<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>olympics – GMAT</title> <atom:link href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/tag/olympics/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat</link> <description>GMAT Prep Course, Best GMAT Class & Study Books | Manhattan Prep GMAT</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:16:36 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2</generator> <item> <title>A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team</title> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-timing-lesson-german-bobsled-team/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Jacobs]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:41:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[For Current Studiers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Prep]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Strategies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Study Guide]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to Study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GMAT Timing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/?p=15288</guid> <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. Did you watch any of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang? If not, you missed out not only on some curling action that brought the house […]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-timing-lesson-german-bobsled-team/">A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-15342" src="//cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/gmat-timing-german-bobsled-team-ryan-jacobs.png" alt="Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team by Ryan Jacobs" width="1200" height="628" srcset="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/gmat-timing-german-bobsled-team-ryan-jacobs.png 1200w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/gmat-timing-german-bobsled-team-ryan-jacobs-300x157.png 300w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/gmat-timing-german-bobsled-team-ryan-jacobs-768x402.png 768w, https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/03/gmat-timing-german-bobsled-team-ryan-jacobs-1024x536.png 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></p> <p><b><i>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! </i></b><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>Check out our upcoming courses here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b></p> <hr /> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Did you watch any of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang? If not, you missed out not only on some curling action that brought the house down*, but also on the most spectacular hockey shootout goal I’ve ever seen. If you saw it, you know the one I’m talking about! But there’s one other important thing you may have missed: an important lesson about GMAT timing.</span><span id="more-15288"></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because I’m in California, I mostly watched the Olympics in the late evening after work. During the final days of competition, I thought I would come home from my GMAT class and relax by watching whatever event they were showing that night. It turns out, that event was the four-man bobsled; the Germans ended up winning the event by more than half a second, a fairly convincing margin. As I was watching the various teams fly down the course, I noticed the announcers saying some variation of one thing over and over: “This team had a slow start; it will be difficult to make up that much time!” As I heard them say it, I realized that I can’t escape the GMAT, even after class when I just want to relax and watch the Olympics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You probably already know that after you take a </span><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/free-gmat-practice-test/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">GMAT practice CAT</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (computer-adaptive test) from Manhattan Prep, you receive access to analytics from your test. Included in these analytics is the amount of time spent on each problem during the test. Part of my job as an instructor is to look over my students’ analytics so that I can give them recommendations regarding how they can improve their score. One of the most common problems I see is that a student will spend too much time on the first 5, 10, or 20 questions; then at some point they will realize that they have fallen behind, and they have to catch up. Then the panic hits, the student begins to rush, they stop reading carefully, they miss questions, and their score plummets.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I realized that we can all take a lesson in GMAT timing from the German bobsled team: if you want to be successful, have a fast start! In bobsled, if your team has a slow start, the sled will have less momentum for the entire run, compounding the problem. The driver will also have to make riskier steering decisions throughout the race. On the GMAT, if you have a slow start, you will be forced into guessing more often than you really need to. You may also see some questions that are unnecessarily difficult, resulting in strings of missed questions towards the middle and the end of the test. In other words, a slow start on the GMAT can affect you for the rest of the test—if your start is very slow, it will be impossible to recover the time, and you’ll also make the rest of the test harder! Conversely, if you really push the pace during the beginning of the test, you’ll find that you’re better able to concentrate towards the end since you aren’t in a rush. I often find that students who build themselves even just a 2-minute cushion after the first 12 questions end up gaining points during the last 12 questions. It’s not a coincidence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So if you’re a slow starter on the GMAT, try this one very easy-to-implement idea: Make absolutely sure to finish the first 12 questions of each CAT section with 55:00 on the clock, even if it means guessing on a couple. Then, just make sure not to burn your new time advantage on one single question (in other words, keep a decent pace throughout the rest of the test)—I think you’ll find this easier to do anyway now that you started at the pace you should! If you don’t believe me, just ask the Germans. ?</span></p> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">*This is the only curling pun I have ever made and ever will make.</span></i></p> <hr /> <p><b><i>Want more guidance from our GMAT gurus? You can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GMAT courses absolutely free! We’re not kidding. </i></b><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b><i>Check out our upcoming courses here</i></b></a><b><i>.