the ans is indeed A.thanx a lot mealiennohuman(phew thats a long name to type... can afford a nick name :wow:).
Neways wen r u planin 2 take GMAT and which is the best GMAT mock series that is closest to the actual GMAT.
Hey GD (nickname for gmat_delhi2007 😃 ), you can use the THANK button for thanking. And you can call me simply Alien. Well I started GMAT prep a few weeks back after recovering from the CAT XAT JMET NMAT debacle. Haven't decided date yet. What about you?
hey alien my story is same as urs except that i had a lone xlri call which i cudnt convert.and didnt fill spjain or any other colleges thru XAT.
Always worked hard for the top 10 colleges and i hope i dont have to compromise on that.
Plannin to give Gmat this aug but nthin sure as of now.
Heres a question...
Alba: I don't intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate.
Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it can't be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Alba's reasoning?
(A) The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
(B) She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
(C) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
(D) She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
(E) In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.
Heres a question...
Alba: I dont intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate.
Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it cant be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Albas reasoning?
(A) The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
(B) She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
(C) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
(D) She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
(E) In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.
ans is definitely (c)
Here she first made an allegation.Then without proving her allegation she uses that as a proof for further conclusions.
Heres a question...
Alba: I dont intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate.
Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it cant be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Albas reasoning?
(A) The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
(B) She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
(C) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
(D) She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
(E) In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.
Acc to me the ans shud be C because alba dismisses tams point without any valid reason. she is just trying to stick to her point which is analogus to going in a circle cause invaiably she reiterates her first statement.
In an effort to go beyond resumes as tools in its search for executives, one leading company has resorted to interviewing the top candidates for a position all together in a single group. This technique is supposed to afford a direct comparison of the candidates with respect to some personal qualities that cannot be gleaned from a resume.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the value of the simultaneous interview technique?
(A) Resumes do sometimes allow reliable inferences to be made about a candidate's personal qualities.
(B) The simultaneous interview could become cumbersome if there were a great many candidates for a position.
(C) The more perceptive the interviewer, the more revealing the simultaneous interview is apt to be.
(D) There are certain personal qualities that only an extended simultaneous interview can bring out.
(E) The simultaneous interview distorts each candidate's response style by inducing stresses unlike any an executive position induces
im a little stuck with the choices.....
In an effort to go beyond resumes as tools in its search for executives, one leading company has resorted to interviewing the top candidates for a position all together in a single group. This technique is supposed to afford a direct comparison of the candidates with respect to some personal qualities that cannot be gleaned from a resume.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the value of the simultaneous interview technique?
(A) Resumes do sometimes allow reliable inferences to be made about a candidates personal qualities.
(B) The simultaneous interview could become cumbersome if there were a great many candidates for a position.
(C) The more perceptive the interviewer, the more revealing the simultaneous interview is apt to be.
(D) There are certain personal qualities that only an extended simultaneous interview can bring out.
(E) The simultaneous interview distorts each candidates response style by inducing stresses unlike any an executive position induces
im a little stuck with the choices.....
Is it (e)?
we can eliminate all choices easily except e and b.
In the case of e it states simult interviwe distorts normal response style.So they cannot compare their personal qualities correctly.
so i go for (e)
In an effort to go beyond resumes as tools in its search for executives, one leading company has resorted to interviewing the top candidates for a position all together in a single group. This technique is supposed to afford a direct comparison of the candidates with respect to some personal qualities that cannot be gleaned from a resume.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most serious doubt on the value of the simultaneous interview technique?
(A) Resumes do sometimes allow reliable inferences to be made about a candidate's personal qualities.
(B) The simultaneous interview could become cumbersome if there were a great many candidates for a position.
(C) The more perceptive the interviewer, the more revealing the simultaneous interview is apt to be.
(D) There are certain personal qualities that only an extended simultaneous interview can bring out.
(E) The simultaneous interview distorts each candidate's response style by inducing stresses unlike any an executive position induces
im a little stuck with the choices.....
Here we need to find faults with the simultaneous interview process and do not intend to find good qualities of the resumes.
(A) is out since what qualities resumes have isnt pertinent to what simultaneous interviews lack.
(B) The fact that it may become cumbersome for the organisers isnt relevant to how the process is faulty.
(C) and (D) support rather than find faults.
