Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT preparation courses. At graduate school functions, a common elitist quip from engineers and scientists when talking to MBA students is to ask, “Are you majoring in PowerPoint,...

Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT preparation 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,...

Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses. 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...

Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses. On the GMAT, things can quickly get confusing when quantitative problems use large or seemingly-abstract numbers, such as 12!, 2^17, or multi-item expressions, such as...

Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses. Let’s face it: Data sufficiency questions are frustrating. They’re phrased in an awkward way — we live in a results-oriented society, where we want to...

Brian Galvin is the Director of Academic Programs at Veritas Prep, where he oversees all of the company’s GMAT prep courses. All too often, GMAT students overestimate the importance of “cranking through raw numbers” on the test. Business schools aren’t looking for human calculators, but...

As Veritas Prep’s Director of Academic Programs, Brian Galvin runs all of the company’s GMAT prep services. The writers of the GMAT are tasked with a fairly difficult challenge — using fairly basic, high-school level math and verbal skills, they must create questions that will elicit...

Hello, GMAT Clubbers! Veritas Prep is excited to now be a member of the GMAT Club community. We have known Bogdan and the rest of the GMAT Club team for years (and, in fact, we were right down the road from one another in Malibu,...