Hi buddies, I come with a verbal resource this time.
It is a test of idiom questions that I made for the community, based on the MGMAT SC volume, which, as everyone knows, is the bible of SC.
Read carefully the statements in the first page in order to perform well;
comments, suggestions, reports and discussion are welcome
Good luck!


Also available in a Simulated Computer Format here

Paper Version:
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great, I think this is helpful, since i find it hard to just memorize all the idioms on the book.....

thank u lots, ur post is very helpful.
I got about 5 wrong, finished in about 18 mins. guess I rushed thru them, coz i could correct 4 of them later.
1 question was same as "sasen's"--"confidence in the firm.."question and read your explaination.

Again, thanks for sharing. I'm going to add this to my resources to use while in transition (i.e. traveling to and from work).

Oops! The kudo was meant for sarunda. Oh well. It is what it is.

Good Job!

thanks a lot

I'm glad of your comments, thank you.
More Idiom tests are coming, be patient
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good work!

very helpful

Very helpful especially the online version. Guess just going through these idioms will help ease going through the Manhattan SC questions.

Hi !!!!..

I took the Idioms' Test yesterday and found a couple of answers to be unconvincing.

For eg. # 15 : Shouldn't it be " One in a million chance" instead of "One Chance in a Million"

# 3 : Shouldn't it be " School lack of rigor" instead of " rigor is lacking in schools".

# 20 : Shouldn't it be "consider the problems to be necessary inconveniences" instead of " consider the problem necessary conveniences".

Please correct me if i am wrong.

Awaiting a revert on the same.

Vivek

Hello Vivek,

in #15, MGMAT SC establish "ONE CHANCE IN A THOUSAND OF WINNING" as the correct idiom. I think the important here is chance...of + gerund. I guess "one in a million chance of winning" is correct too.
in #3, B can't be correct cause some schools is the subject, in order to be correct it should be "some schools lack rigor / are lacking in rigor".
Regarding #20, this is a classic, the idiom is Consider X Y. That doesn't mean "to be" is incorrect, but the first is preferred for concision. Note that the GMAT has its own "preferred rules" so be careful.

I hope it was helpful, if you have more questions go on.
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Hi There...

Thanks Saruba. The revert was certainly useful.

Thanks once again.

good effort kudos ....but i protest some results ...........especially the 3rd

#17

A
She is credited for solving numerous cases.
B
She is credited with solving numerous cases.
C
She is credited as being a great detective.

I went with "B", but looks like answer is A.

What's wrong with B?
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Thanks a ton for your great efforts
+1 KUDOS

thanks.... this is good real world practice ....

Guys, i gave the Idioms test a while (an hour) ago . Got 27 (on 32) correct .I Reviewed this score immediately after the test and the precentile was 53 and somehow it has jumped to 65 now. Does this mean that a lot of people have written the test in this duration or is this because effect of a marginal change is high (owing to few people having written it )?
Any ways i would also like to know how others have fared on it ?

I gave it now and got 31 out of 32 ... showed up as 90.5 percentile..

Got the second one wrong..
I chose: The market has confidence in the firm’s ability to add back leverage to increase profits.

I just took the test and had 26(53%) . I also chose The market has confidence in the firm’s ability to add back leverage to increase profits. It looks fine.

Thanks. It was a nice test to refresh my memory.

I got more wrong than I expected.

Great job creating this document.