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Big GMAT Skills: Seeing Possibilities Under Constraints

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Big GMAT Skills: Seeing Possibilities Under Constraints by Reed Arnold

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In our previous articles, we’ve talked about two big GMAT skills: reading specifically and stripping away your biases. Now we talk about another behemoth: being aware of possibility. Read more

GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence (Part 6)

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Sentence Correction: How to Find the Core Sentence (Part 6) by Stacey Koprince

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Harder GMAT Sentence Correction questions often have longer underlines and “jumble up” the answer choices. That is, the answers change so significantly that it’s difficult to figure out what’s different about each one—and, therefore, it’s difficult to figure out where to start or how to eliminate wrong answers efficiently. When this happens, what do you do? Read more

Why is My GMAT Verbal Score Going Down?

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Why is My GMAT Verbal Score Going Down? by Chelsey Cooley

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First: you’re totally normal, and you’re not doomed to get the worst GMAT Verbal score in history. Most people’s GMAT practice test scores go up and down with time, and most people, despite this, end up with a stronger GMAT Verbal score than they started with. Read more

GMAT Quant: The Problem with Pattern-Matching

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Quant: The Problem with Pattern-Matching by James Brock

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“Can we do another problem like that?” It’s one of the most common requests I get in both class and tutoring sessions. It’s a perfectly good request and a necessary part of studying, but I always chuckle a little as I ask in return, “What exactly is like that?” After all, it could be that it involves exponents like the previous problem or that it has a C trap like the previous problem or that it requires testing cases—or all of the above! Read more

GMAT Grammar: Clauses, Modifiers, and the Founding Fathers

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Grammar: Clauses, Modifiers, and the Founding Fathers by Patrick Tyrrell

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Our Founding Fathers are routinely lionized for their heroic war for independence and their ingenious creation of our Constitutional democracy.

But these boys also knew how to spit some verse. Read more

Why I Like the GMAT (And Why You Should Like It Too)

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Why I Like the GMAT (And Why You Should Like It Too) by Chelsey Cooley

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You could think about the GMAT as a pointless, frustrating obstacle. But you shouldn’t. Here are some reasons I like the GMAT, our favorite standardized test. Read more

A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - A GMAT Timing Lesson from the German Bobsled Team by Ryan Jacobs

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Did you watch any of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang? If not, you missed out not only on some curling action that brought the house down*, but also on the most spectacular hockey shootout goal I’ve ever seen. If you saw it, you know the one I’m talking about! But there’s one other important thing you may have missed: an important lesson about GMAT timing. Read more

Big GMAT Skills: Shedding Your Biases

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Big GMAT Skills: Shedding Your Biases by Reed Arnold

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In our first post, we discussed what I would call the behemoth of big GMAT skills: reading with specificity and objectivity. Today, we’re going to focus on the latter of the two to delve into another one of the most important big GMAT skills: stripping yourself of biases. Read more

When is an Absolute Value Not an Absolute Value?

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - When is an Absolute Value Not an Absolute Value? by Chelsey Cooley

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… when it’s a distance on a number line!

Okay, that doesn’t quite work as a joke. But it does work as a GMAT Quant strategy. Intimidated by absolute value GMAT problems? Read on to learn a quick and painless strategy. Read more

GMAT Approach: Win Every Question

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - GMAT Approach: Win Every Question by James Brock

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You can win every question on the GMAT. That seems a little surprising at first, I know. If you’ve been studying the GMAT for any length of time, you’ve probably already heard several times about the importance of guessing and the perils of perfectionism.

But notice that I didn’t say you could get every question right. I said you could win every question. And that difference is key. Read more