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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. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
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
Avoid extremes
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

2. CLA: FIZ
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Go straight for fractions

When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

3. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
In
On the same scale
Be estimated
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

4. Argument
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
(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
Go slower.

5. being
From
Write your integers like this
Almost always wrong
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

6. verbs
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.
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.
Look for subjects
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

7. easier the passage...
Look for verbs
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
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Read slower

8. Basic tools to eliminate answers in geometry questions
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Avoid extremes
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
To be y.

9. Always assume sufficient until...
Don't even read it.
Proven wrong
Do so
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.

10. Estimate x...
Comparing similar things
Proven wrong
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
To be y.

11. 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 -
Assumptions - Conclusions
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
From

12. 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
At
Look for subjects
Read faster

13. When you think you have a problem figured out...
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Go slower.
With

14. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
From
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.
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.

15. 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.
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
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
Read slower
On the same scale

16. Compare 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
Wrong. Year is redundant
Comparing different things

17. How to do assumption problems?
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Don't even read it.
(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

18. The year 1996.
Don't even read it.
(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 Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

19. root (1620 + 832)
(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
Avoid extremes
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Wrong. Year is redundant

20. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
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
Go slower.
Be estimated
At

21. To Weaken
Read slower
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Redundant - should just be whether
Add a countering premise

22. Geometry
Redundant - should just be whether
Two independent sentences
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer

23. Bold Face Problems
Parallel
On
(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 Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

24. nouns
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Look for verbs

25. Pronoun Questions
To
you are nice (Because is redundant)
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Be estimated

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

27. ;
Two independent sentences
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Opposition

28. Author is always in the middle of the road...

Read faster
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Avoid extremes

29. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
Don't even read it.
Assumptions - Conclusions
From
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3

30. ride __ a car
Parallel
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit

In

31. The reason I like you is because...
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Write your integers like this
In
you are nice (Because is redundant)

32. different ___
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!
Look for verbs
From
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4

33. Like
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Look for subjects

34. 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.
From
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
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

35. y = 3x + 2
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
To

36. 3 things to remember about roots
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.
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
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))
Opposition

37. not only X but...
Also Y
Sufficient.
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Opposition

38. 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.
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Redundant - should just be whether
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer

39. Studying for Critical Reasoning
On
Add a countering premise
From
(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

40. forbid ___
To
Read slower
To be y.
Almost always wrong

41. FDP
you are nice (Because is redundant)
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Go straight for fractions
(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

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

43. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Add a countering premise
Do so
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Analogy

44. and
Parallel
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!
Also Y
In

45. date x __ y
Comparing similar things
At
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

46. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
Look for subjects
Sufficient.
Two independent sentences
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)

47. For studying sentence correction
With
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
At
Write your integers like this

48. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Do so

49. ride __ a bus
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
With
On

50. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
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.
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Almost always wrong