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GMAT Tutorials

Over time, our Instructors have written a number of articles about various GMAT-related substantive topics. Now, our Internet ace Michael Dinerstein has worked to transform several of those articles into online tutorials. For those of you who struggle with more than one continuous paragraph of text, your ship has come in!
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Free GMAT Guide

Here at Manhattan GMAT, we spend a fair amount of time introducing our students to the ins and outs of the GMAT (e.g.  How are the essays weighed and scored?  What are the practical implications of the test being computer adaptive?).  The GMAT is a unique test that raises its own distinctive issues and challenges, [...]

You are not alone

Each year around this time, GMAC releases its annual report on GMAT test-takers.  The report this year counted a record 265,613 GMAT test-takers in 2009, up 7.55% from last year’s record 246,957.  So your imagination is not running wild – it is indeed a year during which many people are taking the GMAT and trying [...]

Can the first questions on the GMAT be experimental?

Many people have heard that the early questions on the GMAT are crucially important because of the test’s adaptive nature; they have the (incorrect) sense that how you answer the first questions will determine the sort of questions you get for the rest of your test.
This belief is exaggerated and mistaken, as we have heard [...]

More from the GMAC Summit

Here’s more detail on the GMAC Summit from MGMAT Instructor Stacey Koprince:
Last week, I attended the GMAC Test Prep Summit, a biennial gathering held by GMAC specifically for test prep companies.  Most of the things we discussed are probably only of interest to those of us who work in the industry. There were a few [...]