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		<title>Here&#8217;s What to Do When You Don&#8217;t Know What to Do on the GMAT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chelsey Cooley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re staring at a GMAT problem that you just don&#8217;t understand. There&#8217;s a minute left on the clock. What do you do? Are you behind on time? If so, guess randomly and move on. Making up for lost time is much more valuable than anything I&#8217;ll describe in this article. Even if you&#8217;re ahead on time, consider [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10953" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/02/blog-what-to-do.png" alt="blog-what-to-do" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/02/blog-what-to-do.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/02/blog-what-to-do-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />You&#8217;re staring at a GMAT problem that you just don&#8217;t understand. There&#8217;s a minute left on the clock. </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do you do?</span></i><span id="more-10946"></span></p>
<h4><b>Are you behind on time?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If so, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">guess randomly and move on. </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making up for lost time is much more valuable than anything I&#8217;ll describe in this article. Even if you&#8217;re</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> ahead on time, consider moving on from the problem anyway, especially if you tend to work slowly. </span></p>
<h4><b>Question-Type Strategies</b></h4>
<p><strong>Integrated Reasoning</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unless it&#8217;s the very last problem, or you&#8217;re way ahead on time, guess randomly and move on. Integrated Reasoning rewards strategic skipping more than any other problem type, since the problems often have multiple parts (making it much less likely that you&#8217;ll get the right answer by guessing) and the difficulty comes mainly from intense time pressure. </span></p>
<p><b>Problem Solving</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Eliminate &#8220;Homers.&#8221;</strong> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Homer is any answer choice that Homer Simpson might pick. Homer is clueless, so he&#8217;d probably just look at the numbers in the problem, look at the answer choices, and pick one that looks similar. The test writers expect this, so don&#8217;t be like Homer. If an answer choice contains a lot of the numbers from the problem, or if it&#8217;s a simple combination of those numbers (like a sum or a product), don&#8217;t pick it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>If there are two variables in the problem, eliminate singletons.</strong> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Suppose that a problem states that the sum of Archie&#8217;s and Betty&#8217;s ages is 38. The test writers will probably include both Archie&#8217;s actual age and Betty&#8217;s actual age among the answer choices, just because it&#8217;s easy to slip up and pick the wrong one. The right answer, and one of the wrong answers, will sum to 38. Eliminate any answers that aren&#8217;t part of such a pair.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Benchmark.</strong> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you understand the problem a little, but you don&#8217;t know how to do the math, check the answer choices. Are some of them greater than 1, and some less than 1? Are some of them very large, and others very small? If so, guess which category the right answer would belong to.  </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">When in doubt, pick an answer choice that looks complex over one that looks simple.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Data Sufficiency</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Don&#8217;t forget that you can work with just the easier statement. </strong>This will allow you to eliminate either 2 or 3 answer choices.</span></li>
<li><strong>If the two statements look almost identical, guess A or B.</strong> The test writers are probably trying to see if you can identify a small but crucial difference between the statements.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>In general, avoid guessing C.</strong> On the one hand, C is the right answer 20% of the time, just like any other answer choice. On the other hand, a lot of logically complex problems are designed to trick you into choosing C. If C </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">feels</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> right, but you&#8217;re not really sure why, it&#8217;s probably a trap.</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Sentence Correction</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Mentally cross off modifiers to find the core of the sentence.</strong> If you&#8217;re really struggling to understand the sentence, there&#8217;s probably something wrong with the core.</span></li>
<li><strong>Find a single, easy, grammatical split to work with.</strong> Hard problems often have a single, subtle pronoun or subject/verb agreement split that&#8217;ll let you eliminate 2 or 3 answer choices.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Never guess an answer choice if you know there&#8217;s a grammatical error in it</strong>, even if it sounds the best overall. The right answer will never have </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">any</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> errors.</span></li>
<li><strong>If you&#8217;re out of ideas, it&#8217;s okay to go with what sounds right.</strong> That&#8217;s the great thing about Sentence Correction &#8212; on a Quant problem, you can get completely stuck and have no idea where to start. On Sentence Correction, you always have your instincts as an English speaker!</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Reading Comprehension</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Look at the first few words of every answer choice</strong> if you&#8217;re guessing the answer to a </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">general</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Reading Comprehension question, such as a Main Idea question. They&#8217;ll usually include a term such as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">explain</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">argue</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Eliminate any answer choices that don&#8217;t seem to describe the passage you read. Don&#8217;t guess an answer choice containing </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">argue</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">advocate</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> unless the author is obviously doing that. Just because the author seems to have a slight preference or voices a positive or negative about something, you can&#8217;t necessarily describe the point of the passage as </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">arguing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
<li><strong>Avoid guessing an answer that contains too many keywords from the passage.</strong> It&#8217;s probably a trap.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>If there&#8217;s anything wrong with an answer choice, it&#8217;s wrong.</strong> Wrong answers will often have a single incorrect word or phrase, but otherwise look great &#8212; don&#8217;t pick an answer that looks </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">mostly right</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> if you can identify anything wrong with it.  </span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Critical Reasoning: </b></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Pick the most boring, wishy-washiest answer</strong> if it&#8217;s a Draw a Conclusion or Find the Assumption problem. The right answers to these problem types rarely consist of bold statements.</span></li>
<li><strong>Don&#8217;t pick a guess that contains strong language</strong>, such as &#8220;all&#8221; or &#8220;every&#8221; or &#8220;never&#8221;. These are sometimes right, but they&#8217;re often traps.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t pick a guess that makes a comparison, such as &#8220;GMATopia exports more books than any other country.&#8221; These answer choices are sometimes right, but they&#8217;re also often inserted to trick you.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>These aren&#8217;t the only ways to make a quick strategic guess, but they&#8217;re a few of the best ones.</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As you practice, you&#8217;ll observe other patterns in which answers tend to be right or wrong. Which wrong answer choices you&#8217;re tempted by, or which answers tend to be correct on problems that you struggle with, will also depend on your own habits as a test-taker. Use this list as a jumping-off point, but whenever you make a successful guess &#8212; or whenever you notice a clever way to guess while reviewing a problem &#8212; write down what you&#8217;ve discovered, and use it on test day. </span><b>Guessing is necessary for everyone</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and </span><b>guessing is a skill you can learn</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> &#8212; that&#8217;s why we teach good guessing skills in our 9-week <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=GMAT%20Complete%20Courses%20Plug&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank">GMAT Complete Courses</a>, alongside lots of real math and language content. Improve your guessing abilities now to avoid trouble when you take the official GMAT. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4dd.png" alt="đź“ť" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></span></p>
