A lot of us fear the verbal (and even the Quant) section of the GMAT and a lot of us want to make sure that we are getting the nuances right when we attack a question. And while the questions on the forum are good tests of your accuracy on a certain area of the GMAT, the answers are sometimes influenced by the previously posted answers thereby preventing users from thinking about it themselves, as opposed to just understanding how it was arrived at, by looking at other answers. So what can we do about this? Start a competition of course! This would not only be an incentive for users to participate more in the discussions, but also ensure that your answers are the result of your own logical deductions instead of merely understanding by looking at stated answers. And hence we present the Bi-Weekly GMAT Challenge! So, what's the inaugural prize? A Veritas Prep Essentials Course worth $550 to one lucky winner!! The Question Can be Found Here: Week 1 Challenge 1 What is it? A competition to test your skills and reward you for it. How is it administered? While this will serve as the master thread for the tally of points for the winners and for official answers to be posted later on, there will be separate threads created twice each week to post the actual challenge question. These questions can be either Verbal or Quant based. How do we submit answers? Just reply to the appropriate thread with the question for the week. We have enabled a tool where your answers will remain hidden from everyone (except the moderators) until we deem the question closed, at which point we'll open up the answers to all the users! What are the prizes and how are they awarded? Each week, the judges will award points to the best written explanations and correct answers based on a scale we have developed. Depending on how many points you've accumulated at the end of each month, you will be awarded prizes depending on where your points stand. The prizes are as follows: 1. The Inaugural Prize - A Veritas Prep Essentials Course worth $550!!!!! 2. Weekly Prizes - Your choice of GMAT Club Tests/GMAT Club Grammar Book or the GMAT Toolkit 3. Monthly Prize - One winner - the person with the most points, gets a set of books from either Veritas Prep or MGMAT. When will this start? Today! The first question is special. To celebrate this new challenge, we are glad to announce that Veritas Prep will be giving away one Veritas Prep Essentials Course to the person we deem to be the winner of the challenge. BUT. You must answer the question by 2 pm EST tomorrow (22nd of October) for your answer to count. After this week, the questions will be posted periodically every Monday and Thursday! How to register? Just reply to this thread or any other thread with the "Challenge" Title!! And shoot me any questions you guys have before the contest begins, and I'll try my best to answer them as soon as possible. And may the best person win List of Participants: 1. suyashjhawar 2. sriharshagaruda 3. sandeep800 4. nravi549 5. PadawanOfTheGMAT 6. rajadi 7. prithvirajdasari 8. mainhoon 9. yingmeitan 10. nov79 11. adishail 12. almostfamous 13. pk 14. levan 15. intellijat 16. theperformer 17. mydreambschool 18. cchilakapati 19. mds 20. ichha148 21. rahuljaiswal 22. ezhilkumarank 23. prashantbacchewar 24. kalrac 25. BlitzHN 26. gmatbull 27. ialsowant800 28. schemer 29. kidchaos 30. nitinmonga 31. Dreamy 32. ethaniel 33. bibekkoirala 34. asfa20 35. silasaaa2 36. mbasaikiran 37. Pepe 38. dhaval737 39. laur2122 40. mohit11 41. jimmy86 42. dollar12 43. russty 44. sarathy 45. devashish 46. tiruraju 47. mohdd 48. ashokkadam123 49. xtcied 50. shamikba 51. ladyinred8021 52. Womiwom 53. akshathbs 54. amittatiya 55. Paulami 56. saksenashobit 57. ajshivam 58. CracktheGmat2010 59. Pellucide 60. amma4u 61. mundasingh123 62. chetnaahuja 63. vyassaptarashi 64. shmandirwala 65. chanakya84 66. mommymgr 67. tarunjagtap 68. shekharvineet 69. mrinal2100 70. cpallaka 71. lilushki

I would like to participate. Where would the question be posted?

Here is the question everyone - 14 hours remain! week1challenge1-103340.html

We're getting some good answers by the way!!! (I can peek )

Please count me in! Good luck everyone!

please count me in for the competition

Please count me in. Thanks for the great initiative.

My name is missing in the list of participants.Kindly update!!

I am participating for this contest!!!

Please count me in. I answered the question in the morning itself Posted from my mobile device

Winner for the first week has been selected, have a look at this link week1challenge1-103340.html and keep visiting the link for more challenge questions by whiplash2411 Keep on playing and keep on winning!! Good luck everyone for the next Challenge..

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