Articles published in April 2018

Big GMAT Skills: Seeing Possibilities Under Constraints

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Big GMAT Skills: Seeing Possibilities Under Constraints by Reed Arnold

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In our previous articles, we’ve talked about two big GMAT skills: reading specifically and stripping away your biases. Now we talk about another behemoth: being aware of possibility. Read more

Mission Admission: Why the MBA Interview is Not a Quiz Show, and What Makes a Good Thank You Note

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Mission Admission: Why the MBA Interview is Not a Quiz Show, and What Makes a Good Thank You Note by mbaMission

Mission Admission is a series of MBA admission tips from our exclusive admissions consulting partner, mbaMission.


This time of year, many business school candidates receive invitations to interview with their target MBA programs. Many of these applicants inevitably fret and ask themselves, “What if I don’t know the answers to my interviewer’s questions?” The good news is that, as the title of this blog post states, a business school interview bears no resemblance to a TV quiz show. The admissions officer, alumnus/alumna, or student interviewing you will not ask you about esoteric topics and will not expect you to answer questions pertaining to business management. The vast majority of the questions you will encounter in your MBA interview will pertain to your life and experiences—in other words, the interviewer will be asking you about you—so you will already have all the answers in hand from the beginning. Read more

GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence (Part 6)

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence (Part 6) by Stacey Koprince

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Harder GMAT Sentence Correction questions often have longer underlines and “jumble up” the answer choices. That is, the answers change so significantly that it’s difficult to figure out what’s different about each one—and, therefore, it’s difficult to figure out where to start or how to eliminate wrong answers efficiently. When this happens, what do you do? Read more

Big News: The GMAT Is Getting Shorter

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Big News: The GMAT is Getting Shorter by Stacey Koprince

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Exciting news on the GMAT front: Beginning April 16th, the exam will be more than 20 minutes shorter! The scoring will stay exactly the same and the test will still contain all of the usual question types and content areas.
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