The GMAT imposes significant time pressure on test-takers: anyone who has taken a practice GMAT can attest to how difficult it can be to finish one or more of the sections on time. But most people are unaware of just how significant the penalty is for not...
This article is a companion to our original guide, Your Guide to Success on the GRE Essay (Analytical Writing Section). That piece walks you through the strategy, structure, and mindset you need to succeed on the GRE Analytical Writing task. Here, we follow...
The ability to learn, to really understand how to acquire a skill or set of skills, is one of the keys to a successful and happy life. In some sense, the ability to learn is what intelligence really is! Think about artificial intelligence and how the most...
This is a no-nonsense guide to doing well on the GRE Essay (Analytical Writing) Section. By “doing well”, a 4.5 generally suffices, even for the best programs, but of course the higher the better. Scoring on the GRE Essay The Essay is scored from 0.0 - 6.0,...
At Reason Test Prep, we enjoy helping ambitious people clear the testing hurdle for admission into elite MBA programs. Now that business schools accept the GRE alongside the GMAT, applicants often wonder: Which exam should I take? We find that many of our...
We recently released an article that covers similar ground but for the GRE. If you’ve already read that article, just note that most of what we say in the introduction and in the section about “establishing the right mindset” is very similar. There are 2...
As we’ve discussed in other articles, there are 2 levels at which one can address time management issues on the GRE: at an individual question-level (getting faster at individual questions) and at a “global” or section-level (getting better at managing your...
So many people suffer from timing woes on the GMAT and GRE. Literally, almost everyone we tutor needs some help in this domain, often a lot of it! In fact, for some people it is the ONLY thing keeping them from a high score. So if you are struggling with...
Poor time management is a problem for many, perhaps even most, test takers on the GMAT and GRE. There are 2 main ways to deal with such difficulties. One is to get better/faster at approaching individual questions. This is obviously important and something...
When the GMAT released its shortened “Focus Edition” of the GMAT in 2023, the AWA (Analytical Writing Assessment) had been removed from the test, presumably because business schools indicated that they did not value the essay portion of the exam. Indeed, for...
First of all, you need to understand that the GMAT and GRE are tests of quantitative and verbal reasoning, not content knowledge, and that your emphasis should not be on learning every last bit of content knowledge presented in these courses.
Introduction When we tutor students for the GMAT and GRE here at Reason Test Prep, we seek to maximize the progress that they make outside of the tutoring sessions. What follows is a distillation of the advice that we give our students in this regard. While...
Many GMAT test takers are seeing relatively low scores on their official practice tests, so we’d like to address a couple of issues that most people are unaware of to help set people’s minds at ease. If you’ve gotten some disappointing scores on mock exams,...
The Data Insights section of the GMAT Focus imposes such significant time constraints that test takers must find ways to make up time, but most of the question types present so much information to be processed that it can be very difficult to find ways to...
The following is a guest post by MBA Admissions Consultant, Masaki: The Smart MBA Application Timeline The Unfortunate (all-too-common) MBA Application Timeline There is a lot more to putting together a winning MBA application than just writing essays. In...
As we transition from the “classic” GMAT to the GMAT Focus, there’s bound to be confusion about the score differences since the two tests are scored on slightly different scales! Below we discuss the differences and some takeaways. GMAT Focus is on a New...
For anyone interested in accommodations (extra time, a separate room for testing, etc.) for the GMAT or GRE, this is your article! As someone who has worked with hundreds of students who have had accommodations for these tests, I know a lot about the...
Prospective GRE test takers often don’t know where to begin when it comes to studying vocabulary for the test. What words should you study? How many words are reasonable to try to learn? What are the most effective ways to go about studying? We’ll answer the...
Knowing how to guess well on GMAT and GRE Quant questions is a tremendously important factor on the test. Most people just don’t do it – they guess of course, but not well! But even if it is something that you are not doing it is a skill that can be acquired...
The title may be a little inflated but what I would like to cover in this article is what I believe to be the single most important strategy point for Verbal questions and one that cuts across all Verbal questions types on both the GMAT and GRE. It is what I...
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