MyGuru is excited to announce that during 2011, a year that saw us work with 4 to 5 times more students than we worked with in 2010, no customer complaints were filed with the Better Business Bureau.  Now, that's not to say everyone student/tutor ...

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...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

The recent SAT cheating scandal involving Long Island high schoolers and college students has raised alarm bells across higher education.  How could students from top notch Long Island schools pay college students to take their SATs for them?  How wi...

MyGuru is excited to announce that John Easter has joined the team as Managing Tutor for Test Prep.  John is a seasoned tutor who has been helping students prepare for the ACT, SAT, GRE, and GMAT for the past 10 years. John graduated from Indiana U...

MyGuru recently came across a site with a healthy dose of information about a wide range of business school topics. It includes everything from study tips, to lists of top business schools, to an online glossary of business terms. The site appears to...

When studying for the GMAT, most students correctly purchase the Official Guide to the GMAT from GMAC.org as their first test prep book. Whether to use a private tutor vs. a group class or go it alone is a decision we address throughout this site. H...

Every once in a while, students who work with us on GMAT prep will ask for advice about business school options (especially if they don’t do well on the GMAT). From time to time, the topic of online MBA school options will come up. MyGuru’s found...

Mark here, co-founder and Managing Tutor of MyGuru. This post is the official launch of MyGuru's GMAT blog.  Each of MyGuru's founders, Mark (that's me), Jon, and Karthik scored 700+ on the GMAT and attended top 10 business schools, so GMAT prep an...

Sometimes test preparation requires memorization. For example, the SAT and GRE require building your vocabulary. Here are some tried and true memory techniques. The Roman Technique: This technique involves setting what you want to remember to the l...

The below video, though relatively longwinded, provides some simple, easy to understand advice about studying for the GMAT.  We'd prefer if he didn't reference several other GMAT prep options, though because they're not Chicago-based, we have no probl...

MyGuru announced today that six more tutors have been accepted as members of its independently contracted tutoring team.  Only 1 in 10 interested applicants is ultimately accepted as a tutor for MyGuru.  As a boutique tutoring company, we don't aim t...

MyGuru strives to providesexcellent tutoring and test prep in a range of academic areas.  Below are recent testimonials from happy customers studying for: the GMAT, Actuarial Exams, Organic Chemistry, and Statistics.  We will be updating this post e...

MyGuru has added Joanna Stroncek to its Board of Advisors.  Joanna attended Northwestern University, where she majored in Economics. After Northwestern, she worked as a management consultant.  Joanna is currently an MBA student at Northwestern Univer...

MyGuru has recently brought two exceptional test prep instructors onto its team: John Easter, Indiana University, B.S. in Mathematics and French & M.S. Candidate in Mathematics at University of Illinois at Chicago John Easter attended Indiana...

MyGuru recently signed a partnership with Elemental Learning, a Naperville-based tutoring company that shares its vision for high quality, affordable 1-1 tutoring. Unlike MyGuru, Elemental Learning focuses on meeting the educational needs of K-8 stu...

Millions of students seek private tutoring each and every year.  Given overcrowded classrooms, overworked and underpaid teachers, and the increasing competitiveness of the college admissions process, this is not a surprise. To meet this demand, doz...

The CYA/MyGuru Partnership As CYA’s Official Academic Partner, MyGuru has agreed to provide discounted tutoring and test prep services to CYA players, families, and friends. MyGuru’s tutors will also be able to travel directly to the ...

The founders of MyGuru all attended well known undergraduate institutions (Northwestern University, Indiana Univeristy, University of Missourri) and obtained their MBAs from very high priced, yet very respected graduate schools (i.e., Northwestern/Kell...

We at MyGuru believe a majority of students do themselves a disservice when they choose to enroll in a typical group GMAT class from a major test prep firm.  Our experience in prepping for the GMAT (and subsequently attending the Kellogg School of Man...

Find online and local Test Prep Classes MyGuru is now a featured blogger on a popular web-site, TeachStreet, used by many students looking for GRE or GMAT test prep advice.

MyGuru launched in late January of 2010.  We are a local tutoring & test prep organization which focuses on providing 1-1, customized help to students in and around Chicago.  Our tutors are: certified teachers, PhD students at Northwestern Univ...