一战郁闷的720（Q50 V37），V居然秒杀还没做完（新增GWD备战情况供CDer横向比较）

不好意思，考完了两天才上来汇报，因为考完就去上班，很忙。

我的心态没调整好，GWD和PREP的情况都不错，再加上给自己定的目标是TOP5的学校，所以给自己加了很多压力。我的目标是730+，但是世上没有完美的事，大家不要拍砖，但这个分数对于我来说的确有点鸡肋，但是此时此刻写下这些的时候，心情已经恢复平静。不打算再战，一方面在职的情况下时间精力不允许，项目越来越忙（而且很有趣），出差越来越频繁，另一方面，考了720分再考，就算考了750分，又怎样，那些top的学校有时候可能反而觉得你这个人奇怪。看以前申请到n校的人的心经，都说只要成绩过得去不被直接束之高阁就可以了，真的高到怎样的程度，要看你材料里其他部分的，绝对没有定论，而是case by case的。

回到我的心态，我数学做的时候感觉不错，后来才知道也没有拿到满分，估计还是粗心了。这个不提。V上来做得很仔细，前20题pace非常好，没有什么不确定的，按既定计划完成。一切毁在20到30题之间的一篇阅读，现在居然想不起来说了啥，文章很容易也很快地看懂了，至此一切都好，但是问题居然没一道能够确定。这时候我开始钻牛角尖了，不甘心那么简单的文章就随便过去，特别是前面做得那么好，更不愿意栽在这样的阅读上。结果偏偏就是栽在这里了，花了很长的时间反复定位，反复推敲问题里的字意。结果整个沉浸在这篇阅读里，居然忽略了时间，等到这篇阅读做完，基本上就确定了后面绝对做不完的事实。

最后的一篇阅读，已经随之而来的两三个逻辑（SC还有可能快速做对，逻辑一点办法都没有，看题就要看一会儿，通常还要动动脑筋。。。），一道SC，都只能秒杀了。秒杀到最后一题语法，还剩十几二十秒，心态又开始作怪。本来直接秒杀也做完了，但是又开始不甘心，题目较短，打算看看再猜答案，增加猜对概率。但是其实这时候心情也经完全走样，心都快跳出来了，就听到自己心跳的声音，哪里有能耐平静地分析，结果最后一秒点了个答案，没有时间按确定，那个窗口就跳出来说time expire了，估计还是没来得及。

在这里用我的亲身经历来告诉广大战友，一定要尽量的保持一颗平常心啊！我从来没有做不完过，尤其是V，pace保持得一向很好，而且考试的时候大脑很兴奋，思维很敏捷，注意力特别集中，如果不是心态作怪，一定不会发生这样的事。如果我倒数第二篇阅读允许自己稍微猜一下比较像的答案，猜对的可能性至少就比后面秒杀要大得多，而且pace不至于乱成这样。。。

其实岳如初MM，或者斑竹凯撒的荣耀，通过我考前发过的几片帖子应该就隐约可以看出我这次失败的端倪。我给自己订了很高的要求，考前那天早上尽力地地自己说，你尽力了，而且你很喜欢目前的工作，老板的赏识，你还没确定是不是要读mba，你到底在紧张什么？但是已经太晚了，虽然考试开始后并没有很紧张，因为开始做题后还是驾轻就熟的。但是心态到底导致了做题时候战略选择上的致命错误。

现在一切都结束了。
不会再考。
申请，就算申请，也是明年年底，甚至更可能后年年底的事了。

感谢CD这几个月里的陪伴，很抱歉我什么都记不起来。我会把我考前准备的几篇题库里没有的作文，发上来给大家参考。我知道我考前蛮慌这个的，因为没怎么复习，觉得没有思路。事实证明看熟七宗罪，练手写两三篇，没什么问题。（备注，如果大家argument要写五段式，一定要把手练熟。我属于打字速度达到飞快那种，小时候聊天室练出来的，呵呵，那么就算我上来就思路完整，要唧唧歪歪把想说的都说完，时间还是不那么富余的，我的AA时间刚刚够，当然，我写得很长。）贴出来的两篇issue是考前那天晚上写的，argument是考试那天早上为了练手写的。大家主要看看思路，我作文成绩还没收到，别直接作为NN作品看待啊！

在这里附上GWD-TN-24的20套的备战情况，大家可以横向比较一下，作为实战前的参考。

Firstly, laws are established by competent legislative structure that is voted by the people of a given society. The process itself reveals the choices of all the members of a society who have executed their power and fulfilled their duty; hence, laws established through this process have the legitimism to be obeyed. If every citizen were to be given the possibility to decide whether or not to obey a law solely on the basis of their own judgment of the justness of a law, the society would turn to a total mess : individuals would no longer be deterred by existent laws in the society and instead disobey or resist them freely whenever they judge a law unjust.

