We’ve received grades all our lives. In fact, we’re so used to them that we often don’t think very much about what they mean, or how they are calculated. So today we’re [...]

We have a guest-author this week: Chris Ryan, Manhattan GMAT's intrepid Director of Instructor and Product Development. If you've used any Manhattan GMAT material in your prep, Chris is the [...]

I was very saddened to hear the news of Stanley Kaplan’s passing this week. I met Stanley not long after I started working for Kaplan, in 1991. It is fair [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBnXwk4iqvM[/youtube] A 2-minute video lesson on angles inscribed within a circle with Knewton teacher Cole Entress. [...]

The Scoring Basics Your overall score out of 800 results from your performances in quant and verbal, each of which is first scored independently on a scale of 0-60*.  These [...]

This is the first in a series of common student questions that I'll be answering here on BTG. This is one we hear a lot -- I just had a [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58it-wftb0s[/youtube] Each week, Knewton will share a concept video focusing on a skill fundamental to the GMAT.  This week, Knewton Director of Curriculum Brad McIlquham shares an objective perspective of authorial [...]

Periodically, I'm going to pull up a particular problem that was discussed on the forums and share the discussion and solution here. I ran across this (old!) post recently but [...]

Many of our instructors have MBAs and we asked them what they wish they had known before they started b-school themselves. Below is a "top 5" list of their recommendations [...]

Welcome, Beat The GMAT community, to the new website!  As you might have noticed Beat The GMAT has undergone a major site transformation as of today.  Up until yesterday, we [...]