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Verified GMAT Course Reviews: Helping You Choose The Right Course
Hi everyone! I'm David Park, Beat The GMAT's CEO. As some of you may know, Eric and I have been working together closely over the last three years in order [...]
Speed and Accuracy: Divisor Tests
By Guest Author Jordan Schonig For those of you who didn’t know, you can’t use a calculator on the GMAT. The following quick tips well help you figure out what [...]
How to Make Educated Guesses on Quant
I’ve been getting lots of great article ideas from students lately, and this is one of them: how do we make educated guesses on quant problems? (I’ll do a separate [...]
Improve Your Candidacy, Then Improve Your Application
For people applying to major business schools, October, November, and December will inevitably be months filled with typing, spell-checking, typing, editing, typing, proofreading…and then some more typing. But (depending on [...]
Thursdays With Ron: Percent Multipliers
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 [...]
Knewton Brutal Math Challenge - Week 17 (Math Edition)
Joanna's doozy from last week will be a tough act to follow, but I certainly tried... The shirt is in play once again. We have blue and we have white. A [...]
Manhattan GMAT Challenge Problem of the Week – 27 July 2010
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. As always, [...]
Beat The GMAT Challenge Question - July 26, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRtW4JiEN4s[/youtube] Congrats to Valerie for being selected as this week's winner of the BTG Challenge Question! Valerie answered this week's math problem correctly and she will receive complementary access to Beat [...]
10 Do's and Don'ts for Writing Your Resume – Part 2: The Don'ts
Last week we offered 9 Do's for Writing Your Resume . Let's get right to business now talking about the 10 'Don'ts.' The Don'ts: First and foremost, [...]
Re-Taking the GMAT: The Definition of Insanity
Chances are that in life, there are always some things you would change if you had them to do over again. Maybe you would have chosen a different route to [...]
The “Best of Beat The GMAT / ManhattanGMAT”: Resources for Those Just Starting Out
It’s summer again and many students have recently begun or are just beginning to study for the GMAT. This article contains advice about how to set up your study plan [...]
Manhattan GMAT Challenge Problem of the Week – 19 July 2010
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. As always, [...]
9 Do's and Don'ts for Writing Your Resume – Part 1: The Do's
While some potential employers or b-school adcoms may spend a few minutes looking at your resume, the vast majority will spend less than that. You may conclude from that that [...]
Kaplan GMAT Premium Online Course Debrief 4 – Komal
The following is a guest post by Komal , one of the five Giant GMAT Giveaway winners for Beat The GMAT. For her prize, Komal chose the Kaplan GMAT Premium [...]
Thursdays With Ron: Sequences and Sequence Notation
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 [...]
GMAC Wants To Pay You $50,000
GMAC is on a roll these days with the big announcements. Three weeks ago, it reveals that it's adding a new section to the GMAT in 2012 called Integrated Reasoning [...]
The Return of Brutal - Week 15 Knewton Challenge (Math)
We were missed last week. Earn your shirt this week. In the fall semester, Mr. Rodriguez's, Ms. Vangala's, and Mr. Hollander's classrooms all have the same number of students and [...]
New Details on the GRE: What It Means for GMAT Takers
By guest author Lee Weiss Students considering taking the new GRE, coming in August 2011, can finally try their hand at the revised test. While we’ve known about the pending [...]
The New GMAT: What Does It Mean For Me?
By now, you’ve all heard about the detail recently released by GMAC concerning some changes that will be made to the GMAT in June 2012. (GMAC first announced a year [...]
Manhattan GMAT Challenge Problem of the Week – 12 July 2010
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. As always, [...]
How to Explain Your Frequent Job Switching Habit
You've got a strong transcript, a solid GPA, and you aced the GMAT. You know you're a strong candidate for pretty much any top MBA program. There's just one thing [...]
Admissions Tip: Crafting Strong Essays – The Rewards of Reflection
With several of the leading schools having already released their essay questions for this admissions season, we’re sure that quite a number of early birds are eager to get a [...]
Manhattan GMAT Challenge Problem of the Week – 8 July 2010
Here is a new Challenge Problem! If you want to win prizes for answering our Challenge Problems, try entering our Challenge Problem Showdown . The more people enter our challenge, [...]
Live Feed: The Achieve Your Dreams Conference
Beat The GMAT is live-streaming its first business school conference from 8:45 AM to 3:00 PM PST today! Click here to see the agenda of presentations and be sure to [...]
How To Find The Point in an RC Passage
Last week, a Beat The GMAT student asked me to write an article on finding “The Point” in a reading comprehension passage – specifically, what is The Point and how [...]