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(1) The percentage of full-time employees who passed the exam was greater than the percentage of all participants who passed the exam.

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At the end of Monday, a bookstore display had only hardcover books and paperback books, and 7/12 of the books on the display were hardcovers. On Tuesday, the store added hardcover books and paperback books to the display and removed none of the books that were already there. After the additions, was the fraction of paperback books on the display less than it had been at the end of Monday?

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guys how do u get better at verbal do u practice on a daily basis or what exactly i ve been working on it analyzing questions and taking my time but my accuracy doesn’t improve
For verbal the key is strategies rather than practice. Is extremely time-consuming and painful to just cram questions.

Using proper strategies you can get pretty much all the easy and medium questions correct in CR and RC.
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For verbal the key is strategies rather than practice. Is extremely time-consuming and painful to just cram questions.

Using proper strategies you can get pretty much all the easy and medium questions correct in CR and RC.
Idk if it makes sense - but can you suggest some strategies? That could help us score better.
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> For verbal the key is strategies rather than practice. Is extremely time-consuming and painful to just cram questions.
> Using proper strategies you can get pretty much all the easy and medium questions correct in CR and RC.
Idk if it makes sense - but can you suggest some strategies? That could help us score better.
I don’t know if it makes sense, it only makes sense if people use strategies but they’re very well known - answer the critical reasoning questions in your own words. That works almost for all easy and medium questions. They are very few exceptions.

For reading comprehension, he wants to read the passage only once and read it slowly and you want to read it for understanding of the purpose so not the fact but rather for the reason that certain words or paragraphs are written. Stopping after each paragraph and summarizing is also a part of that strategy.

My suggestion to anyone who is not scoring in the 95th percentile or higher, is to look up these strategies either on the forum or they are well documented in the Manhattan books and a number of courses also have them. There’s one caveat however you must follow them exactly as they’re written if you decide to modify them that is the dumbest thing you can do. Imagine you buy an iPhone and then you decide that you want to put a keyboard on it or do you want a smaller screen or a bigger screen and you start taking it apart and modifying it. You have no idea what the end result will be and so the same applies to the strategies you have to follow them exactly.

These have been the same strategies for the last 20 years and they work. The other two components of strategic approach to verbal is to learn what is required for each question type for example what is the level of food required for strengthen question versus for must be true question.

The third piece of the puzzle is timing and making sure that you don’t spend more time than you have. And if you don’t have time you guess and skip and move on.

If you follow these three principles you should be able to improve your reading comprehension accuracy within about 30 minutes. It’ll take another day or two to learn about the scope questions in reading comprehension.

Critical reasoning Mel may take a couple days because there is a lot of question types that you have to learn.

You need to solve about 200 or 400 questions total. You should be able to see improvement happening daily and not weekly or monthly. If you didn’t see improvement today, you wasted a day and did something wrong. Be my guest and waste another day tomorrow or maybe another four weeks but my suggestion be is that you stop whatever you’re doing because it’s not working.

I have given very aggressive timing not to make anyone feel stupid or anyone feel that there’s a magic solution. Instead I’m giving you a very aggressive timeframe so you don’t waste time and if you’re doing something for a few days and you’re not seeing results, you need to switch and you need to change it and you need to look at yourself critically and see what else can you improve or how can you change your approach.

If you’re studying at midnight after work, that’s one red flag. No matter what you’re studying it’s not gonna work well after midnight. Again, feel free to prove me wrong that would be perfectly great with me but my money is that if you study before work you would perform better.

Again the main aspect should be put the most of your emphasis on the strategies and not on the number of questions that you’re solving also when you make a mistake because that is not normal for you to make a mistake and figure out why did you make it your expectation should be zero mistakes in medium and easy questions. If you make a mistake you need to classify and categorize it and find the root cause and ensure that you don’t make the same mistake again. If you’re solving 100 questions a day, you don’t have that ability so solve only 20.
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Two pumps, X and Y, can fill a tank in 10 and 20 minutes, respectively. Both are turned on simultaneously, but after 5 minutes, pump X is turned off. How much additional time will pump Y take to fill the tank completely?

(A) 4 minutes
(B) 5 minutes
(C) 6 minutes
(D) 7 minutes
(E) 8 minutes

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A group of workers, each working at the same constant rate, can complete a task in 90 days. If 12 additional workers, each working at the same constant rate as the original workers, join the group, the task is completed 15 days earlier. How many workers were there in the group initially?

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(B) 60
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­Many people experience deficiencies in their intake of certain essential vitamins and minerals, such as vitamin D, calcium, and zinc. Many companies sell supplements that allow people to increase their intake of individual vitamins and minerals. People can also purchase multivitamins. The leading multivitamin brands provide vitamin D, calcium, and zinc in doses equal to those found in many of the individual supplements.

