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Archive for 2009/08


One more word of advice for test day

We received a report of a student having her score canceled because she went to her locker during a break on test day and checked her cellphone for messages  (FYI, you put all of your belongings in a locker at the testing center).  Apparently, an official at the testing center flagged her for suspicious activity [...]

Official Guide for GMAT Review Verbal 2nd Edition

As promised, we now have a detailed write-up of the Official Guide for GMAT Review Verbal 2nd Edition.  The skinny is that there are 81 new problems (27%) that were not present in the 1st Edition.  None of the new problems is particularly groundbreaking, and some of them appeared in past released GMAC resources.  For [...]

MGMAT and Score Guarantees

We occasionally get questions about why we don’t offer a score improvement guarantee.  This issue came up recently in an article on Businessweek.com.
There are a few little reasons, and one big reason.  In our experience, a test prep score guarantee has a number of attendant issues:
1.  What’s the baseline? The majority of students who [...]

5 Tips for 1st year MBA Students

We get a lot of good news here at Manhattan GMAT from students who have been accepted into the MBA program they had their sights set on.  Now, as many of them are packing their bags to get settled into their new environment, here are some words of wisdom compiled from some of our Instructors [...]

MGMAT on Businessweek.com

Businessweek.com presented a very interesting and informative write-up of the GMAT prep landscape earlier this week.  We’re glad that Businessweek included us, and grateful that many of our core values (top Instructors, rigorous curriculum, organizational focus) came through in the article.