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GMAT Crash Course: All In One - 2

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. forbid ___
To
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Look for verbs
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?

2. credit X ___
Be estimated
With
Two independent sentences
In

3. How to eliminate answers on geometry questions
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Parallel
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
Do so

4. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
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.
Sufficient.
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4

5. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Also Y
Look for verbs
Analogy
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.

6. When you think you have a problem figured out...
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Go slower.
Look for subjects
From

7. Always assume sufficient until...
Sufficient.
Go slower.
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Proven wrong

8. Basic tools to eliminate answers in geometry questions
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
From
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
Do so

9. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
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.
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Write your integers like this
(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

10. Bold Face Problems
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Also Y
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
(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

11. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
(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
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
you are nice (Because is redundant)

12. Quant Problems Timing strategy
5 problems --> 65 minutes remaining - 10 problems --> 55 minutes remaining - 20 problems --> 35 minutes remaining - 30 problems --> 15 minutes remaining - 34 problems --> 7 minutes remaining - Skip between questions 3 and 8.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Look for verbs

13. 3 things to remember about roots
5 problems --> 65 minutes remaining - 10 problems --> 55 minutes remaining - 20 problems --> 35 minutes remaining - 30 problems --> 15 minutes remaining - 34 problems --> 7 minutes remaining - Skip between questions 3 and 8.
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
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))
Write your integers like this

14. Studying for Critical Reasoning
Do so
Also Y
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
(1) ID each question type (To - From - About) (2) What am I looking for? (3) For the question type - what does the answer need to be ...right;...wrong. (4) Work the passage (5) For the passage - what does an answer need to be right (6) For the passag

15. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
Analogy
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Go straight for fractions

16. verbs
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Look for subjects
To have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit - because citrus is singular and 'it' is the appropriate pronoun
On

17. y = 3x + 2
From
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Assumptions - Conclusions

18. The year 1996.
Wrong. Year is redundant
To have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit - because citrus is singular and 'it' is the appropriate pronoun
(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
Read faster

19. Stop Signs for SC
Parallel
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Opposition
At

20. To Weaken
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Add a countering premise
Be estimated
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign

21. Like
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Redundant - should just be whether

22. tougher the passage...
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Read faster
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

23. S-W-Slash Chart
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
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3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3

24. Sentence Correction Steps
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Analogy
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Avoid extremes

25. nouns
At
To
Avoid extremes
Look for verbs

26. What should I do if there is no diagram?
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
At
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.
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

27. :
Opposition
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
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!
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own

28. ride __ a bus
Write your integers like this
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

On

29. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
Wrong. Year is redundant
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
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

30. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
On the same scale
Two independent sentences
Add a countering premise
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

31. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -

One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

32. Compare to
Comparing similar things
Look for verbs
Avoid extremes
Read slower

33. CLA: NPZ
Proven wrong
(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
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
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34. being
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.
Almost always wrong
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
5 problems --> 65 minutes remaining - 10 problems --> 55 minutes remaining - 20 problems --> 35 minutes remaining - 30 problems --> 15 minutes remaining - 34 problems --> 7 minutes remaining - Skip between questions 3 and 8.

35. 'Although' requires an...
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Do so
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Opposition

36. The only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus is to process them quickly into juice concentrate before they rot when warmer weather returns.
To have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit - because citrus is singular and 'it' is the appropriate pronoun
Analogy
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))
Write your integers like this

37. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
Assumptions - Conclusions
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Do so

38. Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises him.
Look for subjects
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
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
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.

39. 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
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Don't even read it.
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign

40. If there is a list...
Add a countering premise
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Read slower
To have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit - because citrus is singular and 'it' is the appropriate pronoun

41. About
On
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
5 problems --> 65 minutes remaining - 10 problems --> 55 minutes remaining - 20 problems --> 35 minutes remaining - 30 problems --> 15 minutes remaining - 34 problems --> 7 minutes remaining - Skip between questions 3 and 8.

42. not only X but...
Read faster
Sufficient.
Also Y
In

43. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems
(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
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
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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!

44. Diagrams marked not on the scale ______. In fact - the drawings of these problems often purposely misleading the I.
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Write your integers like this
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Cannot be measured

45. Verbal Problems Timing strategy
From
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
you are nice (Because is redundant)

46. ride __ a car
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
From
In
On the same scale

47. ab > xy? (1) a/x > y/b....AD BCE
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Look for subjects
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

48. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
Look for subjects
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
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
Be estimated

49. 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
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Proven wrong

50. 42/x = Integer/1

Write your integers like this
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
5 problems --> 65 minutes remaining - 10 problems --> 55 minutes remaining - 20 problems --> 35 minutes remaining - 30 problems --> 15 minutes remaining - 34 problems --> 7 minutes remaining - Skip between questions 3 and 8.

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