Second, laws do not need to be considered exclusively just or unjust as suggested in the statement. Admittedly, despite big amounts of efforts brought to our society, there is no "perfect" law under which the right of every single individual is equal, and his or her interests equally defended under every circumstance. It is therefore the duty of individuals in the society to voice their opinions when they consider that there is possibility for improvement for a given law. Individuals shall be aware that this is their responsibility to get their voices heard to warrant greater equality within the society. This is a more constructive way of making things progress. Of course, if the political environment or the democratic situation of the society restricts the freedom of such expression, individuals would eventually have to choose to disobey the law and come up with revolution on a bigger scale. 

To conclude with / to sum up / In conclusion, it seems to me quite clear that…

To some extent, this advice has some merit. Public figure 的确要注意言行。因为说出来的话influential ; have big impact on mass public。如果不了解情况说出来的东西很容易mislead a big proportion of the population。

Greentree Grocers开咖啡店

Greentree Grocers has been experiencing high sales volume but decreasing profit margin. Its customers are wealthy people looking for gourmet food and luxury shopping experience, so it must cut costs without hurting the customers' shopping experience. So it plans to layoff 10 employees per store and eliminate expensive displays and free samples. In addition, it will partner with XX Cafe to have a coffee shop in each store. This is supported by a recent survey that the Grocers and the Cafe attract similar types of customers. The conclusion is that Greentree Grocers will experience high sales volume as well as high profit margin

一家GROCERY，最近REVENUE和从前差不多，但是PROFIT下降了，为了改变这种状况，公司决定LAYOFF10个员工，取消新品陈列，取消发放小样。此外，公司还计划和一家咖啡馆合作，在全国所有的店里都设置一个卖咖啡的COUNTER，理由是经过一个SURVEY证明咖啡馆的消费群体和这个GROCERY的消费群体一致，公司预计通过卖咖啡的方式可以弥补因上述其他政策造成的客户流失。

In this statement the author agues that Greentree Grocers’s layoff plan and the new partnership with XX cafe will guarantee its current high sales volume and bring high profit margin as well. To support this conclusion, the author points out that costs cut is a must regarding the decreasing profit margin, and recent survey showed that the Grocers and the Café attract similar types of customers. This conclusion is not very compelling for a couple of reasons.

In first, the author assumes that the customers of Greentree Grocers, wealthy people looking for gourmet food and luxury shopping experience, will not find their shopping experience degraded with the layoff of 10 employees per store and the disappearance of expensive displays and free samples. There is, however, no guarantee that this is the case. since what if it turns out that the number of sales present in the store make customers feel well served and those expensive decorative displays remind them of the luxury quality of the products sold in the store? Lacking a credible survey on a group of representative body of customers on the expectation of their shopping experience, the forecast of the author is quite unacceptable.

In second, the poll stated by the author is too vague to be informative. The claim does not indicate who conducted the poll, who responded, or where and how the poll was conducted. Until these questions are answered, the results of the survey are worthless as evidence for the conclusion.

In the third place, even if we grant the preceding assumption and trust the result of the survey, will a partnership with a café necessarily increase the profit margin of Greentree Grocer? The current difficulty that the Grocer meets is not insufficient customers’ visits since the volume of sales remains high, but a declining profit magin. By opening coffee shops in each store will only strengthen the fidelity of the current group of customers, while brining nothing to improve the profit of the Grocer.

In sum, the author’s belief is ill founded. To strengthen the argument, the author will have to bring a more thorought market analysis on the customers’ expectation on the shopping environment, and rule out on this basis the future action plan to increase the profit margin of the Grocer. 

In sum, the author’s belief is ill founded. To strengthen the argument, the author will have to bring a more thorought market analysis on the customers’ expectation on the shopping environment, and rule out on this basis the future action plan to increase the profit margin of the Grocer.

祝贺MM！！就是MM的记忆刷新也忒快了　要是能在楼上放点儿JJ就好了．．．．　

好像俺也记得看过一个NN说过再考一个更高的分会让人觉得纠结  呵呵   

工作顺利！ 

ＬＺ这么牛ＴＯＰ５肯定没问题的～

一直很开好LZMM，

看到你模考那么高的分，

大前天晚上就等你回来贡献鸡精。。。

申请顺利！

建议LZ再看下JJ的总结，回忆下阅读和逻辑鸡精吧！

估计LZ前30题正确率肯定很高！

再次感谢！

thanks for shearing!