--- title: Grad School / MBA News and GMAT / GRE Strategy | MyGuru | Mark Skoskiewicz (3) description: "Mark Skoskiewicz holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a Major in Finance from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, (he received additional minors in Philosophy and History). At IU, Mark was an undergraduate economics instructor teaching supplemental small group sessions for the department’s introductory economics course. During his junior and senior years, he was a private economics, finance, and accounting tutor. After Indiana, Mark spent 8 years working for Marakon Associates before creating MyGuru in 2009 while earning his MBA at Northwestern Kellogg to make it easier for parents and students to find high quality yet affordable tutors. While Mark wants MyGuru to always be known as a source for excellent tutors, we also aim to be a thought leader on how to improve academic performance through shifts in mindset, well-defined study plans, improved study habits, and even stress reduction strategies. Mark believes these ideas are a powerful, critical complement to working with an expert private tutor. Mark currently shares insights, advice, and information about how to improve academic performance in MyGuru’s improving academic performance blog and in an eBook Plan, Prepare, Perform: A Personalized Approach to Test Preparation. (3)" --- # GRAD School / MBA News and GMAT / GRE Strategy Stay current with the latest grad school or MBA admissions news as well as proven GMAT and GRE strategies. 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The GRE is not like an IQ test. The more you study for the GRE, in general, the higher you will score. One basic mental mistake students often make is to keep toxic thoughts in their head about being “bad at math” (or verbal) and thus viewing GRE prep as a process they must endure, but which probably won’t help ***all*** that much. That’s wrong. While perhaps not a completely linear relationship, the more you prepare, the better you’ll do. Yes, how you prepare matters a lot too (more on that below). But just showing up and putting in the time is certainly an important part of the battle here. 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Just in the past week [Pearson Vue](https://home.pearsonvue.com/coronavirus-update), the largest testing center company in the U.S., announced that all of their centers country-wide are closed until at least April 16. In response to these circumstances, beginning March 23, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) is at least temporarily offering a “[GRE General Test at Home](https://www.ets.org/s/cv/gre/at-home/)” for test takers in several nations including the U.S., Canada, and Hong Kong. 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[GRE study tips](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/gre-study-tips) [GRE](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/gre) [GRE tutors](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/gre-tutors) [master's degree](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/masters-degree) [grad school](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/grad-school) [grad school online](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/grad-school-online) [online graduate degree](https://www.myguruedge.com/our-thinking/gre-and-the-graduate-school-admissions-process/topic/online-graduate-degree) ![grad1](https://www.myguruedge.com/hs-fs/hubfs/grad1.jpg?width=300&name=grad1.jpg)Master’s degrees are becoming increasingly common, and it’s not hard to see why. In some fields, an advanced degree is necessary for even entry-level jobs, and for others, like STEM fields, it can mean an even higher salary, more and better prospects and more exciting work. But, it’s also not hard to see why many professionals are reluctant to take the plunge into traditional graduate school. Doing so means leaving the workforce, moving to a new city and going into tens of thousands of dollars of debt. 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