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  • What Is The Best Prep Material For The GMAT?

    by Tony Xavier

    When it comes to preparing for the GMAT there is a voluminous amount of prep material available. Sometimes the material is so overwhelming that it becomes tough to pick and choose material to suit different parts of your GMAT Prep. To make life simple let us take up this topic in alignment with the structure I suggested for your GMAT Prep in this post....

    July 10, 2015
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  • How To Structure Your GMAT Prep

    by Tony Xavier

    A goal without a plan is just a wish – Antoine de Saint-Exupery If there is one thing that is absolutely essential to successfully prepare your way to a great GMAT score it is a structured GMAT Study Plan that is executed perfectly. It is tough to make a one-size-fits-all study plan for those who want to prepare on their own. Instead we will...

    June 26, 2015
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  • What is the optimum time to prepare for the GMAT?

    by Tony Xavier

    This is the first question that pops up regarding test-preparation, be it for the GMAT or for any other test. The short answer to this question — it will require a minimum of 2.5 months and a maximum of 6 months. Now let’s try to get inside these numbers. The optimum time needed depends on the test-taker but the prep phase for any test...

    June 19, 2015
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  • Why You Should Always Start Your GMAT Prep With A Test Date In Mind

    by Tony Xavier

    The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution – Igor Stravinsky, Composer The GMAT can be taken the all-year round but test-slots are not available with equal ease all year round — test-slots are easy to get during the first six months of the year (you can get...

    June 17, 2015
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  • How is the GMAT score calculated?

    by Tony Xavier

    The best way to start is to have a look at what your actual Official GMAT Score Report will look like. The image below is of only a part of the Score Report, so that we do not divulge the details of the test-taker. The Verbal & Quant Scores have a range from 0 – 60 but the actual range of scores that test-takers...

    April 17, 2015
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  • Understanding the GMAT Test Structure

    by Tony Xavier

    What do they know of cricket who only cricket know — from Beyond A Boundary by C. L. R. James While the GMAT structure is quite well known to most test-takers there is much more to the test than meets the eye. Let us try to understand this a bit better since understanding the nature of the test will really help you get the...

    April 2, 2015
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December 10, 2017

GMAT Quant Skills – Tackling Word Problems

One of the big reasons why the those who have good language skills do well on the GMAT is...

by Tony Xavier
Comments 3
October 13, 2016

GMAT Quant: The Roman Numeral Problem

The GMAT Quant generally throws up a few problems that designed to act as speed-breakers during the course of...

by Tony Xavier
Comments 4
September 14, 2016

GMAT RC: Guided Practice Set 2

In the previous two posts we discussed how to read a GMAT RC passage and how to tackle GMAT...

by Tony Xavier
Comments 3
August 17, 2016

GMAT PS: You will never need to do heavy calculation

One of the reasons why the GMAT is my favourite test of all is that it is so well...

by Tony Xavier
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GMAT Sentence Correction

GMAT SC: Idiomatic Usage III

Published by Tony Xavier

In the two previous posts we covered the major idioms tested on the GMAT. While the list of idioms can be potentially unending, a solid understanding of the idioms...

August 10, 2016
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GMAT Sentence Correction, GMAT Verbal

GMAT SC: Idiomatic Usage II

Published by Tony Xavier

In the previous post on Idiomatic Usage we discussed idioms associated with some words such as hypothesise, considered, comprise, ability and capable. While these are definitely tested on the...

July 27, 2016
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GMAT Sentence Correction, GMAT Verbal

GMAT SC: Idiomatic Usage 1

Published by Tony Xavier

The questions that test Idiomatic usage are always tricky since if a test-taker is not aware of the idiom he or she can end up spending a lot of...

July 7, 2016
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GMAT Sentence Correction, GMAT Verbal

GMAT SC – The preferred form of the verb

Published by Tony Xavier

When it comes to GMAT SC it seems as if the list of rules that you need to keep in mind is unending. This post adds to the list...

June 14, 2016
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GMAT Sentence Correction, GMAT Verbal, Uncategorized

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GMAT Quantitative Strategy

GMAT Quant Skills – Tackling Word ProblemsOne of the big reasons why the those who have good language skills do...December 10, 2017

GMAT Quant: The Roman Numeral ProblemThe GMAT Quant generally throws up a few problems that designed to act as...October 13, 2016

GMAT PS: You will never need to do heavy calculationOne of the reasons why the GMAT is my favourite test of all is...August 17, 2016

GMAT Critical Reasoning

Critical Reasoning: Strengthen-Weaken — Type 3

by Tony Xavier

In the two previous posts we discussed two of the three argument types around which Strengthen-Weaken question of GMAT Critical Reasoning are posed — Plan of Action and X causes Y .The third type is also X causes Y but an argument built on Correlation-Causation and hence it is better to classify it as the Correlation-Causation type.

October 14, 2015
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Critical Reasoning: Strengthen-Weaken — Type 2

by Tony Xavier

In the previous post on the Strengthen-Weaken question type, we discussed that there were three argument types around which strengthen-weaken type of questions are posed Plan of Action (PoA) X causes Y Correlation-Causation We discussed the PoA type of argument in that post, in this one we will look at the second type – X causes Y.

October 7, 2015
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Critical Reasoning: Strengthen/Weaken – Type 1

by Tony Xavier

We have covered almost all the Critical Reasoning question types on the blog. A few readers had asked for specific posts on the Strengthen/Weaken Type, so the next few posts will cover these two question types in detail. Strengthen/Weaken question types together constitute the maximum number of questions out of the 13-15 Critical Reasoning questions you will encounter on the Verbal section of the...

October 1, 2015
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Critical Reasoning – The Complete The Passage Question

by Tony Xavier

As most test-takers would know a majority of the Critical Reasoning questions you will encounter will belong to the Strengthen-Weaken Type — out of the 13-14 Critical Reasoning questions you will encounter at the least 5 will be from these two types. You will posed with 1-2 questions from each of the other question types. While the Boldfaced Question, is most famous and understandably...

September 16, 2015
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GMAT Quant Skills – Tackling Word Problems

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GMAT Quant: The Roman Numeral Problem

September 14, 2016

GMAT RC: Guided Practice Set 2

August 17, 2016

GMAT PS: You will never need to do heavy calculation

August 10, 2016

GMAT SC: Idiomatic Usage III

July 27, 2016

GMAT SC: Idiomatic Usage II

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