Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Just some thoughts

1. GMAT's quantitive part is really elementary level, but the point is, they are not testing the tedious formulas and algorithms, instead, it is your way to approach a problem that is tested. Do you know how to use ur brain? Do you use it as an analyzer, or just a database? B-people's math rarely go beyond addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Overthinking is not getting you anywhere, here is an example:

If r is remainder of p/m, is r>1?

1). the greatest common divisor of m and p is 2
2). the least common multiple of m and p is 30

is 1), 2) alone sufficient enough to solve the problem, or u need both conditions, or both won't even solve the problem, the so-called data sufficiency problem.

2. The ex-wives club, the new ABC reality show, is stupid! What message is it trying to convey to those broken-hearted woman? That hatred and revenge are the remedies? They even send those poor women immediately to a blind date after the breakup, and later send the tape to their ex's to make them feel bad. Stupid, stupid, stupid!!! Sorry, can't come up with a more fitting adj.