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The Nebulous GMAT: A Beginner’s Guide

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Ah! If you’re here then you’ve got one thing on your mind: the GMAT. Ah again! If you’re like most test takers the road to a good GMAT score is…

Simplifying Math with Substitution on the GMAT

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This post discusses a strategy for simplifying complex mathematical expression on the GMAT Quantitative section.  Consider the following very challenging Data Sufficiency question.   1. What is the value of x? Take…

Geometric Probability on the GMAT

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In the first three articles in this series on GMAT probability questions, I discussed the AND and OR probability rules,  "at least" probability questions, and probability questions that involve counting.  This post covers…

How Important Are Idioms for GMAT Sentence Correction?

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The short answer: VERY.  Admittedly, idioms alone are not the single biggest tested topic on the GMAT Sentence Correction.  Of course, I would recommend studying all grammatical and syntactical rules, not merely idioms…

Absolute Phrases on the GMAT

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It is not uncommon for test takers, when sloughing through the thicket of GMAT Sentence Correction questions to find themselves scratching their heads over a tricky little grammar conundrum known as  an absolute…

GMAT Prepositions and Idioms: On

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Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses. Your preposition knowledge will most certainly be tested in the GMAT. In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition "against".  Here,…

GMAT Prepositions and Idioms: Against

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Prepositions in English display a powerful diversity of uses.  In previous preposition article, we talked about the proposition "for".  Here, we will look, at the prepositions "against".   Prepositions A preposition…

Repeating Verb Phrases on the GMAT

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"Fred wrote to Congress to complain about this policy nearly four months before Silvia ____________" What we want to say is --- Fred wrote to Congress, and Silvia also wrote…

GMAT Counting with Restrictions

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First, try these challenging GMAT Quantitative problems, all variations on a theme, as you will see. 1) Seven children --- A, B, C, D, E, F, and G --- are…