How to Succeed on the GMAT: 5 Study Habits
They say you are what you repeatedly do. What you repeatedly eat determines the state of your health. What you repeatedly read determines your thought processes. How you repeatedly practice for your favorite sport determines how good you’ll be at it. And so on. Likewise, when it comes to preparing for the GMAT, how you […]
Four Ways to Make Your GMAT Preparation More Strategic
A few years ago a professor at the Harvard Business School analyzed what successful people do differently than less successful people. The author, Heidi Grant Halvorson, identifies 9 strategies often used by highly successful people to reach their goals. You can read about these nine strategies here. The higher-level point, however, is that people are successful, […]
The Role of Mental Stamina for GMAT Success
Train Your Brain for the GMAT Test-Day Grind You’ve read the books. You’ve taken a GMAT prep course. You’ve filled your head with math formulas and English grammar rules. You’ve posted on GMAT forums, you’ve increased your sleep, and you’ve even gotten help for your standardized test anxiety. You’ve done everything you know to do to prepare […]
Learn the Inside Scoop for Dominating the GMAT
Podcast Interview with Linda Abraham (Accepted) Have a GMAT or GRE coming up? Learn what it takes to truly succeed on those tests. I was honored to be the featured guest on Accepted.com‘s July 2015 podcast. Click HERE to listen to my interview with Linda Abraham, CEO and Founder of Accepted, for invaluable GRE tips […]
Avoid This Common GMAT Data Sufficiency Mistake
Learn to Master this GMAT Data Sufficiency Strategy Most of my GMAT students have a love/hate relationship with Data Sufficiency. At first, they hate it because it’s so foreign to them. It’s unlike any math problems they’ve ever had to do before. Eventually, after going through my GMAT Data Sufficiency video lessons, they learn to […]
Tackling GMAT Problems You Don’t Know How to Solve
Uh-Oh, I Don’t Know This GMAT Question…Now What? Here’s the deal: I wrote a guest blog article for the MBA admissions consulting firm Accepted.com that was published on July 23, 2013. It’s really good. The premise of the article is this: What do you do when you come across a hard GMAT math question that […]
How the Bracketing Technique Can Help You with GMAT Reading Comprehension
GMAT RC Tip: Simplify for Better Comprehension Understanding GMAT reading comprehension passages can be difficult because the subject matter is often dense and uninteresting while the writing style and sentence structure the authors use is often complex and difficult to wade through. So, what to do about this? You can’t make excuses. Complaining about the […]
When to Take the GMAT … Again!
“Should I Retake the GMAT?” Expert MBA Advice I had the opportunity this week to attend a seminar hosted by MBA consultant Hillary Schubach, founder of Shine MBA Admissions Consulting, for the Harvard Alumni Club in Denver, CO. She shared lots of useful tips and strategies for successfully getting into some of America’s top business […]
How to Get a High GMAT Score – Ninja Strategy
Want to Crack 700 on the GMAT? This week’s GMAT tip* looks at one of the keys to getting a really high score on the GMAT. Specifically, you not only need to know how to solve the harder 700+ level GMAT questions, but you also need to know how to solve them faster. Watch this […]
Data Sufficiency GMAT Tip – Time Management Strategy
Slow Down to Speed Up on GMAT Data Sufficiency GMAT Tip of the Week for the Week of March 25, 2013 This week’s GMAT tip* concerns GMAT Data Sufficiency, and specifically how to manage your time effectively on these question types. It’s important that you take your time and not make snap decisions on data […]
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