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I’ve talked to a ton of students recently who were surprised by some detail of test day—and that detail affected their performance. In most of these cases, the “surprising” detail was actually exactly what should … Read More

Originally, I was only planning to do one question from the Meteor Stream passage. But this one is so much fun, I figured why not? Yes, I’m being sarcastic. I don’t think anybody finds this passage “fun.” In … Read More

Last time, we took a look at the Meteor Stream passage from the free set of questions that comes with GMATPrep® (not from the practice CATs). Click the link in the previous sentence and open up that passage in a … Read More

I just read a really fascinating post on the New York Times’ Well blog. We’ve known for a long time that exercise has a whole host of good benefits, including benefits associated with memory. Two recent studies have … Read More

In the past, we’ve done some “one-off” review of parts of RC passages, but this time I’ve got a full one for you. In this article, we’ll look at how to get through this thing (and what to avoid). Next week, … Read More

I totally understand why the test writers want to test meaning on SC – after all, business communication hinges more on meaning than anything else. Nobody’s going to care if you mess up which preposition you use in … Read More

Raise your hand if you love rate and work questions. They’re awesome, right? They tend to be fairly long, and the set-up is pretty complex, plus we get to build a table before we dive into the equations! Oh, wait… … Read More

A certain class of questions tends to have more going on than might be apparent on the surface. (I’m being intentionally vague as to the “certain class” – I’ll tell you what it is after you’ve tried the … Read More

Wait – is that a typo? Maybe I meant “Confucius,” the Chinese teacher and philosopher? I actually do mean confusion. Journalist Annie Murphy Paul recently contributed a post to KQED’s Mind/Shift blog: Why … Read More

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 … Read More

Students ask this all the time – they’ve heard that the scoring penalizes us for getting a lot of questions wrong in a row. That’s true, to some extent – there is something of a “penalty” built in if we get … Read More

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 … Read More

The first time I read the original sentence in the below SC problem, I thought to myself: wait, what? What are you actually trying to say? I knew immediately that this would be a good one to discuss with all of you. … Read More

My title is a little odd there – why the very specific timeframe? Well, we know that business schools aren’t using the Integrated Reasoning (IR) section much (if at all) this first year, for admission in the fall of … Read More