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By Roy Nissan-Cohen, GMAT instructor Any teacher who has prepared students for the GMAT, SAT, or any other standardized test, will recognize the following typical student exclamation: “It’s looks so easy when you … Read More

By Geva Stern, GMAT Instructor Extraordinaire Today we’ll be looking at a difficult GMATPrep problem solving question, but more importantly, we’ll use the example to try and discuss what goes on in the mind of a … Read More

By Ilana Goldberg, (Phd), Master Verbal instructor. Human beings are originally predators, and this is why our eyes are in front. While our peripheral vision is fuzzy, binocular vision allows us to focus more easily on … Read More

Some of the most difficult quant questions on the GMAT are the ones that use the fewest formulas. One such category of problems involve even/odd integer arithmetic. Although they involve few calculations, they can … Read More

A multiple choice question is only as good as its best distractor. High quality distractors are incorrect answer choices that allow the test to discriminate between students who are reasonably competent to those who are … Read More

Try your hand at answering this simple question: Given that a < 5, and b – a = 0, which of the following must be true about b? A) b = 5 B) b ≥ 5 C) b ≤ 5 D) b < 4 E) b > 5 Did you pick answer … Read More

“How does it feel,” sang Bob Dylan, “to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”1 (Bob Dylan/1965). Have you ever noticed that songwriters use a lot … Read More

“If I had studied more, I would have definitely reached my dream score.” In what situation would you expect somebody to utter this sentence? A frustrated test-taker who failed to reach his/her goals? A … Read More

Is it okay to compare apples and oranges? Your primary school teacher probably told you that it was not okay, and he or she was referring to the impossibility of arithmetically adding 3 apples in one basket to 4 oranges … Read More

How many of you took the title for granted and assumed it was correct, grammatically?  If you noticed an error then good on you!  The title includes an incorrect conditional structure. The correct sentence should be as … Read More

If, in the world of Sentence Correction, grammar and style are the Law, then questions solvers are Law Enforcement, policing the district, in search of violations. Every police precinct has two kinds of police officers … Read More

Today’s post is the third in a series of articles pertaining to the problem of ‘logic over content’ or, in other words, the importance of focusing on logic rather than on the in-depth meaning of the … Read More

It would not be risky to wager that most folks who are intent on improving their performance in Reading Comprehension focus only on tackling the passage itself, and on improving their ability to better understand it. … Read More

Has anything in the title of today’s post drawn your attention? Does it seem correct? As you have probably noticed, the mistake I am alluding to is the incorrect use of the plural verb form ‘are’ after … Read More