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<p><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog" target="_blank">Chelsey Cooley</a><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-10949 size-thumbnail" title="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GMAT Instructor" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/chelsey-cooley-150x150.png" alt="Chelsey Cooley Manhattan Prep GMAT Instructor" width="150" height="150" /></a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Seattle, Washington.</strong> Chelsey always followed her heart when it came to her education. Luckily, her heart led her straight to the perfect background for GMAT and GRE teaching: she has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and history, a master’s degree in linguistics, a 790 on the GMAT, and a perfect 170/170 on the GRE. Check out Chelsey’s upcoming GMAT prep offerings <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyCoursesLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog#instructor/336">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s How to do GMAT Unit Conversions Like a Pro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chelsey Cooley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2016 17:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes the whole point of a specific GMAT problem is to convert between miles and kilometers, or meters and centimeters. In other problems, you&#8217;ll need to do a unit conversion as part of a longer solution. It&#8217;s easy to mess up unit conversions, and the GMAT writers know this &#8212; they include them on the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/heres-how-to-do-gmat-unit-conversions-like-a-pro/">Here&#8217;s How to do GMAT Unit Conversions Like a Pro</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10909" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-metrics.png" alt="blog-metrics" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-metrics.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-metrics-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />Sometimes the whole point of a specific GMAT problem is to convert between miles and kilometers, or meters and centimeters. In other problems, you&#8217;ll need to do a unit conversion as part of a longer solution. It&#8217;s easy to mess up unit conversions, and the GMAT writers know this &#8212; they include them on the test in order to test your level of organization and your ability to double-check your work. Here&#8217;s how to add fast unit conversions to your repertoire of skills.  <span id="more-10904"></span></p>
<ol>
<li><strong> Write the units down</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>The easiest mistake to make is simply forgetting what units you&#8217;re working with. If the problem asks for a number of cents, but you calculate a number of dollars, you&#8217;ll be off by a factor of 100 even if you do all of the math correctly. If there&#8217;s any chance that units will come into play in a problem, write them out at every step.</p>
<ol start="2">
<li><strong> Treat units like variables</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Units can be multiplied, divided, and canceled out, exactly like variables. (Remember that &#8216;per&#8217; always translates to division.) Suppose you&#8217;re converting 1400 crowns to rupees, and you know that the exchange rate is 0.4 crowns per rupee. Do you multiply 1400 by 0.4, or do you divide? Check by trying to cancel out the units:</p>
<p><strong>Wrong:</strong></p>
<p><strong><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft  wp-image-10905" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-1.png" alt="Unit_Conversions_1" width="500" height="239" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-1.png 364w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-1-300x143.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Right:</strong></p>
<p><strong><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft  wp-image-10906" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-2.png" alt="Unit_Conversions_2" width="731" height="303" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-2.png 531w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-2-300x124.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px" /></strong></p>
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</strong></p>
<p>Since division causes the units to correctly simplify to rupees, division is correct. Think about which units will need to cancel, and arrange them so that they do.</p>
<ol start="3">
<li><strong> One step at a time</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>With complex unit conversions, don&#8217;t skip steps. Convert a single unit at a time. In this example, we&#8217;ll convert 15 meters per second to kilometers per hour, by first converting seconds to minutes.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10907" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-3.png" alt="Unit_Conversions_3" width="917" height="389" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-3.png 917w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/unit-conversions-3-300x127.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px" /></p>
<p>All that&#8217;s left is to do the arithmetic, by calculating (15 x 60 x 60)/1000. The result is 54 kilometers per hour.</p>
<ol start="4">
<li><strong> Sanity check</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Do a basic sanity check each time you finish a unit conversion using familiar units. If you&#8217;re converting two hundred dollars to cents, should the result be <em>greater than 200</em> or <em>less than 200</em>? If you&#8217;re converting 45 seconds to hours, should the result be <em>greater than 45</em> or <em>less than 45</em>? It&#8217;s easy to mix up multiplication and division, and quickly checking to make sure your result is sensible can help you avoid this.</p>
<ol start="5">
<li><strong> Practice with Google</strong></li>
</ol>
<p>Type &#8220;15 meters per second in kilometers per hour&#8221; into a Google search box. Google Calculator automatically handles many unit conversions, including complex ones. That means that you can use it to drill this skill after reading this article! Make up a few complex unit conversions and simplify them on paper, exactly as you would if you saw them on the GMAT. Then, use Google to check your answers.</p>
<p>Half an hour of work, right now, will make you much quicker and more confident at unit conversions. While they don&#8217;t appear in every Quant problem, the GMAT test writers love to throw them in at the end of a tricky problem, in the hopes that unprepared test takers will make an easy mistake. Make them part of your GMAT toolkit, and outsmart the test! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4dd.png" alt="đź“ť" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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<p><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/#" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-8513 size-thumbnail" src="//cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gre/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2015/11/chelsey-cooley-150x150.jpg" alt="Chelsey-Cooley" width="150" height="150" /></a></strong></em><em><strong><a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/chelsey-cooley/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgre%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyBioGREBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GRE%20Blog">Chelsey Cooley</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Seattle, Washington.</strong> Chelsey always followed her heart when it came to her education. Luckily, her heart led her straight to the perfect background for GMAT and GRE teaching: she has undergraduate degrees in mathematics and history, a master’s degree in linguistics, a 790 on the GMAT, and a perfect 170/170 on the GRE. Check out Chelsey’s upcoming GMAT prep offerings <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CooleyCoursesLinkGMATBlog&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog#instructor/336">here</a>.</em></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stacey Koprince]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The GMAT Critical Reasoning question type &#8220;Explain a Discrepancy&#8221; has a very specific goal. If you know what your goal is, you’ll be much more likely to answer the question correctly. If you don’t, it can be very easy to get turned around and fall into a trap. Try this problem from the free questions [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10896" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-discrepancy.png" alt="blog-discrepancy" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-discrepancy.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-discrepancy-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />The GMAT Critical Reasoning question type &#8220;Explain a Discrepancy&#8221; has a very specific goal. If you know what your goal is, you’ll be much more likely to answer the question correctly. If you don’t, it can be very easy to get turned around and fall into a trap.</p>
