{"id":32598,"date":"2016-03-29T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/gmat-tuesday-common-awa-flaws-vague-words\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:00:20","slug":"gmat-tuesday-common-awa-flaws-vague-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-tuesday-common-awa-flaws-vague-words\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Tuesday: Common AWA Flaws \u2013 Vague Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) for the GMAT can catch you off guard if you aren&rsquo;t ready. If you aren&rsquo;t familiar with the structure of arguments or you are familiar with common argument flaws, you may find yourself stressed and wasting time on test day.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In this video, we&rsquo;ll look at vague words and how they lead to weak conclusions. I&rsquo;ll talk about how to identify these words and what to do when you see them.<\/p>\n<p>We look at an example prompt, which you can find in the PDF of sample prompts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mba.com\" target=\"_blank\">mba.com<\/a> website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mba.com\/us\/the-gmat-exam\/gmat-exam-format-timing\/analytical-writing-assessment\/analysis-of-an-argument.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Here&rsquo;s a link<\/a> to the page where you can download the example prompts. <\/p>\n<p>Check out this week&rsquo;s board:<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/gmat\/files\/2016\/03\/29120004\/Common-Flaws-in-GMAT-AWA-Vague-Words-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Common Flaws in GMAT AWA Vague Words\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\/2016\/gmat-tuesday-common-awa-flaws-vague-words\/\">GMAT Tuesday: Common AWA Flaws &#8211; Vague Words<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/gmat\">Magoosh GMAT Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) for the GMAT can catch you off guard if you aren&rsquo;t ready. If you aren&rsquo;t familiar with the structure of arguments or you are familiar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,783,243,940],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-magoosh-blog","category-blog","category-gmat-prep-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}