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“Who cares?”  That should be the operative question on your mind as you tackle Data Sufficiency problems. Here’s what I mean:  Suppose I ask you the question “What is x?”  I then give you a statement that says “2,346.456 x + 87,234 = 912,347π”.  Is the statement sufficient? “Yes,” you’d say (hopefully!). “But do you know what x is?” I’d respond back. And what would you say?  Yup, you got it:  ”Who cares?!” All we… Read more

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Welcome to another installment of Knewton’s MBA News Roundup! This week, check out articles on the latest application trends reported by GMAC, waning female enrollment at Stanford, and LSBF’s get-a-job-or-your-money-back guarantee 1. GMAC Reports 2011 M.B.A. Application Trends GMAC reports a slow-down in 2011 applicants, despite historically increased volume of applications in times of economic downturn. 2. Stanford Apps down 8.9%; Fewer Women The 2011 class profile is lighter on women and consultants, and more favorable towards… Read more

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This weekly MBA admissions tip comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. As Round One deadlines approach,  applicants are coming to understand that applying to business school is an incredibly demanding process. In addition to taking the GMAT, assembling academic transcripts and providing recommendation letters, candidates are required to draft multiple essays, job descriptions, lists of activities and more. With the obvious incentive… Read more

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After releasing our GMAT course in a high-definition, on-demand format in April 2011, we here at Knewton Academics were pleasantly surprised at just how much the GMAT community enjoyed the results. Inspired by the success of that course as a 24/7 complete prep option, we decided to take things one step further and overhaul our live course to provide students the most personalized, comprehensive GMAT course we could imagine. The result is the most exciting… Read more

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This week, I attended the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) GMAT Test Prep Summit, an event for representatives of the test preparation industry. Here is what I learned: 1)      The Graduate Management Admission Council’s Vice President of Research and Development, Dr. Lawrence Rudner, is an awesome guy. He spoke for hours about the math behind the GMAT’s adaptive test format, and was able make this rather dry topic accessible and entertaining. He was funny, avuncular… Read more

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This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. We realize that the questions of whether to answer an optional essay and, if so, what to say, are ones that loom large for many b-school applicants at this time of year. While we’ve been offering a great deal of school-specific essay advice over the past few months, we wanted to take some time… Read more

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I want to take a moment to address some common confusion about the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) portion of the GMAT exam.  As many of you inveterate students know, the AWA portion involves two essays, and you get a maximum of 30 minutes for each essay.  And no, you don’t get 45 minutes for the second essay if the first only takes you 15 minutes.  As I like to say:  “There are no rollover minutes. … Read more

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As a GMAT teacher and tutor, I am often asked about the best way to “get into the zone” to take the exam. After all, no one can sit for a 3.5 hour exam and not occasionally space out or lose focus. There is one very simple answer to this question: do prep tests!  Prepping for the GMAT (or for any standardized test) is much more like training for a sporting event than studying for… Read more

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This post comes to us from our friends at Clear Admit.. For more expert MBA admissions advice, check out their blog. For all those applicants who have recently opened a calendar to plot out the next few months only to realize they can’t possibly fit in campus visits on top of full time jobs and essay writing, never fear!  It’s true that traveling to a school’s campus is the ideal way to learn about their… Read more

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Welcome to another installment of Knewton’s MBA News Roundup! This week, check out articles on how much the Class of 2013 has to borrow to pay for their MBAs (over $100 million!),  the proliferation of family business programs at top b-schools, and how much earning potential students sacrifice to get their MBAs online. 1. This Incoming MBA Class Is Racking Up More Than $100 Million In Debt The b-school Class of 2013 is on track… Read more

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