<p>Try this problem from the free questions that come with the GMATPrep® software and then we’ll talk about how Discrepancy questions work!<span id="more-10895"></span></p>
<blockquote><p>“Products sold under a brand name used to command premium prices because, in general, they were superior to nonbrand rival products. Technical expertise in product development has become so widespread, however, that special quality advantages are very hard to obtain these days and even harder to maintain. As a consequence, brand-name products generally neither offer higher quality nor sell at higher prices. Paradoxically, brand names are a bigger marketing advantage than ever.</p>
<p>“Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the paradox outlined above?</p>
<p>“(A) Brand names are taken by consumers as a guarantee of getting a product as good as the best rival products.</p>
<p>“(B) Consumers recognize that the quality of products sold under invariant brand names can drift over time.</p>
<p>“(C) In many acquisitions of one corporation by another, the acquiring corporation is interested more in acquiring the right to use certain brand names than in acquiring existing production facilities.</p>
<p>“(D) In the days when special quality advantages were easier to obtain than they are now, it was also easier to get new brand names established.</p>
<p>“(E) The advertising of a company’s brand-name products is at times transferred to a new advertising agency, especially when sales are declining.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Got your answer? Before we dive into the solution, let’s talk about what you are supposed to be doing for Discrepancy questions in the first place.</p>
<p>Discrepancy arguments will present some kind of surprising series of facts—a paradox, to use the word that the argument above uses. The question is asking you to find a new piece of information that will <i>resolve</i> or <i>fix</i>this discrepancy. You’re looking for the answer choice that provides a new fact that will cause you to say, “Oh, I see! There really isn’t a discrepancy at all. This new fact explains everything; the situation makes sense now.”</p>
<p>Okay, let’s dive into this problem!</p>
<h2>Step 1: Identify the Question</h2>
<p>How do you know that this is a Discrepancy question in the first place?</p>
<p>First, the question stem for this type will always contain the language “if true” (or a synonym). This language signals that the answers will represent <i>new</i> information. Be careful about crossing something off just because it seems out of scope. (By the way, three question types have the “if true” language in the question stem: Strengthen, Weaken, or Explain a Discrepancy.)</p>
<p>The question stem will also contain language asking you to <i>explain</i> something or to <i>resolve</i> a problem.</p>
<p>As soon as you identify the question as a Discrepancy question, you now know that you’ll need to articulate the actual discrepancy from the argument. Let’s do that!</p>
<h2>Step 2: Deconstruct the Argument</h2>
<p>The first sentence indicates something that <i>used to</i> be true: people paid more for brand-name products because the products were better than others.</p>
<p>Nowadays, though, quality is a lot more equal across lots of products. Now, brand-name products are no longer higher quality and they don’t cost more money.</p>
<p>BUT brand names are still a huge marketing advantage! That seems weird. How can that be?</p>
<p>Here’s what my notes looked like, taken as I read the argument:</p>
<p><a href="//static.blog.beatthegmat.com/mba/files/2015/11/335-image.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-111505" src="//static.blog.beatthegmat.com/mba/files/2015/11/335-image.png" alt="335 - image" width="293" height="135" /></a></p>
<p>It seems like brand-name products have lost all of their advantages: they’re not higher quality and the companies can’t even charge more money for them anymore. So why are brand names <i>even more</i> of a marketing advantage than they used to be? There must be some other advantage to a brand name that the argument hasn’t articulated.</p>
<h2>Step 3: State the Goal</h2>
<p>On Discrepancy questions, the goal is to find an answer that fixes the discrepancy. The correct answer will cause the whole scenario to make sense.</p>
<p>Also, remind yourself of the most common trap on these problems: a Reverse Logic trap. Some answers will actually heighten the discrepancy, making it worse! Your job is not to make the discrepancy worse. Your job is to fix the discrepancy.</p>
<h2>Step 4: Work from Wrong to Right</h2>
<p>All right, let’s dive in.</p>
<blockquote><p>“(A) Brand names are taken by consumers as a guarantee of getting a product as good as the best rival products.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Hmm. Consumers see a brand name as a guarantee of a certain <i>level</i> of quality, even if that quality isn’t necessarily <i>higher</i> than the quality of rival products. Yes, that’s an advantage. Even though companies can’t charge more for brand-name products nowadays, they can sell more (in volume) since consumers still perceive an advantage to buying a brand name. This one looks good; keep it in.</p>
<blockquote><p>“(B) Consumers recognize that the quality of products sold under invariant brand names can drift over time.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I had to pause a moment over the word <i>invariant</i>. It’s not a commonly used word. If you’re not sure what it means, here’s how you can decode it: <i>vary</i> = change. <i>Variant</i> = something different. <i>In-</i> at the beginning of a word means “take the opposite meaning.” For example, <i>possible</i> means that something can be done.<i>Impossible</i> means that it can’t.</p>
<p>So if <i>variant</i> means something different or changing, then <i>invariant</i> is something that doesn’t change. An<i>invariant brand name</i>, then, is a brand name that stays the same over time; it doesn’t change. This choice is saying that a product sold under the same brand name may have “drifting” quality over time. That’s not good!</p>
<p>This is a Reverse Logic answer: it heightens the discrepancy. If consumers can’t count on the quality of a particular brand-name product, then why would they be more likely to buy that product? They wouldn’t. This choice doesn’t go along with the idea that the brand name is a bigger marketing advantage than ever. Eliminate.</p>
<blockquote><p>“(C) In many acquisitions of one corporation by another, the acquiring corporation is interested more in acquiring the right to use certain brand names than in acquiring existing production facilities.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This certainly supports the idea that brand names are a bigger marketing advantage than ever! It’s just missing one thing: it doesn’t explain <i>why</i> this is so. Your job is to fix the discrepancy, not to support the idea that brand names are a bigger marketing advantage than ever. Someone who mistakenly thought this was a Strengthen question would likely pick this answer. Eliminate.</p>
<blockquote><p>“(D) In the days when special quality advantages were easier to obtain than they are now, it was also easier to get new brand names established.”</p></blockquote>
<p>We’re trying to resolve a discrepancy that exists right now, but this choice is about something that was true in the past. That past situation doesn’t apply to the present-day paradox. Eliminate.</p>
<blockquote><p>“(E) The advertising of a company’s brand-name products is at times transferred to a new advertising agency, especially when sales are declining.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I’m sure this happens, but it doesn’t explain why brand names are a bigger marketing advantage than non-brand names. Any company could use any advertising agency for any kind of brand-name or non-brand-name product. Eliminate.</p>
<p>The correct answer is (A). it provides an alternative benefit that was not articulated in the argument: the brand name still has value because people trust that this product will be at least as good as other, similar products.</p>
<p>What did you learn on this problem? Come up with your own takeaways before you read mine below.</p>
<h2>Key Takeaways for Discrepancy Problems:</h2>
<p>(1) Know how to identify the question type (<em>if true</em> + <i>explain, resolve, account for</i>) and what you’re trying to do: find a choice that fixes the discrepancy.</p>
<p>(2) What is the discrepancy in question? Articulate this clearly to yourself <em>before</em> you go to the answers.</p>
<p>(3) Watch out for trap answers. The most common trap answer on a Discrepancy question will heighten the discrepancy, not fix it. Other traps might answer the wrong question, as answer (C) did in this problem (it potentially strengthened the idea that the brand name is a bigger advantage than ever—but that’s not what you were asked to do!).</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Note: The pilot project has now gone live as &#8220;Select Section Order&#8221;—however, the details are a bit different. Read this post for all the info you need on the new Select Section Order feature. You may have heard that, on Monday, some GMAT students started receiving emails inviting them to take part in a Select [&#8230;]</p>