</i></b></p> <hr /> <p><em><strong><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-15202 size-thumbnail" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/02/ryan-jacobs-e1501597417957-150x150.png" alt="ryan-jacobs" width="150" height="150" /><a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/instructors/ryan-jacobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Jacobs</a> is a Manhattan Prep instructor based in San Francisco, California.</strong> He has an MBA from UC San Diego, a 780 on the GMAT, and years of GMAT teaching experience. His other interests include music, photography, and hockey. <a id="bloglink" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/classes/#instructor/288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Check out Ryan’s upcoming GMAT prep offerings here</a>.</em></p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/gmat-timing-lesson-german-bobsled-team/">A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>An Olympics-Inspired GMAT Data Sufficiency Question</title> <link>https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/an-olympics-inspired-gmat-data-sufficiency-question/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jen Dziura]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:52:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Data Sufficiency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quant]]></category> <category><![CDATA[2012]]></category> <category><![CDATA[data sufficiency]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gabby douglas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[olympics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quant]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/?p=3482</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>In honor of Gabby Douglas’ gold medal win, as well as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s all-around gold medal win, here is an Olympics-inspired Data Sufficiency problem. A particular gymnastics tournament awards a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal in each of four events: Floor, Beam, Bars, and Vault. A platinum Best All-Around medal […]</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/an-olympics-inspired-gmat-data-sufficiency-question/">An Olympics-Inspired GMAT Data Sufficiency Question</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In honor of Gabby Douglas’ gold medal win, as well as the U.S. women’s gymnastics team’s all-around gold medal win, here is an Olympics-inspired Data Sufficiency problem.</p> <p><img decoding="async" src="https://cdn2.manhattanprep.com/gmat/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2012/08/gabby-olympics.jpg" alt="gmat olympics" width="497" height="280"></p> <blockquote><p>A particular gymnastics tournament awards a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal in each of four events: Floor, Beam, Bars, and Vault. A platinum Best All-Around medal is awarded to the competitor who gains the most points from winning the other medals: 3 points for gold, 2 points for silver, 1 point for bronze. If McKenzie won the Best All-Around medal, and no one can win more than one medal in any of the four events, did she win at least one gold medal?</p> <ol> <li>All of the gold, silver, and bronze medals were won by fewer than six competitors, including McKenzie</li> <li>Another competitor in the tournament has 8 points.</li> </ol> <p>(A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.</p> <p>(B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.</p> <p>(C) BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.</p> <p>(D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.</p> <p>(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.</p></blockquote> <p>Choose your answer before proceeding!</p> <p>First, you may ask, How could someone win the All-Around without winning a single gold medal?</p> <p>Easy “ just imagine that McKenzie won ALL of the silver medals (8 points), and that no one else won more than one medal (the other medals are won by 8 separate people), so each person who has a gold has just 3 points, and each person who has a bronze has just 1 point.</p> <p><span id="more-3682"></span></p> <p>This example “ McKenzie winning all the silvers “ is the easiest (or highest-point-value) way that McKenzie could win All-Around without getting any golds, so this example will be helpful in testing the statements below.</p> <p>1) INSUFFICIENT. If all the medals were won by fewer than six people, that means a maximum of five. Let’s use examples to prove insufficiency.</p> <p>First, let’s find an example (that is consistent with statement 1) where the answer to the question is YES, McKenzie won at least one gold:</p> <blockquote><p>McKenzie wins ALL the golds</p> <p>Competitor X wins all the silvers</p> <p>Competitor Y wins all the bronzes</p></blockquote> <p>(Obviously, many other combinations would fulfill the requirements.)</p> <p>Now, let’s find an example (that is consistent with statement 1) where the answer to the question is NO, McKenzie did not win any golds:</p> <blockquote><p>Competitors A, B, C, and D each win one gold</p> <p>McKenzie wins ALL the silver medals</p> <p>Competitors A, B, C, and D each win one bronze (in different events than the ones in which they each won the gold, of course)</p></blockquote> <p>In this scenario, McKenzie has 8 points and everyone else has 4 points. We also fulfill the requirement of fewer than six competitors. Since we are able to get both a YES and a NO answer to the question while using statements consistent with statement 1, the statement is INSUFFICIENT.</p> <p>2) SUFFICIENT. If another competitor has 8 points, McKenzie must have at least 9. Since no one can win more than one medal in any of the four events, there is no way to get 9 points without winning at least one gold.</p> <p><strong>The answer is B.</strong></p> <p>Here’s a fine point that might help you in your studies “ notice that when we tested statement 1, we did NOT test examples wherein the medals are won by six or more competitors. That would not actually prove anything!</p> <p>Many students make this mistake: instead of testing examples <em>where the statement is true</em> in order to try to get two different answers <em>to the question,</em> they test examples that <em>both are and are not consistent with the statement,</em> and then when they get different results, they conclude that the statement is insufficient because … er …different examples made different stuff happen? This is sloppy thinking.</p> <p>To perform at “ dare I say “ an <em>Olympic</em> level at Data Sufficiency, be sure to remember that <em>the statements are factual.</em> They do not lie! Your goal when testing Data Sufficiency statements is to test examples <em>that make the statement true,</em> with the goal of producing different answers to the question.</p> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog/an-olympics-inspired-gmat-data-sufficiency-question/">An Olympics-Inspired GMAT Data Sufficiency Question</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat">GMAT</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>