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FYI: I'm no longer participating on the forums (though I do still write articles for BTG). For future reference, please contact Ron Purewal and/or Whitney Garner for any MGMAT help on the BTG forums. It has been a long time since you posted and you didn't post a follow-up with test scores, so I'll j...

by Stacey Koprince

Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:10 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: GMAT Strategy Preparation
Replies: 2
Views: 1470

They cover the material at all levels (though some people may also need the Foundations of Math guide before launching into the main strategy guides). The "general" parts of each guide are sufficient if you want to score up to 650 or so. If you want something above 650, then you will also ...

by Stacey Koprince

Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:55 am
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: manhattan gmat data sufficiency
Replies: 3
Views: 3524

Received a PM asking me to reply. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I no longer participate on the BTG forums (though I do still write articles). For an MGMAT response, please contact one of our participating instructors (as of this writing, Ron Purewal and Whitney Garner). I will give you...

by Stacey Koprince

Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:22 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: GMAT Practice test score 420-480. Please help me...
Replies: 4
Views: 2865

I'm sorry; I forgot to include the below in my last post!

I'm no longer participating on the BTG forums (I'm only writing articles going forward); please send any additional requests to our two participating instructors: Ron Purewal and Whitney Garner.

by Stacey Koprince

Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:47 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: "ing" Modifier Three Different Versions in OG????
Replies: 129
Views: 69857

This is what I said: "An "-ed" modifier is a noun modifier, not an adverbial modifier, and should modify the closest primary noun preceding it (in the "comma -ed" setup). " (New underline added.) What's the primary noun prior to the "comma -ed" setup in your e...

by Stacey Koprince

Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:11 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: "ing" Modifier Three Different Versions in OG????
Replies: 129
Views: 69857

Received a PM (a long time ago!) asking for my reply. First, FYI, I'm no longer participating on the BTG forums; please send any requests to our two participating instructors: Ron Purewal and Whitney Garner. I'm going to reply here but, going forward (including subsequent questions on this same issu...

by Stacey Koprince

Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:11 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: No referent to the modifying phrase!!!Please explain.
Replies: 4
Views: 1853

Thanks, guys, for your kind words and for helping me to welcome Whitney! gmatmachoman - you know that "Stacey's Style," as you call it, is primarily for your (the students') benefit, right? From my point of view, yes, I care about properly sourcing things, but from your point of view, you ...

by Stacey Koprince

Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:26 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Good news and sad news
Replies: 7
Views: 2796

Sorry I'm so late getting back to you. As you may have heard already, I'm only going to be writing articles from now on; I'm not going to be participating on the forums. I'm following up with people one last time, but going forward, please talk to Ron Purewal or Whit Garner, the two primary MGMAT in...

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:54 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Like any weather pattern
Replies: 7
Views: 1584

Sorry I'm so late getting back to you. As you may have heard already, I'm only going to be writing articles from now on; I'm not going to be participating on the forums. I'm following up with people one last time, but going forward, please talk to Ron Purewal or Whit Garner, the two primary MGMAT in...

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:23 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Strategy to get 650 (80+ points) by end of Sept.. comments?
Replies: 14
Views: 2696

Good news and sad news

Hi, all I'm writing with both good news and sad news (for me, anyway). While I'm very sad to do so, I'm bowing out of the forums for the foreseeable future. As those of you who have interacted with me on the forums this summer already know, it has been a struggle for me to keep up with questions in ...

by Stacey Koprince

Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:52 pm
Forum: Ask a Manhattan Prep representative
Topic: Good news and sad news
Replies: 1
Views: 1911

Good news and sad news

Hi, all I'm writing with both good news and sad news (for me, anyway). While I'm very sad to do so, I'm bowing out of the forums for the foreseeable future. As those of you who have interacted with me on the forums this summer already know, it has been a struggle for me to keep up with questions in ...

by Stacey Koprince

Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:48 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Good news and sad news
Replies: 7
Views: 2796

Received a PM asking me to reply. He had said that he would write the book today, but then he became ill. past perfect, then conditional, then simple past (this conditional is not hypothetical though, but "future from past" - he did actually intend to write the book today) I can't think of...

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:43 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: MGMAT:health commissioner
Replies: 7
Views: 1978

Good! Well, not GOOD, but now you know what went wrong, so now you can fix the problem! :)

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:06 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Plan for next 20 days. Current level of 680. Target 730.
Replies: 5
Views: 3235

When posting questions, please make sure to cite the source (author) so that I can discuss the problem directly. A "comma -ing" modifier is not modifying only a noun, and IF it shows up after the clause, then it is especially not referring to the immediately preceding noun (if there is one...

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:05 pm
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Dolphin Whales
Replies: 41
Views: 13018

At the time this post was submitted, I was the only MGMAT person contributing to this forum. I did not write that original post. I have never written a post for MGMAT or about MGMAT that was not posted under my own name. Not only wouldn't we do that, we don't think we have any need to. We're confide...

by Stacey Koprince

Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:49 pm
Forum: GMAT Strategy
Topic: Manhattan GMAT Private Tutor Experience = EXCELLENT
Replies: 3
Views: 13075