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James’s grade point average puts him in the top third of the graduating class of college A. Nestor is in the top tenth of the same class. Elizabeth had the same grade point average as Nestor. Nancy has a lower grade point average than Elizabeth. If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true? (A) James has a higher grade point average than Elizabeth. (B) James has a higher grade point average than Nancy. © Nestor has a higher grade point average than Nancy. (D) Elizabeth and Nancy both have a higher grade point average than James.（C） (E) Nestor and James both have a higher grade point average than Nancy. When I arranged priority order it appeared like grades are in the order -> (1) James (2) Elizabeth and Nestor (3) Nancy...If this is the order, then multiple answers will be correct... Which is the correct answer for this??????

Thanks Rajatmeh for the link as well as the explanation in the link...Awesome...

Dr. A: The new influenza vaccine is useless at best and possibly dangerous. I would never use it on a patient. Dr. B: But three studies published in the Journal of Medical Associates have rated that vaccine as unusually effective. Dr. A: The studies must have been faulty because the vaccine is worthless. In which of the following is the reasoning most similar to that of Dr. A? (A) Three of my patients have been harmed by that vaccine during the past three weeks, so the vaccine is unsafe. (B) Jerrold Jersey recommends this milk, and I don’t trust Jerrold Jersey, so I won’t buy this milk. © Wingzz tennis balls perform best because they are far more effective than any other tennis balls. (D) I’m buying Vim Vitamins. Doctors recommend them more often than they recommend any other vitamins, so Vim Vitamins must be good.（C） (E) Since University of Muldoon graduates score about 20 percent higher than average on the GMAT, Sheila Lee, a University of Muldoon graduate, will score about 20 percent higher than average when she takes the GMAT. The official Anser is C. But In my opinion it is B. Please let me know if any of you agree that it is B. If so, enlighten me why is it B.

Hey, search in eSnips...you will get it..Search on words -Reading Comprahension..

Give your self at least 13 to 14 minutes for a passage of 7 questions...That is a reasonable and efficient timing...10 minutes may be unrealistic for me

Practice the ones in KAPLAN premier and OG11. As you have only two weeks concentrate on learning the concept behind answering questions by looking into the answer choices explained in those books... If you can, I would suggest you going though passages 66 to 117 in 3000 RC document. Hope you had this doc...otherwise, search for it in eSnips.... smashGmat...... all the best buddy.......

During the Victorian period, women writers were measured against a social rather than a literary ideal. Hence, it was widely thought that novels by women should be modest, religious, sensitive, guileless, and chaste, like their authors. Many Victorian women writers took exception to (take exception to: v.反对) this belief, however, resisting the imposition of nonliterary restrictions on their work. Publishers soon discovered that the gentlest and most iddylike female novelists were tough-minded and relentless when their professional integrity (firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values: INCORRUPTIBILITY) was at stake (at stake: adv.危如累卵, 危险). Keenly aware of their artistic responsibilities, these women writers would not make concessions to secure commercial success. The Brontes, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and their lesser-known contemporaries repudiated, in their professional lives, the courtesy that Victorian ladies might exact from Victorian gentlemen. Desiring rigorous and impartial criticism, most women writers did not wish reviewers to be kind to them if kindness meant overlooking their literary weaknesses or flattering them on their accomplishments simply because of their sex. They had expected derisive reviews; instead, they found themselves confronted with generous criticism, which they considered condescending. Elizabeth Barrett Browning labeled it “the comparative respect which means... absolute scorn.” For their part, Victorian critics were virtually obsessed with finding the place of the woman writer so as to judge her appropriately. Many bluntly admitted that they thought Jane Eyre a masterpiece if written by a man, shocking or disgusting if written by a woman. Moreover, reactionary reviewers were quick to associate an independent heroine with carefully concealed revolutionary doctrine; several considered Jane Eyre a radical feminist document, as indeed it was. To Charlotte Bronte, who had demanded dignity and independence without any revolutionary intent and who considered herself politically conservative, their criticism was an affront. Such criticism bunched all women writers together rather than treating them as individual artists. Charlotte Bronte’s experience served as a warning to other women writers about the prejudices that immediately associated them with feminists and others thought to be political radicals. Irritated, and anxious to detach themselves from a group stereotype, many expressed relatively conservative views on the emancipation of women (except on the subject of women’s education) and stressed their own domestic accomplishments. However, in identifying themselves with women who had chosen the traditional career path of marriage and motherhood, these writers encountered still another threat to their creativity. Victorian prudery rendered virtually all experience that was uniquely feminine unprintable. No nineteenth-century woman dared to describe childbirth, much less her sexual passion. Men could not write about their sexual experiences either, but they could write about sport, business, crime, and war—all activities from which women were barred. Small wonder no woman produced a novel like War and Peace. What is amazing is the sheer volume of first-rate prose and poetry that Victorian women did write. How can I come to the inference mentioned in the question below?? Any ideas??? When they say feminist, are they meaning any revolutionary stuff of that time that can be done by woman... The OA is C 8. It can be inferred from the passage that a Victorian woman writer who did not consider herself a feminist would most probably have approved of women’s (A) entering the noncombat military (B) entering the publishing business © entering a university (D) joining the stock exchange（C） (E) joining a tennis club

