考前就很确定，不管这回考得怎么样，就这么一次了。其实我上回考试成绩也不太差，这回考试心里颇有底气的去的，自我感觉SC和RC的水平已经比以前强多了，逻辑我人比较笨，没办法... 考出来只印证了一句话一个事实：我本就生得笨，而且好运气也都消耗光了，除了努力，没有别的出路。
上回数学pace乱，这回语文pace乱... 没救了...
数学没有51，有些遗憾。成天在版上煞有介事的说这个题怎么做，那个题如何如何，偏偏自己就是考不了51，真无语了。上回我就在想，如果数学多1分，那我就说不定不重考了；这回还是一样，如果数学多1分，我现在就笑傻了，真不知道这两个月都干嘛了，没救了没救了...
大家对自己的要求各不相同，祝大家考到自己满意的分数，不要有遗憾
AWA
Argument
106. The following appeared as part of a business plan by the Capital Idea Investment firm.
“Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form — either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price per book on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will now have access to whatever book they want from their home or work computers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read more widely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recent online survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81 percent said they believed that reading classic works was important. Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, a new company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.”
*A CD-ROM is a small portable disc capable of storing relatively large amounts of data that can be read by a computer.
Issue
B2. Although most people wish to live long lives, attempting to significantly extend the average human life span would be a mistake. If achieved, this would place an enormous burden on resources, lowering the quality of life for everyone.
Math
很多已有的JJ题目，补充两道:
1. if x and n are integers, x^2=n!+1, is x prime?
1) x<11
2) 忘了
2. 三棱柱，上下底面为直角三角形，一个侧面为ABCD，侧面上边AD是上底面直角三角形的斜边。已知该侧面对角线BD的长度为某个值，表面积=? D
1) 角ABD=60
2) 上底面面积等于某个数
CR
GWD17-Q9 这道题做GWD的时候作对了，上了考场竟然做错，差点没气死！心不静、Pace乱的后果
Press Secretary: Our critics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellations demonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties. They offer as evidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in such districts. But all of the canceled projects had been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisan auditors. So the President’s choice was clearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’s argument depends? B
A. Canceling highway projects was not the only way for the President to punish legislative districts controlled by opposition parties.
B. The scheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostly projects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
C. The number of projects canceled was a significant proportion of all the highway projects that were to be undertaken by the government in the near future.
D. The highway projects canceled in districts controlled by the President’s party were not generally more expensive than the projects canceled in districts controlled by opposition parties.
E. Reports by nonpartisan auditors are not generally regarded by the opposition parties as a source of objective assessments of government projects.
RC
1. Adam Smith那篇，不难，文章不长
2. RC蚂蚁那篇，文章难度主要在于搞一堆大家不知道的名词出来（讲蚂蚁的，谁知道也太神了），但逻辑主线其实很简单。题目也没有什么太大的难度，不要被文章长度和不熟悉的东西吓倒就好了。
3. GWD，文章题目好像都是一样的
1. GWD-10-Q4-Q6 N-2-Q10-Q12 G-10-Q4-Q6岩石与摩擦热
Prior to 1965 geologists assumed that the two giant rock plates meeting at the San Andreas Fault generate heat through friction as they grind past each (5)other, but in 1965 Henry found that temperatures in drill holes near the fault were not as elevated as had been expected. Some geologists wondered whether the absence of (10) friction-generated heat could be explained by the kinds of rock composing the fault. Geologists’ pre-1965 assumptions concerning heat generated in the fault were based on (15) calculations about common varieties of rocks, such as limestone and granite; but “weaker” materials, such as clays, had already been identified in samples retrieved from the fault zone. Under (20) normal conditions, rocks composed of clay produce far less friction than do other rock types.
In 1992 Byerlee tested whether these materials would produce friction (25) 10 to 15 kilometers below the Earth’s surface. Byerlee found that when clay samples were subjected to the thousands of atmospheres of pressure they would encounter deep inside the (30) Earth, they produced as much friction as was produced by other rock types. The harder rocks push against each other, the hotter they become; in other words, pressure itself, not only the (35) rocks’ properties, affects frictional heating. Geologists therefore wondered whether the friction between the plates was being reduced by pockets of pressurized water within the fault that (40) push the plates away from each other.
GWD-10-Q4 N-2-Q10 G-10-Q4
The passage suggests which of the following regarding Henry’s findings about temperature in the San Andreas Fault? A
A. Scientists have yet to formulate a definitive explanation for Henry’s findings.
B. Recent research suggests that Henry’s explanation for the findings should be modified.
C. Henry’s findings had to be recalculated in light of Byerlee’s 1992 experiment.
D. Henry’s findings provided support for an assumption long held by geologists.
E. Scientists have been unable to duplicate Henry’s findings using more recent experimental methods.
GWD-10-Q5 N-2-Q11 G-10-Q5
The passage is primarily concerned with B
A. evaluating a method used to test a particular scientific hypothesis
B. discussing explanation for an unexpected scientific finding
C. examining the assumptions underlying a particular experiment
D. questioning the validity of a scientific finding
E. presenting evidence to support a recent scientific hypothesis
GWD-10-Q6 N-2-Q12 G-10-Q6
The passage mostly agree that Henry’s findings about temperature in the San Andreas Fault made the greatest contribution in that they D
A. revealed an error in previous measurements of temperature in the San Andreas Fault zone
B. indicated the types of clay present in the rocks that form the San Andreas Fault
C. established the superiority of a particular technique for evaluating data concerning friction in the San Andreas Fault
D. suggested that geologists had inaccurately assumed that giant rock plates that meet at the San Andreas Fault generate heat through friction
E. confirmed geologists’ assumptions about the amount of friction generated by common varieties of rocks, such as limestone and granite
考了两次，有一个感觉是很一致的，就是GMAT的成绩基本是很准的，什么水平就出什么样的成绩。当然我不否认有些很幸运，有些人很倒霉，小概率事件总是存在的。但是对绝大多数人来说，最后拿到的成绩基本上是真实水平的反应。所以建议即将参加考试的各位，一定要扎扎实实的复习，不要抱任何的侥幸心理，好运气没那么容易碰到的。因为这次复习感觉一直不错，心理上是有点大意了。想想，既然250刀已经付了，也花了那么多时间精力去复习，一定要对考试给予足够的重视，不可畏怯，但也不可轻敌。
版上很多朋友，看得出都是很扎实很努力的，祝大家考到满意的成绩～！