The answer is (E) which brings out how simultaneous interviews can actually create situations which do not need to be tested.
Heres a question...
Alba: I don't intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate.
Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it can't be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Alba's reasoning?
(A) The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
(B) She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
(C) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
(D) She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
(E) In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.
The answer is indeed (C).
Question source: 1000 CR, Test A, Number 15
With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000).
Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?
(A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.
(B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.
(C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.
(D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.
(E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.
My answer is B. From given data, it looks like without proposition 13, everyone will pay 3% so, it will be more than they are paying now . The assumption here is that the property values are going up all the time. If we were to think that they can also go down, then this would not hold. But the argument says the property values have gone up.
(A) There is no mention of constituional/unconstituional
(C) Property values are going up, the proposition only talks about taxes, not actual values.
(D) This may or may not be true, based on when each one bought the property.
(E) Again, We dont know this for sure, depends on when each one bought the property..
With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000).
Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?
(A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.
(B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.
(C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.
(D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.
(E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.
and shud b B acc to me cause if form 13 is withdrawn both, who bought their houses 11 years ago and those who bought is this year wud suffer, as tax wud increase for both of them.hence B
A is against the context mentioned.
in C cant see how inflation can affect taxes.
E is wrong as it has benefitted both type of homeowners mentioned
D is also wrong
Ans for the ques i had asked is E
My answer is B. From given data, it looks like without proposition 13, everyone will pay 3% so, it will be more than they are paying now . The assumption here is that the property values are going up all the time. If we were to think that they can also go down, then this would not hold. But the argument says the property values have gone up.
(A) There is no mention of constituional/unconstituional
(C) Property values are going up, the proposition only talks about taxes, not actual values.
(D) This may or may not be true, based on when each one bought the property.
(E) Again, We dont know this for sure, depends on when each one bought the property..
I concur.. answer is B
With Proposition 13, if you bought your house 11 years ago for $75,000, your property tax would be approximately $914 a year (1 percent of $75,000 increased by 2 percent each year for 11 years); and if your neighbor bought an identical house next door to you for $200,000 this year, his tax would be $2,000 (1 percent of $200,000). Without Proposition 13, both you and your neighbor would pay $6,000 a year in property taxes (3 percent of $200,000).
Which of the following is the conclusion for which the author most likely is arguing in the passage above?
(A) Proposition 13 is unconstitutional because it imposes an unequal tax on properties of equal value.
(B) If Proposition 13 is repealed, every homeowner is likely to experience a substantial increase in property taxes.
(C) By preventing inflation from driving up property values, Proposition 13 has saved homeowners thousands of dollars in property taxes.
(D) If Proposition 13 is not repealed, identical properties will continue to be taxed at different rates.
(E) Proposition 13 has benefited some homeowners more than others.
The answer is indeed (B).
Hi,
I have heard a lot about bold-face Questions on CR. Can someone post a few examples and strategies if any.
1)You won't find many big companies on the "fastest growing" list. That's not surprising - the unwritten law says that all companies slow down as they get big. But you can still drive pockets of outrageous growth at your old-line company. In his new book, Hamel shows how the best companies transform themselves into "gray-haired revolutionaries".
For a company to qualify for the title suggested by the author, which of the following would need to be true?
(A) The company tends to have older managers in the higher echelons of the company.
(B)The company has, over the last two decades acquired numerous patents.
(C) The company has a consistent track record of being able to deliver quality even in the face of stringent difficulty.
(D) The company is a huge corporation that owes its decades of success to its founder who was a revolutionary thinker.
(E) The company deals in products that are always susceptible to being outclassed by recent innovations.
2)If your experiences at school or university have given you rather less confidence in your ability to think, and rather more of a tendency to defer to others, you'll be sure to try to bend exam questions so as to reproduce in your answer a safe old essay that scored A or B. You might even discount the question altogether and just rehash revision notes, study notes, or notes a kind teacher offered you to learn by heart. This passage would be a suitable introduction to which of the following themes?
(A) Ways of bettering your grades
(B) Futility of education
(C) Strategies for mastering examinations
(D)Definitive guide to ruining your papers
(E) Confusing your examiners
3) It is not surprising that many American men are taking a closer look at the products that can camouflage those ageing signs. In the age of downsizing, being young, fit and healthy is not just about vanity. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Americans are definitely not getting any younger.
