Aug 30, 2023 | GMAT, Meta-Strategy
Assessing Your GMAT Performance for a Retake Understanding Your Initial GMAT Score: Interpreting the Results One of the crucial steps in deciding whether to retake the GMAT is to thoroughly understand and interpret your initial score. The GMAT score report provides...
Aug 23, 2023 | GMAT, GRE, Meta-Strategy, Meta-Strategy
GMAT vs. GRE: Which Test is Right for You? If you’re considering business school, one of the first decisions to make is whether to prepare for the GRE or the GMAT. While the preferences of the admissions offices at your target schools should take precedence, there are...
Aug 22, 2023 | Combinatorics, GMAT, Quant
What are combinations? Conceptually, the combinations task is easy to understand: it’s about the number of ways to select a subgroup from a whole group. As in the permutations task, the whole group is notated as n, and the subgroup is notated as r. The standard...
Aug 15, 2023 | Combinatorics, GMAT, Quant
Permutations are a type of combinatorics task that is often tested on the GMAT. In a permutations question, you are asked to find the number of ways to order a group of elements. The order of the elements matters in permutations questions, so the number of possible...
Aug 8, 2023 | Combinatorics, GMAT, Quant
What is an Ordering Task? Ordering tasks are a common type of question on the GMAT. In an ordering task, you are asked to determine the number of ways to order a set of objects. The number of ways to order n different objects is n!, or n factorial. The best way to...
Aug 1, 2023 | Combinatorics, GMAT, Quant
Every combinatorics question on the GMAT involves one or more of three fundamental combinatorics tasks: ordering, permutations, and combinations. This article will introduce the three tasks, and each of the three following articles will explain a task intuitively to...
