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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: 69869
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: 69869
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: 1855
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: 2801
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: 2697
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: 1912
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: 2801
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
- 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: 3236
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: 13035
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