How to Ace the GMAT Verbal Section

How to Ace the GMAT Verbal Section

It’s not secret that business schools look for high GMAT scores. What you might not know is that the Verbal section on the GMAT has an outsized influence on the aggregate score. This means that the path to a truly great score, once you’ve hit the minimum marks on the...
GMAT RC: Social Science/Humanities Passages

GMAT RC: Social Science/Humanities Passages

Many GMAT candidates who struggle with Reading Comprehension are most challenged by passages belonging to the social science/humanities category. In these passages, the subject matter is the least familiar. But the real challenge for these passages is the fact that...
GMAT RC: Natural Science/Research Passages

GMAT RC: Natural Science/Research Passages

GMAT Reading Comprehension passages belonging to the natural science/research category make for great attentive reading practice. They usually feature a level of technical information crucial to understanding the passage, but they often also involve a clash between...
GMAT RC: Business/Economics Passages

GMAT RC: Business/Economics Passages

The last article in this series on the Verbal Reasoning section introduced a “three-track” attentiveness strategy for the GMAT Reading Comprehension Section: what the passage says  |  what the author is doing  |  what the author/subjects think This article will apply...
Common SC Errors: Comparisons and Contrasts

Common SC Errors: Comparisons and Contrasts

Comparing or contrasting two things or ideas is a common function of Sentence Correction questions on the GMAT. GMAT Comparison and contrast errors fall into two main categories: (1) using incorrect and unidiomatic wordings to express the comparison/contrast (2)...