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I am also disappointed with my TOEFL score

Reading - 28
Listening - 22
Speaking - 30
Writing - 27

Overall 107

Should i retake? Targeting 2012 admissions

by zaarathelab

Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:45 pm
Forum: Ask Stacy Blackman
Topic: Low AWA/TOEFL Dilemma
Replies: 1
Views: 1077

20th century writers

In early-twentieth-century England, it was fashionable to claim that only a completely new style of writing could address a world undergoing unprecedented transformation — just as one literary critic recently claimed that only the new “aesthetic of exploratory excess� can address a world under...

by zaarathelab

Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:39 am
Forum: Reading Comprehension
Topic: 20th century writers
Replies: 1
Views: 2625

Environmental Studies Program

Some Universities have created environmental studies programs that can be marketed to prospective students but that suffer from too little administrative support, limited faculty resources, and a lack of careful deliberation over the hard choices.In the short term, this institutional strategy can pa...

by zaarathelab

Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:27 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: Environmental Studies Program
Replies: 2
Views: 3450

More Mixtures

Solution X contains only ingredients A and B in a ratio of 2:3. Solution Y contains only ingredients A and B in the ratio 1:2. If solution Z is created by mixing solutions X and Y in the ratio of 3:11, then 630 ounces of solution Z contains how many ounces of a? a) 68 b) 73 c) 89 d) 219 e) 236 Pls g...

by zaarathelab

Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:41 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: More Mixtures
Replies: 5
Views: 6627
by zaarathelab

Sun Jan 08, 2012 12:48 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Policymakers
Replies: 4
Views: 3037

Policymakers

Policy makers remain concerned about the prospect of inflation, although there are few signs of increasing energy prices driving up the cost of other goods so far. A) remain concerned about the prospect of inflation, although there are few signs of increasing energy prices driving up the cost of oth...

by zaarathelab

Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:48 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Policymakers
Replies: 4
Views: 3037

3 days to go (The last lap) Major issues with timing.

Hi Somehow, I am still struggling with both time management and stress management on practice tests. My break-up of scores are as follows - 2nd Jan, 2012 GMATPREP -1 : 730 (Q49, V40) - Mostly because I'd seen/done most of the questions(Courtesy forums, OGs, etc) 3rd Jan, 2012 MGMAT CAT-2 : 650 (Q45,...

by zaarathelab

Sun Jan 08, 2012 9:41 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: 3 days to go (The last lap) Major issues with timing.
Replies: 1
Views: 1364

#8 - IMO A

#3 - IMO E

In the first question, all other answer choices deviate from the advantage of using the word explosion.

Similarly, answer choices other than E shift the scope.

by zaarathelab

Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:57 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: GMAC paper based tests
Replies: 5
Views: 2538

I'll go with B If zoos are present in all metropolitan cities, then the vacationers don't have an incentive to go to a zoo, but if pure aquariums are only present in a few cities, it is very likely that vacationers will visit the pure aquarium since it may not be present in their own city. This is m...

by zaarathelab

Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:49 am
Forum: Critical Reasoning
Topic: GMAC paper based tests
Replies: 3
Views: 2257

Got it! Change of meaning in E makes it illogical. Why would the scrubjay store a treat long enough so that the treat rots!

by zaarathelab

Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:21 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: A troublesome scrub jay
Replies: 10
Views: 4533

'It stored long enough to have rotted'

Is it that 'stored' is a past participle here and therefore refers to scrubjay being stored itself?

by zaarathelab

Tue Jan 03, 2012 12:11 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: A troublesome scrub jay
Replies: 10
Views: 4533

Has the GMAT quant become SUPER TOUGH?

Hi, I want to take the GMAT within a week because of application deadlines. I took GMATPREP 1 today and scored a 730 (q49 v40). I guess this score was largely because I had seen most of the questions in some forum/OG book. I am terrified of the math section as my timing is not up to the mark. Moreov...

by zaarathelab

Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:18 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Has the GMAT quant become SUPER TOUGH?
Replies: 4
Views: 2468

A troublesome scrub jay

A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted. A. tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if B. they tend not to bother recoveri...

by zaarathelab

Sun Jan 01, 2012 12:02 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: A troublesome scrub jay
Replies: 10
Views: 4533

GMATPREP:Drive-ins

When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many . A. there are less than one-quarter that many B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many C. there are fewer than one-quarter of t...

by zaarathelab

Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:27 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: GMATPREP:Drive-ins
Replies: 4
Views: 2036