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by singh.181
Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:14 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Thorny ballooning
Replies: 4
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Re: Thorny ballooning

The sentence intends to compare the signs displayed by various creatures, when they sense danger. Since, we are using "Like", which compares two noun or a noun phrases. In this sentence, since we have a noun phrase after the "Like". So, we a noun phrase in the second part of the ...
by singh.181
Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:47 pm
 
Forum: General Verbal Questions
Topic: Alexander the Great
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Re: Alexander the Great

According to me, the sentence needs a "be" after "coudn't".

Alexander the Great remarked that
conquering foreign states couldn’t be compare to vanquishing
his enemies at home.
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:53 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Transnational cooperations
Replies: 12
Views: 7693
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Re: Transnational cooperations

Question Type: Inference. In Inference question, we cannt bring any outside information. Correct answer is the one which we can deduce from the passage above. So, (A) Transnational cooperation involves projects too big for a single corporation to handle. (The passage does not talk about what type of...
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:06 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Treatment for hypertensive population
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Re: Treatment for hypertensive population

Preventive treatment is better for strokes and heart diseases. Author says: From economic (money) stand point, Preventive treatment is not justified because money saved through preventative treatment is not much. So, if we need to weaken author's argument, we need some extra info which will help us ...
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:21 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Transnational cooperations
Replies: 12
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Re: Transnational cooperations

According to me, Correct answer is C. Transnational cooperation has in the past been both more common and less common than it is now among United States firms. Please notice "experiencing a modest renaissance among United States firms" in the passage. Also, if you apply process of eliminat...
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:41 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Guitar strings
Replies: 7
Views: 4161
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Re: Guitar strings

According to researcher dirt and oil rather than changes in material are responsible for "dead" Guitar strings. We need to evaluate i.e. using some extra info, we either support or weaken the researcher position. (A) Determining if a metal alloy is used to make the strings used by classica...
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:25 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: National budget and trade deficits
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Views: 3145
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Re: National budget and trade deficits

Is it O.K to think that this is an assumption question? No, this question is INFERENCE type question. Please notice the question prompt, which says which of the following can properly be inferred on the basis of them? (E) Countries with the largest trade deficits never have similarly large national...
by singh.181
Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:34 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Decision making by managers
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Re: Decision making by managers

Of course if top managers have the ability to make both form of decisions, and hence their intiotive is better. P If top managers have the ability to make both form of decisions, it does not mean that their intuitive decisions making is better. You are making an another assumption that having an ab...
by singh.181
Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:05 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: The recent decline in the value of dollar
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Views: 8794
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Re: The recent decline in the value of dollar

The budget deficit has not caused a slowdown in economic growth.


Argument talks about the "prediction of slower economic growth" and "drop in value of currency".
by singh.181
Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:37 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: SC - The survival of coral colonies - 'being'
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Re: SC - The survival of coral colonies - 'being'

But i think now C is making an improper comparison. is tht correct to say? P (C) is not only being threatened, experts say, by pollutants such as (E) is being threatened, experts say, not only by pollutants such as When we "not only X but also Y" construction, we have to make sure that X ...
by singh.181
Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:16 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Sc - Idiom Just as...so
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Re: Sc - Idiom Just as...so

As it is with traditional pharmacies, on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to be successful , since it is primarily prescriptions that attract the customers, who then also buy other health-related items. (A) As it is with traditional pharmacies, on-line drugstores rely on prescriptions to be su...
by singh.181
Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:02 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Snowmobiles in the park north of Milville
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Views: 6006
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Snowmobiles in the park north of Milville

Environmentalist: Snowmobiles in the park north of Milville create unacceptable levels of air pollution and should be banned. Milville Business Spokesperson: Snowmobiling brings many out-of-towners to Milville in the winter months, to the great direct financial benefit of many local residents. In ad...
by singh.181
Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:29 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Balzania put in place regulations
Replies: 37
Views: 15825
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Balzania put in place regulations

Twenty years ago, Balzania put in place regulations requiring operators of surface mines to pay for the reclamation of mined-out land. Since then, reclamation technology has not improved. Yet, the average reclamation cost for a surface coal mine being reclaimed today is only four dollars per ton of ...
by singh.181
Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:38 pm
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: SC--dolphins may share certain cognitive abilities
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Re: SC--dolphins may share certain cognitive abilities

I mean to ask , that is the reason that D is wrong because of the modifier spontaneously present without "of" and thus making "of" necesarry for the parallelism. Thanks According to me, D is not wrong for the reason you have stated. It maintains the parallelism in the part you a...