There are multiple aspects to arriving at the correct answer to a GMAT Critical reasoning question. Among them are completely understanding the stimulus, finding and clearly understanding the conclusion, noting exactly what the question stem is asking, and noting key details in the stimulus and answer choices. One aspect that does not get talked about […]
Read MoreMost people preparing for the GMAT are aware that, when they take the test, they will have two minutes per quant question and a little less than two minutes per verbal question to find correct answers. So, when they practice answering GMAT questions, they give themselves just two minutes to answer each practice question. While […]
Read MoreConsider the following Data Sufficiency question. If points A, B, and C lie at three different locations in the coordinate plane, and points A and B lie on the x-axis, what is the area of triangle ABC? (1) The distance between point A and the y-axis and the distance between point B and the y-axis […]
Read MoreThe graph below shows someone’s performance on a GMAT practice test quant section. His progress through the section goes from left to right. The red circles represent wrong answers, and the blue green circles represent right answers. The higher the circles are located on the graph, the higher his score level. He ended up at 38. […]
Read MoreThere are gimmicks that show up consistently in GMAT critical reasoning questions. If you familiarize yourself with the gimmicks, then you become more like an insider, someone who knows how the game is created, and so you put yourself in a better position to win at the GMAT CR game. Here’s a CR question that […]
Read MoreResetting and retaking GMAT Prep exams can be a good idea. There are only six GMAT Prep practice tests available, and by resetting and retaking the tests you can get some more practice using official tests. Especially if your expected score is increasing, and so the test is serving more difficult questions, while you may […]
Read MoreOften people talk about pacing issues and have trouble finishing sections of the GMAT on time. The approximately two minutes available per GMAT question is not a lot, and meanwhile there is a fairly significant penalty for not answering all of the questions in each main section of the test. Also, time related issues add […]
Read MoreRecently someone contacted me with a request. He wants to score 800 on the GMAT and he felt that by using meditation and visualization, along with practicing and studying more, he could get there. So he wanted me to help him with learning about the psychological aspect of the GMAT game. He was already scoring […]
Read MoreOk, so let’s say you have prepared some for the GMAT and taken a full practice CAT. You see the score and it’s 100 points below what you want it to be. Now it’s time to figure out your next step. You could do something like this, go back through the Official Guide and also […]
Read MoreAll kinds of freaky formulas and rules to remember can make learning how to solve GMAT counting and combinatorics problems seem to be a major hassle. The truth is that by learning a little about how this all works, one can get this down no problem. So here is an outline that gets you to […]
Read MoreOften people preparing for the GMAT start learning lots of “stuff”. Some of that stuff can be key for even starting to find answers. For instance, in order to answer questions involving circles, you need to know certain things, such as the relationship between diameter and area. Some of the stuff is more general or […]
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