How to Review GMAT Practice Questions
I got a really interesting question from one of my students this week: “What do you look for in our GMAT review logs?”
How to Enjoy Taking the GMAT
I know this is a totally unnecessary article, since I’m sure you enjoy taking the GMAT very much already. But do keep reading: at the very least, you’ll have a new way of explaining to your friends why you’re spending all your weeknights curled up with a gently used copy of the test’s Official Guide.
GMAT Quant Tips: Mental Math – Part 2
In my last blog post, I had a chat with my dad, a math teacher, about the importance of mental math. Today, I want to get more specific: I want to give you some things to memorize before you take the GMAT or GRE, along with a few tips about how to practice memorizing them.
GMAT Quant Tips: Mental Math
If your goal is to take some time pressure off of the quantitative section of the GMAT, you should ask yourself: what are the skills I will need over and over during that section, and what are the skills I will only need once or twice? Too often I see my own students spending hours to get incrementally faster at, for example, weighted averages; that’s an area where understanding the basic concept is probably sufficient. Instead, invest the most time in the thing you’ll be doing the most often: calculation!
How to Succeed in Business School
Your business school wants you to have a successful career. There’s one cynical reason and one neutral reason why: the cynical one is that if you do have a successful career, you will tell everyone you know that you went to, say, the Rady School of Management, and then those people will then want to send their application fees, and ultimately their tuition checks, to said institution, and if you have a really successful career, you may even get in touch with your philanthropic side and get a building named after you at your alma mater. The neutral one is that business schools exist to help you grow the national economy, and your success is the school’s (and ultimately the nation’s) success. Whatever your personal outlook is on the matter, your business school does want you to succeed, and knowing that can help you in a few ways.
GMAT Data Sufficiency: Get 5 Extra Minutes
What if I told you that you could have five extra minutes on the quantitative section of the GMAT? Would you be interested?
Good, because this is going to get a little technical. I’m also going to assume you’ve had some experience with Data Sufficiency problems on the GMAT Math section. You should also have practiced testing cases to solve these problems: here’s a good introduction to that strategy in case you’re unfamiliar.
Is the MBA worth it? Go Beyond ROI
This is likely not the first article you’ve read regarding the return on investment, or “ROI,” of an MBA degree, so I won’t spend too much time rehashing what you likely already know: your goal is to ensure that the money you get out of the degree in the form of a salary increase exceeds the money you put into the degree in the form of tuition and lost wages. You can get as detailed as you like with the accounting here – interest, textbook fees, etc. – but ultimately, the concept of positive ROI can be expressed using a simple inequality: money in < money out. However, there is one scenario in which your ROI is positive, and yet you should still not choose to go back to business school. That’s the scenario I want to tell you about here.
GMAT Data Sufficiency Arbitrage!
Fair warning: unless you’re the kind of game-theory geek who watches a football game with your buddies and contributes comments like “the expected value from the Jaguars kicking a field goal was way higher than the expected value from their decision to try to convert fourth down—what were they thinking?!”, you might not enjoy this article very much. Also, if you haven’t studied a lot of GMAT Data Sufficiency, you won’t get much out of what I’m going to say. But if you’re still here, I have a fun (well, fun-ish) way to save you a little time on GMAT Data Sufficiency. Read more
GMAT Myths, Debunked by the Data Hammer
I want to debunk a few common GMAT myths about timing and scoring on the test. I’m going to try to do it in the best way that I, as a graduate of an MBA program, know how: with the help of Microsoft Excel!* Read more
Executive Reasoning on the GMAT
Pop quiz: The GMAT is a test of __________ (fill in the blank). Read more