Scenario!!!

[DaShi]

The GMAT is hella' easy. It's all high school math and problem solving.

[DaShi]

Oh, and it's pretty ballsy of you to call me a liar in my own thread. A little too ballsy, if you know what I mean.

[Al B. Sure!]

The GMAT is hella' easy. It's all high school math and problem solving.

Yeah that's what it seems to me. The Critical Reasoning, sentence correction, and reading comprehension are all crazy easy too, even easier than the math. There's got to be something else to this. I hear about people studying for months and very few people pull above a 750. I refuse to believe I'm just this smart. There's got to be something else to it. Maybe the questions in my practice book are all the easier to medium questions and it'll be tougher with the straight hard questions.

Also, what's the deal with the analysis of the issue and analysis of an argument? That's not part of the main score; any idea on how college admissions look at those sections?

[DaShi]

During the actual exam they have a dwarf tap dancing in front of you. That ups the difficulty considerably.

[Al B. Sure!]

Should have done this earlier:



"Chickity-choco, the chocolate chicken
The rear cockdiesel but chicks they were kicking"

[MikeH]

I have heard that there are good business opportunities but they require a lot of interfacing with the chinese.

JM

Options 6 and 7.

[Ghaladh]

Answer - Get out of China.

Ditto.

P.S.: In China Facebook is blocked by the government.

[Al B. Sure!]

Have you moved to Texas yet, Galadh?

[Flubber]

Young and free-- do it all!!

[Flubber]

Okay you're a liar then I see. A shame. I wanted to ask you some questions about the GMAT.

The GMAT?? I thought you were bound for the military again

I took it about 10 years ago and I found it really easy. The only thing I found a little different was it was a computer based adaptive test (questions get harder or easier as you go along depending on how you do). So unlike "paper" tests there was no skipping questions that might take you a little longer. The nature of an adaptive test is that early questions count for more so its worth it to spend some extra time double-checking before answering on the early questions.

Overall I found it easier than the LSAT but I did spend an extra few minutes memorizing little formulas like the areas and volumes of cubes, spheres, cones etc.

Other than that I did the standard practice test that came with the materials when I registered and nothing else

[Ghaladh]

Have you moved to Texas yet, Galadh?

No, it's going to happen in February :-). Everything is set, anyway.

[Al B. Sure!]

Actually I finally got around to sitting down with a pen and paper and doing the Math Problem Solving (before that, I had only done reading comprehension, sentence correction, critical reasoning, and data sufficiency, the things that you obviously don't really need scratch paper for) and I did badly. It said I was in the average range. This is not good. I had relearned all the little random math stuff like how the sides of a 30-60-90 triangle are in the ratio 1:3^1/2:2 and that combinations can be solved by n!/(k!(n-k)!) and random stuff like that... but man, when I was trying to solve the problems, I felt in over my head.

I really don't even know how to do math problems anymore I guess this is the type of thing where it's not a matter of learning the math concepts but learning how and when to apply them... There were questions like which is closest to the product of all the prime numbers less than 20 with 10^6 10^7 10^8 10^9 10^10 And I was looking at it like what the ****? Am I supposed to solve 2*3*5*7*11*13*17*19???

I realize now that it's simple and it goes up from 2*3*5 is 30, *7 is 210, and it adds an additional digit each time but I wasn't imagining anything like that when I was trying to solve it.