By Chris Ryan We all know that the GMAT is a computer adaptive test, and computer adaptive tests give us questions based on the difficulty level that we “earn” as we take the test. How do the test writers at ACT (the organization that writes the GMAT; it used to be ETS, but ETS lost [...]

Application season is starting to heat up again! For those of you just getting started, here’s an overview of “what’s what” with the GMAT. What Is The GMAT? The Graduate Management Admissions Test is a standardized test that many English-speaking business schools require applicants to take. The test is called a CAT, or Computer Adaptive [...]

On our increasingly frequented Forums, there’s been a recent spate of posts in which well-meaning users have posted official problems from GMATPrep – usually sentence correction problems – and then questioned or decried the construction of the correct answer choices. “Is X really allowed? Isn’t it supposed to be Y?” Some of these posters have [...]

Here’s the latest in our Content Series, by Chris Ryan, Director of Instructor and Product Development, ManhattanGMAT: GMAT Strategies for the Verbally-Concerned Last time we talked about strategies for the math-challenged. But what if you have the opposite issue? Maybe you can solve equations just fine; it’s this “fuzzy language stuff” that gets you down. [...]