GMAT Tutoring

Investing in GMAT tutoring is hands down the most efficient and effective way to prepare for the GMAT. We work with so many students who have spent months using self-paced GMAT prep materials or taken a lengthy GMAT course and made very limited progress. They have watched dozens of hours of GMAT prep videos and read and re-read the Official Guide to the GMAT. They’ve allocated 20 (or more!) hours each week doing hundreds of practice GMAT problems, but they still struggle to understand key GMAT concepts and the best GMAT prep strategies.

Spending hundreds of hours doing thousands of practice problems is not how you should be studying for the GMAT. Your GMAT tutor or course should not be teaching you Math or English like you are in a high school or college classroom. Your focus should be on building the right types of critical thinking and logic skills, and applying them to actual GMAT problems. We have worked with many students who improved their scores by 50, 100, and even 150 points, even though they'd already been studying for months before working with us.

What You Might Learn from a GMAT Tutor

• Build a customized study plan
• Don't study for more than 90 minutes at a time
• 90% of your practice problems and 100% of your practice tests should be official GMAC.org content
• Set a goal upfront overall, as well as a goal for each month, and even week
• Take regular timed official practice tests
• Conduct frequent mini-tests of the materials
• Practice mental-math whenever you can during the months leading up to your GMAT exam
• Carefully review missed problems to identify errors

Other important GMAT test-taking strategies apply to the process of arriving at the best possible answer on the GMAT itself, such as:

• Use process of elimination
• Use a scratch pad to work out GMAT quant problems
• Don’t be afraid to plug in numbers
• On problem solving questions, look at the possible answers before solving (this can often help you approach the question)
• Don’t make assumptions that aren’t specifically stated in the questions

A good tutor will also hold you accountable to your study plan, keep you on task during prep sessions, and help motivate you to put in the effort to succeed.

Our GMAT Tutoring Team

It's also important to study with a GMAT tutor who is a true expert at teaching GMAT concepts and strategies. We have a small team of tutors who do this either full-time, or close to it. It's hard to overstate how important the experience and approach of the tutor is, and how little personal success on the GMAT sometimes translates to teaching skill. Many people have scored 750+ on the GMAT, but a very small percentage of those people are excellent GMAT tutors. Our main tutor, Stefan, spent 15+ years at the Princeton Review and was voted best teacher in the Midwest. he is a full-time GMAT tutor who has been contracted by several large organizations to create GMAT content and a number of universities to teach their GMAT prep courses. He has trained a small team of tutors to follow his general approach and strategies. They have all scored above the 97th percentile on the GMAT, but that is not one of the top five reasons to work with them.

GMAT Results and Testimonials

The below quotes are from students who have experienced the power of customized MyGuru GMAT coaching:

“I took the gmat online today and scored a 720! Thank you again for all of your help. When I scored a 570 during my diagnostic exam I certainly did not expect to increase my score 150 points…please feel free to share my name as a reference for future potential students!”

-Lindsey B.

“I couldn't have asked for a better experience with MyGuru. Prior to MyGuru, I initially used a Manhattan Prep self-study program to prepare for the GMAT exam and was able to score a 680. I wasn't satisfied with this score and was looking to push higher up to my goal of 720. I reached out to MyGuru for additional tutoring and Mark immediately paired me with Stefan.

I worked with Stefan through videoconferencing, which was a very easy and convenient way to receive tutoring. I would highly recommend using this option. Stefan created a customized schedule for me based on my needs and we did a crash course refresher over a month-long period in order to push my score into the higher percentiles. I enjoyed working with Stefan and he was very flexible with my schedule as I had to change a few scheduled times due to work conflicts. In addition, Stefan provided me with structured assignments and unique test taking tips that were much different than the standard Manhattan Prep tips I had learned. I appreciated this different way of thinking as it helped me feel more comfortable with the exam and improved my overall test taking abilities. He specifically helped me to improve my overall timing, critical reasoning skills, sentence correction methodology, and data sufficiency abilities.”

 -Lindsay A

"I would highly recommend Margo as a tutor for anyone looking to dramatically improve their overall score on the GMAT. I was dejected after scoring a 640 on my GMAT in July, so I turned to MyGuru for a solution after receiving a referral from a friend. Marco has coached me over the past few months - accommodating my busy work schedule flexibly and often times offering me more than the allotted time for tutoring to chat about life, professional development, relationships - whatever was on my mind. Her self-written course guides, GMAT study plan, and online quizzes were very impressive and useful - an essential part of my preparation. She was an excellent tutor with a unique method - and was especially strong in teaching me to apply more shortcuts and organization in GMAT math problems. With Margo's support, I managed to score a 750 on my second attempt at the GMAT - a 110pt improvement in 2 short months. I also managed to gain some career/life advice and a great new friend in the process."

-Matt K.

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