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GMAT Crash Course: All In One - 2

Subject : gmat

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. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Proven wrong
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
Look for verbs
Analogy

2. CLA: FIZ
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
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.
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question

3. 'Although' requires an...
Two independent sentences
Wrong. Year is redundant
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Opposition

4. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
you are nice (Because is redundant)
To be y.
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
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.

5. ;
Two independent sentences
To be y.
Go slower.
Assumptions - Conclusions

6. m is an integer - is m odd? (1) m/2 is not an even integer (2) m - 3 is an even integer

Go straight for fractions
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

7. 42/x = Integer/1
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
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Write your integers like this
Go straight for fractions

8. and
Parallel
Sufficient.
Write your integers like this
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

9. y = 3x + 2
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
Parallel
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3

10. FDP
From
Go straight for fractions
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
On the same scale

11. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

12. root (1620 + 832)
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
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When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.

13. verbs
Assumptions - Conclusions
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
With
Look for subjects

14. ride __ a bus
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Wrong. Year is redundant
On

15. The reason I like you is because...
Look for subjects
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Add a countering premise
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

16. Diagrams marked not on the scale ______. In fact - the drawings of these problems often purposely misleading the I.
Cannot be measured
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Comparing different things

17. All the children are covered in mud. Vs the children are all covered in mud.
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
Read faster
On the same scale
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

18. Stop Signs for SC
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
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

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

20. nouns
Look for verbs
(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
Proven wrong

21. Verbal 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.
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
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

22. S-W-Slash Chart
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Analogy
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
With

23. CLA: NPZ
(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
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
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

24. easier the passage...
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Parallel
Read slower

25. n(n+1)(n+2)
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
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit

26. What should I do if there is no diagram?
With
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.
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.
Read slower

27. To Weaken

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
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
Add a countering premise

28. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
Be estimated
Comparing different things
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
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29. Basic tools to eliminate answers in geometry questions
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
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Look for subjects
Avoid extremes

30. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
Proven wrong
To
Redundant - should just be whether
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

31. not only X but...
To
Read faster
Do so
Also Y

32. 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.
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
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
On the same scale
From

33. Pronoun Questions
Opposition
(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

34. 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?
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
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
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4

35. Joe or his friends ____ going.
Sufficient.
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
(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
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

36. If there is a list...
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
Analogy
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
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

37. being
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.
Don't even read it.
Almost always wrong
Write your integers like this

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

39. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
Assumptions - Conclusions
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
To be y.
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

40. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
Proven wrong
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Almost always wrong
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -

41. Bold Face Problems
Opposition

(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
(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. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > x + y + 1?
Comparing different things
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
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))
Almost always wrong

43. tougher the passage...
Read faster

Proven wrong
Cannot be measured

44. prohibit ___
Look for verbs
From
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.

45. How to do assumption problems?
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Also Y
(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
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.

46. About

47. Compare to
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.

Comparing similar things
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

48. credit X ___
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
With

49. Sentence Correction Steps
Wrong. Year is redundant
Cannot be measured
At
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

50. 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.
(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
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))
Avoid extremes