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Haven't been around for awhile...whoa, lots of changes! :) So, this post has piqued my interest. What exactly are you looking for?

I just realized I never updated with my AWA score... Got it awhile back. 5.5 (88th %ile) Just write as much as you can. ;)

E gives us no comparison to Terland. 10 people die per year in Terland, while 100 die in Rubaria (60 of them because they didn't use the health care system)...meaningless. Doesn's give us any clue why it's higher in Rubaria in the first place.

It is reasonable to assume that life expectancy for Rubaria is higher because of the more widely available health care. After all, that is the basis of the whole "paradox." Thus, B.

So that's what happened to piyusht! ;) Good job!

Manhattan books are all pretty good, with the exception of the RC/CR book. However, since buying 6 out of the seven costs even more than buying the 7 book set...well, you get where I'm going. :)

81 for me.

The incribed angle should be half of the arc's degrees. So it shouldn't be 60, but actually 120.

I'd like to stay in the Bay Area, although that limits my options quite significantly.

Congrats, ice cold!

C should be the answer. D -- if the survey made people unconsciously think this, then the survey's results are tainted. This is a common survey tactic -- the wording of questions is of paramount importance if you want a survey to be truly neutral. E -- again, biased and an unrepresentative survey group (young people do not represent the entire population) make this survey group tainted.

The usage of but and nevertheless is pretty much moot here. The main mistake here is the usage of the colon in A. And I didn't even know the GMAT tests usage of the colon...Does it?

Thanks Erin. It's really not the end of anything, as I'll stick around, I bet. :) Severe symptoms of withdrawal may occur if I wean myself off TestMagic too quickly. ;)

I don't see anything wrong with saying "but nevertheless" -- it's an idiom that highlights a "surprising" contrast. "nevertheless" is not a conjunction, so no, you can't just leave out "but."

The first should be E. There should be NO VERB at all after the colon. The colon signifies an example, which should be in list form, not a complete sentence.