We offer 3 hours of GMAT seminars every Saturday. These seminars include a revision of weekly homework assignments, including the theory and strategies to solve easy, medium, and hard GMAT questions. We work exclusively with official GMAT material, retired questions from past exams. These questions are identical in structure and content to those you will…
What are Idioms? Idioms are phrases that are considered correct according to standard English. Many idiomatic structures have passed from generation to generation without significant changes, so they don’t always follow the grammatical rules we’ve been discussing. If you are a native English speaker, idioms are probably not much of an issue. Native speakers learn…
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A downward trend. The number of test takers worldwide has been decreasing. GMAT Testing Trends in Peru – Summary Peruvian residents sat for 708 GMAT exams. The mean age of Peruvian test takers was 28.8. The mean GMAT Total score was 566. The trend is clear: the number of Peruvians sitting for the test has…
By Clipper Ledgard When we are presented with the split “if” or “whether”, we should use “whether” unless it introduces a conditional clause: I will not run if I am tired. Conditional => Correct I do not know if I can believe you. Not conditional => Incorrect If the clause is not a conditional, “whether”…
By Clipper Ledgard In the GMAT, Sentence correction tests the usage of expressions that are frequently incorrect according to GMAT standards. One of these expressions is “due to”. Many people use the expression “due to” as a synonym of “because of”. However, “due to” is an adjective phrase, meaning “caused by”; therefore, it should only…
The following article was copied from the official GMAT website. Beginning April 16, 2018, the GMAT exam will be shortened by 30 minutes to a 3.5-hour exam, including the breaks and test instructions. This includes a 23-minute reduction in the exam sections, as well as additional time and content reduction across several non-exam screens at…
By Clipper Ledgard Critical Reasoning questions in the GMAT are well thought and, in many cases, challenging. Nevertheless, eliminating wrong answers may not be as difficult as it seems if we use the right approach. While the questions are cleverly created, the explanations in the official guide can be confusing and could clearly be improved.…
