rawjosh

On this forum, you can remove D simply by staying within the scope of price war. However, on the D-day, guess, you will need to be fortunate to pick B and not D.

subarao - You will not be able to access more than 100 posts from any user. A possible suggestion to improve this, assuming that it does not have any issues on loading, is to combine the current search with date based search.

Most of the b schools consider the highest score. Having said that, the no. of attempts that each school will consider really depends on the school. There is a good post by 800Bob on this. Search for it. Per my opinion, I would advice you to go ahead with the test on Monday if you are reading this message tonight. You will get the experience of having faced the beast that will eventually give you loads of things to work on if (god forbid) you fail to achieve your dream score. On the other hand, you can score well above 700 if 7/21/2008 belongs to you. All the best!

Nope - there is no such indicator. I have read people getting about 16-17 SCs. So the mix of SC/CR/RC is really not 33% each.

ssky - You friend must have probably meant the same test but in a different format - you can actually order the same GPREEP test in a CD format after you pay the fee. There are only GPREP tests while there are few paper based tests as mentioned by Test taker.

subarao - KAPLAN gmat is way above the real test in terms of difficulty. One main difference between KAPLAN gmat and real test is that KAPLAN tests multiple concepts in a single question while real gmat does not. It has been said that you can safely add 100 points to your KAPLAN score. MGMAT tests are next best to GPREP.

GMAT is valid for 5 years. There is no good/bad consideration while taking the scores. Could you list any schools that does so?

Fix the portion in bold using your methods and you should be good.

perfectstranger: (Bruce-Berry)?? :) Here are my views: 1- Is GMAT reading comp. related with Critical Reasoning; that is when Critical reasoning improve does Reading Comp. improve (casual relation) or the linkage between CR and Reading is non-casual. RC and CR are not completely related to each other. Many say that RC is just a lengthier version of CR. I beg to differ. The difference starts right from the point you assimiliate the given information and you infer from the information provided - CR is lesser in pain in both the categories. Per my view, the most common thing between CR and RC is that you will need to comprehend both. As I mentioned in my earlier post, each has its own bag of strategies. So try to master them and you will definitely succeed. 2- If the relationship which I have mentioned above is casual, do you advise the book of CR Bible by Powerscore? ( Note: I have finished Manhattan CR and Official Guide 11th and OG Verbal once) You can refer to Powerscore for CR. Please note that the strategy given in Manhattan CR is something that not everyone can follow and it requires lot of practice and trust me - you wouldn't need that level of complicated strategy in the real test plus you wouldn't have that much of time left on your side. 3- If not what would you suggest? As mentioned earlier, work on each section separately and please dont waste time in finding the causality and correlation between different sections. Hope this helps!

Hello Nisha, Here is my view. Completing OG-11 with a fair degree of success rate and scoring GMATPREP above 700 really need not ensure anyone of a score >700. This is because, with OG-11 - most of them dont take it under timed constraints and even in cases where people take up timed sections, they take up just one section - say SC or CR in one sitting. Now, theoretically, the best bet for someone who plans to take up OG-11 under timed condition and benefit the most, would be to come up with a strategy to take up multiple sections in a mix and match fashion - a pattern that is seen in GPREP and real GMAT. Most of us complete OG-11 and then move to GPREP. Also, before taking up our first GPREP, we browse a bunch of fora and solve all the forum questions. Now, when you sit down for GPREP- you are almost sure to encounter a minimum of 2-3 CR questions and more based on the level of your involvement in differnt fora. Now, although this condition can be avoided if members indicate that the question discussed is from GPREP in the subject line, yet we definitely cant get rid of this situation completely. So, in a nutshell, solving OG-11 and GPREP under timed condition, really does not ensure you that you will score >700 in the real test. Now for the suggestion, I would advice you to place emphasis on the strategy involved in solving different problem types. By focusing on the strategy, you will definitely be able to solve any kind of question. This is perhaps the reason for most of the GMAT killers. Also, try to follow some of the stress-relieving techniques the test takers have discussed on this forum. In sum, there is a formula for all the 5 sections on GMAT. Try to master that and you will see excellent results in short period of time. Let me know if this helps. Please PM me if need be. ~rawjosh

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You can definitely request the proctor to let you choose a seat (again this is dependant on the center). However, in my case, I chose a seat that had no adjacent candidates. However, after 2.5 hrs into my test, I suddenly found a guy adjacent to me, that too right at the start of the dreadful verbal section. This is certainly something that you cant avoid.

That's definitely sad. However, did you have any specific reason to register as a non-US citizen when you are a permanent resident? If you register as a non-US citizen, then you will have to carry your passport. All the best!

