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

2. 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
BCE. ab > xy ? but you don't know the sign
Opposition
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

3. The year 1996.
(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
Wrong. Year is redundant
Opposition
To be y.

4. CLA
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
Parallel

5. prohibit ___
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
From
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question

6. Diagrams in questions the problem often format a bead on the scale unless otherwise indicated - but they are not all...
On the same scale
In
Comparing similar things
Add the exponents to determine the answer.

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

8. not only X but...
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead
Parallel
Also Y
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

9. Sentence Correction Steps
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else

10. 'Although' requires an...
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
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
Opposition
Wrong. Year is redundant

11. For studying sentence correction
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
(1) Stop Signs: 3rd person pronouns (2) Splits (3) Look for parallelism (4) Everything else
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
At

12. Drawings in questions using the data sufficiency format that are not drawn to scale. They cannot...
One way: strengthens; One way: weakens
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last
With
Be estimated

13. About

14. Studying for Critical Reasoning
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
(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
Write your integers like this

15. nouns
Look for verbs
Almost always wrong
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Go slower.

16. verbs
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Look for subjects
With
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero

17. ride __ a bus
On
Comparing different things
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!
Avoid extremes

18. Compare to
Parallel
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Comparing similar things
Wrong. Year is redundant

19. tougher the passage...
Read faster
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.
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Analogy

20. being
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
Almost always wrong
(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

21. Conclusions
Parallel
(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
Avoid extremes
List each of the five based on the criteria. Move slowly.

22. If there is a list...
Look for subjects

When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

23. n/108 = Integer/1? (1) n/12 = Integer/1 (2) n/9 = Integer/1
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.
Two independent sentences
Almost always wrong

24. forbid ___
To
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
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!

25. different ___
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.
For Yes/No Data Sufficiency Questions: Criteria - List possible values based on the criteria - and Answer Question
Do so
From

26. Stop Signs for SC
3rd Person Pronouns -- It - Its - They - Them - Their
Comparing different things
Assumptions - Conclusions
To

27. What should I do if there is no diagram?
Analogy
On the same scale

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.

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

29. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is z > 1?
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
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))
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
To

30. and
Do so
Joe or his friends are going. --> the verb correlates to the subject it is closed to when 'or' is used.
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
Parallel

31. easier the passage...
Write your integers like this
Read slower
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.

32. When you think you have a problem figured out...
Also Y
Go slower.
Wrong. Year is redundant
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

33. Compare with
I. Diagram II. Identify III. Infer
In
Go slower.
Comparing different things

34. CLA: NPZ
When the question has to do with whether a variable is positive or negative - then list negative - positive and zero.
To be y.
Do so
Don't even read it.

35. credit X ___
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
With
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
From

36. In any problem...
Comparing different things
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
(1) Recognition (2) Content (3) Circle right answers and explain why the others are wrong (4) Train your eye to notice stop signs (pronouns)
Be estimated

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

38. CLA: FIZ
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
y is 2 more than a multiple of 3
Parallel
the GMAT will always put the comma on the last

39. Argument
Two independent sentences
To (Bring new info; Avoid weak wording) - Strengthen - Weaken - Evaluate
In
Analogy

40. Like
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
When the Yes/No question has to do with whether a variable is a fraction or integer: Fraction - Integer and Zero
Cannot introduce examples -- such as must be used instead

41. Estimate x...
In
Do so
To be y.
Redundant - should just be whether

42. do it
Also Y
Not Sufficient. jk = mn --> jk and mn = same numbers > 1 or they could equal 1
Do so
Proven wrong

43. root (1620 + 832)
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.
Avoid extremes
24
Don't even read it.

44. Diagrams marked not on the scale ______. In fact - the drawings of these problems often purposely misleading the I.

Cannot be measured
What are they really asking? What are they really telling me? Focus on the minimum?
Opposition

45. Timing Strategies
With
you are nice (Because is redundant)
Breathe - Create an internal clock around 3 minutes - Benchmark Problems

46. ride __ a car
Proven wrong
Don't even read it.
In
Mal's room is so clean that his mother praises it. A possessive noun must match only with a possessive pronoun.

47. S-W-Slash Chart
(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
S = Really strengthen s = possibly strengthen W = Really weakens w = possibly weakens - - = possibly strengthens a bit
Add the exponents to determine the answer.
Comparing different things

48. Given: x+ y + z > 0 Is x + y + 1 < 0?
On
To
x + y + 1 < 0 - 0 < x + y + z - x + y + 1 < x + y + z --> z > 1 -
With

49. FDP
Read slower
3 consecutive integers are even and divisible by 3
With
Go straight for fractions

50. 42/x = Integer/1
Look for verbs
With
Write your integers like this
(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