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Congratulations on your score and your final decision! Best luck to your application! :tup:

Congratulations! Great improvement :) Good luck for your next steps!

Kunal, So great to hear your high score. You deserve it, a lot of your posts in TM. CONGRATULATIONS!

The MNC I have worked with is LG Electronics. Bungholio, so you mean I should contact to school about my English first, then apply? I will try and let you know. Tks!

GMATBong, tks for your kind words. I wish to be eligible to apply to top 10 schools too, but I heard that those schools often require int'l students to have TOEFL score of at least 600 (paper-based). Indeed, I contacted Fuqua and Fisher adcom and they both replied that they typical look for students with score of 600 or above. :( How do you think? Still continue appl or retake TOEFL then apply? By the way, what do you mean by "a blue club comp." ? Tks,

Gender: female GMAT: 710 (V:38, Q:49) TOEFL: 580 ppt GPA: 7.82/10 (equivalent to 3.4 based on VEF formula) WE: 3 years by end of September Background: Undergraduate major: foreign trade economics WE: 1st: in logistic company as a customer service/ sales executive 2nd: in an advertising company as Account Manager 3rd: in a MNC as sales & mktg project management executive Extra work: part time translator in a MC company in area of brand identity Extra activities: joined Student Volunteer Movement of Hanoi union for 2 years Goal: MBA, Mktg concentration After MBA Career: Mktg consulting service company Schools to apply: UCLA Marshall Purdue NTU (Singapore) GMATBong, please kindly advise whether those schools are suitable for my MKT career after MBA and whether I have good chance to be admitted to those school. Tks in advance!

Hi guys, pls try these old JJs and good luck!

Thanks! As for Jul & Aug, there are more than 200 Math questions each, and for Verbal part, very few and most questions come from Gmatset. Payment is not made by day. You can select some options, 30 day-access , 60 day or 90 day. For example, I bought 60-day card on 21 Aug then I can access VIP material until 21 Oct. So totally, I will be able access Jul, Aug, Sep & Oct's JJ totally. My VIP membership still valids, if someone needs, I will share!

Thank you guys for your kind compliments. Here is my debrief, hope that it may help someone on the same boat. History 1st trial in April: 570 (Q47, V29) After several months of study, I made my first shot. The score was not good but I was optmistic that failure in the first attempt was normal and my second one would be successful. However, 2nd trial in July: 620 (Q43, V32) As you can see, my Q was down while my V was up just a little bit. I had spent whole 2 months (no working) on studying GMAT but still failed. At that time I was so devastated that I just wanted to give up everything,no more GMAT, no more MBA. :( That night, I couldn't help thinking about the reason for my terrible failure. I visited TM again, started to read debriefs of previous test takers (both successful and unsucessful ones), and in deed, those debriefs motivated me a lot, that was when I gained back energy and strength to continue. I told myself that "life doesn't end unless I stop trying", and believed that "people can do it, so can I!". Strategy to win in the last attempt Great thanks to Amit_ng for the GMAT YAHOO GROUP, I found a lot of useful materials from the group. The best is the testgrid (excel file) created by spiderman (I supposed). I started to use it to categorize my wrong verbal answers, then set up different improvement strategy for each. Again, thanks a lot, Amit! Verbal: - RC is my weakest part. I used to feel scared and incomfortable whenever I faced RC passage. How to get rid of such fear? I read many notes and advices of previous gmatters, tried several strategies but at last I found that the best solution for me is to read whole passage with real interest to know new things, not simply reading for the sake of reading. When my fear is out, my brain can absorb things much better. :p - CR is my weakness too. I realized that I used to run into a serious mistake of negligence. After reading the arguments, I sometimes could figure out the possible answer, then as soon as I got that idea in the very first options, I picked it right away. However, most of those picks were wrong since they could be the answer but simply not the best. Reading thru all options and using POE really work in my case. Quantiative: practise and practise. I visited TM daily, involved in many posts with detailed explanations, not simply wrote the letter A, B, as the answer. Pre-test Decision on the test date: I registered just 01 day prior to the test day. the time of the test: learning from experience of many test takers, I decided to take the test in the afternoon so that no matter how I slept that previous night, I could have whole next morning to ensure my sound mind. Morning of the test day: warmed up my brain by doing several hard quant questions and reviewed my verbal notes. then "G" time came AA, AI passed quickly. In quant section, I encountered some JJs, which saved me a lot of time and energy. :) I believed I did good in quant. Took a rest and continued with Verbal part. After 6 mixed questions of CR and SC, appeared a long RC passage followed by at least 5 questions. In the mid-section, I began to lose my concentration, at least twice the number "32" came up in my mind. :crazy: . tried to keep balanced several times and continue with determination. Click next to report my score, verbal 38... then quant 49... total 710! Hura, I did pass over the 700 barrier, I did it! :D Study material: OG 10 GMAT prep (reinstall several times) GMAT Kaplan Crack GMAT (Princeton review) Test Magic forum Gmat sets (Verbal parts) given by Amit Gmat sets (Verbal parts) & JJ from Scoretop forum ( I became VIP member of Scoretop 10 days ago then I could access all gmat sets, Aug & Jul's JJ with answers and explanations; as for JJ, I could get more familiar with how real questions were written) And I think it's worth! Again, thank you very much! I owe you guys a lot for my final score. It is time to continue with applications! Best fortunes to all of us! Hihi, my post seems to be rather long. :blush: .Thanks for your reading!

