Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

3/18/13– Online- Free Trial Class- 12:30PM-3:30PM (EST)

3/21/13– Online- Free Trial Class-  9:00PM-12:00AM (EST)

3/23/13– Online- Free Trial Class– 10:30PM- 1:30PM (EST)

3/24/13– Online- Free Trial Class- 1:30PM-4:30PM (EST)

3/20/13– Online- MBA Admissions Myths Destroyed presented by mbaMission– 8:30PM-10:00PM (EST)

3/21/13– Online- Thursdays with Ron– 7:00PM-8:30PM

3/18/13– Glendale, CA- Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

3/21/13– Los Angeles, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

3/21/13– Irvine, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

3/23/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class – 10:00AM- 1:00PM

3/24/13– Santa Monica, CA – Free Trial Class –  5:30PM- 8:30PM
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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

10 B-Schools That Lead to Jobs (U.S. News Education)

According to U.S. News, four MBA programs boast 100 percent employment rates for students three months after graduation. Read on for the top ten list.

MBA Admissions Decisions Coming Down to the Wire (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Bloomberg reports that many top schools expect to announce round-two admissions decisions by March 28, and many schools, including Virginia, Chicago, Stanford, Duke, Harvard, and Cornell, are still accepting applications for round 3.
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Many a true word is said in jest.—I don’t know, but I heard it from my mother.

It’s a funny thing—folks get good at doing OG problems at their desks.  Then they take a practice CAT, with the clock on the monitor running down, like sands in the hourglass.  Suddenly they are seized by amphetamine psychosis.  Like NFL rookies, the big adjustment is to the speed of the game.  When you’re taking the test, if you can’t do it* in two to three minutes, you can’t do it.*  However, timing problems are an effect, not a cause.  People have timing problems because their math foundation sucks.  People have timing problems because they don’t get a good rephrasing.  People have timing problems because they don’t compare SC choices vertically.  People have timing problems because they don’t have the discipline to guess.  And so on.  All of these problems are fixable.  Like most GMAT issues, timing problems are the result of either a poor foundation or bad behavior.

Take foundation work. . .please—that’s a joke from your grandparents’ day.  When I say 7 times 13, you say 91.  Think of it as a rap.  When you see .625, you say 5/8.  Woot.  All seriousness aside, people waste 30 seconds a question in the quant because they don’t know their times tables or squares or the fractional decimal percentage equivalencies.  Or their algebra isn’t smooth and silky.  Think about how much time that uses up during the section.  How do you fix that?  How do you get to Carnegie Hall?  Practice, practice, practice.  That’s a New York joke—LA classes hate it.  You have to want it enough to do the work that you need to do.  That amount varies, person to person.

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We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!
Here is this week’s problem:

In the expression a $ b, the $ symbol represents one of the following arithmetic operations on a and b (in the order the variables are shown): addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Given that it is not true that a $ b = b $ a for all possible values of a and b, a pair of nonzero, non-identical values for a and b is chosen such that a $ b produces the same result, no matter which of the operations (under the given constraints) that $ represents. The nonzero value of b that cannot be chosen, no matter the value of a, is

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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

3/13/13– Online- Free Trial Class– 8:00PM-11:00PM (EST)

3/17/13– Online- Free Trial Class-  7:00AM-10:00PM (EST)

3/14/13– Online- Live Online GMAT Preview– 8:00PM- 9:30PM (EST)

3/11/13– Ann Arbor, MI-  Free Trial Class- 6:30PM-9:30PM

3/11/13– Chicago, IL- Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM
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Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Can You Get Into Harvard’s B-School? (Poets & Quants)

Find out what it takes to get into Harvard Business School”the best MBA program in the world”and how HBS’s average GMAT scores and GPA compare to those of other top b-schools.

2014 Best Graduate Schools Preview: Top 10 Business Schools (U.S. News Education)

U.S. News has plans to release their full list of graduate school rankings on March 12^th but here is a sneak peak of the top 10 highest-ranked business schools.

Business School Chart of the Week: Liberal Arts College Boasts Best GMAT Scores (mbaMission)

MbaMission’s chart of the week shows that test takers who score the highest overall on the GMAT apparently come from a school that does not even offer a business major. Can you guess which college made the top spot?
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Recently, I published an article challenging those going for a 750+ to answer a certain Quant question in 30 seconds. I received a lot of positive feedback about that article—and requests for more of the same.

I’m happy to oblige: here’s a GMATPrep CR problem. The normal timeframe is about 2 minutes—but if you’re going for a 750+, you’d need to be able to answer something like this much more quickly. Read more

We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap paper and start solving!
Here is this week’s problem:

At noon, Adam begins painting a house. Two hours later, Clara begins painting the same house and one hour after that, Wong begins painting the house. Each works without stopping at his or her respective constant rate. In the end, each paints 1/3 of the house. Working together and starting at the same time, Adam and Wong could paint the entire house in half the time it would take Clara to paint the house by herself. How long would it take Adam to paint the house entirely by himself?

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Lately, I’ve been speaking with a few different students who are aiming for a 750+ score—in other words, stratospheric! I’ve tried (and hope I’ve succeeded!) to impress upon these folks that getting such a score involves a lot more than studying the hardest questions.

What’s another crucial component? Finding faster/easier ways to answer questions that you can already answer now.

Why? The questions that you can do right now in the 650 or 700 range will need to turn into very easy-for-you questions in order to hit 750+. It isn’t enough that you can do them now in relatively normal time. You’ll actually need to turn these into I can answer this very quickly without making a mistake so that you can knock these out and have a little bit more time and mental energy to spend on the even-harder questions you’ll need to answer to hit 750+.

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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

3/04/13– Online- Free Trial Class– 9:00PM-12:00AM (EST)

3/10/13– Online- Free Trial Class-  10:00AM-1:00PM (EST)

3/07/13– Online- Thursdays with Ron–  7:00PM-8:30PM (EST)

3/04/13– Durham, NC-  Free Trial Class- 6:30AM-9:30PM

3/10/13– Berkeley, CA- Free Trial Class– 10:00AM-1:00PM

3/05/13– Washington, DC – Free Trial Class – 6:30AM- 9:30PM

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