GMAT Tip: The Usual Suspects for Quant Mistakes
These three common mistakes can be easily corrected if you know what to look for.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
How to Stand Out in an MBA Group Interview
As more B-schools introduce group interviews to the MBA application process, here are some tips on how to make a good impression
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
Questions to Ask in Your MBA Admissions Interview
In the MBA admissions interview, the questions applicants ask are as important as those they answer.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
GMAT Tip: What Geometry Questions Really Measure
You may not use geometry every day, but GMAT measures it to see how creatively you solve problems.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Avoiding a Common Critical Reasoning Trap
The GMAT’s “plan/strategy” questions trip up test-takers more often than most. Here’s a tip for making sure that doesn’t happen to you.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Simplifying the GMAT’s ‘Hard’ Math
GMAT test makers have a number of tricks for making simple math difficult. The key is to see through the ruse.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
T-Minus 30 Days and Counting: Getting Ready for B-School
The transition from worker bee to MBA student can be challenging. That’s why business schools offer programs and advice over the summer to help newbies maximize the MBA experience. If you’re among the first-year students heading back to school in the fall, here are some ways you can train to sit in a classroom again.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
How to Navigate the Dreaded MBA Wait List
It may seem like a lost cause, but there are things you can do to increase your chances of getting off the B-school wait list.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
GMAT Tip: Becoming a Sentence Correction ‘MVP’
Modifiers, verbs, and pronouns will allow you to eliminate most answer choices on GMAT sentence correction questions.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBA Admissions Interviews: A Numbers Game?
New research suggests interview order, as well as time of day, may factor into MBA acceptance.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Erin Zlomek | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Getting In
Tough Decisions: Choosing Among MBA Programs
Choosing among B-school offers isn’t easy, but potential career outcomes, financial aid, and the impact on loved ones should all factor into the decision.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Rose Martinelli | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Choosing a Program
Is B-School Research an Expensive Waste?
Larry Zicklin says B-schools should put less emphasis on research, and students shouldn’t be footing the bill.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
The Leadership Test Comes to B-School
The Graduate Management Admission Council, which markets the GMAT business school entrance exam, today launched a new online assessment tool designed to improve leadership and other “soft” skills. It comes with access to advice from executive coaches and an online library of content that allows users to develop skills at their own pace. It costs $99 for three years.
Content: Article | Author: Francesca Di Meglio | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Leadership, MBA Related, Personal Development
GMAT Tip: The Most Common Wrong Answer
The GMAT sets numerous traps for the unwary test-taker. Answer choices frequently appear to be correct but are utterly wrong.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBA Alumni Networks by the Numbers
If you just graduated from business school, it’s time to get to know your MBA alumni network-and you may be surprised what you find.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
GMAT Tip: Becoming a Sentence-Correction Pro
A key clue to GMAT sentence-correction questions is often hidden in plain sight-as an humble pronoun.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Making the Abstract Concrete
Fear not: All those GMAT problems loaded with strange subscript notations are pretty easy, once you see how simply they are structured.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
MBAs Without Borders: Have Degree, Will Travel
Dozens of MBAs seeking short-term international work assignments have found jobs through MBAs Without Borders, which places B-school graduates in the developing world to work on projects that range from public health to oil and gas extraction.
Content: Article | Author: Erin Zlomek | Source: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Career, MBA Related
GMAT Tip: The Weighted-Average Tug of War
To solve the GMAT’s weighted-average problems, just think back to a game you played in third-grade gym class.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT
GMAT Tip: Data-Sufficiency Land Mines
There are only two ways to go wrong on data-sufficiency questions; for smart test-takers, that poses a big opportunity.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Source: BusinessWeek | Subject: GMAT