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GMAT Crash Course: All In One - 2

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Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. date x __ y
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
At

2. verbs
Assumptions - Conclusions
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!
Avoid extremes
Look for subjects

3. In any problem...
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Go straight for fractions
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?

4. 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.
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
Comparing similar things
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
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

5. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Almost always wrong
Sufficient.
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

6. tougher the passage...
Read faster
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
(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

7. The year 1996.
(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
Wrong. Year is redundant
Comparing different things
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

8. CLA: NPZ
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!
Proven wrong
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
From

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

10. whether or not
Redundant - should just be whether
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

11. 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
Add a countering premise
Sufficient.
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12. Geometry

I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Proven wrong

13. Estimate x...
To be y.
Comparing different things
(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
Analogy

14. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
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.
Look for subjects
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

15. and
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.
Parallel

Comparing similar things

16. Pronoun Questions
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
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.
Assumptions - Conclusions
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

17. different ___
(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
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
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.
From

18. easier the passage...
Read slower
Comparing similar things
Look for verbs

19. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Also Y
Analogy
Avoid extremes

20. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
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
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Be estimated

21. nouns
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Look for verbs
Go slower.
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

22. Basic tools to eliminate answers in geometry questions
Add a countering premise
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
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!
Be estimated

23. being
Almost always wrong
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
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Be estimated

24. 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.
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Don't even read it.
From

25. ride __ a car
With
In
Do so
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

26. For studying sentence correction
y is 2 more than a multiple of 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)
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))
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

27. do it
Do so
Look for subjects
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.

28. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
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!
Almost always wrong
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

29. FDP
At
(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
Go straight for fractions
Write your integers like this

30. Always assume sufficient until...
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
Almost always wrong
Proven wrong
Assumptions - Conclusions

31. 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
Almost always wrong
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

32. Compare to
Comparing similar things
Analogy
Be estimated
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer

33. 42/x = Integer/1
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Write your integers like this
From
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

34. root (1620 + 832)
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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
Don't even read it.
Write your integers like this

35. Studying for Critical Reasoning
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
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
(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

36. ride __ a bus
Read slower
On
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
(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

37. :
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
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
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

38. Stop Signs for SC
Read slower
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
On
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

39. Verbal Problems Timing strategy
With
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
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

40. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
Opposition
Assumptions - Conclusions
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))

41. ;
Avoid extremes
(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
Two independent sentences
Be estimated

42. Bold Face Problems
(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
Comparing similar things
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Sufficient.

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

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

45. CLA: FIZ
Analogy
Proven wrong
Two independent sentences
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

46. To Weaken
Look for subjects
Add a countering premise
In
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

47. Timing Strategies
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
On the same scale

48. About

49. Author is always in the middle of the road...
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
Avoid extremes
Assumptions - Conclusions
From

50. y = 3x + 2
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
To
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
On