Author Archive - Kaplan
The New GMAT: Integrated Reasoning, pt. 1
By Lucas Weingarten Let’s have a quick look at one of four new question formats test takers will see on the New GMAT among the twelve Integrated Reasoning questions in the new section: Graphics Interpretation. From the test maker’s website: “Interpret the graph or graphical image...
The New GMAT: Integrated Reasoning Preview
By Lucas Weingarten The new section of the GMAT, called Integrated Reasoning, is going live on June 5, 2012. While we here at Kaplan implore everyone in the free world to take the GMAT before this date, we are hard at work preparing for the...
2 Dice and the GMAT. How does it apply?
By Bret Ruber While my students certainly accept that they have to take the GMAT, I often here complaints about the applicability of GMAT topics – especially math – to real world situations. My usual response to this observation is that the GMAT is using...
Resume Building for your MBA Application Part 3 of 3 (Content Tips and Tricks)
By Mona Abdel-Halim This is the final part of a 3-part series. Make sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 to understand the context. Content Tips & Tricks Now that you are more familiar with a U.S. resume, have an idea of the format you...
Resume Building for your MBA Application Part 2 of 3 (Content)
By Mona Abdel-Halim This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Make sure to read Part 1 to understand the context. Content Do be sure to include content broken down into the following categories: Education: Be sure to list any relevant education to the opportunity in which...
Resume Building for your MBA Application Part 1 of 3 (Aesthetics)
By Mona Abdel-Halim Curriculum Vitaes and resumes are often referred to interchangeably, but to the professional world, these documents are very different. Resumes are the accepted norm in the United States, while CVs are the accepted norm in European and Asian countries — different in title,...
Kaplan: The GMAT demands a lot. Are you asking too much of yourself?
By Lucas Weingarten When a runway is too short, the plane will either crash on landing or crash on takeoff. Either way, the plane is gonna crash. With applications to b-school looming over many of you, the GMAT is an ever-present and perhaps overwhelming new reality....
Kaplan: GMAT score dips: Hitting a bump on Preparation Rd
BY LUCAS WEINGARTEN So how are you supposed to interpret a drop in scores? Clearly, you should walk in front of a bus. Either that, or call mom and tell her to get your room ready ‘cause you’re moving back in. Seriously, though, being disappointed...
Kaplan: GMAT Quantitative problems are the headlights—don’t be the deer
By Lucas Weingarten As a Kaplan GMAT instructor, I work with a lot of different people. Some of those people feel most challenged by the Verbal section of the test, while others feel most challenged by the Quant section. Either way—or even if you...
Kaplan: GMAT Timing—Arithmetic Shortcuts
By Eli Meyer Timing on the GMAT quantitative section presents a challenge to a majority of students. Between complex formulas, which can be hard to remember and apply, and word problems, which can conceal simple math among layers of text, there are a number of places...
