An Unexpected Perk of Our Union Square Office
Front row seats to the Fourth Annual International Pillow Fight in NYC: Things get really good at 1:05. It may look like people are just gently waving their pillows in the air, but take it from Jess’s on-the-ground video: it’s a pretty intense scene down there.
Meet up with Knewton at SXSW
Nathan Lasche (@nlasche) and Jessie Shabin (@jshabin) are at SXSW this year (2012)… Go say hi! Pete, Ashley, Brian, and Dave Cascino are heading to the NYC Startup Meetup at South by Southwest, a sweet event that’s bringing together all kinds of folks from the NY tech scene. Ashley’s presenting …
MBA Admissions Tip: Planning for the GMAT
This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more b-school admissions advice, check out their blog. For all you “early birds” who are planning to apply to business school this fall, we wanted to offer a few tips on managing your time as it relates to the GMAT …
Behind the Scenes at Knewton Hack Day [VIDEO]
Last Friday was Knewton’s first Hack Day of the year, and the ideas were flying. Ideas — and sawdust. On Hack Day, Knewton team members take a 24-hour break from regularly scheduled workday programming so they can dive into any projects they’ve been itching to develop. The result? New features …
MBA Life on Youtube: Inside the HBS Case Method
As Andy wrote about a while back, business schools post a lot of amazing resources online for aspiring MBAs to learn about their offerings. Harvard Business School has some great videos on its Youtube channel that walk students through the HBS approach to an MBA education. This video, “Inside the HBS …
Twilio Meetup at Knewton HQ: How to make a text-controlled door lock, Humans vs. Zombies, and more
If you’re in NYC on Thursday, Jan. 13, stop by the Knewton office for a Meetup hosted by Twilio! Come on over for snacks, drinks, and a walkthrough of how some of our developers used Twilio’s API to set up a text message-controlled door lock (you know, usual stuff). RSVP …
Video: Walkthrough of our new GMAT course content
A while back our Tech and Academic teams released a big upgrade to our GMAT course content. Check out this video as Sean, one of our GMAT Content Developers, walks through some of the new features — and some of the old ones that got a boost. The highlights: An …
How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube
We’ve been getting a lot of questions ever since our GMAT Choose Your Own Adventure video went up. Well, one question, really: How can I make one for my students? Answer: It’s easy! Youtube has a great tool called Spotlight that lets you make any video interactive. It’s really handy …
Top 10 cities checking out our challenge questions
That’s the nice thing about teaching online. When you post a challenge question, folks from all over the world come to give it a shot! Here’s a peek at the 10 cities with the most visitors to our latest tricky GMAT question. Bangalore is representing right now (New Delhi is …
Top 5 GMAT Critical Reasoning Tips
Critical Reasoning questions compose a little less than one third of all the questions on the verbal section of the GMAT. Each CR question requires test-takers to analyze and/or identify certain parts of a specific argument – a vital skill not only for a high GMAT score, but also for …
