This is an idiom that demonstrates some of the quirkiest aspects of the English language, aspects that often frustrate non-native speakers in the process of learning English.   This idiom concerns the situation of talking about how two thing changes with respect to one another.  Because...

Suppose you know, or at least you suspect, that you want to go to business school at some point in the not-too-distant future.  You know that you have to take a GMAT at some point and you want to get some idea about how long...

Before a discussion of this cluster of idioms, take a look at these practice GMAT Sentence Correction questions. 1) Supply-side economics believes in the national economy growing most vigorously both through reducing taxes, especially taxes affecting large movements of capital, and by the elimination of the regulations that prevent business...

What does business school have to do with the GRE? Unlike the GMAT, which only those applying to business school sit for, the GRE is typically known as a test for those who are interested in non-business (non-law, now-medical, etc.) graduate programs. Back in October, ETS (the GMAC of...

The Pythagorean Theorem is one of the most remarkable theorems in all of mathematics.  It has a treasure trove of ramification up its sleeve, any one of which could provide you with invaluable help on the GMAT Quantitative section.  For example, consider this practice problem. 1) Consider the...

In the first post in this series, I spoke about the AND rule and the OR rule in probability.  Now, we will focus on probability question involve the words “at least.”  First, some practice of this genre. Set #1 = {A, B, C, D, E} Set #2 = {K, L, M,...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In the previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “to”.  Here, we will look, at the preposition “with.”   The preposition “with” The word “with” is a preposition.  This means, it must be followed by a noun — or...

First, some practice questions.  The scenario below is relevant to questions #1-#3. There are two sets of letters, and you are going to pick exactly one letter from each set. Set #1 = {A, B, C, D, E} Set #2 = {K, L, M, N, O, P} 1) What...

Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition “from”.  Here, we will look, at the preposition “to.”   The preposition “to” The word “to” is a preposition.  This means, it must be followed by a noun — or by...

First, a hard Sentence Correct for practice. 1 The term “Immaculate Conception”, a doctrine that the Roman Catholic Church formally proclaimed in 1854, not referring to the conception of Jesus, which, according to Christianity, occurred miraculously despite his mother Mary being a virgin, but to the conception...