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

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.
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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.
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See you guys in an hour!


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

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!
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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!
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See you guys in less than an hour!


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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!
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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!

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!
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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.

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.

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

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.

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!
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Thanks for your response, as always!

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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