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<h4><strong>Note: The pilot project has now gone live as &#8220;Select Section Order&#8221;—however, the details are a bit different. Read <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2017/06/15/gmat-select-section-order-is-almost-here/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this post</a> for all the info you need on the new Select Section Order feature.</strong></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may have heard that, on Monday, some GMAT students started receiving emails inviting them to take part in a Select Section Order Pilot program that <a href="//www.gmac.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GMAC (the organization that makes the GMAT)</a> is holding in late February/early March.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This pilot is to test an awesome potential new feature: the ability to select the order in which you do the various sections of the GMAT!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Below, I’ve laid out all of the important details and I also talk about how to decide whether to join, if you were one of the lucky students invited to take part.</span></p>
<h4><b>How does the pilot work? What are they testing?</b></h4>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They’re offering four possible combinations:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1) Quant. Verbal. IR. Essay.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(2) Quant. Verbal. Essay. IR.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(3) Verbal. Quant. IR. Essay.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(4) Essay. IR. Verbal. Quant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The last option allows you to take the test mostly like the real thing: you just swap quant and verbal. (When I first saw that, I thought: who’s going to choose that? But some people might…more on that later.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first three are serious departures from the status quo, though! They allow you to push the essay and IR to the end of the test and to do the quant and verbal sections while you’re still fresh. This could be a serious advantage, depending on your strengths and weaknesses and your test-taking style.</span></p>
<h4><b>That sounds great. How can I sign up?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you don’t receive an email from GMAC, then you can’t. I’m sorry. It’s invite only.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But there is some potential good news, as long as you aren’t planning to take the test very soon.</span></p>
<h4><b>This isn’t JUST a pilot. </b><b><i>The scores will count.</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyone who agrees to the pilot is going to come out of it with real, valid GMAT scores. In other words, GMAC is very far along in the testing process; otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to offer valid scores from this pilot.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If all goes well, then there’s a possibility that we just </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">might</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> see this roll out system-wide later this year. It might not happen until next year. (Or it might never happen, of course.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So if you aren’t planning to take the test in the next few months, then you just might be able to take advantage of this new feature later this year. We’ll have to wait and see.</span></p>
<h4><b>I was chosen! Should I do it? Or should I take it the “traditional” way?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you were chosen for the pilot, then there are a few important factors to consider.</span></p>
<h4><b><i>Don’t let this add to your stress.</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are feeling really stressed out about everything you have to do for this test, and this new pilot just seems like one more annoying variable / decision to make, then opt out.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For the pilot, you won’t have the ability to rehearse your chosen order on a practice test first. If that is a significant concern for you, either opt out or consider participating in the pilot and choosing option 4. That option swaps the order of quant and verbal, so it’s the closest to the current test. If you tend to be way too tired when you get to verbal (and if quant is a relative strength), then swapping the order of those last two sections may help your performance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you think that this sounds like a good opportunity to take the GMAT more on your own terms, then read on.</span></p>
<h4><b><i>In general, it’s better to start with a strength… (caveat below)</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people are going to be interested in one of the first three options, which allow you to do either quant or verbal first. Your first section is also your warm-up on the test, so it’s better for that section to be your strength.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In addition, if you do your stronger section first, you can carry that confidence and momentum over into your weaker second section. Finally, that weaker section will still come earlier in the test than usual, so your mental stamina will be higher than it normally is—giving you a better shot at lifting your score.</span></p>
<h4><b><i>(caveat)…unless you </i></b><b><i>really</i></b><b><i> dread your weaker section.</i></b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are so worried about your weaker section that you know you will just be thinking about and dreading it all through your stronger section, then you may want to bite the bullet and get your weaker section over with first.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One student I spoke with told me that she feels that if she can just get quant over with, then she will feel “free” for the rest of the test, and she’ll feel much more confident about her ability to do a great job with the other three sections, which are much stronger for her than quant.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If this applies to you, too, then you may want to consider doing your weaker section first rather than your stronger one.</span></p>
<h4><b>When is GMAC going to roll this out for everyone?</b></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not certain yet that this will become a permanent part of the GMAT, though I think there’s a good chance or they wouldn’t be allowing the students in this pilot to keep their scores. There’s no real way for me to predict, of course, but if everything goes well, I would not be at all surprised to learn that this becomes a permanent feature later this year.</span></p>
<p>For reference, <a href="//www.mba.com/us/frequently-asked-questions/select-section-order-pilot.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here&#8217;s the GMAC&#8217;s official FAQ on the Select Section Order Pilot</a>.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good luck and happy studying!</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>There are really only a dozen different Critical Reasoning problems in the Official Guide to the GMAT. The test writers recycle the same basic argument structures over and over, and they use the same right answers over and over, too. Even though the topics change &#8212; an argument might be about school funding the first [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-critical-reasoning-problems-arguments-that-tell-you-why/">GMAT Critical Reasoning Problems: Arguments That Tell You Why</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10825" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-gmatargument.png" alt="Blog-GMATArgument" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-gmatargument.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2016/01/blog-gmatargument-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />There are really only a dozen different Critical Reasoning problems in the Official Guide to the GMAT. The test writers recycle the same basic argument structures over and over, and they use the same right answers over and over, too. Even though the topics change &#8212; an argument might be about school funding the first time you see it, and industrial efficiency the next &#8212; you can sometimes recognize the underlying structure, outsmart the test, and earn some well-deserved points on the Verbal section.</span><span id="more-10824"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One example to be familiar with is the &#8220;tell me why&#8221; argument. When you see one of these arguments, it&#8217;ll probably be part of a </span><b>Weaken the Argument </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">or </span><b>Find the Assumption</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Critical Reasoning problem. First, the author describes a phenomenon that he or she has observed. Then, in the conclusion, the author speculates on what </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">caused</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the phenomenon. