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Business school hopefuls tend to be most stressed about two daunting prospects: getting a great GMAT score and paying the cost of tuition for a great school. The best schools in the country cost upwards of $140,000, not including living expenses. Factor in the fact that these schools are in expensive big cities like New York, Boston, Chicago, and ...
The final few days before the GMAT are the most critical for prospective MBA applicants. As a GMAT tutor, I can tell you that far too many students underappreciate the importance of the lead-up to the exam. Given the considerable time and resources spent on preparation, applicants must be willing to finish strong by sacrificing their social lives, ...
Higher education is getting bad reviews lately. National media lament the high costs and seemingly low returns of advanced degrees – even those that have traditionally stapled a higher paycheck to one’s diploma (metaphorically). Business schools in particular are criticized for this seeming disconnect. Various traditional career outlets are ...
Probability is one of the trickier subject areas for GMAT students and tutors alike. As hard as it is for GMAT test takers to learn the ins and outs of combinatorics, for example, it is just as hard for tutors to justify precious preparation time focused on such a narrow and complicated subject. On an average GMAT, students will see at most five ...
Most business schools have a core curriculum that is heavily tilted toward quantitative subjects. Nearly all schools require graduating students to be proficient in basic finance, accounting, economics, and statistics, for example. Many MBAs often speculate that a student’s GMAT score is highly correlated with his or her GPA once at business ...
Most MBA applicants put considerable emphasis on their GMAT preparation in order to get into the best schools. Though the GMAT score is an important aspect of the application, it is just one part of a person’s overall “story” in business school admissions; a great score will not guarantee access to a great school. However, success on the GMAT has ...
As a longtime GMAT tutor, I can’t exaggerate enough how many times I’ve heard this question. The answer is, of course, the two most commonly used words in a business school classroom: It depends…
Having been a private tutor for many GMAT test takers, I consider Critical Reasoning to be the section of the test that gives students the most trouble. However, I have found that my students improve quickly in this section by following a very simple method. Namely, students should answer Critical Reasoning questions following a three-step ...
This post is a follow up in which I posed the question ‘Can Prepping for Entrance Exams Make Ya Smarter? According to a recent study conducted at The University of California at Berkeley, this is certainly true with the LSAT. Given this finding, it would be interesting to explore how the LSAT is structured, the types of questions asked and how a ...
SAT Sequence questions can be challenging. Can you address one of these problems in your blog?
I thought that it would be fun to tackle a geometry problem on today's post. I know what you're thinking, fun and geometry – can these two words even go in the same sentence? But yes, geometry can be fun; let's see as we work together through the details of a particular problem.