Nearly every interview, whether it’s a job interview or a school admissions interview, has the following (loose) tripartite structure: Step 1. Someone says, “Hi, you must be [NAME]. Thanks for [...]

Welcome back to this week's Challenge Problem! As always, the problem and solution below were written by one of our fantastic instructors . Each challenge problem represents a 700+ level [...]

The following is a guest post by Ajith , one of the five Giant GMAT Giveaway winners for Beat The GMAT.  For his prize, Ajith chose Veritas Prep’s Complete Course [...]

For those who like their math served brutally. Playing again for the shirt . Show your work. The "u-number" of a number x is defined as the ones digit of [...]

by Bob Verini, 30-year Kaplan veteran teacher, trainer, and curriculum developer Of all of the changes to the GRE, the one that excites most students is the addition of an [...]

Dinged at your top choice MBA program? Considering reapplying next year? If your target schools offer feedback sessions, then you should definitely take the opportunity to hear from an admissions [...]

Because it’s the time of year when applicants aiming for Fall 2010 intake are beginning to think about the admissions process, we wanted to focus today on one element of [...]

by Bob Verini, 30-year Kaplan veteran teacher, trainer, and curriculum developer When the new GRE is unveiled in 2011, the Quantitative Reasoning section will look awfully familiar to longtime test [...]

Recently, a Beat The GMAT member asked me to write an article on the reading part of reading comprehension – specifically, what are we supposed to do and look for [...]

Welcome back to this week's Challenge Problem! As always, the problem and solution below were written by one of our fantastic instructors . Each challenge problem represents a 700+ level [...]

Joanna Bersin is a Content Developer @ Knewton, where she helps students home in on their GMAT sentence completion . Prepositions and conjunctions are little words that can have quite [...]

Today we wanted to offer some general comments about the role of academics in the admissions process. Many candidates considering business school focus on the credentials they will hold and [...]

We have new shirts! Check them out on our Tumblr page . Be the first person to answer correctly with shown work, and the shirt shall be yours. To own. [...]

If you'd like to start editing your essays like the pros do (or at least like the pros at Accepted.com do), then I recommend you adopt a process I call [...]

The Beat The GMAT team is pleased to introduce a new contributing writer, beatvit !  beatvit is a BTG community member who is currently enrolled in George Washington University's Part-Time [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zDDgUs70k[/youtube] You probably learned this at some point. You probably forgot this at some point. Definitely good to know on test day. [...]

Welcome back to this week's Challenge Problem! As always, the problem and solution below were written by one of our fantastic instructors . Each challenge problem represents a 700+ level [...]

I’m very excited to announce the launch of two new features on Beat The GMAT’s website, built by some of our own community members: The Beat The GMAT Blog Network [...]

Recently, a Beat The GMAT member asked me to write an article addressing what it takes to score in the 99 th percentile. I have some reservations about writing such [...]

What size shirt do you wear? Actually, we don't care unless you win. First person who answers correctly with shown work wins. In the figure below, rectangles CABD and PMNQ are [...]

The following is a guest post by Andre, a current MBA student and a blogger for The Dirt . Andre is writing a series for Beat The GMAT to share [...]

Guest author Bob Verini is a 30-year Kaplan veteran teacher, trainer, and curriculum developer. In addition to the reading comprehension changes, which we discussed last time, the 2011 GRE exam [...]

For those of who are planning to apply to business school this fall, we wanted to offer a few tips on managing your time as it relates to the GMAT [...]

Guest Author Bob Verini is a 30-year Kaplan veteran teacher, trainer, and curriculum developer While the GRE’s overall content breakdown will remain the same for the 2011 test change – [...]

Nate Burke is a Content Developer @ Knewton, where he helps students with their GMAT prep . Suppose you're midway through your GMAT quant section, and you encounter the following [...]