Hi all guys, I took GMAT today and got 710. So happy now! :grad: :D I would like to express my sincere thanks to Erin for creating such an golden site, to all gmatters for your contributions so far. Will write my debrief very soon! :p

OA I got is D but I disagree. OA of gmatset not always correct. And if ritz had it in gmatprep, then C must be the correct OA. still very weird then;)

C is good but "decrease in size" not paralleled with "less distinctive, less in demand". It should be an adjective, instead, and D suits best.

http://oracle.chonnam.ac.kr/~ndtoan/cnuforum/showthread.php?tid=742

Go ahead, we are willing to know your logical thinking

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else. A. Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering B. Dickinson were written over a period that begins a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ended shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber C. Dickinson, written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and that ends shortly before Emily’s death in 1886and outnumbering D. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother, ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, and outnumbering E. Dickinson, which were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumber

The Earth’s rivers constantly carry dissolved salts into its oceans. Clearly, therefore, by taking the resulting increase in salt levels in the oceans over the past hundred years and then determining how many centuries of such increases it would have taken the oceans to reach current salt levels from a hypothetical initial salt-free state, the maximum age of the Earth’s oceans can be accurately estimated. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? A. The quantities of dissolved salts deposited by rivers in the Earth’s oceans have not been unusually large during the past hundred years. B. At any given time, all the Earth’s rivers have about the same salt levels. C. There are salts that leach into the Earth’s oceans directly from the ocean floor. D. There is no method superior to that based on salt levels for estimating the maximum age of the Earth’s oceans. E. None of the salts carried into the Earth’s oceans by rivers are used up by biological activity in the oceans. Pls explain your choice.

Years before the advent of plate tectonics¯the widely accepted theory, developed in the mid-1960’s, the holds Line that the major features of Earth’s surface (5) are created by the horizontal motions of Earth’s outer shell, or lithosphere¯ a similar theory was rejected by the geological community. In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed, in a widely debated (10) theory that came to be called continental drift, that Earth’s continents were mobile. To most geologists today, Wegener’s The origin of Continents and Oceans appears an impressive and prescient (15) document, containing several of the essential presumptions underlying plate tectonics theory: the horizontal mobility of pieces of Earth’s crust; the essential 23 difference between oceanic and conti- (20) nental crust; and a causal connection between horizontal displacements and the formation of mountain chains. Yet despite the considerable overlap between Wegener’s concepts and the (25) later widely embraced plate tectonics theory, and despite the fact that conti- nental drift theory presented a possible solution to the problem of the origin of mountains at a time when existing expla- (30) nations were seriously in doubt, in its day Wegener’s theory was rejected by the vast majority of geologists. Most geologists and many historians today believe that Wegener’s theory (35) was rejected because of its lack of an adequate mechanical basis. Stephen Jay Gould, for example, argues that continental drift theory was rejected because it did not explain how continents (40) could move through an apparently solid oceanic floor. However, as Anthony Hallam has pointed out, many scientific phenomena, such as the ice ages, have been accepted before they could be fully (45) explained. The most likely cause for the rejection of continental drift¯a cause that has been largely ignored because we consider Wegener’s theory to have been validated by the theory of plate (50) tectonics¯is the nature of the evidence that was put forward to support it. Most of Wegener’s evidence consisted of homologies—similarities of patterns and forms based on direct observations of (55) rocks in the field, supported by the use of hammers, hand lenses, and field note- books. In contrast, the data supporting plate tectonics were impressively geophysical—instrumental determinations (60) of the physical properties of Earth gar- nered through the use of seismographs, magnetometers, and computers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q1:The author cites Hallam (line 42) on the ice ages primarily in order to A. provide an example of a geologic phenomenon whose precise causes are not fully understood by geologists today B. criticize the geological community for an apparent lack of consistency in its responses to new theories C. offer evidence held to undermine a common view of why Wegener’s theory was not accepted in its day D. give an example of a modern scientist who believes that Wegener’s theory was rejected because it failed to adequately explain the mechanical basis of continental drift E. support Gould’s rationale for why Wegener’s theory was rejected by most geologists in the early twentieth century Answer: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q2: The author of the passage refers to the "considerable overlap" (line 23) between continental drift theory and plate tectonics theory most probably in order to A. suggest that plate tectonics theory is derived from Wegener’s work B. introduce a discussion comparing the elements of the two theories C. examine the question of whether continental drift theory was innovative in its time D. provide a reason why it might seem surprising that continental drift theory was not more widely embraced by geologists E. cite an explanation that has been frequently offered for Wegener’s high standing among geologists today Answer: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q3: The author of the passage suggests that the most likely explanation for the geological community’s response to continental drift theory in its day was that the theory A. was in conflict with certain aspects of plate tectonics theory B. failed to account for how mountains were formed C. did not adequately explain how continents moved through the ocean floor D. was contradicted by the geophysical data of the time E. was based on a kind of evidence that was considered insufficiently convincing Answer: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q4: It can be inferred from the passage that geologists today would be most likely to agree with which of the following statements about Wegener’s The Origin of Continents and Oceans? A. It was a worthy scientific effort that was ahead of its time. B. It was based on evidence that was later disproved. C. It was directly responsible for the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics. D. It has been disproved by continental drift theory. E. It misrepresented how horizontal displacements cause the formation of mountain chains. Answer:

