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You could even approach the problem this way. Say Andy has to paint 24 walls. And after 8 days, he's only done with 1/3rd of his job i.e. 8 walls. That means Andy can paint 1 wall / day. So far so good. Now there comes Ross who is 60% as quick as Andy means he can only do 3/5 th of what Andy can do per day. So working together, they can paint 1+3/5 = 8/5 walls per day! Now simply divide the remaining job i.e. 16 walls by their combined rate: so we get : (16/8)*5 = 10. Thats the number of days they require to work out rest of the walls.

@w_guy: No man, you just didn't get me right. When I took it last year, I just got bogged down by a few questions in the beginning which proved fatal eventually, leading to this 200 thing. I took GAT last week which loosely follows the GRE old PBT format, but this time after practicing alot. Thats how I aced it!;) @mdk: Thanks for your feedback. Can you suggest a few names? :)

I know quant does not sound that convincing but I guess its a giant leap for me, as I ruined it the first time I took it (in Nov 2007) and scored a shameful 660 (200 Q, 460 V). Its only after 6 months of practicing continuously, that I've been able to bag this score. Probably I'm Gre-phobic! The idea of reappearing for gre now literally haunts me! :mad:

Here goes a little brief about my profile: I wrote my GRE today and scored 1160 (680Q + 480v). My undergrad cgpa is 3.48/4 from a well-reputed program here in Pakistan. Recently I scored 99 percentile in the Graduate Assessment Test (Pak) which was taken by 23000 candidates. Moreover I've got a 3 years of both local (Pakistan) and international (Denmark) work experience as a software developer. I want to specialize in the field of Software Engineering. And NO research papers etc. Someone recommended me UT Dallas. Do I stand a chance there? I personally wanted to go to UC-Santa Cruz but I guess I'm late for this fall. Please suggest me some programs (preferably for this fall).

Yes the answer is B. I confirmed from the BB :)

I am taking it for the second time on April 26th. I wish everyone the best.

@aquarezia: Thanks. Seriously its not that amazing perhaps it didn't ask me anything really tough. I noticed a few mistakes on it as well. E.g. it gave me a word "Contumacious" which means "stubbornly disobedient", interestingly, the answer choices I encountered, none of them was even close to this meaning. But overall its nicely made and quite user friendly. Great find!

Interesting! I scored 97 percentile :O

I did it the same way as Sahilshah did.. Very good question though.

I hope my two cents would help you understand this problem in an easier way. Since both M and N are squares so we can make these suppositions: Let 'x' is a side of N, and 'y' is a side of M. Now x + y = 2 .. (from the figure) and, y^2 = 4 times x^2 ... (given) by taking square-root of both sides,we get: y = 2x After substituting in the first equation, you'll get, x + 2x = 2 3x = 2 x = 2/3 (D)

I'd personally recommend Barron's for the wordlists. Nova's books is nice, I especially found its math portion helpful.

Dejavu! First thought I had while reading your post was, "its so much like me". After spending 3 years in rigorous s/w dev routine, i too went through the same predicament. Deplorably, earlier whenever I would sit to study, all of a sudden I'd get damn sleepy.. something that never happens when I'm watching a movie, no matter how late it is. But, after spending some 5 months in pursuit of this gre thing, at numerous times I felt as if it was a futile effort altogether, nevertheless, what keeps me going (in a more focussed way now), is my improvement. And I can say that because my first diagnostic test made me lick the dust. Just 670! yuck! and now I can comfortably bag 1250-1260. So, the most abrupt and laconic reply should be "yes its hard to do it but it is very much do-able". Testmagic nevertheless, has been a great source of +ve reinforcement for me and I'm sure it'll help you stay focussed if you keep dropping by here. Do make a schedule. E.g. I alot 4 hrs to study daily and stick to that. During this time I divide my tasks e.g. learn/revise one barron's wordlist in 2 hours and do one Big book test (quant). The good thing that I did earlier (which has helped me now big deal) is that I'd do a self-appraisal of my progress at the end of each day. I hope it helps you in getting the wheels rolling :) Good luck with your prep!

I think there's no shortcut to this problem and to be honest you CAN'T do it in just 2 weeks unless you are a computer! Still interested? read on. I've read people claiming that they memorized 4-5 lists per day. I followed this too earlier but it literally didn't work because even if you cram 100+ words a day, you are hardly able to retain 20-25% of them. The point is that it becomes quite futile an effort to overload oneself with such a prodigious amount of words in one go. So my advice would be to do it the "hard way" i.e. stick to your plan of 30 words per day and then USE them! I guess maintaining a blog these days is not a big deal, so you may easily make use of this vocab in writing. Thats the most effective and best way of retaining the new vocab. Get a feel of these words and understand their nuance. Another thing that can really help is using flashcards (as mentioned in the Barron's).. But again don't overburden yourself with anything more than a stack of 5 cards! You may carry them with you and shuffle through them several times a day. Once you have memorized a card, replace it with a new once from your 'pool'. Thats quite a useful technique and I call it "divide and conquer strategy" :) I hope the combination of these two techniques work for you (as they are working for me big time). Good luck!

I read an interesting formula in PR and I guess its quite relevant here. It helps you find the sum of all the +ve integers in a given range. S = n/2 (first + last), where n = (last - first) + 1 Now in first case, you'd get: n = (74-25)+1 = 51 hence, S1 = (51*(24 + 74))/2 = 2499 In second case, you'd get: n = (75-25) + 1 = 51 hence, S2 = (51*(25+75 ))/2 = 2550 Clearly, Column B is bigger. Please note that I mentioned the whole calculation just for the sake of proof of this formula.. In the real exam however, it'd be wiser to just compare the two sums, as the fraction 51/2 occurs in both the cases. clearly, (24 + 74)

First of all, thanks a lot for so keenly evaluating my response :) Secondly, I really appreciate your suggestions, especially the one you gave in the second paragraph about the survey, that first years are too naive to stick to their opinions. That was an important point. Ok, do you really think its fine to mention the name of corporate companies? (3rd para) I was just confused thats why didn't mention that..