westward expansion -> This is geographical expansion. It was an indirect connection..

Mine is reverse...I feel OG is tougher than KAPLAN. I scoped good in KAPLAN but not in OG...Still I am on the way to practice all OG11 passages.. but I am done with KAPLAN's this is my initial feeling...

Hi, I am often getting stumped in answering questions targeted for primery purpose of the passage. Examples are pasted below. Is there any specific strategy or method I can adopt in common for tackling such questions?? Please advise and share your strategy here.... Thanks...:tup: Here you go... The primary purpose of the passage is to (A) refute a common misconception (B) provide support for a hypothesis © analyze an argument (D) suggest a solution to a dilemma (E) reconcile opposing viewpoints The primary purpose of the passage is to (A) illustrate a hypothesis about the origin of galaxies (B) provide evidence to dispute an accepted theory about the evolution of galaxies © summarize the state of and prospects for research in intergalactic astronomy (D) report new data on the origins of intergalactic gas (E) Reconcile opposing views on the formation of intergalactic gas

IMO also its C. Answer B does not mention about hiking, but only mentions about camping. So, what do the people who go to hiking?? wont they still be in Borovia and Wont they increase sales??No where in the argument they specifically referred to increase both hiking and camping sales..... Answer C mentions both about hiking and camping, when the national parks are improved with visitor facilities, who will buy hiking and camping equipment? they can use visitor facilities for Camping and hiking right??? Star::: Answer B does not mention about hiking...Be careful there....

Here the argument is: However, we have just learned that Bergeron has fulfilled the financial disclosure requirement for candidacy by submitting a detailed list of his current financial holdings to the election commission. So, it is very likely that Bergeron will be a candidate for governor this year. IMO, The answer is B. Why? : Is submitting a list of holdings the only way to fulfill the election commission’s financial disclosure requirements? Let us say the answer is Yes. Then, the answer will strengthen the argument by proving that Bergeron will definitely be a candidate for Governor. Ler us say the answer is No. Then, the answer will weaken the argement by proving that even though the fulfillment is not done, he can be a candidate for governor. So, I will go with B. Why Not E?? If you closely observe the given question, there is a statement that "he has often talked about running for governor, but he has never run". This clearly rules out that it does not make sense to argument about his history of submitting in the previous year.

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For interested..It goes like this... Let us say 1/2 inch books are x and 3/4 inch books are y. Stmt 1: y=x/2 ==> Insufficient Stmt 2: (1/2) * x + (3/4) * y = 25 => Not sufficient But, Combining both of these will give x and y values.... X+Y is what was asked for in the question...So C is the answer...