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 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...
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...
On March 8, 2023, GMAC announced upcoming changes to the GMAT. There will be a new version of the exam, the GMAT Focus Edition, that will be released in late 2023. The current version of the exam will end in the first half of 2024. In this...
GMAC and ETS offer online versions of the GMAT and GRE, but test-takers are often unsure about which version to take. Part of the problem is that there are a handful of confusing differences, especially with regard to the GMAT, and some of those...
Many graduate and business school applicants underestimate the timeline for preparing for the GMAT or GRE and, more generally, don’t understand how that timeline relates to application deadlines. Every October, November, and December we tend to get...
Ever since business schools began accepting the GRE an increasing number of MBA applicants have elected to take the GRE instead of the GMAT. We have also had many students who either started with the GMAT and then turned to the GRE or who ended up just...
In a another post, we discuss the differences between the GMAT and GRE. That background might be heIpful if you really want to understand the ins and outs of each test. If, however, you are just looking for general guidance on how to decide which test to...
Back in the old days the GMAT Prep tests did not break down your performance by question type on the Quant and Verbal sections. Nor was there an Enhanced Score Report that did so on the actual GMAT. Now, with the existence of practice tests that indicate...
It is a pretty well-accepted fact that within each section on the GMAT the early questions are slightly more important than the late ones (everything I have seen in all my years as a GMAT tutor has confirmed this and there have been some good experiments...
You must get all, or at least most, of the early questions right in order to score well? As you will see with most of the myths/facts in this series, there is some truth and some fiction in the statement above. So let’s start with what definitely is true…...
In this post I would like to expound upon a theory of mine that gets at the slight differences in the scoring algorithm on the Quant and Verbal sections of the GMAT. In a previous post I commented on the fact that although on the Quant section the number of...
In my years as a GMAT tutor I have had many students come to me complaining that although they have done a lot of prep for the test, their scores just are not increasing. There are many reasons that this could be the case, but in this post I would like to...
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