Time taken:: Analysis + Typing out = 35 minutes
The following appeared in the opinion column of a financial magazine:
“On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within [...]

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“The presence of a competitor is always beneficial to a company. Competition forces a company to change itself in ways that improve its practices.”
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
The [...]

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The following appeared as part of an article in a magazine on lifestyles.
“Two years ago, City L was listed 14th in an annual survey that ranks cities according to the quality of life that can be enjoyed by those living in them. This information will enable people who are moving to the state [...]

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Wrote a powerprep yesterday night….
This was the first full length test in which I also wrote timed essays.
Am pretty excited about the score… But still it’s not that perfect an indicator. In fact that’s quite inflated as some questions were already covered in the OG and the correct answers started shouting in mind even before [...]

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Summing up quicly, what I’ve done over the last two and a half month.. ( Had started the preps in mid Jan)
Started with a crack-the-gmat free test.. My score there was 600. Quants 46; Verbal somewhere in early 30s. Though wasn’t any excited about the score, but this test was more to give me an [...]

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