
real gm
Taken from the website realgm.com via The new york daily news, an article about Rudy Gay. "He is a restricted free-agent, which means Memphis can match any offer sheet he signs with another team." Is the use of which incorrect here? MGMAT SC says that which, when preceded by a comma must a...
- by aerodan1
Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:49 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: real gm
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1051
wall street journal
Taken from an editorial from the Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Wall Street Journal. "Unions usually worry less about European-style chronic unemployment than merely protecting whoever has union jobs now." There are two issues that confuse me in this sentence. The first is parallelism: unemploymen...
- by aerodan1
Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:43 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: wall street journal
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1055
yes, its true that the question was written incorrectly, and now that i realize what the question is, i see the logic behind brians post. knowing the radical rules is just as important as recognizing the difference of squares rule, in fact, more vital to solving this problem i think.
- by aerodan1
Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:26 am- Forum: GMAT Math
- Topic: How come the answer is 20 not 18?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3568