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

4/23/13– Arlington, VA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/23/13– Santa Monica, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/23/13– New York, NY- MBA Admissions Myths Destroyed presented by mbaMission– 7:30PM-9:00PM

4/23/13– San Antonio, TX – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM-9:30PM

4/24/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/24/13– New York, NY – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– London  – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– Chicago, IL – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/25/13– Online – Free Trial Class- 8:00PM- 11:00PM (EDT)

4/28/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class- 5:30PM- 8:30PM

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

4/15/13– Silicon Valley, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/15/13– Bellevue, WA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/15/13– Austin, TX – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM-9:30PM

4/16/13– Irvine, CA – Free Trial Class-  6:30PM-9:30PM

4/16/13– Online- Free Trial Class- 9:00PM- 12:00AM (EDT)

4/16/13– Toronto, ON – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Boston, MA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Glendale, CZ – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/17/13– Washington, DC – 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:

10 B-Schools Where Full-Time Students Have the Highest GMAT Scores (U.S. News Education)

This week U.S. News shares its short list of the top business schools where full-time students average the highest GMAT scores.

The Exorbitant Cost of An MBA Has to Go Down (Business Insider)

According to NYU Stern School of Business professor Larry Zicklin, the days when getting an MBA costs well north of $100,000 are coming to an end.

U.S. Business Schools See Slower Growth From Foreign Applicants (Bloomberg)

According to Bloomberg News, international applications to U.S. graduate business programs are taking an unexpected plunge in the number of potential candidates from China.

Old-School Business Practices Worth Bringing Back (Harvard Business Review)

Harvard Business Review shares four elements of mid-twentieth-century business  culture that may be worth preserving.

Did we miss your favorite article from the week? Let us know what you have been reading in the comments below or tweet @ManhattanGMAT

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

4/8/13– San Francisco, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/8/13– Online- Assessing Your MBA Profile presented by mbaMission– 12:00PM- 1:30PM

4/8/13– Santa Monica– Free Trial Class- 6:30PM-9:30AM

4/8/13– Online– Free Trial Class- 8:00PM- 11:00PM (EDT)

4/9/13– Salt Lake City, UT- Free Trial Class– 6:30PM-9:30PM

4/9/13– Chicago, IL – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/9/13– San Diego, CA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/10/13– Phoenix, AZ – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/10/13– Bellaire, TX – Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/10/13– Ann Arbor, MI – 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:

Who’s Smarter? Law or Biz Students? (Poets & Quants)

Poets & Quants explores the provocative and tongue-in-check question of whether business students are smarter than law students or vice versa.

Business School Tuition: An Overview of Business School Tuition Costs (About.com Business School)

While the cost of business school is notoriously expensive, it is important to remember that there are many different ways to lower and pay your business school tuition.

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? An Inside Perspective From an MBA Entrepreneur (Forbes)

An entrepreneur interested in startups shares how the majority of successful entrepreneurs and investors that she admires hold an MBA.
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Here are the free GMAT events we’re holding this week. All times are local unless otherwise specified.

4/2/13– Boston, MA – Free Trial Class – 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/3/13– New York, NY- Choosing the Right B-School presented by mbaMission– 7:00PM- 8:30PM

4/3/13– Online- Free Trial Class- 9:00PM-12:00AM (EDT)

4/3/13– Evanston, IL- Free Trial Class- 6:30PM- 9:30PM

4/4/13– Online- Thursdays with Ron– 7:00PM-8:30PM (EDT)

4/7/13– San Antonio, TX – Free Trial Class – 5:30PM- 8:30PM

4/7/13– Online – Free Trial Class – 5:30PM- 8:30PM (EDT)

4/3/13– London – Free Trial Class- 2:00PM- 5:00PM

Looking for more free events? Check out our Free Events Listings Page.

The new release of GMATPrep, version 2.2, is a significant upgrade!

The biggest improvement is that the software now allows you to review previous practice problems and tests. I was excited when I saw this feature listed in the README and I was thrilled when I found that I could actually review the practice problems and the tests that I took last year! Thank you, GMAC! This is enormously helpful for test takers.

The default for both practice problem sets is now to do what most people want to do, which is to save the test for later review, and the new user interface makes it very hard to accidently delete a practice test. You have to press a test ˜reset’ button and then go through a dialog to reset your tests, another big improvement.

I was also delighted to see that in the practice utility, the Reading Comprehension problems are now grouped correctly. In the previous versions of GMAT Prep, each RC practice problem included an entirely new passage, unlike the real test, where of course each passage has 3 or 4 associated questions. This is another significant improvement and makes the practice utility more helpful for people who are working on RC or who want to do mixed verbal sets. Since this new feature works correctly with mixed drills as well, you can now use GMATPrep to specify realistic verbal mixed sets, with SC, CR, and RC problems, as well as realistic quant mixed sets of PS and DS problems.

Although the two practice tests still seem to have only one IR section, an IR percentile ranking is now computed, which is helpful.

There are is also some new timing analysis available in practice sets, along with some at least moderately useful progress tracking graphs for examining progress on practice sets.

And speaking of time, you can now pause a practice exam or question session. Although you really shouldn’t do this if you want a realistic practice experience, sometimes it is helpful, such as when you are writing a review of the software and need to test features and then write about them. J

GMAC must be thinking more about customer support because you can now generate system information at the click of button, which makes things much easier if you ever need to call of email GMAC about a software problem.

And finally, if you are a test taker with a GMAC approved timing accommodation, you can ask for a special code that you enter that will allow you to take practice tests with the appropriate amount of extra time.

All in all, very well done GMAC! I noticed a couple of weird little bugs that I’ve listed below, but they are minor compared to the improvements and have easy workarounds, which I’ve described.

Weird Little Bugs:

• You have to enter your mba.com account name and password when you first launch GMATPREP and if you are logged in to mba.com when you try this, you will get an unhelpful unknown error message. If you see this message, just log out of mba.com’s website and try starting GMAT Prep again.

• When you solve an IR table question, the ˜submit’ button will be grayed out until you click on sort by a column “ even if you have filled in all of the answers “ so just remember to click on something to sort by if you didn’t actually have to sort (and usually you will have to) to answer the question.

Catch up on some business school news and tips with a few of this week’s top stories:

Where Six-Figure MBA Pay is a Done Deal (Poets & Quants)

According to John Byrne at Poets & Quants, there are 39 business schools in the U.S. alone whose graduates make six-figure salaries and bonuses right out of the gate.

Striking Out: Five Ways MBA Applicants Go Wrong (Bloomber Businessweek Business Schools)

What happens if you don’t receive an acceptance letter from anywhere? Here are five common pitfalls that applicants experience in the application process.
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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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