作文：
Argument
8. The following appeared in a memo from thedirector of student housing at BuckinghamCollege.
To serve the housing needs of our students,Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories.Buckingham's enrollment is growing and, based on current trends,will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitoryspace inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment inour town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students willfind it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing.Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective studentsmore likely to enroll at Buckingham."


Write a response in which you discuss whatspecific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explainhow the evidence would weaken or strengthen theargument.
Issue
108. Critical judgment of work in any givenfield has little value unless it comes from someone who is anexpert in that field.
Write a response in which you discuss theextent to which you agree or disagree with the statement andexplain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing andsupporting your position, you should consider ways in which thestatement might or might not hold true and explain how theseconsiderations shape your position.
作文兩篇感覺(jué)都不難，特別是A寫(xiě)的比較順，估計(jì)可以上700字了，呵呵
關(guān)于A(yíng)rgument的準(zhǔn)備我還是有一點(diǎn)心得的，跟大家分享一下：
大家有時(shí)間的話(huà)務(wù)必把AI的提綱都列掉，然后挑重復(fù)率高的寫(xiě)。比如ISSUE里面有一道The greatest indicator ofanation....。另外有一點(diǎn)很重要的是，特別是對(duì)于A(yíng)大家在寫(xiě)完幾篇文章以后，盡快歸納出針對(duì)每一個(gè)instruction的模板，question這種可以寫(xiě)成一類(lèi)，然后背出來(lái)。其實(shí)老G和新G的區(qū)別就在于，老G是一套模板走天下，新G準(zhǔn)備4個(gè)模板，就這么簡(jiǎn)單。以后自己聯(lián)系的時(shí)候，就根據(jù)模板來(lái)套，寫(xiě)到后來(lái)你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，你寫(xiě)出來(lái)的文章，不管題目怎么換，寫(xiě)出來(lái)的東西看起來(lái)都一樣，這樣Argument算基本練成了。模板最好自己寫(xiě)，根據(jù)頭幾篇寫(xiě)的文章來(lái)歸納，比如說(shuō)我關(guān)于specificevidence這種題型，自己歸納的模板就是：
The argument is well presented and appearsto be relatively sound at the first glance,the author concludesthat__________. However, a close scrutiny about the argument willreveal that several specific evidences should be added in order tomake the argument to be more cogent and convincing, forexample:_________
Initially, the author must give evidence that_________. If we wereto learn that _______, it would obviously weaken the conclusion. Itmay turn out to be that_____. To make his assurance eloquent, hemust provide more specific evidences to consummate hisargument.

Secondly, in order to______, we should also be informedthat_______. In the argument, the author only said that__________.It may undermine the argument that if-_______. Withoutknowing_______, we can hardly accept the conclusionthat______
Third, the author should eliminate thedisturbance of other factors, for example, he should provideevidences that _______. Perhaps_____ or perhaps________. Either ofthese scenarios, if true, would cast serious doubt on the author’sclaim. Without accounting for all other explanations, the arguercan’t reasonably conclude that___________

To sum up, the argument is far from powerful enough to substantiatethat______________ Before any final decisions are madeabout_____________, much more specific evidences are to be putforward to make the author’s argument more forceful andcogent.

