Hi Stacey, Apologies for the duplicate - I posted this originally as a response to your comments in one of the BeatTheGMAT articles. Since I am a MGMAT Student I figure it is probably more appropriate to post this here instead. I hope to get your thoughts on my plan of attack for the next 12 days be...

I will be careful about burn-outs :) I am curious - I actually don't feel much burn out... but actually enjoying the experience (except when I pause on practice tests) - what happened to that student of yours? Was he or she strong with the content already, or was she weak in the content and just tri...

Note: Stacey - Per your email I have moved our email exchanges to the forum to make it easier for you and your staff to post on :) Hello, I am about 3 days from my GMAT and got some questions on how to best use my time between now and Saturday. My last MGMAT CAT was taken under full test conditions ...

Just to provide some more data points regarding my concern that my score is not calculated right, as per my original email below... I did an assessment report on my last exam compared to my first. I am very concerned the calculation is inaccurate... check it out if you don't mind :) First Exam (take...

Hey there my friend - Congratulation on your score! I'm hoping to repeat your success in 3 days. I agree that generally the MGMAT CAT maths are much harder (maybe that explains my strange scoring as shown in my post right below yours). However, I've heard that the Verbal on MGMAT is much easier - do...

I appreciate your insights. This was my 6th exam so your theory may be true. However, my concern is not so much that I'm running out of hard question, is that despite the seemingly easier questions the scoring didn't seem to have calibrated correctly. The score should've gone down but I'm sitting at...

I got an even easier way to solve this question. Use the Avg Residual Rule, which states that if you take the delta of each member of a set from the overall average, they must sum to zero. So, if each Manager is -5,000 from overall average, and each Director is +15,000 from overall average, to get a...

Hi There, I am not an instructor but hope I can help out. You can do this problem in two ways. First, and probably easier way, is to take any negative number and just plug into the question and answer choices and see which one matches. Second way is algebra, which is not preferrable for complex abso...

Hi there :) Let me take a crack at this question for you. Two key principles to this question: 1.) Understand that profit = Sales Price * Quantity - Bought Price * Quantity 2.) Look for algebraic "combos." 3.) Always try to rephrase the stem as much as you can before going into the choices...

Hi There, I am not an instructor but hope I can help. I think your explanation is fairly close. Let me take a crack at explaining it. First, this is a Strengthen the Conclusion statement, so we're going to eliminate choices that are Weakening or Irrelevant. Let's draw the conclusion: Despite the fac...

Hi There, I have found the GT and LT operators in Inqualities from the Strategy Guide to be very helpful for many questions. However, I have a question about its application - specifically, can u substitute a GT or LT operator into an existing inequality??? Here is a sample: 1.) x + y <20 2.) y &...

Hi Ron, I have a question for you with regards to your explanation for why C is wrong. I picked A because I've seen similar question before... but I never quite get why C's construction is wrong. Well, two problems with C, one which I actually get, the other, I don't. 1.) "They" stand for ...

Hello, To answer your question below, no F is not correct. In general, you should not use the past perfect when the simple past tense would do. In this case, you have a construction that is past perfect + present perfect, when a construction that is past + present perfect (Option A) would suffice. T...

You are completely correct. However, this isn't how your sentence is constructed: "F. that the universe had begun in an explosive instant 10 to 20 billion years ago and has been expanding.." Here, we have two things happening: A. Universe's beginning - This comes first B. Universe's expans...

After re-reading your prompt, I think another point of clarification would help. Here is your inquiry: "Shouldn't past perfect be used for the action that took place earlier and simple past for the action that followed?" This is true, but only if the past tense HAS to be used in the senten...