(B) Camouflaging signs of ageing is not indicative of vanity.
(C) There are cosmetic products exclusively available for men.
(D)Youthful looks help retain jobs.
(E) None of the above.
Help Needed
For a company to qualify for the title suggested by the author, which of the following would need to be true?
(A) The company tends to have older managers in the higher echelons of the company.
(B)The company has, over the last two decades acquired numerous patents.
(C) The company has a consistent track record of being able to deliver quality even in the face of stringent difficulty.
(D) The company is a huge corporation that owes its decades of success to its founder who was a revolutionary thinker.
(E) The company deals in products that are always susceptible to being outclassed by recent innovations.
2)If your experiences at school or university have given you rather less confidence in your ability to think, and rather more of a tendency to defer to others, you'll be sure to try to bend exam questions so as to reproduce in your answer a safe old essay that scored A or B. You might even discount the question altogether and just rehash revision notes, study notes, or notes a kind teacher offered you to learn by heart. This passage would be a suitable introduction to which of the following themes?
(A) Ways of bettering your grades
(B) Futility of education
(C) Strategies for mastering examinations
(D)Definitive guide to ruining your papers
(E) Confusing your examiners
3) It is not surprising that many American men are taking a closer look at the products that can camouflage those ageing signs. In the age of downsizing, being young, fit and healthy is not just about vanity. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Americans are definitely not getting any younger.
(B) Camouflaging signs of ageing is not indicative of vanity.
(C) There are cosmetic products exclusively available for men.
(D)Youthful looks help retain jobs.
(E) None of the above.
Help Needed
Question 1 :
My understanding is, A company is a grey-haired revolutionary if its big(and possibily old) and still able to grow.
A is out - Not relevant
B - does not say nething about age of company or size.. for all we know the company may be only 20 years old. Also, patents dont mean growth.
C - This seems plausible, the company is able to survive consistantly when in difficulties. But barely surviving may not cut it.
D - Again, founder may be great, but that itself does not qualify the company to be a grey-haired revolutionary. But the company has been successful for a long time too. This qualifies I guess :))
E - This suggests that the company needs to keep innovating to stay competitive.. close but again, for all we know, the company might have started today.
I go with D. (Had a tough call between C and D) Tilted towards D because of the use of "Successful".
1)You won't find many big companies on the "fastest growing" list. That's not surprising - the unwritten law says that all companies slow down as they get big. But you can still drive pockets of outrageous growth at your old-line company. In his new book, Hamel shows how the best companies transform themselves into "gray-haired revolutionaries".
For a company to qualify for the title suggested by the author, which of the following would need to be true?
(A) The company tends to have older managers in the higher echelons of the company.
(B)The company has, over the last two decades acquired numerous patents.
(C) The company has a consistent track record of being able to deliver quality even in the face of stringent difficulty.
(D) The company is a huge corporation that owes its decades of success to its founder who was a revolutionary thinker.
(E) The company deals in products that are always susceptible to being outclassed by recent innovations.
2)If your experiences at school or university have given you rather less confidence in your ability to think, and rather more of a tendency to defer to others, you'll be sure to try to bend exam questions so as to reproduce in your answer a safe old essay that scored A or B. You might even discount the question altogether and just rehash revision notes, study notes, or notes a kind teacher offered you to learn by heart. This passage would be a suitable introduction to which of the following themes?
(A) Ways of bettering your grades
(B) Futility of education
(C) Strategies for mastering examinations
(D)Definitive guide to ruining your papers
(E) Confusing your examiners
3) It is not surprising that many American men are taking a closer look at the products that can camouflage those ageing signs. In the age of downsizing, being young, fit and healthy is not just about vanity. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Americans are definitely not getting any younger.
(B) Camouflaging signs of ageing is not indicative of vanity.
(C) There are cosmetic products exclusively available for men.
(D)Youthful looks help retain jobs.
(E) None of the above.
Help Needed
My take on q2: Answer should be (B)
As for q3: Again i believe it is (B)
Now if thhey are correct, i'll proceed with the explanation....else it will only confuse all of us:neutral:
My take :
Question 2 : Answer is C. - All the passage says about how people make mistakes in exams.
Question 3 : Answer is D. - This is the one which makes the connection between looking young and retaining your job.
gmat_delhi, can you post the answers :))