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I am sailing on the same boat, with a poor verbal score. Since then i had started focussing on the SC part as i thought that is one thing which we need to make it rock solid to gain a good verbal score. The question on actual GMAT is much more harder than what any of the prep companies including MGM...
- by rishi4you
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:37 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: 640 to 700 - Strategies pls!!
- Replies: 14
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Todays technology allows manufactures to make small cars more fuel efficient now than at any other time min thier production history . b)small cars that are more fuel efficient than they were at any other time. c) small cars that are more fuel efficient than those at any other time in d)more fuel ef...
- by rishi4you
Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:23 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep SC Questions
- Replies: 2
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GMAT Prep SC Questions
In my quest to perfect the SC, i have been working on the GMAT Prep SC questions and tried to put my own understanding of the right and wron answer choice. I wanted to start this thread to get everyone opinion about my reasoning for the right and wrong answer. I am going to add a bunch of questions ...
- by rishi4you
Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:42 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: GMAT Prep SC Questions
- Replies: 2
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Hey CAPNX, There seems to be some confusion with this idiom. Manhaatan GMAT SC says So X as to Y is correct, but if you check Q 33 of OG 11, it mentions the construction so x as to y as an incorrect idiom. In this case where do we go now. Stacey or some other Sc wizard can you guys pitch in with you...
- by rishi4you
Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:30 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SO X AS TO Y ? CORRECT ?
- Replies: 10
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Dana, You are right we should not divide by a .But if we take the 2 scenarios a=0 a!=0 then stmt 1 tells that: a+b>0 then if a is zero then x is -b/0 which is not possible, so lets take a with +ve or -ve number then we would get different values for ax. So Stmt 1 is not sufficient If we take stmt 2 ...
- by rishi4you
Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:14 am- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMAT Prep DS problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1640
GMAT Prep DS problem
If ax + b = 0 is x > 0.
1) a + b > 0
2) a –b > 0
My rephrase is is -b/a> 0 or is b/a -ve.
- by rishi4you
Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:45 pm- Forum: Data Sufficiency
- Topic: GMAT Prep DS problem
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1640
You can read the sentence with only the core and leave all the modifiers stuff aside ... " Last year land values in Pineland rose faster than those outside pineland" The above sentence is just the core. Now if you check the original sentence 'the most part of" is a adjective describin...
- by rishi4you
Fri Aug 21, 2009 7:07 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: why this sentnce is correct?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1257
D seems to be the correct ans here as it uses the correct parallelism marker "suggested that" --"and that".
- by rishi4you
Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:59 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Kaplan 800/SC/Q53: Ellipsis
- Replies: 15
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- by rishi4you
Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:54 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: SO X AS TO Y ? CORRECT ?
- Replies: 10
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The toss is between B and E. I chose E because.. "they" correctly refers back to sports vehicle as its antecendant and uses "those of" as the correct parallel construct to compare the emisson standards of utility vehicles. B is wrong as it uses wrong parallelism marker ..it uses ...
- by rishi4you
Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:51 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Emission Testing
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6794
A. with the Congressional Medal of Honor, which was the nation’s highest military award, and which was long overdue in .... use of which twice is wordy and redundant B. with the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award for .... awarded 'with' seems to be unidiomatic long-ove...
- by rishi4you
Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:03 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: A good one to try
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2003
Hi Stacey, Fist of all i would like to thank you a ton for giving me the nod to adjust my timings . I am able to see the results .I have worked on the timings as suggested by you and took only the verbal section of the GMATPrep test . Here is what i got. GMATPrep Verbal 1 : Was able to complete 2 mi...
- by rishi4you
Sat Mar 14, 2009 6:54 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: verbal score from 28 to 40 in 2 weeks....please advise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2189
Hi Stacey, I am spending an average of 8 to 10 mins for RC pasagges . For CR questions i have noticed that i tend to get some of them wrong if i try to answer the question within 2mins. For the same question if i do spend a little over 3 mins i tend to get it right . For SC questions my timings are ...
- by rishi4you
Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:07 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: verbal score from 28 to 40 in 2 weeks....please advise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2189
Johhny, that makes sense but what if you have reached a plateau and you have exhausted all your means . Is there a guru mantra 
which is there to help the RC and CR scores
- by rishi4you
Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:24 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: verbal score from 28 to 40 in 2 weeks....please advise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2189
verbal score from 28 to 40 in 2 weeks....please advise
All, I would like to seek advice from all the verbal gurus who have mastered the nuances of SC's, the logic variations of CR's and the long passages of RC. I have been trying to prepare very hard on the verbal section but have achieved very less success compared to the amount of work i have put . I ...
- by rishi4you
Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:13 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: verbal score from 28 to 40 in 2 weeks....please advise
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2189