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Thank you Bryant for this insight.

Another perplexing thought Is whether putting joining a leadership development program as a direct goa post-MBAl detrimental to the goals essay. This is my true goal before moving into marketing especially as I am trying to switch careers.

Fadi

by fadibassil

Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:35 am
Forum: The Application Process
Topic: goals essays
Replies: 3
Views: 1466

goals essays

Hello All, I'm confused about something I couldn't find in any of the admissions advices. Should I follow the structure of hte goals essay question or I can come up with my own structure as long as I answer the question. ex. Oxford essay 1 is Explain why you chose your current job. How do you hope t...

by fadibassil

Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:18 pm
Forum: The Application Process
Topic: goals essays
Replies: 3
Views: 1466

Cambridge Judge Essay 1 Help

Hello All, Cambridge Judge MBA essay 1 asks the following: "What are the key issues facing organizations in your sector over the next three years? What course of action would you recommend to such organizations?" but they are not clear whether they want a local answer to the issues faced i...

by fadibassil

Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:57 am
Forum: The Application Process
Topic: Cambridge Judge Essay 1 Help
Replies: 1
Views: 1661

Can you please explain for question 1 why it isn't a 7C6 instead of 7P6. the order of distributing the cookies does not matter so why did you use a permutation ?

Thanks

by fadibassil

Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:38 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: some good questions
Replies: 14
Views: 4907

Sorry for the confusion, the answer choices are 1 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 8 So it's as simple as that. I reached the 6m + 4n = 30 while solving and got stuck, thinking this is a one equation with two unknowns, and 2m + n = ? and got stuck. sometimes I don't understand how you get the idea of testing factors :...

by fadibassil

Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:35 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: how to transfer the solution of one problem to another
Replies: 3
Views: 1077

how to transfer the solution of one problem to another

I saw this problem in MGmat i don't know if i'm allowed to past everything here. but here is the stem. Bag A contains red, white and blue marbles such that the red to white marble ratio is 1:3 and the white to blue marble ratio is 2:3. Bag B contains red and white marbles in the ratio of 1:4. Togeth...

by fadibassil

Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:41 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: how to transfer the solution of one problem to another
Replies: 3
Views: 1077

Thank you for these posts.

The example about the workers in the first post shows a question mark symbol instead of a value for the fraction and choice A. what should be the value in place of the question mark?

Thanks again,

Fadi

by fadibassil

Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:38 am
Forum: GMAT Math
Topic: Dana's Quant Strategy suggestions
Replies: 16
Views: 26456

Thanks Brian that is what I was looking for. I'm asking because I read on the articles here to try to find the guessing strategy for problems I solved right so that I can use it on harder problems that I might not be able to solve. But that.s theoretical I needed an example of how to think about it ...

by fadibassil

Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:32 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: how do you guess on such a simple problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1933

Thank you, but to make it clear I know how to solve it directly but I would like to know how people think when trying to guess on this problem which I understand

Thank you

by fadibassil

Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:05 pm
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: how do you guess on such a simple problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1933

how do you guess on such a simple problem

I'm trying to learn to guess on problems I know how to solve , following the advice I read here. But, I can't find a way to guess on such a problem. How would you tackle it. I need an example for how this strategy works. On Sunday, Bill ran 4 more miles than he ran on Saturday. Julia did not run on ...

by fadibassil

Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:16 am
Forum: Problem Solving
Topic: how do you guess on such a simple problem
Replies: 4
Views: 1933

22 Days to test day, how can I best prepare

Hello all, I have the test on 22 Sept and my target is 690-700+(LBS average). I have gone through the OG-12, sadly before knowing this forum, so I did not keep a detailed error log, I only have which answers are wrong and did not go through them timed. I know now that this was not the best way to do...

by fadibassil

Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:48 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: 22 Days to test day, how can I best prepare
Replies: 1
Views: 1391

Thank you both for your replies.
and thank you Gurpinder for these resources.

Fadi

by fadibassil

Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:50 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: 650 on first GMATPrep Test
Replies: 3
Views: 1623

650 on first GMATPrep Test

Hello all, I've been visiting the forums for the past two months on and off and this is my first post. First a bit of background. I have an engineering background (grad. 4 years ago and working at the university so it's still relatively fresh), done the GRE a year and a half back and got Q:770 V:570...

by fadibassil

Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:30 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: 650 on first GMATPrep Test
Replies: 3
Views: 1623