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1. Majority of MBA Applicants Still Opt for GMAT Even as GRE Is Accepted by Some Business Schools, Survey Finds - Survey results released last week by Kaplan Test Prep reveal that most prospective business school applicants are still opting to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for entrance into business school even as more MBA programs are beginning to accept Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores as an alternative. Asked ...
2. New Program Provides Business Schools with GMAT Fee Waivers for Prospective Applicants in Need - The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), has created a new program designed to target prospective business school applicants for whom the GMAT registration fee presents a barrier to applying to business school. The new fee waiver program, part of GMAC’s ongoing efforts to ...
3. More Europeans Taking GMAT, Having Scores Sent to European Business Schools - The number of European citizens taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) rising rapidly and a growing number of these test takers are having their scores sent to management education programs in Europe, according to recent research from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT. According to GMAC, increased test ...
4. GMAT Practice Problem: Rhymes and Divisibility - Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT.  To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution: Problem Two different primes may be said to “rhyme” around an integer if they are the same ...
5. GMAT Tip: How GMAT Reading Differs from Everyday Reading - Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Arthur Ahn offers advice on how to approach the Reading Comprehension section: Let’s first note the two reasons why we read in everyday life: 1)    We read because we are required (for real-life purposes) to be knowledgeable ...
6. GMAT Practice Problem: Zeropian Shoes - Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT.  To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution: Problem The consumer price index in Zeropia in 2009 relative to the year 2000 was 1.75, meaning ...
7. GMAT Tip: Data Sufficiency: Before You Pick C… - Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Ben Leff offers advice on how to tackle Data Sufficiency questions: To succeed on the GMAT, there is a general rule of Algebra that you should know: to solve for all variables in a system of ...
8. GMAT Practice Problem: Factor Me This - Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT.  To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution: Problem How many factors does x have, if x is a positive integer? (1) x = pn, where ...
9. Clear Admit’s Take on the GMAT vs. GRE Debate - At the close of 2009, BusinessWeek devoted an article to the ongoing competition between the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT, and Educational Testing Services (ETS), the publisher of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). According to the BW article, some business school applicants don’t know which exam ...
10. GMAT Tip: Think Like the Testmaker Series, Volume 5 - Today’s GMAT tip comes from Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present the fifth installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series,” which focuses this week on the Analytical Writing Assessment: Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep ...