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With the kind of score you are looking to achieve I highly recommend hiring a tutor to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. I agree you need to do work every day. in Reading Comp certainly read all you can, but don't jsut read it, summarize it and ask yourself questions about it - learn ...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:24 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: need to improve current score of 650 to 730
- Replies: 7
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The test is scored using a computer adaptive algorithm. It is not a point based test - meaning it is not a test in which a certain number right equals a certain score. As you take the exam and get questions correct, the questions get harder (representative of a higher scoring level). The score is, a...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:19 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Queries - Reaching a little higher, strategy
- Replies: 4
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I have been a teacher for The Princeton Review for 18 years and have had great results in my current online classes. I would highly recommend our new online product as I believe it is the most comprehensive product available and truly does help students achieve their goals. The course includes 13 2-...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:27 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Online Course...?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1074
The fact that your CAT scores were so much higher points to testing stress and that you actually do know the material. You can always improve on the scores though by working through the knowledge. Now is the time to analyze what was the actual problem on test day. Did you work the tests the same way...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:20 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: GMAT PREP 680, Real GMAT 540 :(
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1423
First and foremost you should take a practice exam. YOu need to know how close or far you are from achieving your goal. If you are scoring close to what you want then it is a matter of evaluating your strengths and weaknesses and studying the appropriate topics. If your score is far from where you a...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:14 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Study Strategy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1344
Now is the time to start figuring out the cause of your mistakes. You are already scoring very well which probably means you have mastered most, if not all, of the content tested on the exam so it is time to start looking at your exam taking skills and see if there is a consistent problem. Some very...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:11 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Queries - Reaching a little higher, strategy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1135
A good start is to understand how authors write so you can figure out how to better read. Most authors use consistent "clue" words to tell you when they are stating their conclusion, and others to tell you when they are introducing an example. The key to good passage reading is to be able ...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:03 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: 550-->RC Killed me...Any Advice / Help?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 838
The hallmarks of a good prep course is one that teaches all of the content that you will see on the GMAT and does not focus on content that is not tested. This will make your study time more efficient. Secondarily, you need a prep course that focuses on strategy and timing as well as content. Once y...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:58 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Online Prep Course
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1062
Coordinate Geometry is generally about distance or line equation with slope. here we have a line equation problem. if we know the x intercept of line a we still don't knwo the orientation of line b at all, just that it has the same slope ( in this case a negative slope as it goes from (-1,0) to (0, ...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:17 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: co-ordinate geometry .
- Replies: 2
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from the first statement you know that you had 20 black marbles. In the second statement 1/20 marbles were black and you are told that this is the same ratio as the black marbles in the bag - thus 1/20 marbles in the bag are black. you know that there are 20 black marbles so 1/20(marbles) = 20 thus ...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:07 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: White and black marbles - Please help
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1121
Yes, the key to this question, beyond the math, is to be sure to answer what the test is asking - most people get hung up solving for what they think they should solve for (r) - even though the test asks for the value of y. It is a good practice to always re-read the final question.
- by tpr-becky
Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:03 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: value of y
- Replies: 4
- Views: 921
to answer your first question - if you pick number and the three always cancels out then yes, the statement is sufficient. However, you can also look at this problem algebraically. For something to be divisible that means that the denominator divides evenly into the numerator, thus (x^4 - y ^4)/3 wi...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:52 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: divisible by 3
- Replies: 2
- Views: 906
This question involves deciding how many things are available for each slot and then multiplying all of the slots together to get your answer. Since the question asks you for the least number of integers to make 15 codes it is best to look at the answers first, starting with the lowest - remember yo...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:45 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Codes for local banks
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1224
when it asks "how many different" they are normally asking for permutations combinations and here that is the case however there is a difference. First you would solve for the number of combinations of two points out of 8 possible points. 8!/(8-2)!(2!) = 28 However, this accounted for the ...
- by tpr-becky
Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:39 am- Forum: GMAT Math
- Topic: polygon diagonals
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1834
My best advice is to take a practice online GRE and another practice GMAT - both can be found for free at www.Princetonreview.com see which test you are more comfortable with adn which gives you the best results. Good Luck.
- by tpr-becky
Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:40 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: decision
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1237