When a student enters Grockit, he or she plays a game that provides a complete diagnostic analysis on the student’s strengths and weaknesses. Grockit then adapts to each individual, feeding questions and study material that optimize a student’s study time. Students can review their completed games with detailed explanations, strengthen their skills by understanding the questions they got wrong and confirm that they understood the questions they got right.
Grockit students also practice with peers in live games and study groups. Peers serve as a primary learning resource and knowledge is reinforced when students teach each other what they know. Studying with peers is highly engaging and makes learning fun and effective.
Students also have access to experts on a range of topics where shared knowledge allows people to hone the areas where they need improvement.
Students meet other students and learn via games. When test prep is fun, students spend more time doing it. Grockit creates a sense of community. As students progress they collect badges, points and rewards for both learning and teaching, and are ranked on the leaderboard.
Students have full view into teachers’ scores and strengths and weaknesses, allowing them to select exactly the expert who are the best fit for their needs.
Almost every top business school embraces the concept of the study group. The study group is simultaneously one of the more frustrating and beneficial aspects of business. This theme runs throughout the entire business school process, even beginning with your application.
The summer internship is a big part in switching. Not only will you be able to decide if this is in fact an industry you would like to be in, it is a long-term job interview. If you like the job and you do well it in, your second year of business school could be a breeze if they make you an offer. If you find out that you love it but they don’t love you, then at least you are part of the way home and now have good experience. If you find out not only do they not want you, but you don’t want them, then you have a lot of work in front of you.
There are two types of interest problems on the GMAT, and they include simple interest and compound interest. Simple interest is the most basic and is a function of P, the principle amount of money invested, the interest rate earned on the principle, i, and the amount of time the money is invested, t (this is usually stated in periods, such as years or months). The resulting equation is:
The internship. After a couple months of developing a solid network of industry alums, recruiting season will kick off. If you are going for the big three banking, consulting or CPG this will be a very structured process and take place in January to February generally.
Everyone has their own strategies for these tests, but to me the GMAT quantitative test came down to two main components, i) knowing the underlying math and ii) question identification.
If you don’t know what NPV stands for you will quickly learn in the first quarter of business school. For those who cannot wait, it is the Net Present Value (“NPV”) of an investment. That is to say, it takes all of the cash flow generated from an action (buying property, expanding your business, etc), both positive and negative, and sums them in inflation/interest adjusted current terms.
The spouse or significant other that gets dragged along into the business school experience and is quickly labeled a “Sig-O” will share in a lot of the difficulties of school with limited access to the upside. There are a couple steps one can take to alleviate some of this transitional friction.
Networking seems a bit fake for most people, but if you approach it from the right angle it can make the difference in your entire career path. You will be paying a hefty price for two years of education that you could realistically get from a library card and some initiative. But what you are really paying for is to be part of a community that will be very successful and very helpful to each other in the years to come.
In part three of this series, we discussed what to expect during your first semester of classes, a bit about the summer internship recruiting process and also the importance of company presentations and networking with alumni. The journey continues…
In part two of this series, we discussed the thrills of finding roommates and driving across country for relocation, the adventures and the excitement of orientation, as well as what to expect during the final two weeks before classes actually start. The journey continues…
