AWA is just about learning a few phrases

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My 5 cents into AWA discussion - forget about AWA and focus on quant and verbal! This is the best advice I would give as for AWA preparation. Yet, there is one thing which helped me a lot: I just took one of the high-rated AWA assays here on the forum and copy/pasted the common phrases out of the essay. Basically, it means that you have the whole introduction and conclusion ready for you - just learn the text by heart! The middle part of your essay, for sure, cannot be 100% duplication but you can build a solid structure suitable for all the topics which might pop up before you on the test day. This technique saved my time and brought a very good AWA score. I know this is a very quick note yet if someone would like me to, I will gladly share the template I used to score on AWA. You can master it further if you would wish. Good luck to all on beating the GMAT!

jyotsnav · Answer

can u share those technique to me

gabygr · Answer

Hi PDoug, can you share the template you used? thank you!!

PDoug · Answer

here is goes:

"The argument states that .... Formulated in this way, the argument lacks key factors, on the ground of which it could be assessed. The conclusion is based upon assumptions, for which the clear evidence is missing. Therefore, the argument is rather poor, incomplete and not convincing.

First, from the start the passage supposes that in order to ... This statement is insufficient as it does not inform on . Moreover, it is not explained why such strategy would have positive outcome in the case. Let us consider the example of Ap. To be more precise, . Therefore, it might be inappropriate for Ap. Actually, it would be better for Ap. To put it shortly, we can claim that the first argument is invalid as it does not provide any piece of background information about.... Therefore, we cannot assess wether ... The argument would have been more evident if it had been stated that .

Second, the argument claims that . This is again an unsupported allegation as it failed to show any correlation between . We can consider the example of ... In the other words, when . So we can make a conclusion that ... Nevertheless, . On the contrary, it is impossible to predict if Nespresso would have been .... if it has provided .... Therefore, success cannot be guaranted as the Nespresso's example is exactly the opposite situation. If the argument had provided some actual data or facts that.... , then it would have been much more reliable.

Finally, some extra information could have strengthened the claim. As proven before, information on ..... could have helped to understand ..., and so to decide what strategy was the best in this very situation. Furthermore, a comparative analysis of ..... would have helped us to determine whether this approach is good or not, or if another strategy is better. Having not received answers to these questions, we have the impression that the argument is a wishful thinking rather than a substantiated argument. The claim would have been strengthened if it had mentioned one of the relevant facts cited before.

In conclusion, the argument is flawed for the above-mentioned reasons and is therefore unconvincing. Actually, in order to assess the merits of a certain decision, it is essential to have a full knowledge of all contributing factors. Without this information, the argument remains unsubstantiated and open to debate."

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