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Two of the more confusing tenses in English are the present perfect and the past perfect. What makes them so is both describe continuous actions. To illustrate, let’s take a…
Posts published by “Magoosh”
Concision is one of the goals of parallel structure. Consider the following monstrosity of a sentence. 1a) After I get my next paycheck, I am seriously thinking about buying a…
“I don’t know if you will find this post helpful” Do you spot the error in the preceding sentence? This error is common in casual spoken English, but it will…
The 45º angle Fact: All lines with slopes of 1 make 45º angles with both the x- and y-axes. Conversely, if a line makes a 45º angles with either the…
You may remember this formula, one of the sleekest factoring tricks in all of algebra: This formula, called “the difference of two squares” formula, is a favorite of standardized test…
Here’s a whirlwind tour of one of the most frequently tested sets of concepts on the GMAT Quantitative section. You don’t have to be an expert on statistics: a little goes…
The title of this post may seem facetious. After all, even the person most allergic to math, most traumatized by math, still remembers how to count! The GMAT, of course,…
Think about what distinguishes an effective manager from a pencil-pusher. The dutiful pencil-pusher can verify: A is a fact, B is a fact, and C is a fact. The effective…
We've just released our new eBook, and it's on Integrated Reasoning! It includes: An overview of the section as a whole, including scoring Overviews and strategies of/for each question type…
Fact: the suffix "-al" is one of the standard adjectival ending in English. A host of complex and interesting adjectives end in "-al", including adjectival, mercurial, floral, diurnal, banal, nominal,…