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The Problem Solving (PS) section of the GMAT may not be as quirky as the Data Sufficiency section of the test – but that doesn’t mean you don’t need to study for it! PS questions require more “straight math” than Data Sufficiency questions; in other words, they’ll probably be more like the questions you’re used to seeing on high school and college math tests. The best way to study? Master the basic concepts from geometry,… Read more

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If you’re just starting your GMAT prep (or even if you’ve been at it for a little while), the Data Sufficiency section can be tricky. After all, who ever heard of a math problem that you don’t actually have to solve? The good news is that with some strategic practice, you too can train yourself to think like a DS whiz. To master this section, start by becoming familiar with the structure of DS questions… Read more

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David Ingber is the Faculty Manager at Knewton If you watch the World Cup over the next few weeks, you are bound to hear the commentators utter sentences like this: “England, which have not brought the World Cup trophy back to their homeland in over 50 years, face a difficult road ahead of them.” For whatever reason, such a sentence is perfectly acceptable in the soccer world. However, such sentences are terrible on the SAT… Read more

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In an earlier post, I discussed Dan Meyer’s visionary talk about the future of math education. Halfway through the talk, Meyer mentions a classic problem in which students must determine how long it takes to fill a tank with water. A typical textbook would give students all (or most of) the necessary pieces and then ask them to construct the puzzle — that is, plug the numbers into a formula. Meyer, however, advocates doing away… Read more

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David Yourdon is a Content Developer for the Knewton SAT Course. He is also a cook and a saint. High school sometimes feels like it hinges on two tests: the driving test and the SAT. And though you’re probably more excited to start driving than you are to start applying to college, there’s at least one respect in which the SAT is nicer than the driving test: It doesn’t penalize you for guessing! “Now waaaaaaait… Read more

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David Yourdon, a Content Dev @Knewton, proves we’re not just obsessed with the GMAT, LSAT, and SAT. The academics team at Knewton has been buzzing about a video that one of our expert teachers, Chris Wu, sent around this morning. It’s a TEDx talk by Dan Meyer, a high school math instructor in Santa Cruz. The talk focuses on the virtues of what Meyer calls “patient problem solving” — where fewer formulas and inputs are… Read more

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The adaptive learning engine that we’re building at Knewton is part of a larger trend of adaptive approaches to some of the world’s biggest problems. Rather than rely on rules that are etched in stone — rules that frequently have no bearing on the situation at hand — an adaptive approach responds to the environment. It reacts dynamically to what’s actually going on. It, well, adapts. In New York, the grueling morning commute takes the… Read more

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