Exam success wishes exams_1

Những viên đạn sau đây tóm tắt một số trong những điểm chính được thảo luận trong các bài học và làm nổi bật những điều quan trọng để nhớ khi chuẩn bị cho phần định lượng. Sử dụng những lời khuyên này để giúp tập trung vào nhận xét của bạn khi bạn làm việc thông qua các câu hỏi thực hành. Khi nhân hoặc chia một số thậm chí tiêu cực, kết quả là tích cực, nhưng nếu số lượng của âm là lẻ, kết quả là tiêu cực. Trong các câu hỏi sử dụng một đơn vị...
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Exam success wishes exams_1 Topic vs. Main Idea • The topic/subject is what the passage is about. • The main idea is the overall fact, feeling, or thought a writer wants to convey about his or her subject. c. Utilitarianism is flawed as a foundation for moral action. d. Utilitarianism is often used to determine social policy. The only answer that can be correct is c, because it is the only idea that is general enough to hold together all of the information in the paragraph. Choices a and b are both too specific to be the main idea; they are not broad enough to cover all of the ideas in the passage, which discusses three different problems with utilitarianism, including the problems cited in choices a and b. Choice d is a contrasting idea used to introduce the main idea of the sentence, and how utilitarianism is used to determine social policy is not even discussed in this paragraph, so the idea expressed in d certainly does not hold together the entire paragraph. Only choice c is general enough to cover every sentence in the paragraph. It makes a general statement that all of the sentences in the paragraph work to support. The kind of texts you will see on the GMAT exam — and, in fact, most of the texts you will read in grad- uate school — will follow this basic pattern of general idea → specific support. That is, the writer will state the main idea he or she wants to convey about the topic and then provide support for that idea, usually in the form of specific facts and details. This works on both the paragraph and essay level. That is, in an essay, each paragraph should work to support the overall main idea (thesis) of the text. But each paragraph should also have its own main idea (in support of the thesis), and each sentence within that paragraph should work to support that main idea. This can be outlined as follows: Thesis: overall main idea (general assertion about subject) Paragraph 1 Main idea (general assertion in support of thesis) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Paragraph 2 Main idea (general assertion in support of thesis) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) 73 – READING COMPREHENSION – Paragraph 3 Main idea (general assertion in support of thesis) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Supporting sentence (specific fact or detail supporting main idea) Of course, not all texts will have such a clear-cut organization, but this is the basic underlying structure of most nonfiction writing. Distinguishing Main Ideas from Supporting Ideas When you are dealing with short passages like those you will find on the GMAT exam, you can often distin- guish between a main idea and a supporting idea by asking the following question: Is the sentence making a general statement, or is it providing specific information? In the following passage, for example, most of the sentences are too specific to be the main idea of the passage. Only one sentence — the second — is general enough to serve as an umbrella or net for the whole paragraph. A dyad is a face-to-face relationship between two people. Human beings are drawn to dyadic rela- tionships, and many social theorists believe that humans are incapable of having triadic relation- ships (relationships consisting of three equal partners). They believe that the introduction of a third individual to a dyad either (a) strengthens the original dyad, thereby excluding the new- comer, or (b) creates a new dyad between the new arrival and one of the original dyad members, thereby excluding the other original dyad member. It is this unique feature of human interaction that can create stress when a new baby is intro- duced into a relationship between two parents or caregivers. When the new baby arrives, the result is usually the creation of a new dyad between the baby and its primary caregiver. Establishing such a relationship is, of course, imperative to the baby’s development. However, the partner left out of this new, loving dyad may feel a sense of abandonment or even harbor a secret resentment. It is, therefore, important for the parents to carve out time alone together, so they can re-establish their original dyadic relationship—if only temporarily. Notice how the second sentence makes a general claim about dyads: that social the ...