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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. Author is always in the middle of the road...
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
To
Avoid extremes
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

2. different ___
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
From
Do so
With

3. :
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
(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

4. 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.
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
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

5. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
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
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

6. When choosing numbers... don't choose 0 -1 or any number in the numerator or denominator
Write your integers like this
Parallel

z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

7. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
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
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.
Be estimated

8. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
Sufficient.
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Wrong. Year is redundant

9. For studying sentence correction
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Parallel
Look for verbs

10. Estimate x...
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
To be y.
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

11. whether or not
Redundant - should just be whether
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Read slower
With

12. Pronoun Questions
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
On the same scale
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

13. Timing Strategies
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
Sufficient.
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

14. CLA: NPZ
Proven wrong
With
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Cannot be measured

15. CLA: FIZ
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - 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.

16. How to do assumption problems?
Read slower
(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
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
At

17. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Do so
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
Analogy
Be estimated

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

19. Compare to
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Comparing similar things
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

20. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Write your integers like this

21. To Weaken
Add a countering premise
Two independent sentences
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

22. root (1620 + 832)
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
24
(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
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

23. Bold Face Problems
Comparing similar things
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
Be estimated

24. y = 3x + 2
Read faster
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.
Also Y

25. All the children are covered in mud. Vs the children are all covered in mud.
Wrong. Year is redundant
Analogy
Do so
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.

26. S-W-Slash Chart
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
At

27. FDP
In
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
Go straight for fractions
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

28. 'Although' requires an...
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Do so
Opposition
On

29. About

30. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

31. being
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
Almost always wrong
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

32. easier the passage...
Read slower
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
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
Parallel

33. ride __ a bus
Don't even read it.
Be estimated
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
On

34. ;
At
With
Look for subjects
Two independent sentences

35. credit X ___
With
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.
Analogy
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own

36. 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

In
you are nice (Because is redundant)

37. The reason I like you is because...
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Redundant - should just be whether
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own

38. Conclusions
From
24
(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 (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

39. Stop Signs for SC
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
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

40. m is an integer - is m odd? (1) m/2 is not an even integer (2) m - 3 is an even integer
From
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Write your integers like this
Look for verbs

41. Geometry
Read slower
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

42. nouns
Look for verbs
Wrong. Year is redundant
On
Be estimated

43. prohibit ___
Go slower.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
From
To

44. do it
Proven wrong
Parallel
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
Do so

45. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
Assumptions - Conclusions
24
In
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -

46. Compare with
Comparing different things
On
Proven wrong
From

47. Sentence Correction Steps
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Wrong. Year is redundant
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) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

48. 42/x = Integer/1
At
Avoid extremes
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Write your integers like this

49. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
Read slower
Add a countering premise
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.
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

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