真正寫(xiě)的時(shí)候，先把第一段和最后一段都寫(xiě)了，然后每段寫(xiě)個(gè)第一句，列出框架。最好能在第一段把你要寫(xiě)的內(nèi)容都先簡(jiǎn)要概括一下，比如就今天考試這個(gè)題，我第一段大概是這么寫(xiě)的，因?yàn)槭翘椎哪０?，所以比較好回憶：
The argument is well presented and appearsto be relatively sound at the first glance; the author concludesthat we should build new dormitories to satisfy the need ofincreasing amount of students. However, a close scrutiny about theargument will reveal that several specific evidences should beadded in order to make the argument to be more cogent andconvincing, for example: the proportion of the students livingoutside the campus, the price of living in dormitory and apartment,and the main reason why perspective students choose to apply forthe Buckingham College.Then I will discuss about them one byone.
把需要增加的evidence在第一段寫(xiě)一下，一來(lái)是個(gè)很好的湊字?jǐn)?shù)的方法，二來(lái)可以讓考官在看你第一段以后就知道你要講什么，要知道老外不像中國(guó)人喜歡彎彎繞繞，他們更喜歡開(kāi)門(mén)見(jiàn)山的直白方式。
按照這種寫(xiě)法，我在前10分鐘內(nèi)打出了三分之二屏的東西，估計(jì)也有快300字了吧。有了大致的框架，寫(xiě)下去就比較順手了，考試的時(shí)候?qū)懲晡恼聲r(shí)間還有5分鐘，我又加了一個(gè)邏輯錯(cuò)誤：作者并沒(méi)有給出證據(jù)說(shuō)在接下來(lái)的50年里人數(shù)一直會(huì)增加，近期的申請(qǐng)者劇增的理由可能是因?yàn)橹車(chē)鷮W(xué)校的學(xué)費(fèi)漲了，而一旦BC的學(xué)費(fèi)也漲價(jià)，申請(qǐng)者可能會(huì)仍然跟往年持平。在第一段里先說(shuō)一句總結(jié)，然后再加上一段就可以了。由于只有5分鐘，因此寫(xiě)得比較簡(jiǎn)單，也就100個(gè)字左右了吧。
話(huà)題還是回到準(zhǔn)備A的過(guò)程上，當(dāng)你歸納出模板以后，接下來(lái)要做的事情就很簡(jiǎn)單了，找到新老題庫(kù)的對(duì)應(yīng)表，然后自己照著新題庫(kù)一題一題地把提綱列出來(lái)，不會(huì)的看一下老題是怎么寫(xiě)的。這個(gè)時(shí)候不需要寫(xiě)很多文章，只是歸納提綱就行，記住歸納的時(shí)候要把可能發(fā)生的情況寫(xiě)出來(lái)，因?yàn)榈搅丝荚嚨臅r(shí)候想不出可以rival的情況那不是悲劇了，比如這個(gè)題中的一個(gè)evidence：
The reason why students choose BuckinghamCollege.
Perhaps it has qualified teachers.
Perhapstuition fee is lower than colleges at the samelevel.
等你把這兩件事情都做完，A的準(zhǔn)備就差不多了，以后就是每天花半個(gè)小時(shí)左右的時(shí)間一遍遍熟悉題庫(kù)。
按著這種方法，我是7.10開(kāi)始準(zhǔn)備A的，當(dāng)時(shí)真正全力準(zhǔn)備Argument的時(shí)間只用了5天，5天里面每天寫(xiě)3-4篇A，然后歸納模板，改正模板。到了7.15，我寫(xiě)出來(lái)的東西就跟剛才貼的差不多了，從7.15到昨天，我做的僅僅就是每天半小時(shí)寫(xiě)提綱，一天大概寫(xiě)個(gè)3篇左右吧，寫(xiě)完一遍之后又花了二十天左右的時(shí)間重新看了一遍。寫(xiě)的話(huà)不用太多，3-4天寫(xiě)一篇保持手感就行了。
關(guān)于ISSUE，方法也差不多，主要的問(wèn)題就是寫(xiě)提綱一定要仔細(xì)，把你對(duì)這個(gè)問(wèn)題的觀(guān)點(diǎn)，和引用的例子都寫(xiě)出來(lái)，不要想著自己能套一些Roosevelt,King什么的，想想就可以了，沒(méi)有那么多例子讓你套，還是要老老實(shí)實(shí)準(zhǔn)備提綱。寫(xiě)的例子要放在提綱里，ISSUE跟A也一樣，寫(xiě)完一遍提綱，自己重新看，到最后就是訓(xùn)練自己看到一個(gè)題，在2分鐘以?xún)?nèi)迅速組織出一個(gè)比較詳細(xì)的提綱。這樣ISSUE的準(zhǔn)備也就差不多了。

Verbal：
其實(shí)前面做下來(lái)都比較順，做倒長(zhǎng)閱讀。。悲劇了。?；?分鐘看文章，但是完全沒(méi)看懂在講什么，最后蒙了4個(gè)題，8分鐘啊。。就蒙了4個(gè)題上面了。。。然后嚴(yán)重影響后面的心情。我想說(shuō)文學(xué)評(píng)論的文章對(duì)于工科學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)實(shí)在難度比較大。另外想提一點(diǎn)的就是6選2，做?？嫉臅r(shí)候那幾個(gè)題基本沒(méi)錯(cuò)過(guò)，但是考試時(shí)候就不行，感覺(jué)單詞不難，但是邏輯比較復(fù)雜。大家不要輕視了才好。整場(chǎng)考試中我沒(méi)有遇到一個(gè)句子點(diǎn)選題和單詞解釋題，不知道怎么回事。還有邏輯題，感覺(jué)比PP2簡(jiǎn)單不少，至少題目比較容易理解了。
最后想提一點(diǎn)的就是，考新G的孩紙們千萬(wàn)不要輕視單詞的背誦。從開(kāi)始準(zhǔn)備GRE到昨天，我估計(jì)刷了有40遍紅寶吧，有些人說(shuō)新3000很好用，其實(shí)推薦大家可以再背紅寶之前背3000，因?yàn)槔系募t寶好多意思都是錯(cuò)誤的或者不全面，以至于當(dāng)背到以前背過(guò)的單詞，但是新3000給的意思完全不同的時(shí)候，不會(huì)感覺(jué)是當(dāng)做新詞來(lái)背。VERBAL要取得好成績(jī)，6選2的題絕對(duì)要拿下。
Q：我加試的是Q，感覺(jué)Q做得比較順手吧。新G的Q真的不難，沒(méi)必要害怕。只不過(guò)第一個(gè)Q有個(gè)題，是9行4列36entry，電腦隨機(jī)在每行抽一個(gè)，第一列最多，問(wèn)第一列最少是幾?？戳税胩鞗](méi)看懂問(wèn)題啥意思，別的挺簡(jiǎn)單，也沒(méi)有考到排列組合或者正態(tài)分布，百分位的題。另外想提一點(diǎn)就是大家不要忽視了數(shù)學(xué)詞匯的積累，比如今天出現(xiàn)一個(gè)單詞reciproical,考完跟大家交流的時(shí)候發(fā)現(xiàn)很多人就沒(méi)理解這個(gè)單詞是倒數(shù)的意思。還有range這個(gè)詞，今年6G也出現(xiàn)過(guò)吧，意思是值域。

考GRE，特別是revisedGRE,不是用累一個(gè)字可以形容的，需要更多的是毅力和堅(jiān)持，對(duì)未來(lái)的bigot。寫(xiě)完這篇文章，終于可以送一口氣了，雖然分?jǐn)?shù)不高，但是夠用了，也不想再考了。

寫(xiě)于2011.9.3夜

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