Written by Sameer Kamat

The GMAT exam is as much about speed as it is about accuracy. If you know all the tips to tackle the GMAT syllabus, but you don’t know how to crack GMAT questions in time, the scoring algorithm will penalise you. In this MBA Crystal Ball post, the experts from GoGMAT provide ideas on how to solve difficult GMAT questions that may seem simple at first.

Written by Sameer Kamat

GMAT Maths questions are considered (primarily by engineers) to be easier than GMAT verbal questions. But underestimating the difficulty levels of the GMAT Maths section is frequently the reason why many test takers score low on the quantitative section. GoGMAT continues the GMAT preparation series on MBA Crystal Ball, by taking up sample questions related to Remainders.

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In the MBA Crystal Ball series on GMAT Critical Reasoning questions on Assumptions, we’ve covered enough ground to give you the confidence to deal with such questions. In this article, the GoGMAT team provides one final GMAT Critical Reasoning Sample Question on Assumptions.
Here’s the earlier mini-series:
Part 1: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Identifying and Checking Assumptions
Part 2: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Common Assumption Types
Part 3: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Assumptions Sample

Written by Sameer Kamat

We conclude our 3-part MBA Crystal Ball series on GMAT Critical Reasoning questions on  Assumptions. In this article, the GoGMAT experts share a GMAT Critical Reasoning Sample Question on Assumptions.
Here’s the full mini-series:
Part 1: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Identifying and Checking Assumptions
Part 2: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Common Assumption Types
Part 3: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Assumptions Sample

Written by Sameer Kamat

Our friends from GoGMAT share with MBA Crystal Ball readers GMAT preparation tips to tackle the GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) questions. This time the focus is on CR question type – Assumption Questions.
Part 1: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Identifying and Checking Assumptions
Part 2: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Common Assumption Types
Part 3: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Assumptions Sample

Written by Sameer Kamat

Our friends from GoGMAT share with MBA Crystal Ball readers GMAT preparation tips to tackle the GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) questions. This time the focus is on CR question type – Assumption Questions. We’ll break this into 3 parts.
Part 1: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Identifying and Checking Assumptions
Part 2: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Common Assumption Types
Part 3: GMAT Critical Reasoning Questions: Assumptions Sample

Written by Sameer Kamat

The GMAT test day related anxiety starts right from the day you decide to apply to the best business schools. The stress and tension continues to build up during the GMAT preparation phase and ends only when you walk out of the GMAT test center. The day before the GMAT test is usually the worst.
Prashant (@Melodania on Twitter) is an engineer who’s currently working as an IT consultant. He’s a thoroughbred Mumbai lad, a music freak, a reader (not the Adobe Acrobat types). When he’s not playing his bass (guess whether that refers to his voice, his pet fish or his guitar), he’s in the kitchen trying to find a new dish to creatively mess up. In this guest post, he shares his GMAT test day experience along with some advice on managing the stress before & during the GMAT test date.

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For most international MBA applicants, the GMAT vs CAT dilemma is a no-brainer. Right? But you’d be surprised at how many folks who are just starting out have queries such as ‘Which is more difficult – CAT or GMAT? Which one should I go for? Should I use CAT material to prepare for the GMAT syllabus? Does the GMAT also have nine lives like the CAT?‘

Well, ok…the last one might be a figment of our imagination. Pretty much like our friend Achamba – The Super MBA

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Santa (Claus, not Singh) has got a little Christmas gift for all well-behaved kids who want to put the spotlight back on GMAT AWA essays. If you want to know whether those GMAT AWA templates you downloaded from various online forums are really useful, create a few GMAT AWA sample essays and test them out here.
Read these GMAT AWA essay tips. Once you are ready to get some practice, come back to this page and try out the GMAT AWA Rater which will rate your AWA essays. You can do it any number of times. And yeah, it’s free.

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Most GMAT success stories on MBA forums are written by the typical Indian IT Male Engineers. Makes you wonder if the female applicants from India have stopped preparing for the GMAT or failed to get into the high GMAT score club (above 750). We have tried to break that notion by inviting several girls (who have cracked the GMAT) to write about their experiences, but most have shied away.
Ipseeta Aruni shares tips on how she used unusual GMAT preparation techniques that ranged from self-hypnosis, relaxation, jogging, Ajile (software development principles), using a broken keyboard…and of course the best GMAT books too. Her eccentric (as she terms it) approach gave her an eccentric result – a GMAT score of 760.
A word of caution before you read on. Just because this unusual GMAT prep study-plan worked for Ipseeta, doesn’t mean it’ll work for you. So as the general disclaimer goes – All stunts in this story have been performed by trained professionals. Don’t try this at home.