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are some examples:</span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">There&#8217;s no toilet paper in the bathroom. My roommate must not have bought any. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever since the new toll was enacted on the interstate, I&#8217;ve seen less traffic on my way to work in the mornings. The toll must have led some drivers to start commuting by public transit rather than by car. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">A deficiency of Vitamin D has been shown to contribute to illness. Adequate exposure to sunlight is necessary for the human body to produce sufficient Vitamin D. However, in Seattle, where there is little natural sunlight for much of the year, residents report rates of illness that are no higher than the national average. It&#8217;s clear that after residing for some time in a place with minimal natural sunlight, the human body adapts to require a lower level of Vitamin D to avoid illness. </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each of these &#8220;tell me why&#8221; arguments describes an observation, then tries to explain</span><b> why it happened</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. More interestingly, each of them has the same flaw: what if there was actually a different explanation that made just as much sense? That would hurt the author&#8217;s argument. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">My roommate bought toilet paper, but forgot to take it out of the car on her way upstairs. That explains why it isn&#8217;t in the bathroom.  </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The toll is only in effect during rush hour. The same number of people are commuting by car, but now they&#8217;re doing it at different times of the day to avoid being charged. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">People who live in Seattle often take Vitamin D supplements, so they have the same levels in their bodies on average as people who live in sunnier areas. They don&#8217;t get sick because they actually don&#8217;t have a Vitamin D deficiency at all. </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When one of these arguments is part of a </span><b>Weaken</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> problem, the right answer will very often give </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">another, better explanation</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, or at least suggest that there is one. That means that the right answer can include information that has nothing to do with the argument, at least on the surface! When you see an answer choice that looks &#8220;out of scope&#8221;, ask yourself whether it might be giving an alternative explanation for the facts. That would make it a good Weakener. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These arguments also often appear in </span><b>Assumption</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> problems. In these cases, the right answer may describe something that the author has assumed </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">not</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to be true. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8230; assuming that my roommate didn&#8217;t accidentally leave the toilet paper in her car.  </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8230; assuming that people are still commuting to work at the same time of day they did previously. </span></i></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8230; assuming that people in Seattle don&#8217;t use Vitamin D supplements. </span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The arguments themselves don&#8217;t say anything about supplements, or about the time of day, or about my roommate&#8217;s car, so aren&#8217;t these assumptions out of scope? No. By creating a &#8220;tell me why&#8221; argument, the author is always assuming that the </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">other</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> possible explanations aren&#8217;t correct. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Start looking out for &#8220;tell me why&#8221; arguments on Critical Reasoning, and anticipate how the right answers might look! For practice, try out these Critical Reasoning problems from </span><b>The Official Guide to the GMAT, 2016: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">48, 69,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">90, and 121.</span></p>
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<p>Over the past five or so years, I have seen more and more students take the GMAT twice.</p>
<p><span id="more-10720"></span>Now that students can cancel a score and never have it appear on record, I’ve come to the recommendation that everyone should plan to take the GMAT twice.</p>
<h3><strong>Taking the GMAT is seriously stressful.</strong></h3>
<p>Most people become at least a little nervous when taking any standardized test. A computer adaptive test is even more stressful because, no matter how much you study, the test just keeps getting harder as you learn more.</p>
<p>I’ve had many students take the test twice, and every single one has told me that they felt more comfortable the second time. They knew what to expect at the testing center, the security procedures didn’t stress them out, and they were even better able to handle the small distractions of the testing room—another student typing, a proctor entering the room, and so on.</p>
<p>For those who know that they get extra nervous when taking standardized tests, having a “dry run” first test is a great way to help keep a handle on your nerves when you take the test “for real,” the second time.</p>
<h3><strong>There’s no downside: MBA programs use your highest score. </strong></h3>
<p>Most people have heard that business schools use your highest score, but many people don&#8217;t trust that the schools really don’t care about lower scores on your record. In fact, some schools don&#8217;t even look at your full set of scores until they&#8217;ve decided what to do with your application (and this used to be true for all schools). Let me take you through that process. (Note: this applies to MBA programs. If you are going for a Ph.D., the process may be different and the doctoral program may care about all of your scores.)</p>
<p>Let’s use an example to illustrate what’s going on. Last year, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business* received approximately 8,000 applications spread over 3 rounds of admission. The school admitted just over 400 people, or about 5% of applicants (yikes!).</p>
<p>Now, picture the offices of the admissions people. They have mounds of information to get through: essays, recommendations, resumes. They know they’ll admit only about 5% of the people who’ve applied. Do you think they’re going to check the official GMAT score reports of all 8,000 people?</p>
<p>No way! Instead, they evaluate the applications assuming that you told them the truth when you reported a certain GMAT score. Once they’ve generally decided who they want to admit (or put on the wait list), then they’ll verify the scores just for those students.</p>
<p>In the past few years, some schools have built in the ability to link your account to your test results after you enter certain pieces of identifying info into your application. If so, then you&#8217;ll see your verified test date(s) pop up in your official application at this point. (*Note: I don&#8217;t know how Stanford does things; I chose them for the example above because they have an exceptionally low yield, so they make for an especially good example.)</p>
<p>If they don&#8217;t have access to your full score set at the beginning, then they’ve already decided your fate by the time they look up your scores. If they want you, they’re not suddenly going to reject you because you had another GMAT score that was lower. After all, you did earn that higher GMAT score on which they based their decision! (Assuming you did. This should be obvious but here goes: don’t lie about your GMAT score on your application.) And even if they do have access to your full score set at the beginning, they&#8217;re used to making this decision based on your highest score. That&#8217;s how they&#8217;ve always done it. If you can get that top score once, then you are capable of getting that score period, and that&#8217;s what they care about.</p>
<h3><strong>There’s no downside, part 2: you can cancel your scores </strong></h3>
<p>Any canceled test administrations don’t show up on your record at all. The schools literally won’t even know that you took the test that day.</p>
<p>So if you go in and really dislike your score, just select the button to cancel at the end. Then you don’t need to worry about whether some b-school might penalize you for a lower score even if you later earn a higher score. (Though, again, you really don’t need to worry about this!)</p>
