GMAT Crash Course: All In One - 2

Instructions:

• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
• If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
• Match each statement with the correct term.
• Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. CLA: FIZ
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Read faster
Go slower.
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero


2. nouns
Go slower.
Cannot be measured
24
Look for verbs


3. 3 things to remember about roots
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Root (81) = + or - 9 - 5/root(x) is not simplest form -->5root(x)/x is simplest - (5/(3+root(x)) --> (5/(3+root(x)) x (3-root(x))/(3-root(x))
To be y.
Go slower.


4. Basic tools to eliminate answers in geometry questions
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Memorize the following approximations: Pie approximately equals 3 - Square root of one equals one - Square root of two approximately equals 1.4 - Square root of three approximately equals 1.7
With
Cannot be measured


5. and
Parallel
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
Look for subjects


6. Author is always in the middle of the road...
Memorize the following approximations: Pie approximately equals 3 - Square root of one equals one - Square root of two approximately equals 1.4 - Square root of three approximately equals 1.7
Go straight for fractions
Avoid extremes
Be estimated


7. If you see a semicolon and it is before or after underlined part

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


8. FDP
In
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Go straight for fractions
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else


9. 42/x = Integer/1
Write your integers like this
In
Wrong. Year is redundant
Memorize the following approximations: Pie approximately equals 3 - Square root of one equals one - Square root of two approximately equals 1.4 - Square root of three approximately equals 1.7


10. m is an integer - is m odd? (1) m/2 is not an even integer (2) m - 3 is an even integer
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Almost always wrong
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.


11. Always assume sufficient until...
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Don't even read it.
Proven wrong
Sufficient.


12. Compare with
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Comparing different things
Read faster
Two independent sentences


13. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Go straight for fractions
Be estimated
We are in the 'To category.' So - we bring something to the argument. It will not break the premises. For example - Mary: That guy is a newspaper reporter...; Joe: No! That guy wears a cape! Therefore - it is superman. We focus on explaining!


14. Sentence Correction Steps
To
From
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else


15. not only X but...
Also Y
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Proven wrong


16. Joe or his friends ____ going.
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
From

Two independent sentences


17. When choosing numbers... don't choose 0 -1 or any number in the numerator or denominator

Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Opposition


18. Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises him.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


19. ride __ a bus
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
On
To



20. tougher the passage...
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Read faster


21. Diagrams marked not on the scale ______. In fact - the drawings of these problems often purposely misleading the I.
Cannot be measured
In
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
(1) Read question first (2) Read for structure and look for gaps (3) Work from wrong to right (4) Negation test: If you negate the argument will fall apart - Answer choices that bring in new information are wrong - Look for reverse causation


22. Bold Face Problems
With
(1) Must be supported by premise (2) Never supported by anything (3) If you have two sentences - put therefore in between and see if it makes sense
We are in the 'To category.' So - we bring something to the argument. It will not break the premises. For example - Mary: That guy is a newspaper reporter...; Joe: No! That guy wears a cape! Therefore - it is superman. We focus on explaining!
(1) Find conclusion (2) Relate each bold point to conclusion - Supports the conclusion - It is the conclusion - Supports the other conclusion - It is the other conclusion (3) Tell each answer choice what it should say


23. To Weaken

Add a countering premise
Avoid extremes
Analogy


24. Argument
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Two independent sentences
Almost always wrong
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate


25. 'Although' requires an...
Proven wrong
Opposition
Sufficient.
We are in the 'To category.' So - we bring something to the argument. It will not break the premises. For example - Mary: That guy is a newspaper reporter...; Joe: No! That guy wears a cape! Therefore - it is superman. We focus on explaining!


26. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Sufficient.
Be estimated
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3


27. The year 1996.
24
Go slower.
We are in the 'To category.' So - we bring something to the argument. It will not break the premises. For example - Mary: That guy is a newspaper reporter...; Joe: No! That guy wears a cape! Therefore - it is superman. We focus on explaining!
Wrong. Year is redundant


28. Like
Opposition
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Analogy
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.


29. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > x + y + 1?
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
108 --> 2 -2 -3 -3 -3 12 --> 2 -2 -3 9 --> 3 -3 - Because you cannot be certain that the 12 and 9 share the 3.
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
Sufficient.


30. being
Almost always wrong
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Read faster


31. Compare to
Sufficient.
Go straight for fractions
Comparing similar things
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3


32. different ___
From
Add a countering premise
24
Memorize the following approximations: Pie approximately equals 3 - Square root of one equals one - Square root of two approximately equals 1.4 - Square root of three approximately equals 1.7


33. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
Comparing similar things
Root (81) = + or - 9 - 5/root(x) is not simplest form -->5root(x)/x is simplest - (5/(3+root(x)) --> (5/(3+root(x)) x (3-root(x))/(3-root(x))
you are nice (Because is redundant)
108 --> 2 -2 -3 -3 -3 12 --> 2 -2 -3 9 --> 3 -3 - Because you cannot be certain that the 12 and 9 share the 3.


34. All the children are covered in mud. Vs the children are all covered in mud.
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
In
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.


35. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Wrong. Year is redundant
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Analogy


36. prohibit ___
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Analogy
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
From


37. whether or not
Look for subjects
Redundant - should just be whether
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.


38. credit X ___
With
Comparing similar things
Proven wrong
Don't even read it.


39. How to do assumption problems?
From
Draw a diagram. The first thing you should do with any geometry problem that does not have a diagram is to sketch it out scratch booklet. And when you draw the diagram - try to brought scale that way be in a position to estimate.
Wrong. Year is redundant
(1) Read question first (2) Read for structure and look for gaps (3) Work from wrong to right (4) Negation test: If you negate the argument will fall apart - Answer choices that bring in new information are wrong - Look for reverse causation


40. How to eliminate answers on geometry questions
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Many geometry problems come complete with a diagram drawn to scale. Most people get so caught up in solving a geometry problem geometrically that they forget to look at the diagram to see whether the answer is reasonable. Simply using approximations


41. Pronoun Questions
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Avoid extremes
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?


42. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


43. Conclusions
(1) Must be supported by premise (2) Never supported by anything (3) If you have two sentences - put therefore in between and see if it makes sense
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Read slower
Assumptions - Conclusions


44. ab > xy? (1) a/x > y/b....AD BCE

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


45. :
From
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
(1) Must be supported by premise (2) Never supported by anything (3) If you have two sentences - put therefore in between and see if it makes sense


46. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Proven wrong
Root (81) = + or - 9 - 5/root(x) is not simplest form -->5root(x)/x is simplest - (5/(3+root(x)) --> (5/(3+root(x)) x (3-root(x))/(3-root(x))
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -


47. Reporting that one of ___ many problems had been the recent extended sales slump in women's apparel - the seven-store retailer said it would start a three-month liquidation sale in all of its torso.
Seven-store retailer is singular - therefore its is the correct pronoun. one action is the seven-store retailer saying something and the sales slump -- the sales slump preceded reporting about the slump; therefore - it needs to be in the past partici
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Opposition
Avoid extremes


48. About

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


49. If there is a list...
(1) Read question first (2) Read for structure and look for gaps (3) Work from wrong to right (4) Negation test: If you negate the argument will fall apart - Answer choices that bring in new information are wrong - Look for reverse causation
From
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last


50. CLA
(1) Must be supported by premise (2) Never supported by anything (3) If you have two sentences - put therefore in between and see if it makes sense
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own