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GMAT Crash Course: All In One - 2

Subject : gmat

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
(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
Proven wrong
Sufficient.
Two independent sentences

2. Joe or his friends ____ going.
Write your integers like this
Wrong. Year is redundant
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
Also Y

3. If there is a list...
Proven wrong
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
From
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

4. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
Be estimated
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) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
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.

5. Geometry
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Sufficient.
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer

6. When the positive integer x is divided by 11 - the quotient is y and the remainder is 3. When x is divided by 19 the remainder is also 3. What is the remainder when y is divided by 19?

Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
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))
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4

7. Always assume sufficient until...
Look for subjects
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
(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
Proven wrong

8. Like
With
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

9. forbid ___
Go straight for fractions
To
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(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. Timing Strategies
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
Write your integers like this
From
Proven wrong

11. To Weaken
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Add a countering premise
To be y.
(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

12. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Cannot be measured
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.
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

13. Diagrams marked not on the scale ______. In fact - the drawings of these problems often purposely misleading the I.

Cannot be measured
Do so
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

14. do it
Do so
Wrong. Year is redundant
Look for verbs
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

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

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16. CLA: FIZ
Opposition
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Write your integers like this

17. Studying for Critical Reasoning
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
(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
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

18. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

Analogy
Write your integers like this

19. How to eliminate answers on geometry questions
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
With
On
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))

20. FDP
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Go straight for fractions
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Add a countering premise

21. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > x + y + 1?
Write your integers like this
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Comparing different things
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

22. nouns
Don't even read it.
Look for verbs
Read faster
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

23. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
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.
On the same scale
you are nice (Because is redundant)
In

24. ride __ a bus
Also Y
(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
Two independent sentences
On

25. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
Read slower
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Assumptions - Conclusions
Go straight for fractions

26. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

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27. Compare with
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
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
Comparing different things
Wrong. Year is redundant

28. Stop Signs for SC
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Opposition

29. 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
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.

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

(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
(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
From

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

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32. root (1620 + 832)
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)

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33. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Add a countering premise
Sufficient.

34. When you think you have a problem figured out...
Go slower.
Analogy
Cannot be measured
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question

35. For studying sentence correction
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
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

36. ;
Two independent sentences
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Parallel
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit

37. verbs
Look for subjects
On the same scale
Be estimated
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

38. not only X but...
Look for verbs
Don't even read it.
Also Y
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

39. Compare to
Comparing similar things
Wrong. Year is redundant
Cannot be measured
Go slower.

40. Verbal Problems Timing strategy
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities

At

41. Estimate x...
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
To be y.
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!
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4

42. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
Proven wrong
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

Read slower

43. ride __ a car
In
Assumptions - Conclusions
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Look for subjects

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

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45. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Comparing different things
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
At

46. credit X ___
With
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

47. Pronoun Questions
Two independent sentences
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
From

48. Author is always in the middle of the road...
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Cannot be measured
Avoid extremes
Also Y

49. whether or not
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Go slower.
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))
Redundant - should just be whether

50. and
(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
To
Parallel