Archive for January, 2011
It’s Not Fair! How to Deal with Dings
It may or may not be fair, but many of you are going to get at least a few rejections. What are you going to do about them? First and foremost—if you’ve gotten dinged at your top choice school, that doesn’t mean that you’re never going...
Common Wrong Answers on the GMAT: Misplaced Participial Phrases
Placing modifiers correctly is one of the greatest challenges on the Sentence Correction portion of the GMAT. Different rules apply to different types of modifiers, whether they are participial phrases, adjective clauses, or appositives. To see when modifiers get tricky, take a look at this GMATPrep®...
GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 5): Work Problem and Sentence Correction
Math (PS) Three secretaries working together can type 36 pages of text in half an hour. If the typing speeds of the secretaries are in a 4:3:2 ratio, how long will it take the slowest-typing secretary working alone to type 52 pages of text? (A) 1 hour...
Time for Tuck: Dartmouth MBA Admissions Q&A This Week!
Get the answers to your Dartmouth Tuck admissions questions when you join us for an interactive Q&A on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET/6:00 PM GMT. Tuck’s Director of Admissions, Dawna Clarke, will be available to address all your admissions concerns,...
GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 4): Probability and Critical Reasoning
Math (PS) Set consists of all points such that . If point is selected from set at random, what is the probability that ? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) OA and Explanation Like these questions? Get the GMAT Club question collection: online...
UVA Darden Admissions Interview with Sara Neher
We had an excellent Q&A just before the year’s end where we learned everything we needed to know about UVA Darden‘s admissions practices, interview tips, student life, curriculum, and more! Thank you Sara Neher, Assistant Dean of MBA Admissions at UVA Darden for an excellent...
GMAT Question of the Day (Jan 3): Arithmetic and Sentence Correction
Math (DS) 1000 dollars were converted into pounds and then the pounds were converted back into dollars at the same exchange rate of pounds per dollar. If a commission of is levied on any exchange operation, what dollar amount was left after the exchanges? 1....
GMAT Study Motivator: Betting on Your Practice Plan
Written by Andy Huang. Growing up in China, I heard many strange stories about the ways in which students motivated themselves to study hard in order to bring honor to their families. A famous story involved a student tying a rope from the ceiling to his...
The Three Deadly Habits that Ding
Is your finger poised over the SUBMIT button? Wait. Don’t hit it. Not yet. Make sure you have protected your application essays and personal statements against the three sinister Deadly Habits that Ding in the night. Deadly Habit #1: Misusing spell check. Deadly Habit #2: Forgetting...
