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GMAT Changes: What do they mean?

March 26, 2013

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Check out the infographic released by Kaplan regarding the recent GMAT changes (and the new Integrated Reasoning section in particular): Source: poetsandquants.com via Alyson on Pinterest What is immediately interesting to me is that there have been no real GMAT changes since 1997, and no substantial changes to the content in over 50 years. While [...]

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GMAT Reading Comprehension Strategies: Answering “Why”

March 21, 2013

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In another post on GMAT reading comprehension strategies, today we’re going to talk about how to answer “Why” questions. The “Why” question might come in any number of forms: Why does the author use a particular word? Why is paragraph four included in this passage? Why is this person mentioned? These “Why” questions are also [...]

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GMAT Prepositions and Idioms Practice

March 19, 2013

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I love when the GMAT Club post about prepositions and idioms. It’s a great way to quickly get an English lesson on something specific, useful, and important. The GMAT verbal section heavily tests your ability with prepositions and idioms. Today’s post talks about two specific prepositions and the idioms they can be found in: “of” [...]

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GMAT Trends: More people are taking the GMAT

March 13, 2013

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People have been wondering a lot lately about GMAT trends and how the trends, possibly even in their scores, will impact their application. Well, here is some recent data about GMAT trends: testing is hitting new records. According to Beat the GMAT GMAT testing hit a record 286,529 exams taken last year, the greatest annual total ever [...]

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