<p>Know before you go in what kind of score you’d want to keep vs. cancel. In the 4 months since this new cancellation policy started, I’ve talked to two students who’ve canceled when the screen flashed a 690 and they wanted a 700+. Seriously! They were only 10 points off and they canceled their scores!! Don’t fall prey to a knee-jerk reaction just because the score you wanted isn’t on the screen. (You can reinstate your scores within 2 months of a cancellation…if you pay a $100 fee.)</p>
<p>I generally tell my students that if they score more than 100 points below their (reasonable) goal, then they should feel free to click the cancel button if it makes them feel more comfortable.</p>
<p>Note my “reasonable” caveat. If you want a 730, and your practice tests topped out at 580, and then you score a 620 on the real test, please do not cancel that score. You just had your best test ever and you want to keep that score, just in case.</p>
<h3><strong>But the GMAT costs $250…that’s a downside!</strong></h3>
<p>I agree that $250 is a lot of money. If you think about how much money you spent the last time you went to dinner, then $250 is definitely expensive.</p>
<p>But put this figure into perspective. If you’re going for a full-time program at a private school, you’re looking at a $200,000 price tag! If you attend a public school via a part-time, evening-and-week-end program, business school is still going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars. The cost of one GMAT, $250, is far less than 1% of the cost of b-school. Don’t try to save $250 now when a proper investment might get you into a higher-caliber program down the line.</p>
<p>So build two tests into your study timeline. If you end up loving your first score, then you can take that second $250 and go out for a really, really nice dinner. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f4dd.png" alt="đź“ť" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p>[Edited] Note: this article was edited after first publication. Initially, I said that <em>many / most</em> schools don&#8217;t check scores until after making the decision. It then came to my attention that more schools had added the functionality described in the article than I had thought, so I edited the article to say that <em>some</em> schools don&#8217;t check until after and <em>some</em> schools attach the data to the application from the start.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2015 00:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Do you need to drill foundational skills? Practice your process for any of the question types found in the Quant (DS, PS) or Verbal (CR, RC, SC) sections of the GMAT? Challenge yourself with some very advanced Quant problems?</p>
<p>We’ve got you covered. The full version of the app contains more than 2,000 practice problems along with comprehensive explanations—and even the free version will keep you busy for quite a while. Some problems are skill drills: you’ll make sure that you have all of the foundational knowledge you need in order to tackle the test. Others are full-on GMAT-format problems, so that you can practice exactly what you’ll need to do on test day.</p>
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<p>The app contains several glossaries, including grammar terms, math terms, and idioms. We also provide a whole host of study and time management strategies, and our friends over at <a href="//www.mbamission.com/" target="_blank">MBA Mission</a> have contributed great admissions tips.</p>
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<p>You can use the app in conjunction with one of our courses, but you don’t need to take a course to benefit from the app; it works just as well for stand-alone practice. You will want to identify other resources that, for example, lay out all of the grammar rules or formulas that you would need to know for the test. (Our strategy guides cover those areas.) The app is focused on practicing your skills on problems.</p>
<p>If you are taking one of our <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/" target="_blank">courses</a> or <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/prep/on-demand/" target="_blank">guided self-study programs</a>, the full app won’t cost you anything; it’s included as part of your program. Now, you don’t have to have your books with you whenever you want to study. You can sneak in 5 or 10 minutes of practice while you’re waiting for that meeting to start.</p>
<p>The material is organized in the same way that our strategy guides are organized: quant by major content area and verbal by question type. Essentially, you can do any of your strategy guide end-of-chapter problem sets or online practice problems via the app rather than in your books or your Manhattan Prep student center.</p>
<p>I hope you’re as excited about the app as I am. Now, go get started and happy studying!</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a style="color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hltcorp.gmat">Android</a></strong></span></span></h3>
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<p><em><strong><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9719" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/06/stacey-koprince-150x150.png" alt="stacey-koprince" width="150" height="150" />Stacey Koprince is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Montreal, Canada and Los Angeles, California.</strong> Stacey has been teaching the GMAT, GRE, and LSAT  for more than 15 years and is one of the most well-known instructors in the industry. Stacey loves to teach and is absolutely fascinated by standardized tests. <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/#instructor/86">Check out Stacey’s upcoming GMAT courses here</a></em></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Did you know that you can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free? We’re not kidding! Check out our upcoming courses here. Let&#8217;s talk about GMAT Data Sufficiency. Specifically, let&#8217;s talk about getting GMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) problems wrong. And I don&#8217;t mean those problems that you [&#8230;]</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let&#8217;s talk about GMAT Data Sufficiency. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Specifically, let&#8217;s talk about getting GMAT Data Sufficiency (DS) problems wrong. And I don&#8217;t mean those problems that you missed because of careless math errors, or because of concepts you hadn&#8217;t learned yet. No, I&#8217;m talking about the missed DS problems that make you want to bang your head against the wall: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">How on Earth did I not get that?</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are two reasons you might have this experience:</span><span id="more-10501"></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You thought that something was </span><b>sufficient</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but it was actually </span><b>insufficient</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> You thought that something was </span><b>insufficient</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but it was actually </span><b>sufficient</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These two errors are actually very different from each other, and understanding which one made you miss a problem is a great way to take your DS game to the next level. Ready? As you review, use this article and the one following it to analyze which of the two mistakes you made, why it happened, and how to prevent it next time.</span></p>
<p><b>Type 1 Errors</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors">Type 1 errors</a> are known in the sciences as &#8220;false positives.&#8221; On the GMAT, they happen when you think that you have enough information to answer the question, but you actually don&#8217;t. For instance, you might have picked answer choice (D), but then found out that the right answer was (A). </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">You thought that statement (2) was sufficient, but it actually wasn&#8217;t.</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Why does this happen? Here are four of the most common causes.</span></p>
<p><b><i>Your cases weren&#8217;t weird enough. </i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Testing cases is the best way to prove that a statement is insufficient. But what happens if you test a couple of cases, and you keep getting the same answer to the question? Either the statement you&#8217;re working with is actually sufficient, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">or else it&#8217;s insufficient, but you didn&#8217;t test the cases that would prove it</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Sometimes, all of the obvious cases will yield the same answer. It&#8217;s only when you start testing the weird stuff–fractions, decimals, zero, negatives, roots, extremely large or extremely small numbers–that you&#8217;ll start getting different results. Have you made this mistake? Then try testing unusual cases to prove insufficiency on the following problems: </span><b>The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 2016</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (OG 2016)</span><b> DS </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">81, 113, and 145 and </span><b>The Official Guide for GMAT Quantitative Review, 2016 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">(QR 2016)</span><b> DS </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">58, 64, 68, and 112.</span></p>
<p><b><i>Statement carryover</i></b><b>. </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">You worked with statement (1), and found out that it was insufficient. Then you worked with statement (2), and were able to solve the problem. So, statement (2) must be sufficient&#8230;right? Well, maybe not. Did you let some information you learned from statement (1) &#8216;leak&#8217; into your work on statement (2)? Often, Type 1 errors happen because you don&#8217;t keep your statements separate. If this happens to you often, improve your DS scratch work: physically separating the two statements helps you mentally separate them. Here&#8217;s one way to do it:</span><br />
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-10506" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/11/data-sufficiency-problems---statement-carryover-image.png" alt="Data_Sufficiency_problems_-_Statement_Carryover_Image" width="1052" height="573" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/11/data-sufficiency-problems---statement-carryover-image.png 990w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/11/data-sufficiency-problems---statement-carryover-image-300x163.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 1052px) 100vw, 1052px" /><b><i>Issues with inequalities. </i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did the question or the statements include inequalities? Misinterpreting inequalities often leads to Type 1 errors. Check out this Data Sufficiency mini-question:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Is </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">x</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> < 2</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">y</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(1) 2</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">x</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> < 5</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">y</span></i></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take a moment to carefully prove that statement (1) is insufficient. Try testing cases! There&#8217;s a good reason to be careful here: if you speed through a statement like this on the GMAT, you&#8217;re likely to make a Type 1 error, because an inequality often gives you less information than it appears to. The solution is to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">slow down</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">test specific cases</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> every time you see an inequality in the statements. Have you recently made a Type 1 error on a DS inequality problem? Then work slowly and carefully through these problems: </span><b>OG 2016 DS</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 42, 111, and 68 and </span><b>QR 2016 DS </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">70 and 104. </span></p>
<p><b><i>Too many variables.</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> When you review a DS word problem, always translate the statements into equations on your paper. If you initially made a Type 1 error, then as you do this, you might notice that you have more variables than you expected. You may even have too many to solve the problem, meaning that the statement is probably insufficient. This type of error happens when you do a DS word problem in your head. If you don&#8217;t actually write out the math, you might find yourself reusing or forgetting about variables. Try writing out the math on these DS word problems: </span><b>OG 2016 DS </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">96</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><b>QR 2016 DS </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">51 and 52. </span></p>
<p><b>What now?</b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Type 1 (and Type 2) errors are specific to Data Sufficiency. If you&#8217;re doing better on Problem Solving than on Data Sufficiency, or if you know the math well but just can&#8217;t pull it together on the Quant section, these logical errors are likely part of the problem. Overcoming them will improve your Quant score. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Review the DS problems from a recent practice test, or a DS problem set that you recently completed. Identify your Type 1 errors by looking for problems where you mistakenly thought that a statement, or both statements together, gave you enough information to answer the question correctly. Find as many Type 1 errors as possible, and figure out why they happened. Do any of them fit into the categories described above? If so, work through the practice problems for that category.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When you finish reviewing, commit to making one good change to your DS process, based on what you&#8217;ve learned. For example:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211;  Always translate DS word problems into variables and equations before you start working.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; On your paper, draw a line to physically separate statement (1) from statement (2).  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; Always test at least one &#8220;weird&#8221; case before concluding that a statement is sufficient.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Put this single change into action the next time you practice DS, and if you find that you&#8217;re now making fewer Type 1 errors, make it a permanent part of your routine. To learn about Type 2 errors, <a href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/2015/12/04/heres-why-you-might-be-missing-gmat-data-sufficiency-problems-part-1-2/?utm_source=manhattanprep.com%2Fgmat%2Fblog&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_content=CC%201%20-%20Here's%20why%20you%20might%20be%20missing%20GMAT%20Data%20Sufficiency%20Problems%20Link%20to%20CC%202%20Part%202&#038;utm_campaign=GMAT%20Blog" target="_blank">read on to Part 2</a>. ?</span></p>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A student of mine once emailed me after he took the GMAT. Instead of telling me his score, he wrote, “let’s just say that 4 times my score is a multiple of 88, and 5 times my score is a multiple of 35.” Can you tell what he got? If not…you may need to work [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10167" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language.png" alt="Blog-GMAT-Language" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />A student of mine once emailed me after he took the GMAT. Instead of telling me his score, he wrote, “let’s just say that 4 times my score is a multiple of 88, and 5 times my score is a multiple of 35.”</p>
<p>Can you tell what he got? If not…you may need to work on your GMAT translation skills!<span id="more-10166"></span>Most people expect math on the GMAT to be like math in high school, when memorizing formulas and applying them correctly – rigorous memorization and meticulous application – was all you needed to get an A. That’s not nearly enough on the GMAT, though!</p>
<p>Because the content of GMAT is relatively simple(middle school and basic high school math), the only way to make the test challenging is to make the <em>structure</em> complex. Test writers encode simple concepts in complicated language. Instead of saying “<em>n</em> is odd,” for example, they’ll say “the remainder when <em>n</em> is divided by 2 is 1.” That way, we have to do the extra work of translating: if a number has a remainder when divided by 2, it can’t be even. It must be odd!</p>
<p>To move through the test quickly and efficiently without getting stuck, you’ll need to quickly decode complex GMAT language to find the simple underlying concept.</p>
<p>See if you can translate these coded messages:</p>
<ol>
<li>the remainder when <em>x</em> is divided by 10 is 3.</li>
<li><em>p </em>= <em>n</em><sup>3</sup><em> – n</em>, where <em>n</em> is an integer</li>
<li>integer <em>y</em> has an odd number of distinct factors</li>
<li>|<em>b</em>| = &#8211;<em>b</em></li>
<li>the positive integer <em>q</em> does not have a factor <em>r</em> such that 1<<em>r</em><<em>q</em></li>
<li><em>n</em> = 2<em>k</em> + 1, where <em>k</em> is a positive integer</li>
<li><em>a</em><sup>2</sup><em>b</em><sup>3</sup><em>c</em><sup>4 </sup>> 0</li>
<li><em>x</em> and <em>y </em>are integers, and <em>y<sup>x </sup></em>< 0</li>
<li>what is the greatest integer <em>n</em> for which 2<em><sup>n</sup></em> is a factor of 96?</li>
</ol>
<p>When you come across this kind of coded language, ask yourself, “what is the underlying concept here? What are the clues?” Then, create flashcards – coded message on the front, translation and explanation on the back.</p>
<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-10168 " src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language-image-1024x286.png" alt="Blog-GMAT-Language-Image" width="676" height="189" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language-image-1024x286.png 1024w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language-image-300x84.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/blog-gmat-language-image.png 1127w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" /></p>
<p>Then, push yourself further: try to think of different iterations of the same idea (e.g. <em>a/b </em>> 0, or <em>pqr </em>< 0) and make flashcards for those.

