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A Quick Idea to Improve Your GMAT Critical Reasoning Overnight

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - A Quick Idea to Improve Your GMAT Critical Reasoning Overnight by Ryan Jacobs

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Today, I want to share with you one of the easiest and quickest ways I’ve ever found to improve your accuracy when doing GMAT Critical Reasoning questions. Read more

Introducing GMAT Math in a Day!

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Introducing GMAT Math in a Day! by Manhattan Prep

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(Note: we changed the name to Foundations of GMAT Math! You like it?)

The GMAT only tests high school math, but for most of us, it’s been a long time since we’ve done that math! To get the most out of your GMAT prep, it’s best to hit the ground running, with the fundamentals of GMAT Math already reviewed. Whether you’re about to begin your GMAT prep or already in it and realizing that you need foundational math help, Foundations of GMAT Math™ can help you master the fundamentals of content, strategy, and reasoning in as little time as possible. Read more

Get All Your MBA Admissions Questions Answered in this Six-Part Online Event Series!

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Manhattan Prep GMAT Blog - Get All Your MBA Admissions Questions Answered in this Six-Part Online Event Series! by Manhattan Prep

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Are you thinking of applying to business school this year? Perhaps you’re just starting to prepare for the GMAT or GRE, or maybe you haven’t yet begun to assess your overall fit at the top business school programs. How will you differentiate yourself from so many other MBA applicants? Where will you start? Read more

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

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