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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. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Proven wrong
Read slower

2. and
(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 (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Parallel

3. 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
Do so
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Avoid extremes

4. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > x + y + 1?
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
On the same scale

5. nouns
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Look for verbs
To be y.

6. CLA: FIZ
Read slower
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
On

7. S-W-Slash Chart
Two independent sentences
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Look for verbs
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8. Compare with
(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
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Wrong. Year is redundant
Comparing different things

9. root (1620 + 832)
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Parallel
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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

10. In any problem...
To be y.
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
you are nice (Because is redundant)

11. prohibit ___
Write your integers like this
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
From
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities

12. verbs
Look for subjects
To
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

13. 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
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
To
Parallel

14. CLA
(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
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
On

15. ;
Two independent sentences
Add a countering premise
Look for verbs
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

16. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
In
At
Analogy
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

17. :
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
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

18. ride __ a car
Assumptions - Conclusions
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
In
On the same scale

19. 'Although' requires an...
(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
Opposition
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

20. 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?
From
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
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.
Don't even read it.

21. Argument
Redundant - should just be whether
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
From
Also Y

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

23. 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
Wrong. Year is redundant
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))
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question

24. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Opposition
On the same scale
The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.

25. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
Read faster
Be estimated
Look for subjects
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate

26. tougher the passage...
Avoid extremes
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Don't even read it.
Read faster

27. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

28. You cannot strengthen or weaken by...
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
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
Proven wrong
Analogy

29. 3 things to remember about roots

(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
With
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))

30. FDP
Go straight for fractions
(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
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

31. The reason I like you is because...
(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
Opposition
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
you are nice (Because is redundant)

32. m is an integer - is m odd? (1) m/2 is not an even integer (2) m - 3 is an even integer
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
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
Add a countering premise
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

33. Author is always in the middle of the road...
Avoid extremes
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On
To

34. The year 1996.
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Wrong. Year is redundant
(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

35. Like
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
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

36. When choosing numbers... don't choose 0 -1 or any number in the numerator or denominator

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 straight for fractions
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

37. Geometry
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
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
Two independent sentences
Look for verbs

38. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
From
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

39. How to eliminate answers on geometry questions
Two independent sentences
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
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

40. whether or not
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Redundant - should just be whether
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.

41. Stop Signs for SC
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.
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))
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

42. If there is a list...
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Assumptions - Conclusions

43. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
Sufficient.
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
Go straight for fractions

44. 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.
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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
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

45. 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.
Go straight for fractions
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

46. From (Stick to scope; avoid extremes; negation technique)
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.
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Cannot be measured
Assumptions - Conclusions

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

48. Sentence Correction Steps
Look for subjects
Comparing different things
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

49. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
Don't even read it.
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?
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

50. Conclusions
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
On the same scale
(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