Clients of mine often ask what the most important part of their business school application is. Is it their GMAT score, undergraduate transcript, essays, interview, letters of recommendations, or something [...]

We're making sections of Grockit's GMAT Course available to stream online for free! The course is taught by Grockit Founder Farb Nivi and covers the entire GMAT curriculum in 16 [...]

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 article is part of a 10-part series where I will be highlighting the most popular GMAT debriefings of 2010 from the Beat The GMAT community, in countdown fashion. The ninth [...]

Wow, does anyone else feel like 2010 went by in a blink of an eye? Congrats to all of you in the Beat The GMAT community who were able to finish [...]

With December now upon us, round two deadlines for a number of programs are just around the corner. As most applicants are targeting multiple schools and still working to narrow [...]

If you receive a waitlist notice, you will most likely not know how to feel. It is not an acceptance and yet you have not been rejected. The first thing [...]

I'm excited to share another segment of the Beat The GMAT Exit Interview Series; an initiative where I interview Beat The GMAT members who have been successfully admitted to business [...]

Admissions season is upon us and we’re getting more questions from students who don’t hate their scores but are wondering whether to try the test again in hopes of boosting [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLPq4AcH-bc[/youtube] Get ready for a GMAT adventure! Just hit play, choose your question (and teacher!) and see if you can click your way to the right answer. You'll get a fun bonus video [...]

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 [...]

Essay content you’ve polished for one school often serves as a great starting point for the next application, but as we’ve often said, customizing this text for the school in [...]

Schools fall into three broad categories in terms of how they handle their waitlisted applicants. Since schools change policies and may fit into different categories in different years, it is [...]

More and more business schools are revamping their curricula -- not only to remain competitive with one other, but also to ensure that their students are developing the skills necessary [...]

After you have identified potential recommenders, focus on spending quality time with these individuals. You should potentially even re-establish ties with someone from a previous company or an old college [...]

Guest Post by Way Lum from ZoomInterviews. Learn more about ZoomInterviews by clicking here . There is something about a powerful brand that is inherently alluring for the consumer.  Coca-Cola, [...]

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 [...]

Please take this article with a grain of salt, since I am the founder of a website tailored toward GMAT prep.  But last week, The Financial Times reported on a [...]

Yesterday , we presented you with a super-tough GMAT Critical Reasoning challenge question. Check out this video to see how you did! The full question is after the jump. [...]

A student taking the test soon has requested an article on Absolute Value, so that’s what we’re going to tackle this week; the problem is from GMATPrep®. Let’s start with the [...]

Welcome to another installment of Knewton's Brutal Verbal Challenge! This week, try your hand at a tough Critical Reasoning question that a whopping 67.6% of students get wrong. Share your answers, [...]

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 [...]

We wanted to take some time today to discuss a frequently-made mistake in the application process. In their desire to make their case to their target MBA programs, many applicants [...]

Unfortunately, the business school interview can be the most unpredictable part of the MBA application process. Although it is important to prepare for this interview, it is essentially impossible to [...]

As you narrow your business school search, it's important to do your research in a well-rounded manner. B-school stats are important, but you should also check out more qualitative sources [...]