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Hey All, I have followed this forum quite rigorously for some time. I graduated from The College of William and Mary with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in Sociology. I started studying for the GMAT in September, roughly. I have worked my way through each MGMAT Quantitative book, the sen...
- by cbenk121
Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:56 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Help: Finishing practice tests, planning date, review
- Replies: 2
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I'd post your question on sentence correction board, http://www.beatthegmat.com/sentence-correction-f9.html, as this board I've found deals more with general GMAT strategy.
- by cbenk121
Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:46 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: tense and rhetorical construction question..
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3118
Archaeologists seeking the location of a legendary siege and destruction of a city are excavating in several possible places, including a middle and a lower layer of a large mound. The bottom of the middle layer contains some pieces of pottery of type 3, known to be from a later period than the tim...
- by cbenk121
Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:54 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Need explanation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1476
Hi, Can someone recommend a software/online resource designed for applicants currently scoring low 700s and aiming to break into the high 700s? Thanks! *Please note: I'm not a tool : ) My target school is a financial engineering program where many applicants have done grad/post grad level math work...
- by cbenk121
Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:41 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Test prep to beat 750
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1198
Hi All, I'd appreciate your thoughts on my situation. I took the GMAT for the first time in november and scored 680 (V46, Q39). AWA 5 (I didn't study this which was an error) So I scored 98th percentile for Verbal but a dismal 52nd percentile for quant. I'm not a quant person unfortunately. I did M...
- by cbenk121
Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:31 pm- Forum: I just Beat The GMAT!
- Topic: Low Quant ....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2130
Hi all, This is my first post on this forum. I really like the forum as it has some great information and i thank you all for your contributions. I gave the GMAT twice.. i score 640 (V32 and Q50) and 690 (V37 and Q48). In both cases my GMAT score is not where i wanted it to be because of verbal. I ...
- by cbenk121
Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:29 am- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: Improving GMAT verbal
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3140
Guys, I am bit confused with my simulated tests results. I have been consistently getting 45-46 Q and 32-34 V on MGMAT simulated tests. I took my first GMAT Prep today and scored 49 Q and 41 V, a total of 730. Here are my scores: MGMAT1 630 Q45 V32 MGMAT2 630 Q44 V32 GMAT Prep1 730 Q49 V41 MGMAT3 6...
- by cbenk121
Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:18 am- Forum: GMAT Verbal & Essays
- Topic: MGMAT Verbal (Looks like CR and RC are too tough)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2907
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop animal-induced allergies, a significant percentage of which are quite serious. In a survey of current employees in major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced allergies. However, a zoo employee who develops a serious anim...
- by cbenk121
Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:44 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Allergies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5644
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop animal-induced allergies, a significant percentage of which are quite serious. In a survey of current employees in major zoos, about 30 percent had animal-induced allergies. However, a zoo employee who develops a serious anim...
- by cbenk121
Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:43 pm- Forum: Critical Reasoning
- Topic: Allergies
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5644
Answer is 89%. We need to figure out the # of not tired people who work < 6 hours, and > 6 hours. We're given: >> # of not tired people who work < 6 hours = 75% = 75 people (assume there's 100 total people to make math easy) >> # of total people < 6 hours = 80. >>>>This means that the # of people wh...
- by cbenk121
Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:20 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: Manhattan problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2000
First, if you're aiming for a 750, no where in your post did I see anything mentioned about verbal. Far more people get high quant scores than high verbal scores, so I think a strong verbal score would be weighted more in the composite. So don't forget about that section, nor assume that a high math...
- by cbenk121
Mon Dec 21, 2009 8:22 am- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: GMAT Math preperation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1663
In recent years, teachers of introductory courses in Asian American studies have been facing a dilemma nonexistent a few decades ago, when hardly any texts in that field were available. Today, excellent anthologies and other introductory texts exist, and books on individual Asian American nationali...
- by cbenk121
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:37 pm- Forum: Reading Comprehension
- Topic: OG 12 Q 43
- Replies: 2
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The function f is defined for all positive integers by the rule:f(n) is the number of positive integers each of which is less than n and has no positive factor in common with n other than 1. If p is any prime number then f(P)= The answer is p-1. What is the best way to approach to this problem? Pri...
- by cbenk121
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:31 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: easy problem, but still...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1031
In the area XY plane each point on the circle K has nonnegative coordinates and the center of the K is point (4;7).What is the maximum possible area of K? Answers: 4 9 16 28 49 N OK, so understanding prob correctly, each point must have positive X & Y coordinates. Since the center of the circle...
- by cbenk121
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:27 pm- Forum: Problem Solving
- Topic: maximum possible area of the circle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1959
Hello, I thought I'd share my assessment of my first CAT. I would appreciate any comments or advice you have. Ok...I scored a 610 on the MGMAT CAT (Q: 40, Q 34). It's not what I was looking for, but the upside is that there is a lot of room for improvement. My objective is to score 640-650 on my ne...
- by cbenk121
Sun Dec 20, 2009 9:22 pm- Forum: GMAT Strategy
- Topic: Assessment of first CAT
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1137