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Posted by Clear Admit on July 7, 2010, at 10:00 am
Just a quick reminder that Beat the GMAT, an online GMAT and MBA community, will host a free, live GMAT/MBA Web conference today for prospective MBA applicants, featuring Clear Admit’s own Stacey Oyler sharing tips on how to approach essays and conduct effective research about your target schools.
The conference, entitled “Achieve Your Dreams: The GMAT, B-School, and Everything After,” will feature a range of guest speakers who will each address a different aspect of the MBA experience, from the application process to campus life to life beyond campus.
Oyler will present from 1 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. PST. Other scheduled speakers include Beat the GMAT founder Eric Bahn, Accepted.com admissions consultant Cindy Tokumitsu, and other experts from the admissions and GMAT test . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 28, 2010, at 4:30 pm
Last week, we blogged about the new section that will be added to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) beginning in 2012. In its article covering the entrance exam overhaul, the Wall Street Journal interviewed Clear Admit CEO Graham Richmond, who commented on the possibility that a greater number of applicants from non-business backgrounds would favor the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) over the GMAT. Mr. Richmond asserted that he does not expect a major change in preference of entrance exams to occur as a result of the new section, and that “as long as they’re bright and can put things together” candidates in the arts should be able to answer the new questions effectively.
To read the Wall Street Journal . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on June 25, 2010, at 8:30 am
A new section designed to measure prospective business school applicants’ ability to evaluate information from multiple sources will be introduced as part of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) beginning in June 2012, the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) announced yesterday.
The new integrated reasoning section will call on test takers to analyze information from a range of sources – including graphs, charts and spreadsheets – and draw conclusions based on the relationships between the different data points.
“The new integrated reasoning section of the GMAT will be a microcosm of today’s b-school classroom,” Dave Wilson, president and CEO of GMAC, said in a statement. “These questions will provide critical intelligence to schools about the ability of prospective students to make sound decisions . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 28, 2010, at 4:08 pm
Asia is hot as far as the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) is concerned, according to a recent report from the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the exam.
The number of Asian citizens taking the GMAT each year rose a whopping 75 percent from 2005 to 2009 – more than double the global increase in testing volume over the same period. The number of scores sent by GMAT test takers to Asian schools also soared. Business schools in Asia today receive three times as many score reports as they did five years ago. Schools worldwide, meanwhile, have seen a 41 percent increase in score reports received. “Asia plays a leading role in the global economy, and the strong GMAT activity . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on April 6, 2010, at 1:06 pm
Six lucky winners will receive $8,500 in test preparation services as well as vouchers to cover the cost of the GMAT exam as part of the annual Beat the GMAT Scholarship Competition, which launched last week. The competition is open to domestic and international MBA applicants who have finished college or are in their final year of college.
Beat the GMAT, an online community and aggregator of content related to the GMAT and MBA, launched its annual scholarship competition on April 1st, announcing that it will award scholarship packages totaling $8,500, thanks to donations from a range of top test preparation firms.
Participating test prep firms include Grockit, Kaplan, Knewton, Manhattan GMAT, the Princeton Review and Veritas Prep. Six scholarship winners, selected by . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 24, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The number of testing centers that administer the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) grew to more than 500 this year in response to higher-than-ever demand by test takers from around the globe, according to a recent release from the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT exam.
The number of testing centers has increased by more than 25 percent since 2006, when Pearson VUE began administering the test for GMAT, GMAC added.
“The need for skilled managers in a global economy is fueling the growth of quality management education programs around the world,” Peg Jobst, executive vice president of GMAC, said in a statement. “Increasing access to the GMAT will provide schools with a bigger pool of candidates to choose from,” . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 16, 2010, at 1:05 pm
Survey results released last week by Kaplan Test Prep reveal that most prospective business school applicants are still opting to take the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for entrance into business school even as more MBA programs are beginning to accept Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores as an alternative.