Which of the following statements is most strongly supported by the information above?

(A) Not all people switching from individual calcium supplements to multivitamins need to increase the number of pills they take daily.

(B) People who are not deficient in vitamin D, calcium, or zinc should not take multivitamins.

(C) It would be more cost-effective for people to take a multivitamin than to take individual supplements.

(D) Multivitamins are the most effective way of increasing one's intake of certain essential vitamins and minerals.

(E) Multivitamins contain some vitamins that are not available individually.
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­In Clark County, recent legislation requires that all new homes built with a pool be equipped with door alarms that sound when any door leading to the pool area is opened. The state legislature claims that this will save lives because parents will be alerted when their children enter the pool area. However, many homeowner's associations have protested the new law. The homeowner's associations conclude that few lives will be saved because children are supervised in pool areas over ninety-five percent of the time by their parents.

Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the homeowner's associations' argument?

(A) Many parents have formal training in CPR to resuscitate children that have fallen into a pool and drowned.

(B) Since new homes with pools represent a small fraction of the homes in Clark County, the law will be rather narrow in scope.

(C) The cost of the new door alarms is not prohibitive for most new home buyers.

(D) Clark County has an excellent system of emergency medical technicians, all of whom are trained to resuscitate children that have fallen into pools and drowned.

(E) Most of the deaths that result from a child falling into a pool occur when parents are home with their child but not supervising the child's activities.
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An investor deposits $62,500 in a one-year savings certificate that earns p percent annual interest, compounded quarterly. What is the value of p?

(1) Over the one-year term, the certificate earns $152.01 more interest than it would have earned if the same annual interest rate had been applied as simple interest.

(2) The interest credited at the end of the first quarter is $1,250.

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(1) From Monday through Wednesday of that week, the average (arithmetic mean) price per drink sold was $4.20.
(2) From Thursday through Sunday of that week, the average (arithmetic mean) price per drink sold was $5.40.
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I don’t know if it makes sense, it only makes sense if people use strategies but they’re very well known - answer the critical reasoning questions in your own words. That works almost for all easy and medium questions. They are very few exceptions.

For reading comprehension, he wants to read the passage only once and read it slowly and you want to read it for understanding of the purpose so not the fact but rather for the reason that certain words or paragraphs are written. Stopping after each paragraph and summarizing is also a part of that strategy.

My suggestion to anyone who is not scoring in the 95th percentile or higher, is to look up these strategies either on the forum or they are well documented in the Manhattan books and a number of courses also have them. There’s one caveat however you must follow them exactly as they’re written if you decide to modify them that is the dumbest thing you can do. Imagine you buy an iPhone and then you decide that you want to put a keyboard on it or do you want a smaller screen or a bigger screen and you start taking it apart and modifying it. You have no idea what the end result will be and so the same applies to the strategies you have to follow them exactly.

These have been the same strategies for the last 20 years and they work. The other two components of strategic approach to verbal is to learn what is required for each question type for example what is the level of food required for strengthen question versus for must be true question.

The third piece of the puzzle is timing and making sure that you don’t spend more time than you have. And if you don’t have time you guess and skip and move on.

If you follow these three principles you should be able to improve your reading comprehension accuracy within about 30 minutes. It’ll take another day or two to learn about the scope questions in reading comprehension.

Critical reasoning Mel may take a couple days because there is a lot of question types that you have to learn.

You need to solve about 200 or 400 questions total. You should be able to see improvement happening daily and not weekly or monthly. If you didn’t see improvement today, you wasted a day and did something wrong. Be my guest and waste another day tomorrow or maybe another four weeks but my suggestion be is that you stop whatever you’re doing because it’s not working.

I have given very aggressive timing not to make anyone feel stupid or anyone feel that there’s a magic solution. Instead I’m giving you a very aggressive timeframe so you don’t waste time and if you’re doing something for a few days and you’re not seeing results, you need to switch and you need to change it and you need to look at yourself critically and see what else can you improve or how can you change your approach.

If you’re studying at midnight after work, that’s one red flag. No matter what you’re studying it’s not gonna work well after midnight. Again, feel free to prove me wrong that would be perfectly great with me but my money is that if you study before work you would perform better.

Again the main aspect should be put the most of your emphasis on the strategies and not on the number of questions that you’re solving also when you make a mistake because that is not normal for you to make a mistake and figure out why did you make it your expectation should be zero mistakes in medium and easy questions. If you make a mistake you need to classify and categorize it and find the root cause and ensure that you don’t make the same mistake again. If you’re solving 100 questions a day, you don’t have that ability so solve only 20.
Thank you for inputs, but I did not understand what a strategy means. How is it different from answering questions based on understanding and answering with strategy? Is it like applying formulas/rules?
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