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  • The Graduate Management Admissions Test

    The Graduate Management Admissions Test, more commonly referred to by the acronym GMAT (pronounced G-mat) is a standardized aptitude designed to measure basic verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills. It is often required as a prerequisite for graduate business studies. The GMAT test is one of the selection criteria used by many business schools for…

  • Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

    Sitting amidst a myriad of companies and within the lush green terrains of the Silicon Valley of India is the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. IIM Bangalore is also known as IIM-B. This college is amongst the most sought after colleges among MBA aspirants, appearing for CAT every year.  The third such institution, after IIM-A…

  • My GMAT Experience – A Guest Post

    It was about a year ago that I came to Barcelona. I was on my “campaign” looking for an appropriate job in Spain, and it was then that I decided to start preparing for the studies which I planned to undertake in a couple of years’ time. My brother had just entered the INSEAD MBA,…

  • Tackling the Reading comprehension section of GMAT

    The Verbal section of the GMAT will contain two written passages (each between 400 – 600 words long) followed by a series of questions. Passages can be about any subject, but the most common themes are politics, history, science, business and the humanities. Most readers find the passages difficult because the subject matter is dry…

  • The Truth About the GMAT

    The GMAT is not as scary as it sounds, and a lot of graduate students will tell youit is one of the only things about the application process that is in your control. You may not be able to change your GPA or work history but you can dramatically alter your GMAT score with some…