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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. prohibit ___
In
From
Write your integers like this
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?

2. CLA: FIZ
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Go slower.
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. Like
Cannot be measured
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Redundant - should just be whether
Read slower

4. Given jkmn = 1 jk/mn = 1
Look for verbs
To
On the same scale
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

5. Compare with
Avoid extremes
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Comparing different things
Comparing similar things

6. Critical Reasoning: Evaluate
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Parallel
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Avoid extremes

7. Given jkmn = 1 j = 1/k; m = 1/n
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
Sufficient.
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

8. 42/x = Integer/1
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Write your integers like this

9. Do not divide by variables in the inequalities if... you don't know the sign
Be estimated

BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1

10. forbid ___
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))
Be estimated
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
To

11. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
In
Wrong. Year is redundant
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Write your integers like this

12. What should I do if there is no diagram?
(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
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))
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.

13. verbs
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Write your integers like this
Look for subjects
Comparing similar things

14. Joe or his friends ____ going.
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
From
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.

15. 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
(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))

16. Compare to
Comparing similar things
On
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!
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

17. Critical Reasoning: Explain Problems

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18. tougher the passage...
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own
Read faster
At
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

19. being
Add a countering premise
Almost always wrong
Redundant - should just be whether
Analogy

20. not only X but...
To be y.
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
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Also Y

21. y = 3x + 2
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.
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
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

22. credit X ___
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
With
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

23. Estimate x...
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
To be y.
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.
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.

24. FDP
Be estimated
Cannot be measured
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Go straight for fractions

25. easier the passage...
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
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
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Read slower

26. 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?
Redundant - should just be whether
At
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 --> Answer 4
Describe structure - Bold face - Parallel the reasoning - 'By...' (e.g. - Mary argues by...)

27. Quant Problems Timing strategy
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
From
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
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.

28. All the children are covered in mud. Vs the children are all covered in mud.
On

The second sentence focuses on the extent to which the children are covered in mud.
Be estimated

29. If there is a list...
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
you are nice (Because is redundant)
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

30. Conclusions
Opposition
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!
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
(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

31. n(n+1)(n+2)
From
(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
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens

32. nouns
Also Y
Look for verbs
Comparing different things
Parallel

33. Author is always in the middle of the road...
Avoid extremes
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Sufficient.
Read faster

34. Always assume sufficient until...

Proven wrong
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2
Look for subjects

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

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36. Bold Face Problems
Do so
Add a countering premise
(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
(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

37. 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.
(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.
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

38. different ___
(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
Cannot be measured
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
From

39. Pronoun Questions
Read faster
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Go straight for fractions
(1) What is the antecedent? Is it sensible? Is it present? Is it unambiguous? (2) Do they agree in number?

40. ;
At
Two independent sentences
24
Anything to the left of the colon should be a full sentence or fine on its own

41. Verbal Problems Timing strategy
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
20 problems --> 35 minutes - skip critical reasoning questions early on (strengthen/weaken) - Skip combinations and permutations; or - absolute values with inequalities
From
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42. 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.
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
Almost always wrong
you are nice (Because is redundant)

43. Stop Signs for SC
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Opposition
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.
At

44. The reason I like you is because...
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.
In
Sufficient.
you are nice (Because is redundant)

45. How to do assumption problems?
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) 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
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
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.

46. When choosing numbers... don't choose 0 -1 or any number in the numerator or denominator
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
z > x + y + 1 - x + y + z > 0 - x + y + 2z > x + y + 1 --> z > 1/2

3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their

47. When you think you have a problem figured out...
Go slower.
Be estimated
(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
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

48. Timing Strategies
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.
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
Write your integers like this
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

49. 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)
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
At

50. In any problem...
Redundant - should just be whether
Read faster
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Avoid extremes