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GMAT Tips: Your GMAT Study Strategy
Today’s GMAT tip comes to us from Veritas Prep. In this article, they provide helpful tips on how to study effectively for the GMAT. Read on to see what they have to say! As a demographic group, GMAT students are among the most driven and hardworking people on the planet, but often those positive qualities manifest themselves in the most brute-force of study strategies: do more practice tests; solve more practice problems; spend more hours/days/months “studying”. What these practices tend to miss is that the GMAT is by nature an analytical exam, designed to reward those who think critically, analytically,... Read more »
GMAT Tips: Idioms 101
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they provide helpful advice on how to answer questions containing idioms in the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
Admissions Tip: Addressing Academic Weaknesses
To follow up on last month’s advice about GMAT preparation and timing, we wanted to offer some general comments about the role of academics in the admissions process. Many candidates considering business school focus on the credentials they will hold and the network which they will be a part of upon graduation, but it is important to keep in mind the academic experience at the heart of any MBA program. Because a business school is, after all, a school, it makes sense to begin your consideration of your profile by thinking about your academic aptitude and track record to date.... Read more »
GMAT Tips: Intro to Pronouns on the GMAT
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they provide helpful hints on how to spot pronoun errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
GMAT Tips: Keep the End in Sight: Tips for Staying Motivated While Prepping for the GMAT
Today’s GMAT tip comes from Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Bret Ruber provides tips on how to remain motivated while studying for the GMAT: When you first begin prepping for the GMAT, staying motivated is easy. But after a couple of months, it can be difficult to keep yourself motivated as you continue to try to improve your score. If this happens to you, there are a few strategies you can use to regain your motivation. First, you can remind yourself why you are doing all this work. It is easy to get into a rut in which... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Understanding Verb Tense Errors on the GMAT
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they provide helpful hints on how to deal with verb tense errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
GMAT Tip: Breaking Down a Long GMATPrep Sentence Correction Problem
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, they explain how to answer sentence correction questions that contain long underlines and a “jumble” in the answer choices. Read on to see what they have to say! A student recently asked me what to do when faced with Sentence Correction problems containing very long underlines and a “jumble” in the answer choices. Many sentence correction questions can easily be scanned vertically, in order to find differences among the answers, but some problems instead move major parts of the sentence around or change the basic structure (an independent... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Identifying Comparison Errors on the GMAT
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they provide helpful advice on how to identify comparison errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
Clear Admit Career Services Director Q&A: Kellogg School of Management’s Roxanne Hori
Roxanne Hori, associate dean for career management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, is the most recent participant in our continuing Career Services Director Q&A Series. Hori has been in her current role for the past 16 years, so she certainly has some perspective to share. Earlier in her career she worked in recruiting for a range of corporations, including a Chicago bank. She first came to Kellogg as a career coach, a position she held for about five years before returning to banking. But ultimately she came back to Kellogg to direct the Career Management Center, where she’s... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Be Aware
Today’s GMAT tip comes to us from Veritas Prep. In this article, they explain the importance of remaining aware when taking the GMAT. Read on to see what they have to say! Driving a car is an exercise in awareness. Think about it: you’ve ridden as a passenger in many cars in your day, and your level of fear isn’t directly correlated to how aggressive your driver is; the other, potentially more dominant factor is how aware she is. You’re typically pretty comfortable when your driver exceeds the speed limit, but you’re not very comfortable when the driver doesn’t seem... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Parallelism Errors on the GMAT
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they provide helpful tips on how to identify parallelism errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
GMAT Tip: Prime Factors
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from Kaplan. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution: Good luck on this Challenge Problem involving Prime Factors! Remember, there’s probably a reason that the questions are written the way that they are… Problem: If a = 105 and a3 = 21 x 25 x 45 x b, what is the value of b? A) 35 B) 42 C) 45 D) 49 E) 54 Solution: The very first step in this problem is substituting 105 for the... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Understanding Modifiers on the GMAT
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they share helpful advice on how to identify modifier errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
Admissions Tip: Planning for the GMAT
For all you “early birds” who are planning to apply to business school this fall, we wanted to offer a few tips on managing your time as it relates to the GMAT exam. Because this is an important element for many applicants in determining at which schools they will be competitive, it’s best to prep intensively and get this out of the way early in the process. You should ideally be finished with the GMAT by mid-summer. The reason for this is that you will want to reserve the months of August, September and October for essay writing, school visits,... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Breaking Down a GMATPrep CR Evaluate A Conclusion Problem
Today’s GMAT tip comes from test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, they share helpful tips on how to solve critical reasoning problems that require you to evaluate a conclusion. Read on to see what they have to say! This week, we’re going to tackle a harder GMATPrep critical reasoning question from the Evaluate A Conclusion category. Let’s start with the problem. Set your timer for 2 minutes! * ”Capuchin monkeys in Venezuela often rub a certain type of millipede into their fur. Secretions of these millipedes have been shown to contain two chemicals that are potent mosquito repellents, and... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Subject-Verb Agreement 101
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they share helpful hints on how to identify subject-verb agreement errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
GMAT Tip: Understanding Remainders
Today’s GMAT tip comes from Veritas Prep. In this article, they provide helpful advice on understanding the concept of remainders. Read on to see what they have to say! Unless you teach math, chances are that you haven’t used a remainder in years. Remainders in division are basically placeholders for kids who haven’t yet learned decimals or mixed numbers; as soon as you learn what to do with the remainder, you tend to never touch a remainder again…until of course you take the GMAT. Consider the problem 11/3. 3*3 is 9, but then there are 2 left over that will... Read more »
GMAT Tip: Identifying Sentence Structure Errors
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they share advice on how to identify sentence structure errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
GMAT Tip: The Most Commonly Tested Errors on GMAT Sentence Correction
Today’s GMAT Tip comes from our friends at Knewton. In this video post, they share advice on how to prepare for the most commonly tested errors on the GMAT Sentence Correction section. Click play to see what they have to say! For more information on Knewton, download Clear Admit’s independent guide to the leading test preparation companies here. This FREE guide includes coupons for discounts on test prep services at ten different firms!
