GMAT & Business School
- Applying to Business School? Revised GRE vs. GMAT: MyGuru’s Perspective February 10, 2012
Many MBA programs are now accepting the Revised GRE test for admissions. We recently wrote a post on our blog which covers most of what you’d need to know about the specifics of the revised GRE, in case you’re unfamiliar with it. In any case, t...
- GMAT Challenge Problem 1: Probability February 10, 2012
Suppose we roll three fair dice - a red die, a yellow die, and a blue die. What is the probability the the sum of the upturned faces on the red and yellow die is smaller than the upturned face on the blue die? A. 10/33 B. 5/54 C. 7/72 D. 1/...
- GMAT SC Rule of the Day: 1.27.2012 January 25, 2012
Subject Verb Agreement: Collective Nouns Collective nouns designate large groups of people or things. For example: People: agency, army, band, audience, committee, congress, team Things: baggage, furniture. These nouns are almost always sin...
- How I Gained 260 Points on the GMAT January 17, 2012
Five times.....yes.....five times......I took the GMAT five times for admission to business school.Was there something wrong with me?For a while, I thought there was but now that I look back....Absolutely not. Standardized exams are just one of thos...
- GMAT Combinatorics 2.0: Permutations and Combinations December 28, 2011
If you haven't read GMAT Combinatorics 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, you should do that before you read any further. Even if you're familiar with some of the material, you may not be familiar with my approach. Though the subtitle of this posts suggests that I'm g...
- GMAT Combinatorics 1.2: Problem Solutions December 27, 2011
1. Suppose you perform the following experiment - You flip a coin 5 times and record the results. How many different outcomes are there? (A result being a 5-character long string of H's and T's, such as HHTHT) Solution: For every flip of the coin, t...
- GMAT Combinatorics 1.1: Practice Problems December 27, 2011
This post will give you some practice problems related to the post GMAT Combinatorics 1.0: Introduction. These will not be GMAT type problems as MyGuru takes a bottom-up approach to test prep. We want out students to learn the fundamentals first. At a ...
- GMAT Combinatorics 1.0: Introduction December 26, 2011
This is an introductory post on combinatorics - the art of counting. Combinatorics is one of the most difficult parts of the GMAT because it is not part of the standard American high school curriculum. With many other troubling types of problems, such ...
- Getting into a Top Ten Business School - An Introduction December 16, 2011
Applying to business schools is a daunting exercise. For many of you, this may be the first time you come in contact with extreme competition. By the time you are contemplating business school, you will have already been successful in your career –...
- MyGuru Forms New Partnership with BenchPrep December 8, 2011
MyGuru is excited to announce a new partnership with BenchPrep. BenchPrep is a unique provider of mobile and online test prep software for the ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT, as well as many other standardized tests. Their "apps" allow stude...
