While working on modifier problem set I came across below question Q#3 in Problem set. A recent formed militia,consisting of lightly armed peasant and a few retired army officers, is fighting a bitterly civil war against government forces. recent: incorrect, it should be recently Lightly: correct re...

I encountered this Question while appearing MGMAT CAT today: Scientific language often employs common words in ways that clash with the general usage, such as "temperate"; this term is generally used to refer to mild, pleasant weather, but climatologists use it in regions where summers are...

Hi, I took my GMAT exam today at test center location, GATS, office #1,Symphony 'C',Ashok nagar,Range hill road,Off pune university road,Pune-411020,India. The test was going smooth except for the fact that AC was not on in the center for whatsoever reason.But when i was at my 13 question on verbal...

That's awesome solution. Thanks Ron & Ben.
@Ron
I don't think anybody will be claiming that beer, unless there is new mathematical theory in Math world which simplifies all of our problems ;)

I think the most confusing part here is not the calculation but understanding the meaning of 'until' From answers in the book, it seems that when you say until 1st of March, you are not including 1st of march while counting days.... 29 days (the least possible warranty: from 31st of January to 1st o...

I thought "world consumption of oil" is incorrect, shouldn't it be "world's oil consumption".

I know this is very basic question but that is what I thought during exam and crossed off A.

Kindly clarify my doubt...

RonPurewal Wrote:you're not supposed to move the underlined part to a different place.

(your correction is fine from a purely grammatical standpoint, but its meaning doesn't really make sense -- it's the war that is bitter, not the way in which people are fighting.)

Thank you Ron !

Can we drop which from this sentence and write in this way: This piece is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony he wrote shortly before his death. You can (sometimes) drop "that", but you can never drop ", which". Hello Ron, is your statement about "which" is specific to this exa...

This problem is from MGMAT Algebra Strategy Guide: If AB/7 > 1/14 and A=B While of the following must be greater than 1 ? a) A+B b) 1-A c) 2A^2 d) A^2-1/2 e) A OA is C but It seems A also satisfies this condition... I calculated it as below; AB/7 > 1/14 multiplying both sides by 14 2AB > 1 ...