Asked which of the two exams they would most likely take if their top choice schools would accept either one, 55 percent of survey respondents said they would take the GMAT, compared to 12 percent who would take the GRE, Kaplan reports. Twelve percent said they would most likely take both.
The majority of prospective applicants report they would take the GMAT over the GRE even though they consider the GMAT to be . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 15, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), has created a new program designed to target prospective business school applicants for whom the GMAT registration fee presents a barrier to applying to business school.
The new fee waiver program, part of GMAC’s ongoing efforts to ensure universal access to graduate management education, lets business schools apply for up to 10 fee waivers per year that they can then offer to prospective students who can’t afford the $250 exam fee on their own.
GMAC encourages schools to offer fee waivers as part of need-based scholarship and financial aid programs, although schools may also use them to recruit students from financially disadvantaged regions or from other countries, GMAC says. . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on March 11, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The number of European citizens taking the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) rising rapidly and a growing number of these test takers are having their scores sent to management education programs in Europe, according to recent research from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT.
According to GMAC, increased test taking activity in Europe is part of surge in interest in MBA and other graduate management education programs worldwide. During the 2009 testing year, which runs from July 1st to June 30th, global GMAT testing volume reached an all-time high of 265,613. Of these test takers, for the first time ever this year more than half were non-U.S. citizens. Overall, test taking volume is up 32 percent since 2004. In Europe specifically, . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 30, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:
Problem
Two different primes may be said to “rhyme” around an integer if they are the same distance from the integer on the number line. For instance, 3 and 7 rhyme around 5. What integer between 1 and 20, inclusive, has the greatest number of distinct rhyming primes around it?
(A) 12
(B) 15
(C) 17
(D) 18
(E) 20
Solution
First, make sure that you understand the new concept that the problem presents: “rhyming primes,” which are the same distance on the number line from a central number. You are given . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 27, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Arthur Ahn offers advice on how to approach the Reading Comprehension section:
Let’s first note the two reasons why we read in everyday life:
1) We read because we are required (for real-life purposes) to be knowledgeable about the content we are reading: studying for a history exam, delivering on a business proposal, etc.
2) We read because we have a natural interest in the topic at hand, as in leisurely reading: a novel, an analysis of a favorite sports team, etc.
You may have already known that the GMAT does not use particularly “interesting” topics. Most content of a passage deals with topics such as a . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 23, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:
Problem
The consumer price index in Zeropia in 2009 relative to the year 2000 was 1.75, meaning that for every Zeropian dollar spent on consumer goods in 2000, $1.75 on average had to be spent in 2009. In Zeropian dollars, what was the increase in the price of Brand Z running shoes from 2000 to 2009, if these shoes’ price increased precisely according to the consumer price index?
(1) The price of Brand Z running shoes was $91 in 2009.
(2) The ratio of the dollar increase . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 20, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan GMAT instructor Ben Leff offers advice on how to tackle Data Sufficiency questions:
To succeed on the GMAT, there is a general rule of Algebra that you should know: to solve for all variables in a system of equations, you need as many distinct linear equations as variables. So if you get 2 variables, you need two equations; three variables, three equations, and so on. With that in mind, think about this Data Sufficiency question:
What is the value of x?
(1) 2x + 3y = 8
(2) 3x-5y = -7
We have two variables, and once we get both statements, we’ll have two equations, so we’ll be able to . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 16, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:
Problem
How many factors does x have, if x is a positive integer?
(1) x = pn, where p is a prime number.
(2) nn = n + n, where n is a positive integer.
A: Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B: Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C: BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D: EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E: Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 14, 2010, at 3:14 pm
At the close of 2009, BusinessWeek devoted an article to the ongoing competition between the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), which owns the GMAT, and Educational Testing Services (ETS), the publisher of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE). According to the BW article, some business school applicants don’t know which exam they should take as part of the process of applying to business school.