Here are the translated versions of the codes above (but make sure you try to translate them yourself before you look at these answers!):


<ol>
<li>The units digit of <em>x</em> is 3 (the remainder when divided by 10 is always the same as the units digit).</li>
<li><em>p</em>is the product of 3 consecutive integers. Factor out <em>n</em> first: <em>n</em>(<em>n</em><sup>2</sup> – 1). Then, factor the difference of squares: <em>n</em>(<em>n</em> + 1)(<em>n</em> – 1). A number × one greater × one smaller = the product of 3 consecutives.</li>
<li><em>y</em> is a perfect square (like 9, whose factors are 1, 3, &#038; 9). Any non-square integer will have an even number of distinct factors (e.g. 5: 1 &#038; 5, or 18: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, &#038; 18).</li>
<li><em>b </em>must be negative or 0. If the absolute value of <em>b</em> (the distance from 0) is equal to &#8211;<em>b</em>, then &#8211;<em>b </em>cannot be negative; it must be positive or 0. If &#8211;<i>b</i> = 0, then <i>b</i> = 0 as well. If &#8211;<i>b</i> is positive, then <i>b</i> itself must be negative.</li>
<li><em>q </em>must be prime. If <em>q</em> were a non-prime integer, it would have at least one factor between 1 and itself.</li>
<li><em>n</em> is odd. 2<em>k</em> must be even (regardless of what <em>k</em> is), so adding 1 to an even will give us an odd.</li>
<li><em>b </em>must be positive. The even exponents hide the sign of <em>a</em> and <em>c</em>, but <em>a</em><sup>2</sup> and <em>c</em><sup>4</sup> must be positive, so <em>b</em><sup>3</sup> – and therefore <em>b</em> – must be positive.</li>
<li><em>y </em>must be negative, because only a negative base would yield a negative term. And <em>x</em> must be odd, because an even exponent would make the term positive.</li>
<li>How many factors of 2 are there in 96? If we break 96 down, we get a prime factorization of 2×2×2×2×2×3, so 2<sup>5</sup> will be a factor of 96, but 2<sup>6</sup> won’t.</li>
</ol>
<p>A lot of the coded language on the GMAT comes from Number Properties concepts (perhaps because “even &#038; odds” and “positives &#038; negatives” seem elementary until we disguise them). You probably already know the basic rules: even + odd = odd, even × odd = even, etc. Don’t just make flashcards for the basic rules – look for the coded language, and be ready to translate.</p>
<p>By the way, that student that I mentioned at the beginning… were you able to figure out his score?</p>
<p><em>4 times my score is a multiple of 88</em> &#8211; Translation: the score is a multiple of 22, and therefore 2 and 11.</p>
<p><em>5 times my score is a multiple of 35 &#8211; </em>Translation: the score is a multiple of 7.</p>
<p>A multiple of 7, 11, and 2? It must be a 770!</p>
<p>A score like that takes serious translation skills!</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10154" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/image-mindset.png" alt="Image-Mindset" width="676" height="264" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/image-mindset.png 676w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2015/09/image-mindset-300x117.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px" />If you’ve ever read any of my articles, then you know how much I harp on the idea that the GMAT is primarily a test of your business decision-making, or <a href="//tinyurl.com/executivereasoning" target="_blank">executive reasoning</a>, skills. Sure, there’s a bunch of facts and rules you need to know, but you don’t need to be a math or grammar superstar in order to get a good score on the GMAT (even though I know it feels that way sometimes).</p>
<p>You do, though, have to be a GMAT master. Business schools want to know that you are going to be a good executive. You can assess a situation rapidly, noticing positive and negative factors that may affect how you want to move forward in that situation. You make appropriate decisions most of the time and you follow through: if you decide that a particular product line needs to be cut, you make that cut. You don’t dribble in another million dollars because you’re reluctant to let go. In short, you can manage your scarce resources (time, money, people) masterfully.</p>
<p>The GMAT is the same game, though your scarce resources on the test are time and mental energy. As such, it is crucial to approach the test as a series of business decisions, not a school test.</p>
<p>How do you take the test with a business mindset? Glad you asked! Read on.<span id="more-10153"></span></p>
<h2>Do NOT do what you did in school</h2>
<p>In school, your goal was to try to get everything right, and if you studied enough, you just might have. Your teachers didn’t put problems on the test that they thought you couldn’t do. But the GMAT does! The test makers actually do NOT expect you to get everything right!</p>
<p>Why? Because real life is like that. The decisions you make at work every day don’t really have “right” answers, and you’re constantly balancing trade-offs. The GMAT is designed to mimic this, so expect to have to make some hard decisions. The b-schools want to know about your business mindset, not whether you can find the area of a circle or know what an appositive modifier is.</p>
<h2>So how do I master this business mindset?</h2>
<p>Approach the GMAT as a series of decisions to be made. You are the Director of your division. You’ve got an annual budget, a certain number of employees, various product lines to support, and goals for revenue and profits, among other things.</p>
<p>Each new problem is someone knocking on your door and asking you for $50,000 for something that they think is necessary. Sometimes, you agree and you hand over that $50k. Sometimes, you think the idea is so promising that you actually toss in a little extra (you spend a bit more time and mental energy on this problem).</p>
<p>Other times, you tell your employee, “I’m not sure yet. I’d like to know a little more before I decide.” (You spend 30 to 60 seconds on the problem to see whether you can get into it.) In some cases, the idea clicks and you say, “Great, let’s go for it!” (You realize that you do have a pretty good idea of how to solve the problem <i>and</i> it won’t take too long.) Other times, you say, “It’s a good idea, but we don’t have the funds right now. We’ll keep the idea in mind, but we’re going to table it for now (with the understanding that we may or may not come back to it in future).” (You realize that there’s a decent way to narrow down the answers, and you do so, then you guess and move on.)</p>
<p>Still other times, you say, “There are some significant obstacles to this idea, so we’re not going to move forward.” (You realize the problem is too hard or will take too long, so you cut off your efforts, guess, and move on.)</p>
<p>And, finally, there are those times that someone proposes something that’s just… a waste of time. <img decoding="async" class="wp-smiley" src="//www.beatthegmat.com/mba/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" /> We’ve all worked with that person, you know the one: we have a deadline tomorrow and we’re working hard to get the report produced, and so-and-so suggests that now would be a great time to review the marketing plan for next year. No, it’s really not a great time! Go away! (Cut that problem off fast and move on.)</p>
<h2>Feel <i>good</i> about your decisions</h2>
<p>Now, here’s the key emotional part. When you tell someone no, you don’t feel bad about it. You know that you’ve made the best decision for that circumstance. You don’t tell yourself that, if only you’d studied a bit more, you might have been able to spend $50k on that idea that actually wasn’t worth $50k…</p>
<p>Get the point? Don’t feel bad when you decide to bail on a question during the GMAT. You’re not bailing because you didn’t study enough and something’s wrong with you or your preparation; that’s the old school attitude.</p>
<p>You’re bailing because that decision is in fact the <i>best</i> decision for the current circumstance. Not only don’t you feel bad about that decision, you feel good about it! Remember, the business schools actually want to see that you have the capability to make these kinds of decisions, and the GMAT test makers are setting things up to test you on this skill!</p>
<p>As I mentioned at the beginning, yes, there are math and grammar rules and concepts to learn, as well as strategies for dealing with the various kinds of questions on the test. But the overarching strategy that ties everything together is this business mindset. You could learn every last formula, rule, and strategy and still bomb the test if you try to take it under the school mindset. On the other hand, you could learn maybe 70% of the content but master this business mindset and still get a 700+ score on this test.</p>
<p>So start practicing how you want to run your division until this mindset becomes second nature and you feel great when choosing to bail or make an educated guess on multiple problems throughout each section, because you know you really have made the best possible decision.</p>
<p>Happy studying!</p>
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<p><em><strong>Stacey Koprince is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in Montreal, Canada and Los Angeles, California.</strong> Stacey has been teaching the GMAT, GRE, and LSAT  for more than 15 years and is one of the most well-known instructors in the industry. Stacey loves to teach and is absolutely fascinated by standardized tests. <a href="//www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/#instructor/86">Check out Stacey’s upcoming GMAT courses here</a></em></p>
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