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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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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
Go straight for fractions
From

Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own

2. whether or not
Redundant - should just be whether
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Add a countering premise
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

3. y = 3x + 2
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.
Analogy
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3

4. All the children are covered in mud. Vs the children are all covered in mud.
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -

The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities

5. Author is always in the middle of the road...
Do so
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Avoid extremes
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3

6. 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
Wrong. Year is redundant
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
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

7. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
Two independent sentences
Avoid extremes
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 the same scale

8. S-W-Slash Chart

Cannot be measured
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit

9. credit X ___
With
Two independent sentences
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

10. 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.
you are nice (Because is redundant)
From
Analogy

11. If there is a list...
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Proven wrong
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!
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

12. The reason I like you is because...
you are nice (Because 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)
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.

13. About

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14. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
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))
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Sufficient.

15. For studying sentence correction
Sufficient.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

16. Studying for Critical Reasoning
(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
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
Add a countering premise

17. CLA: NPZ
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Sufficient.

18. 'Although' requires an...
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
Write your integers like this
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Opposition

19. nouns
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!
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
Look for verbs
Sufficient.

20. FDP
Go straight for fractions
From
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

21. root (1620 + 832)
Do so
From
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(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

22. 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 -
Read slower
At
Go slower.

23. ride __ a bus
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Avoid extremes
On

24. ;
In
Cannot be measured
Two independent sentences
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

25. Bold Face Problems
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 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
(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
To

26. easier the passage...
(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
Read slower
Look for verbs

27. n(n+1)(n+2)
Read slower
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Sufficient.
From

28. m is an integer - is m odd? (1) m/2 is not an even integer (2) m - 3 is an even integer
Assumptions - Conclusions
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
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

29. 3 things to remember about roots
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))
Two independent sentences
Write your integers like this
(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

30. Geometry
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
Also Y
Almost always wrong
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

31. ride __ a car
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
In
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!
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit

32. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > x + y + 1?
Parallel
Cannot be measured
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer

33. How to do assumption problems?
(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
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3

34. Pronoun Questions
Go slower.
Two independent sentences
(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
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

35. Argument
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
(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
On
Redundant - should just be whether

36. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

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37. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
Go slower.
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Redundant - should just be whether
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

38. and
Parallel
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.
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
Look for subjects

39. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
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.
Be estimated
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

40. Always assume sufficient until...
Write your integers like this
Also Y
Proven wrong
Almost always wrong

41. date x __ y
Analogy
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
At
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

42. 42/x = 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.
Wrong. Year is redundant
Write your integers like this
To

43. To Weaken
Wrong. Year is redundant
With
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.

44. The year 1996.
Be estimated
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Wrong. Year is redundant

45. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
To
Assumptions - Conclusions
With
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

46. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
Sufficient.
With
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

47. What should I do if there is no diagram?
Don't even read it.
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
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

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

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

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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
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

50. Estimate x...
To be y.
Assumptions - Conclusions
Write your integers like this
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities