Beyond expressing failures and weaknesses, business school application essays are an outlet to provide explanations for parts of your background that may require clarification. You will have to decide which [...]

This week, we’re going to tackle a harder GMATPrep® problem solving question from the topic of Coordinate Planes (a subset of Geometry). Let’s start with the problem. Set your timer for [...]

If you are applying to a competitive MBA program, you will have the opportunity (or, as some may see it, the dreaded task) of writing about a noteworthy achievement. Not only that, [...]

We’ve been offering a good deal of advice lately on how to conduct oneself and prepare responses to MBA interview questions.  Today we’d like to highlight the importance of thinking [...]

In preparation for the Sentence Correction portion of the GMAT, let's go over a great question asked by one our students, Mike, about an especially deceptive GMATPrep® SC problem. Mike’s [...]

Regrettably, only approximately 15% of all applicants will receive positive news from the admissions offices of the most competitive business schools. If as a candidate you are very selective and [...]

In light of recent Class of 2010 job placement information, is now the best time to apply? Find out more about MBA job prospects and other business school trends in [...]

Every other Thursday, our instructor Ron Purewal (known on the Beat the GMAT forums as lunarpower ) hosts a free study hall session, called Thursdays with Ron , where anyone [...]

With interview invitations already on their way out to Round One applicants, we wanted to offer some more advice on this element of the admissions process. Today, we turn our [...]

There’s nothing more frustrating than preparing thoroughly for the GMAT Critical Reasoning section -- poring over hundreds of complex arguments, wrapping your head around triple negations, learning to spot an [...]

Here is a new Challenge Problem! If you want to win prizes, try entering our Challenge Problem Showdown . The more people enter our challenge, the better the prizes. Question [...]

This week, people in the US will be celebrating my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving .  Below, you can see a quick video I made that explains what I'm most thankful for [...]

People have been buzzing about the sample test questions released recently by GMAC. These questions are “under consideration” for inclusion in the Next Generation GMAT, which will launch on June [...]

This week, we’re going to tackle a harder GMATPrep® reading comprehension question from the Specific Detail category Let’s start with the problem. I’m going to give you the relevant paragraph from [...]

After you have decided to apply to an MBA program, you will be asked a lot of questions regarding why you made your decision. You should have several strong answers [...]

January deadlines may seem far away, but if you're applying to b-school this year, now's the time to start pulling together those applications!  Check out this week's roundup for the [...]

Guest Post by Way Lum from ZoomInterviews. Learn more about ZoomInterviews by clicking here . Of the U.S. News top 10 ranked full-time MBA programs for 2010, an estimated 6% [...]

We get a lot of interesting questions from Knewton students about GMATPrep® problems. Today, we'll take a look at a particularly tricky Sentence Correction question dealing with comparisons, modifiers, and [...]

There are a lot of MBA aficionados roaming the Knewton office, so we recently sat down with  David Liu , our Chief Operating Officer and a Columbia Business School grad, [...]

With interview invites going out for Round One applicants, we wanted to turn our attention to this important step in the admissions process and share a few very basic pointers [...]

Earlier this month, Beat The GMAT launched a new-and-improved version of its Beat The GMAT Practice Questions product. As part of this release, you can now access these GMAT practice [...]

Here is a new Challenge Problem! If you want to win prizes, try entering our Challenge Problem Showdown . The more people enter our challenge, the better the prizes. Question [...]

Roughly two months to go until the deadlines of early January – the deadlines you don’t want to miss if you can help it. So what should you be doing [...]

As many of you know, last month Beat The GMAT hosted a campaign to distribute $100,000 in GMAT/MBA courses and services .  In the five weeks of this campaign, we [...]

This week, we’re going to tackle a harder GMATPrep® problem solving question from the topic of Exponential Equations (a subset of Algebra). Let’s start with the problem. Set your timer for [...]