Clear Admit’s own Graham Richmond contributed to the article, sharing with BW that fewer than 10 percent of his clients here at Clear Admit have taken only the GRE to apply to business school. “The GMAT is still the gold standard,” Richmond told BW, adding that he has been telling clients to take the GMAT unless they . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 13, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present the fifth installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series,” which focuses this week on the Analytical Writing Assessment:
Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses.
The Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) is an interesting component of the GMAT for several reasons:
• Its score is significantly less important than your composite quant/verbal score, but the AWA score is something that schools will see as part of your application package
• The AWA essays are the first section of the exam, giving you 30 minutes each for two essays before you begin . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 13, 2010, at 1:00 pm
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE), used by many as an entrance exam to graduate degree programs and increasingly accepted by business schools as an alternative to the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), will be completely revamped for 2011, according to a recent report in the Financial Times.
Billed as the most significant changes in the test’s 60-year history, the revisions are aimed primarily toward making the test more relevant to business students, the FT reports.
Working in direct competition with the GMAT exam, ETS, which administers the GRE, has spent the past year marketing its GRE test to aspiring business school students.
For students, the most noticeable changes will appear in the verbal reasoning section, which calls on test takers to read and understand relevant . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 9, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In this article, they present the fourth installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series,” which focuses this week on sentence correction questions:
If you’ve written an essay or letter on your computer in the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly encountered that green underline somewhere in your composition that indicates that you’ve made a grammatical mistake. (Editor’s note: I guarantee that that will happen during the writing of this post.) Perhaps your subject didn’t match your verb, or your modifier was misplaced; whatever the situation, as soon as you put a period on that sentence, your computer recognized the error and not only alerted you to it, but . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 8, 2010, at 1:00 pm
Multiple posts in the blogosphere have confirmed the news that test prep giant Kaplan has acquired Manhattan GMAT(MGMAT) and its sister company, Atlas LSAT.
According to a post on Beat the GMAT by test prep firm Knewton’s Chris Rosenbaum, Knewton has confirmed the news with multiple sources at both Kaplan and MGMAT and expects an official announcement in the next few weeks. A Kaplan employee reportedly tweeted the news in late December, Rosenbaum added, though that post was quickly deleted.
A separate post, from Noah Teitelbaum, Atlas LSAT managing director, confirmed both acquisitions. Teitelbaum’s post suggests that the acquisitions resulted from MGMAT founder Zeke Vanderhoek’s involvement in other projects. Vanderhoek opened a charter school in New York City in . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 6, 2010, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at Test Prep New York. To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own first, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:
Television sitcom writers get no opportunities to craft scripts that are truly “out of the box.” One contributing factor is the pressure from the network to follow a formula that has a proven ability to deliver high ratings. At the same time, there is pressure from advertisers to avoid edgy or controversial material that might offend the audience. These factors taken together make it impossible for television sitcom writers to create scripts that break new ground.
Which of . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on January 2, 2010, at 9:00 am
Today’s GMAT tip comes from the folks at Veritas Prep. In today’s article, they present the third installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series,” which focuses this week on data sufficiency questions:
Admit it, data sufficiency questions are frustrating. They’re phrased in an awkward way — we live in a results-oriented society, where we want to get the answer, solve the problem, and move on. Why would we want to spend time simply determining if we can? Those who can do, and those who can’t have no business at a top business school, right?
To an extent, the above statement is an underlying philosophy behind the data sufficiency setup. Think about it — the GMAT should reward those . . . → Continue Reading
Posted by Clear Admit on December 30, 2009, at 8:00 pm
Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. In this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers advice on how to tackle the essay portion of the GMAT:
We all know that the essays on the GMAT are scored separately and that the schools don’t care as much about the essay scores. We also know we have to write the essays first, before we get to the more important quant and verbal sections, so we don’t want to use up too much brain-power on the essays. Still, we can’t just bomb the essay section; the schools do care about the essays somewhat. So how do we do a good enough job on the essays without expending . . . → Continue Reading
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