Archive for 2011/10


Challenge Problem Showdown – October 31th, 2011

We invite you to test your GMAT knowledge for a chance to win! Each week, we will post a new Challenge Problem for you to attempt. If you submit the correct answer, you will be entered into that week’s drawing for a free Manhattan GMAT Prep item. Tell your friends to get out their scrap [...]

How To Use Your Strategy Guides

This article, written by Abby Pelcyger and Stacey Koprince, was adapted from our upcoming book, The GMAT Roadmap: Expert Advice Through Test Day. The full book will be available mid-November. If you wanted to meet every neighbor on your block, you wouldn’t re-introduce yourself to your best friends who live a few doors down, or [...]

The Process for Tackling Any Critical Reasoning Problem

I’ve been in full-on writing mode lately as we update our strategy guides (look for the 5th edition in 2012, in time to start prepping for the Next Generation GMAT!). A couple of our teachers have been doing extensive research on all of the available official Critical Reasoning (CR) problems, and now we’re synthesizing everything. [...]

The Next Generation GMAT: Integrated Reasoning

In September, GMAC held a Summit for the benefit of the test prep crowd – all of us, basically. We’ve talked already about a lot of the information that came out of that conference, and we’ve got one last topic for you today: the Next Generation GMAT. As many of you have heard, the GMAT [...]

Tackling a Next Generation Integrated Reasoning Problem

Note: This is an updated version of an article posted last year. As GMAC gears up to release the Next Generation GMAT in June of 2012, we’ve been taking a look at the four sample questions posted on the mba.com website. Let’s look at the hardest one of these questions in more detail! I can’t [...]