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Thursdays With Ron

Every other Thursday, join Ron Purewal for an hour and a half study session. Submit your questions online beforehand and Ron will handpick ones to teach during the session. If you can't attend the session, don't worry. A copy of the recording will be made available the following Monday.

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  • Make sure you cite the source of your specific problem. Due to copyright issues, Ron cannot discuss a problem without seeing its source.
  • It's OK to ask more general questions if they deal with specific strategies, but try to focus your strategy question to a very specific area. For example, you could ask, "are there any general strategies for rate-time-distance problems?" but Ron probably wouldn't answer the question "how do I do hard geometry problems?"
  • For specific issues with specific problems (for example, "Why is the answer to problem number X, on page Y, (b) and not (c)?") and for help creating your own specific study plan, try our forums instead of the study hall.

If you've registered for the session and submitted a question, you're all set. If you have any additional questions, e-mail studentservices@manhattangmat.com for more information.

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Archive Recordings

February 2, 2012:

Streaming Video (on Vimeo)

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January 19, 2012:
Ratios and Rates Problems

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January 5, 2012:
Sentence Correction: Meaning and Modifiers

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December 15, 2011:
Averages: Sums and Sequences

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December 1, 2011:
Organization for Word Problems

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November 17, 2011:
SC: More problems with COMPARISONS (PDF slides only)

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November 3, 2011:
Quant: Remainders

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October 20, 2011:
Sentence Correction: Miscellaneous Comparisons

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October 6, 2011:
Critical Reasoning: Problems with Numbers and Statistics (part 2)

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September 22, 2011:
Critical Reasoning Problems: Numbers and Statistics (the Overlap between verbal and quantitative reasoning

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September 8, 2011:
Critical Reasoning: Draw the conclusion / Most strongly supported

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August 25, 2011:
Sentence Correction: "Which" Modifiers

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August 11, 2011:
Quant: Unit Conversion Problems, Rate problems with Hypothetical Cases, Mixture Problems

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July 28, 2011:
Quantitative: Absolute Values and Unit Conversions

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July 14, 2011:
Critical Reasoning: More Problems with Blanks in the Prompt

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June 16, 2011:
Critical Reasoning: A certain type of critical reasoning with blanks in the prompt Weakening cause-and-effect arguments

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June 2, 2011:
Reading Comprehension: More on inference & suggestion questions

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May 12, 2011:
Sentence Correction: Initial Modifiers

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April 28, 2011:
Reading Comprehension: Inference & Suggestion Questions

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April 14, 2011:
A Firm Foundation for Data Sufficiency Coordinate Geometry DS, part 2

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March 31, 2011:
Sentence Correction: "Which" Modifiers Sentence Correction: Ambiguous Pronouns

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March 17, 2011:
coordinate geometry data sufficiency

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March 3, 2011:
strengthen/weaken and evaluate the argument problems

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February 17, 2011:
Quantitative: probability

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February 3, 2011:
CR: Explain the Situation problems

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January 20, 2011:
Data Sufficiency: Number Line Problems, part 2 Data Sufficiency: Problems with Unknown Angles

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January 6, 2011:
Reading Comprehension: A Trick for Finding the Main Idea Data Sufficiency: Number Line problems, part 1

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December 16, 2010:
Sentence Correction: Verb Tense Quantitative: Probability

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December 2, 2010:
AWA Essay Guidelines & Tips

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November 18, 2010:
Sentence Correction: A New Way to Study Sentence Correction Sentence Correction: Verb Tense Basics

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November 4, 2010:
Quantitative: problems on which traditional algebra doesnt work

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October 21, 2010:
Quantitative: "IF" statements in Data Sufficiency Sentence Correction: Numerical comparisons

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October 7, 2010:
Statistics: Standard deviation and median

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September 23, 2010:
Sentence Correction: use of "based on", "due to", "including" Sentence Correction: appositive modifiers" SC: appositive modifiers

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September 9, 2010:
Reading Comprehension: Short Passages & Miscellaneous Question Types

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August 19, 2010:
Reading Comprehension: Long Passages & Main Idea Questions

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August 5, 2010:
General GMAT: Timing Considerations

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July 22, 2010:
Quantitative: Probabilities and Verbal: Review of all Problem Types

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July 8, 2010:
Quantitative: Sequence Notation

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June 24, 2010:
Quantitative: Percents

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June 10, 2010:
Applications of Prime Factorizations

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May 27, 2010:
Quantitative: Inequality Workshop, Part 2

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May 13, 2010:
Sentence Correction: Parallelism and Placement of Helping Verbs

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April 29, 2010:
Quantitative: Rate/Time/Distance and Digits

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April 15, 2010:
Critical Reasoning: Boldface Questions

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April 1, 2010:
Quantitative: Coordinate Geometry and Critical Reasoning: Decoding Prompts

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March 18, 2010:
Quantitative: Inequality Workshop, Part 1

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March 4, 2010:
Critical Reasoning: Assumption

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February 18, 2010:
Quantitative: Absolute Value Equations

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February 4, 2010:
Quantitative: Backup Methods and General GMAT: Timing/Algorithm Related Problems

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January 21, 2010:
Quantitative: General Word Problem Hints & Shortcuts and "Number Line Shortcut" for Weighted Averages

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December 17, 2009:
Quantitative: Efficient Choice of Variables in Word Problems, and Weighted Averages

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December 3, 2009:
Quantitative: Combinatorics

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November 12, 2009:
Sentence Correction: Miscellaneous Topics

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About Ron Purewal


Ron Purewal, Manhattan GMAT Instructor

Ron Purewal has always been enthralled by standardized tests. In his elementary-school days, he never liked state-sponsored aptitude testing, because it always ended too soon; even today, he can be found...

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