Enjoy Work-Life Balance: The 30 Best Places to Work
The 30 Best Places to Work (Outside Magazine) I remember the first time I heard the question you’ve probably heard a number of times yourself by now: “Are you working to live, or living to work?” My initial answer to the friend who asked it of me was, “Ummm…can’t I do BOTH?!” But when I […]
Happy Pi Day! (but Where does Pi come from?)
GMAT Geometry: Understanding Pi (w/Applications) Happy Pi Day! Okay, okay. We get it. Celebrating this famed mathematical constant is pretty dorky. It’s certainly understandable that Martin Luther King Jr. has a day. It’s even understandable that St. Velentine has a day. But the number 3.14159265359…? Or is it the greek letter π that’s actually being […]
Finding Assumptions is Key to Beating GMAT Critical Reasoning
Struggling with GMAT CR? Learn to Find Assumptions! GMAT Tip of the Week for the Week of March 11, 2013 This week’s GMAT tip* concerns GMAT Critical Reasoning questions, and specifically the importance of finding assumptions in answering many GMAT CR question types. This short video explains this tip in more detail while covering a sample […]
Uh-oh!? Evaluating Your First GMAT Practice Test
Question: “Is it normal to score low on your first GMAT practice exam?” I recently received this concerned e-mail from a student: “I took my first practice test yesterday and didn’t do so well. I got a 460! Is that normal to get so low on the first test? What I did notice is that […]
How Fighting with your Spouse helps you Solve GMAT CR “Paradox” Questions
Improve your Relationships, Boost your GMAT Score! Think about the last fight you had with your spouse (or significant other). For me, it was last week. We were driving to meet a friend named Tom at a local coffee shop called Mile Hi Coffee. I didn’t know quite where it was, but I knew the […]
GMAT Strategies: “How Many Ways…?” Questions
Key GMAT Shortcuts for “Combinations” Questions This week’s GMAT tip* concerns GMAT Combinations questions, and specifically questions that ask “How many ways…?” there are to do something. Try your hand at this sample GMAT question from the GMAT Review Official Guide, 13th Ed.: Q: Of the three-digit integers greater than 700, how many have two […]
Find the Area of the Shaded Region – GMAT Questions
How to Find the Area of a Shaded Region Finding the area of a shaded region is a common GMAT geometry question type, and one that students tend to struggle with for whatever reason. In our article “GMAT Geometry – Area of Shaded Regions,” we explained that you want to think about the shaded region […]
Batter Up! How Baseball Sheds Light on GMAT Scoring
GMAT Scoring – How the GMAT is Scored Think like a Big Leaguer and Improve Your GMAT Score If I told you that you could put yourself into position to improve your GMAT score before even answering the first question, would you believe me? Believe it or not, learning the ins and outs of how […]
GMAT Math: Finding the Least Common Multiple (LCM)
GMAT Algebra: How to Find Least Common Multiples Finding the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of two numbers is a necessary and useful skill that will enable you to solve a number of different types of GMAT problem solving and GMAT data sufficiency questions. First let’s take a look at the technical aspect of how you […]
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