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Stuart -- reason i ruled out A because it has 'to sharply rise'. do you think it's right? "Officially", at least according to 1950's grammar textbooks, it's wrong to split infinitives. However, in everyday english people constantly split them and it's idiomatically fine to do so. "Sh...
- by Alpha800
Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:03 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: if condition
- Replies: 10
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Re: pearson milpitas california testing -- flat screen monit
stupid question --do they have flat screen monitors or CRT at the milpitas testing center? is the resolution 1024x768 or is the resolution of the screen higher? i hate scrolling during an RC Good question. I too would like to know the answer. However, I have a suspicion that all the screen sizes sh...
- by Alpha800
Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:33 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: pearson milpitas california testing -- flat screen monitors?
- Replies: 2
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More people just perform better at the Quant section than they do on the Verbal. So, you move higher in percentile for every point in verbal that you get because the majority of people who take the test score higher in the math section than they do in the verbal. Yes, that's my understanding as wel...
- by Alpha800
Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:36 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Interpreting GMAT scores -- percentiles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4963
More people just perform better at the Quant section than they do on the Verbal. So, you move higher in percentile for every point in verbal that you get because the majority of people who take the test score higher in the math section than they do in the verbal. Yes, that's my understanding as wel...
- by Alpha800
Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:20 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Interpreting GMAT scores -- percentiles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4963
Interpreting GMAT scores -- percentiles
Total: 740 97% Q 49 87% V 41 92% Someone recently posted this score. I thought I understood the GMAT scoring system, but the score above kind of blows my mind away. Q49 is only 87 percentile? And V41 is 92 percentile? This is not making much sense to me. The highest score has determined to be what,...
- by Alpha800
Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:56 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Interpreting GMAT scores -- percentiles
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4963
Great question. :) They do, indeed, pull SC sentences from the real world - not just the info, but the actual sentences themselves! We've actually been able to find the matching sentences in, say, a New York Times article. The passages are also adapted from real-world passages. Of course, informati...
- by Alpha800
Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:47 pm- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: Question re: truth or falsity of GMAT question content.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2881
thank you Stacey. I do not see your explantion can be applied to the 2 following questions In the question 73, OG11, why "like" in a is wrong According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults,// like that of...
- by Alpha800
Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:49 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 1000sc# 171
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13917
Received a PM asking me to respond. We (the experts) are technically not supposed to discuss OG questions. So here's this other made-up sentence that I just happened to write - maybe it will be useful. :) GMAT students have found that students who have Stacey , can you comment on my question, which...
- by Alpha800
Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:03 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: Researchers have found...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13743
Question re: truth or falsity of GMAT question content.
Hi All, I'm wondering whether the content of questions asked on the GMAT is always true or not. I.e., during a SC problem, GMAT states that researchers found such and such. I know we're just grammatically correcting the sentence--so really the truth or falsity of the content is irrelevant--but I'm c...
- by Alpha800
Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:02 pm- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: Question re: truth or falsity of GMAT question content.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2881
Please explain the meaning difference between like adults, the children organize the perceptions and the children organize the perceptions as adults do. The meaning is really close here, but there is a subtle difference. In the first one, you're saying that children organize something. And then you...
- by Alpha800
Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:39 pm- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: 1000sc# 171
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13917
I love the word: shiteous. :P Holy crap! It's actually well defined: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shiteous This is the first time I've read or heard of it. LOL! you referring to the word or the article??? :P :lol: I can see how it could have come across ambiguously. At the time of...
- by Alpha800
Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:32 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: There has been NO change to the GMAT! Disregard other posts!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7630
Well I am not instructer yet :), but for person like me who is studying for GMAT and have not gotten the score which desired by me or that person. If your purpose is to get into B-School, it's probably not a wise idea to be taking it that many times. 10 times is really a lot for a regular student w...
scoseg, have you read this: http://www.beatthegmat.com/720-96th-percentile-how-i-beat-the-gmat-t13.html or http://beatthegmat.blocked/2005/08/reflecting-on-my-gmat-experience.html I think you should start there. There's no short cut through this. You have to find what works best for you and Eric's d...
- by Alpha800
Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:21 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Process To Define A Study Strategy
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1393
Re: Retake the GMAT? 730 (Q50 V38)
Hey guys, I need some advice. I just took the GMAT on Monday and was a little disappointed with my 730. My goal was at least a 740 and considering my nerves totally got to me in the verbal section when I was hit with some really atypical RC passages (4 long passages...) and critical reasoning quest...
- by Alpha800
Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:43 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Retake the GMAT? 730 (Q50 V38)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2794
Re: two practice exams
Good luck. I'm rooting for you.bullshark wrote:I'm going to keep studying/practicing until I can consistently score around 750.
- by Alpha800
Wed Jul 08, 2009 2:07 am- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: GMAT journey blog
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4735