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Hey Guys, As Charu says, this is an LSAT question. And as Aditya is correctly pointing out, LSAT questions do not accurately simulate the GMAT. You would think that because Logical Reasoning and Critical Reasoning are so similar, there wouldn't be a problem, but there is. It's actually right there i...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:40 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Press
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1257
Hey Gmatdriller, This is a weighted average question. You can use the concept of weights/residuals to solve it without any annoying equation. 66 is the balance point around which everything must even out. The women sold an average of 70 tickets each. That's four more than 66, but because there are t...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:35 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: A charitable association sold 66 raffle tickets
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4070
Hey DCS,
Your scores are due by the general application due date. Official score reports are available to programs 20 days after you take the test. So you would want to have taken your test 20 days before the official due date at the schools in question. Generally a little more just to be safe.
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- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:33 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: unresponsive admisson's office...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 836
Hey Chitturi, That's some tricky thinking on your part! The good news is that the GMAT will very seldom be that tricky. They could play some game talking about "90% of the world's waters froze," in which case you wouldn't know if the rivers in question were in the 90% or the 10%. But in th...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:31 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Doubt Clarification:
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1676
Hey Independent, I think your strategy sounds great. The only thing I'm unsure about is the CR Bible. Why not just use the OG books to practice CR? (The truth is I don't know much about the CR Bible, so I get nervous). Otherwise, I like your approach. One day of quant and one day of verbal is great ...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:11 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: 4th (hopefully) final attempt. Please help!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2264
Hey Manu, Thanks for that. I know the official answer is (C), but my understanding of idioms is that both (B) and (C) are justifiable, so I don't think this is realistic. These are adequate grounds for divorce. He said these are grounds to initiate a separation. Both of those sentences are okay. -t
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Misc3
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1720
Hey Sahil, That's the worst question I've ever read. Ignore it. But just for fun: (A) "who" is modifying selection, which is wrong. (B) "it dampened" is a pronoun error. What did the dampening? (C) "came the dampener" is gibberish, also there's no second half to the the...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:59 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Can anybody help me with this question?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1148
Hey Manu, Agreed. Oftentimes people want to put up just a few answer choices, none of which are correct, to try to get a sense of which is "best". This is not a good idea. I don't personally like either of these examples: By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and in in f...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:56 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Misc3
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1720
Hey Duong, Think of it this way: (D) scientists have gathered evidence that suggests a much earlier emergence of complex life-forms than the emergence which was previously thought First off, it's an incorrect modifier "which" (requires a comma). But beyond that, the logic here is doesn't m...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:35 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: OG13
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3299
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:24 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: How prepared am I really?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5045
Hey Duong, Not sure where you're getting that explanation. "Move" is a verb and "that" is a relative pronoun. "Do" is also a verb. All relative pronouns modify the word directly before them, and "that" can't modify a verb. In this case, "that" is sur...
- by Tommy Wallach
Tue Feb 26, 2013 9:30 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: like vs as, true vs untrue
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7604
Hey Guys, Sorry, but the GMAT wouldn't do this. There isn't enough of a difference between C and E. There's no need to set up tense order here, because the two things actually happen simultaneously (plants and food are eaten, and the plants grind up the food). I don't see a strong enough case for E ...
- by Tommy Wallach
Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:34 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Tense Confusion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1342
Yes, it's a parallel issue. "Did" is actually a different verb (to do), where in the first half we only have "grant". It's also in the simple past tense, where had granted is in the past perfect tense. We could probably get away with the first issue, not definitely not the second...
- by Tommy Wallach
Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:57 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Misc2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1260
Hey Guys, All the correct explanations have been given here, but there is also some misinformation, so I thought I'd finish it off for you. Also, please try to post questions with full grammatical correctness (i.e. please read over what you wrote and edit it if there are errors). Also, it really hel...
- by Tommy Wallach
Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:57 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: like vs as, true vs untrue
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7604
Hey Guys, I'll weigh in on this one: Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp’s ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles. (A) requiring th...
- by Tommy Wallach
Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:50 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SC question-Last week local shrimpers held a news conference
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10134