What is the most recommended plan when preparing for Critical Reasoning? My current CR background: I have read the Manhattan Guide to Critical Reasoning and have done the exercises for the main sections (BF, S/W, etc.). However, I have only noticed improvements in my question accuracy for 500-level ...

I dismissed E and chose C, because E had the phrase "perfect correlation", which is not discussed in the passage and C talked about the "deviation" that certain species have on the count. Can someone explain where I made a mistake?

Premise: cigarette tax went up by $0.08 and sales went down. Conclusion: higher cigarette costs mean fewer sales Assumption: No change in cigarette cost other than the $0.08 tax. (D) tells us that the pre-sale cost of cigarettes did not change my more than $0.08 cheaper. Because if it had, then cig...

Can any instructor explain whether "took" in " took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete" is parallel to "created"? If not, which word is it parallel to?

The first fact is "it is more than 2000 years old ". So does this mean that we can have parallelism in this case, because "is more than 2000 years old" is used as an adjective and "took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete" is also used as an adjective? If th...

Hi Ron,

Thanks for replying. I just thought that "took" was a part participle that was used to begin a participial phrase noun modifier, which is used as an adjective.

Hi Ron, Thanks for replying. I just thought that "took" was a part participle that was used to begin a participial phrase noun modifier, which is used as an adjective. I don't know what any of these terms (except "adjective") mean. But, "took" is the past-tense form of...

is this really an official gmatprep problem? it really, really doesn't seem like one. the only grammatically viable choice here is (e), but i don't think the gmat would juxtapose "men of science" and "women of science" like that (not to mention that the situation would be made e...

Yes, I understand that those are two different structures. Let me clarify my previous post: is this really an official gmatprep problem? it really, really doesn't seem like one. the only grammatically viable choice here is (e), but i don't think the gmat would juxtapose "men of science" an...

Archaeologists in Egypt have excavated a 5,000-year-old wooden hull that is the earliest surviving example of a "built" boat"”in other words, a boat constructed out of planks fitted together"”and that thus represents a major advance, in terms of boat-building technology, over the dugout logs and r...

In my attempt to increase my verbal score from a low V31 to a moderate V40, I have decided to focus on acing the SC section given that that section is the easiest to improve. I tend to have around a 75% accuracy on 500-level and 600-level problems. However, my accuracy on 700-level problems is about...

Hi Ron,

Let me clarify. Given that the verb form and tense of "represent" changes in the answer choices, I wanted to know how to pick the correct answer based on the correct usage of "represent".

Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are almost certain to leave interest rates unchanged for the foreseeable future. A: Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate g...

Hi Experts, I am having trouble understanding the parallel structure of sentences containing "more...than". I could not find my answer to this question in the forum or via Google. The correct version of this sentence is below: Although they are less obvious, termites do significantly more ...

Can anyone explain where I am going wrong in my approach? P(at least one pair) = 1 - P(no pairs) P(no pairs)= (12 possible cards for first card * 10 possible cards for second card * 8 * 6)/( [12 C 4] = number of ways to choose 4 cards from 12 cards) = (12*10*8*6)/(12 C 4) However, this value is grea...