The original choice didn't include the phrase "as well as," but the correct answer does. B. Examples of "tulipomania," a term coined from the seventeenth-century tulip craze in the Netherlands, include speculative bubbles in South Seas trading rights in the 1720s, Victorian real ...

Hi Saurabh, Just as a side note, please post the source and the number of the problem (for one thing, so that it's easier to find in the OG). While some propose to combat widespread illegal copying of computer programs by attempting to change people's attitudes toward pirating, others by suggesting ...

To answer these questions: Are there more parallel questions available for practice? -- In addition to the Strategy Guide (both In-Action and OG questions) and our online SC Question Bank, we have many parallelism problems in our CAT. Parallelism: 2 topics? (open ended) -- It's generally easier to a...

Solution 2 is correct. Let me show it another way, using a sequential argument. It's fine to break up a problem like this into a sequence of steps, as long as you make sure that you're *naming* the departments and typists AS you go, not beforehand. What I mean will become evident. Also, this will SE...

We have changed the wording of the question to make it unambiguous ("5 times" without the "greater than"). Thanks for the suggested edits, and good discussion, everyone!

"Papers" is a noun and the subject of the sentence. The phrase "The Federalist" (the title) modifies the noun "papers," so this phrase is not a noun -- it functions more like an adjective. So the phrases in commas ("a strong defense..."), which are noun phrase...

That's a great question. The particular OG sets you've mentioned are actually focused not on those topics (Equations/Inequalities/VICs, etc.) per se but rather on Data Sufficiency approaches -- specifically, the rephrasing approach you learned in Session 1. These problems are drawn from a whole vari...

Hi Melie_Mel, To answer your questions -- the Study Organizer does follow the newer Strategy Guides. The key point is that the Study Organizer preserves the fundamental focus on topics from the broad Course Syllabus but adds timing drills and cross-topic approach drills. As a result, those particula...

Since the new books do contain a lot of new "In-Action" problems, you can call our office, and since you're a student in one of our courses, we'll hook you up with a new pair of books (the separate CR and RC volumes) for free. (The same would be true if you were a private tutoring student....

You're exactly right, GMAT 5/18, about the flaw in Stacey's reasoning. Her solution structure is a good one, though: (x-y)/(x+y) > 1? means either: a) if (x+y) is positive, then the question becomes x-y > x+y? (direction of inequality sign stays the same as you cross-multiply) -y > y? (subt...

Thanks, Guest! Weighted averages are a great topic: the GMAT considers them difficult (for good reason -- lots of people get them wrong), but you should learn to solve them algebraically as well. I find a quick table useful (to get it to space right, I have to put in underlines, sorry!): _________A_...

I like Jeff's second way of doing this. Often, to apply constraints, use a "successive choice" method to write down the number of choices you have at each step, AS IF you were filling distinguishable seats. So, you get 8*6*4. THEN worry about whether order matters or not. Since it does not...

One way I think to see it is to fix part of the view and then look at the area formula as you adjust the position of the final leg. Here's what I mean: Let's call the triangle CAB. C is the center of the circle, and A and B are on the circle. Fix CA at 3 o'clock on the clock dial -- horizontal. That...

My pathway is similar to Jeff's, though I tend to try to set up explicit cases immediately as I rephrase the question (keeping it as a question) BEFORE looking at the statements. This works better for me, so that I don't get confused by the statements. Is |x| = y - z? This is rephrasable to a "...

These are very good suggestions. We'll put them in the queue.

In the meantime, I suggest that you Excel export and save the spreadsheets with any notes or comments, or even better -- cut and paste the results into the OG Tracker spreadsheet.

Thanks for the feedback!