why C is wrong?

Have 6 words, A,B,C,D,E,F (for example). Ask A is not at 1, B is not at 2, and C is not 4, how many possibilities?

GH, Tks!

I choose C. 1. Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished. (A) Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished[not parallel]. (B) Although he is as gifted, if not more gifted, than many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and with his poetry remaining unpublished. © Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry. (D) Despite his being gifted, if not more gifted than his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry [i found it rather weird] (E) Being a gifted as, or more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished. awkward

A sequence, A(1)=64, A(2)=66, A(3)=67, and when n>3, An=A(n-3)+8. Which of the following is a term of the sequence? a.762 b.765 c 801 d.1006 e.1287

I found this for you. Hope it is clear now. When rounding whole numbers there are 2 rules to remember: I will use the term rounding digit - which means: When asked to round to the closest tens - your rounding digit is the second number to the left (ten's place) when working with whole numbers. When asked to round to the nearest hundred - the third place from the left is the rounding digit (hundreds place). Rule 1. Determine what your rounding digit is and look to the right side of it. If the digit is 0,1,2,3 or 4 do not change the rounding digit. All digits that are on the right hand side of the requested rounding digit will become 0 Rule 2. Determine what your rounding digit is and look to the right of it. If the digit is 5,6,7, 8 or 9, your rounding digit rounds up by one number. All digits that are on the right hand side of the requested rounding digit will become 0 Rounding with decimals: When rounding numbers involving decimals, there are 2 rules to remember: Rule 1. Determine what your rounding digit is and look to the right side of it. If that digit is 4,3, 2 or 1, simply drop all digits to the right of it. [b[Rule 2. Determine what your rounding digit is and look to the right side of it. If that digit is 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 add one to the rounding digit and drop all digits to the right of it. Rule 3: Some teachers prefer this method: This rule provides more accuracy and is sometimes referred to as the 'Banker's Rule'. When the first digit dropped is 5 and there are no digits following or the digits following are zeros, make the preceding digit even (i.e. round off to the nearest even digit). E.g., 2.315 and 2.325 are both 2.32 when rounded off to the nearest hundredth. Note: The rationale for the third rule is that approximately half of the time the number will be rounded up and the other half of the time it will be rounded down. An example: 765.3682 becomes: 1000 when asked to round to the nearest thousand (1000) 800 when asked to round to the nearest hundred (100) 770 when asked to round to the nearest ten (10) 765 when asked to round to the nearest one (1) 765.4 when asked to round to the nearest tenth (10th) 765.37 when asked to round to the nearest hundredth (100th.) 765.368 when asked to round to the nearest thousandth (1000th)

my number pick is wrong. Ans is C. Nobody points out for me, ;)

GH is correct. By Venn, ans is the same (25%).