Hi - Don't ignore AWA. Adcoms can read through your AWA essays for various reasons such as 1. to judge if your application essays are genuine by matching the language style of app essays with the style of AWA essays, 2. When they suspect that you could have written the Reco by yourself. So, don't ignore AWA. AWA is important although it does not require extensive preparation.

For theory: refer to Manhattan SC guide and Kaplan GMAT material for RC. For practice: SC: Practice from OG-11,0G-10 and this forum; RC: From OG-10/11 and LSAT.

nope..trust me..the bible is definitely not a "starter" material. It is a complete guide.

Folks - I have a good CR guide that can be used as a starter. Unfortunately, the size of the pdf file exceeds the permissible limit. Does anyone have an active esnips account that I can use to upload the pdf file? I would like to upload it somewhere on the net and post the link rather than sending it to loads of people.

Thanks all. My GMATPREP scores were: GPREP-1: 750 (Q:50;V:41) GPREP-2: 740 (Q:50;V:40) Verbal part was indeed quite easy. Most of the SC questions were straight forward. The CRs were of OG-11 standard while 3 RCs were short and 4th one wasn't that lengthy. For people who want to solve few questions before the real test, consider the practice questions provided in GMATPREP. You cannot get better questions than those. Frankly speaking, I did not prepare for Quant from anywhere outside this forum. This forum is so good for Quant. I might even vouchsafe a score of 50 for anyone who simply depends on this forum.

2008’s Greatest Mission Accomplished Today – A Quantifiable Victory I scored 690 (Q-49; V-35) today. I am happy with my score. A score of >700 was well within my reach but unfortunately the guy sitting next to me started typing his AWA essays 5 minutes after I started my verbal section and this really affected me. But I don’t have any regrets towards my final score. The test questions were at par with OG-11 and GMATPREP. For Quant, if I may say, this forum alone will guide you to a score of 48+. For Verbal (all the three sections), OG-11, GMATPREP and this forum will be more than sufficient. I would like to specially thank Krovvidy, larbgai, lurkman, Lisa and Ankost for helping me with my queries during my preparation. Please PM me if you have any questions. Also, let me know if you need any specific material. I can forward you the soft copy if I have them. Also, for those who had PMed me earlier requesting for material, please PM me again with what you had requested for and I will send them over to you as soon as I can. This forum is great and the more you utilize it, the more you will score. ~rawjosh

Indeed, can we not answer this question even without the two given statements, based on the 34:14:2 rule?

Yes, IMO, ans is E.

In Rubaria, excellent health care is available to virtually the entire population, whereas very few people in Terland receive adequate medical care. Yet, although the death rate for most diseases is higher in Terland than in Rubaria, the percentage of the male population that dies from prostate cancer is significantly higher in Rubaria than in Terland. Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain the disparity between the prostate cancer death rate in Rubaria and Terland? A. Effective treatment of prostate cancer in its early stages generally requires medical techniques available in Rubaria but not in Terland. – out of scope B. Most men who have prostate cancer are older than the average life expectancy for male inhabitants of Terland. – correct answer. Along with excellent health care that explains for longer lives in Rubaria, this statement also proves that “most” men affected by prostate cancer are older than the avg age of Terlandians. C. Being in poor general health does not increase one’s risk of developing prostate cancer.—generalized statement – does not help D. It is possible to decrease one’s risk of getting prostate cancer by eating certain kinds of foods, and such foods are more readily available in Rubaria than in Terland. – this explains the resolution and not the cause E. Among men in Rubaria, the death rate from prostate cancer is significantly higher for those who do not take full advantage of Rubaria’s health care system than for those who do.—This statement ties the death rate with health care – we are unsure about this relation from the argument

Practically speaking, there is no way to track the identity of folks who had posted their test experience or folks who posted real questions unless they bought the VIP package which is again not a mandatory requirement to do the above tasks. It is also impractical to track the identity of folks who have accessed those debriefings. Practically, 1000s and 1000s of people (indeed everyone who has ever visited ST) would have read those debriefings.

1. C - as explained by others 2. B. We need to prove (a+b)>1 -> stmt 2 is sufficient to prove it.

Here is my reasoning again, this time, based on your response. The portion in bold means that they are safe ONLY in lightely traveled section. The plan is to introduce the trucks all over the highways without any prior information about its performance on remaining sections of the road. If the performance is bad, then the plan is sure to fail. Could you please provide your share of reasoning as to why E should be the correct answer? Again, I feel that E is completely out of scope as "payload" is irrelevant to the performance "in this argument". Any CR gurus out there to guide us in the right direction?