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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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.