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, [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75HQhFpYbmA[/youtube] Congrats to Gurpreet Singh for being selected as this week’s winner of the Beat The GMAT Challenge Question.  Gurpreet will receive Premium Access to Beat The GMAT Practice Question as [...]

Last week we discussed who falls into the "older applicant" category and mentioned the three common concerns adcoms have when considering a more experienced applicant's candidacy. Today we're going to [...]

Anyone who’s familiar with the MBA application process knows that August moves forward at an accelerated pace, and come September, entire weeks seem to disappear.  To help this year’s Round [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

By Guest Author, Jordan Schonig. Jordan is a GMAT expert for Grockit. The Sentence Correction portion of the GMAT includes two closely-related but rather opposite grammar errors: fragments and run-on [...]

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 [...]

Get those explanation-muscles ready, because this week's Brutal Math Question is not messing around. No shirts this week (they'll be back soon!), but the pride in explaining the right answer [...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZuU9WcYM0[/youtube] On Friday August 20, famed Beat The GMAT member Dana Jinaru ( DanaJ ) held a live workshop on tackling one of the toughest problems on the GMAT, Reading [...]

At this point in your life and career, you're going to have to make a strong case for pursuing an MBA, and not an EMBA. It's simply assumed that men [...]

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 [...]

A few weeks ago, we talked about how to make educated guesses on quant (you can click here for that article). This week’s article covers educated guessing in verbal. What [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eCjZuOi4RQ[/youtube] Congrats to randomchick for being selected as this week's winner of the Beat The GMAT Challenge Question.  randomchick will receive Premium Access to Beat The GMAT Practice Question as a [...]

By Guest Author, Jordan Schonig. Jordan is a GMAT expert for Grockit. On the GMAT sentence corrections, an “idiom” is a recognized grammatical construction that is a rule simply because [...]

As many of our readers know, it has become increasingly common for younger individuals to apply to MBA programs.  Whereas the average age and years of work experience at the leading [...]

By Guest Author, Jordan Schonig. Jordan is a GMAT instructor for Grockit. The Sentence Correction portion of the GMAT Verbal tests grammar and mechanics. About 15 of the 41 Verbal [...]

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, [...]

Written by Joanna Bersin. Step right up! This SC question is as brutal as ever. No shirt this week, but the thrill of the first correct explanation is very much [...]

Business schools pride themselves on training future leaders, not just educating a bunch of people who know how to calculate an Internal Rate of Return and overuse the word “leverage.”  [...]

We all know not to divide by zero. The reasons for it are pretty straightforward, and for most GMAT students remembering not to divide by zero when solving equations is [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBnORYlv3RM[/youtube] Quick, what is the value of [pmath]25^2[/pmath]? What about of [pmath]45^2[/pmath] or [pmath]75^2[/pmath]? Can you evaluate these in your head? In under 5 seconds?  In this short video, we’ll examine a [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs2jnDSBvlg[/youtube] Congrats to Jason for being selected as this week’s winner of the BTG Challenge Question!  Jason will receive a Beat The GMAT t-shirt as a prize. Above you will find [...]

This week we have yet another topic suggested by a student (keep the requests coming!), who recently asked me about various issues with pronoun case. I’m going to address the [...]

The problem: You are an excellent candidate for top b-school X, but so are hundreds of other applicants, many of whom possess similar on-paper qualifications. The solution : Learn how [...]