GMAT Ninja, LIVE on YouTube! Series 2, Spring 2018

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GMAT Ninja Series 2, LIVE on YouTube! GMATNinja FB EVENTS.jpg As threatened, we’re back with another series of YouTube Live videos! For those of you who missed it, we did a verbal-only series of 10 videos in late 2017, focused mainly on a mix of CR and SC topics. All of those live videos – including all of my glorious, glorious live mistakes – can be found in this thread , or in this playlist on the GMAT Club YouTube page . But this time? We covered a little bit of everything: quant, verbal, and general strategies for developing a winning GMAT mindset. And we’ll let you decide if I should have stuck to just the “verbal” part of my “verbal expert” title!

So here’s the rundown of the videos for Series 2, filmed between February and April 2018: How to become your own GMAT tutor: tips for maximizing your self-study progress. Video | Slides & Links How cutting corners kills your GMAT score (on both quant and verbal!) Video The five biggest things you’re doing wrong on RC & CR. Video Developing a flexible GMAT quant mindset Video Getting your priorities straight on SC Video GMAT word translations 101 Video How to go from great (V40?) to incredible (V45?!) on GMAT SC Video How to go from great (Q47?) to incredible (Q51?!) on GMAT DS Video To watch these or any of our past videos, visit the GMAT Club YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/user/gmatclub. And the full playlist for Series 2 is available here . All GMAT Ninja Series 3 LIVE YouTube videos are now available here .

adkikani · Answer

GMATNinja souvik101990 Thank you for taking my long pending request here to execution phase

My favorite part of last video was to see you animated particularly while explaining those tricky EXCEPT questions. I have lost count on times that I have banged my head in spite of spending 3+ mins on them and still getting them incorrect. Your RC strategies were super useful to bring back love for reading and scaring those demons of disinterest away. Lovely advancement from simple general tips you shared here (missing the fun we had because of better interaction and larger audience) to these amazing webinars.

akadiyan · Answer

GMATNinja

Thank you very much for these YouTube sessions. I always enjoyed the way you explain the solution to a problem which has helped me a long way. Your posts and solutions in GMATClub are integral part of my verbal prep.

GMATNinja · Answer

Just a friendly reminder: we'll be back this week at 9:30 a.m. Pacific time for a live video on getting your priorities right on SC. But for most of the world, that's actually an hour EARLIER than it was last week. Our clocks just jumped ahead an hour here in the U.S., so 9:30 a.m. Pacific = 4:30 p.m. GMT = 10:00 p.m. IST.

See you all then, and I promise to bring enough cough drops and tea and honey and lemon to prevent the voice-pocalypse that happened last Wednesday.

souvik101990 · Answer

See you guys in an hour!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz76XNIbG2E

stickman · Answer

Very helpful series this. Keep up the great work helping all solo, self-study GMAT players

GMATNinja · Answer

Sorry for the slow response to this, adkikani ! I've been meaning to write a full post about timing strategies for the GMAT, but life has been crazy. So for now, this will have to do: https://gmatclub.com/forum/strategy-of- ... l#p1836314. It at least covers the main highlights, some of which I've also mentioned -- albeit briefly -- in the videos and in our old-fashioned chat room sessions back in the day.

I hope this helps!

GMATNinja · Answer

For anybody who missed the live videos: links to the first six videos are all available at the top of the thread now. I only lose my voice in two of the videos.

See you all on Wednesday at 9:30 Pacific for the next-to-last video in the series!

souvik101990 · Answer

See you guys in less than an hour!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmHDJYtdDOk

GMATNinja · Answer

I'm embarrassed that I didn't do this sooner, but I just updated the  original post  with links to all 8 videos in this series.

Huge thanks to everybody who participated, offered feedback and ideas, or just enjoyed the videos! And please stay tuned -- the next video series will be announced soon!

US09 · Answer

Can we please have a video/webinar for just RC on how to tackle the types of RC passages? Your videos are awesome, thank you so much!

GMATNinja · Answer

Thank you for the kind words, urvashis09! This one is billed as covering common errors on RC & CR, but I go through an entire RC passage in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw_5NUl7uus. It's not the most exciting thing you'll ever watch, but it gives you the honest essence of how we recommend tackling RC passages in general.

I hope this helps, and have fun studying!

US09 · Answer

I have been through this one already, incorporated the strategies discussed and have experienced great improvement in my RC skills! Thank you for this one, it really made me look forward to more RC related info session from you, if you ever plan to do so.

meamitmukherjee · Answer

Dear  GMATNinja  Charls,

You are great. Thanks for all those awesome videos in youtube.
Did you cover any session on "modifier" either on youtube or somewhere else? Could you please help to find them out? I could not find them.
 souvik101990 , thanks to you too.

adkikani · Answer

Hi  meamitmukherjee

Welcome to GMAT club.

Thanks for your kind words and glad you could find the earlier videos useful.
We are upcoming with new series very soon and shall incorporate the same, if possible.

Meanwhile, to not halter your prep, a couple of modifier links you could find useful are there in 
 GMATNinja  's signature - namely - Verb-ed and Verb-ing modifiers, and in  souvik101990  's post 
 here .

We also had good chats  here 
and discussion on best of official questions  here

Do not forget to apply what you learnt  here

Happy study prep.

meamitmukherjee · Answer

adkikani , thanks a lot and looking forward to those upcoming events.

Kritisood · Answer

Hi! Firstly THANKS for all the videos. They are simply amazing!

Also, just saw the "WTF is THAT doing there" video and i have two questions related to the usage of "that":

1. Can "that" refer back to people?
2. Can "that" modify a verb clause? eg The goalkeeper blocked two penalty kicks and that caused his team to win.

Thanks in advance.

GMATNinja · Answer

Thank you so much for the kind words, and sorry for my slow response to this!

1. In real life, it doesn't seem to be a problem for "that" to modify people. On the GMAT, I'm hard-pressed to find official SC questions that use "that" to modify people, but I also can't find any official SC questions that force you to choose between "that" and "who." So as far as we can tell, "that" is probably acceptable for modifying people -- and more importantly, it's probably not worth worrying about.

2. I don't think that "that" could reasonably modify a verb clause. When "that" is used as a modifier, it can only modify nouns.

In your example, "that" is trying to operate as a pronoun, not as a modifier. The intention, I think, is for "that" to mean "that action" or "that fact" (both of which are nouns) -- but since the word "action" or "fact" doesn't appear anywhere, the sentence would not be correct on the GMAT. (I would argue that it's fine in real life, but let's not let real life interfere with your GMAT!) If you're going to use a singular pronoun, it generally needs to have a clear, singular referent somewhere else in the sentence. Rare exceptions exist, but I wouldn't waste too much time worrying about them.

For more on "that" and its many uses, check out  this article .

I hope this helps a bit!

Kritisood · Answer

Thanks for your response, as always!

bb · Answer

This topic has been cleaned up a bit and optimized. 
Sorry, had to delete some wonderful comments and wishes but there was just way too much positivity 😂💖
On a serious note, just trying to get things organized, boring, and focused, you know, like the GMAT

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