Magoosh just released an excellent new GRE vs. GMAT Infographic that presents a side-by-side comparison of the GRE and the GMAT. Check it out, share it, and decide which test is right for your b-school applications!
Comparing the GRE and GMAT
Since business schools started accepting GRE scores for admissions, prospective students are now faced with a choice—what standardized test do I take? Each student arrives at an answer in her own way. It’s not as simple as a straight head comparison—GRE versus GMAT. That said, it does help to know the similarities and differences between…
How to Put Your Best Foot Forward on Test Day
Many of us have gotten through school with decent grades by relying on one method: cramming. We’ll likely order a jumbo-sized coffee, deposit ourselves in the far corner of a café, and condense three-months of material into a six-hour, red-eyed, caffeine-fueled study session. If you pull those shenanigans test day, you’ll definitely end up with…
Review of BenchPrep’s Online Test Prep Site
I just logged into the BenchPrep test prep website and am welcomed with their greeting of “Gain an unfair advantage on test day”; I like this – a test prep site with an edge! Let’s continue exploring… After you sign in and choose your test (see list below), you’ll then choose your target test date….
Should You Take the GMAT or GRE?
Many b-schools now accept the GRE (including Stanford, HBS, Wharton, Booth, and MIT Sloan, among others), so MBA applicants will need to decide whether the GMAT or GRE will better increase their chances of acceptance. Here are some factors you should consider when making this decision: 1. GMAT: Take the GMAT if at least one of…
What Does the GRE Have to Do with Actual Grad School?
Learning all those words, from lachrymose to perfunctory, and memorizing all those formulas, from work rate to compound interest, you’ve probably asked yourself countless times: What the “beep” does this have to do with grad school? Any such frustration is pretty justified, because much of what you learn on the GRE has little to do…
5 GRE Commandments to Remember
Test day: it’s here. It’s all too easy to lose your composure and get caught up on few tough questions during the test. The test-makers throw in all sorts of convoluted wording and unnecessary information to make you get confused, take up time, and throw you off. Don’t get caught in this trap! Heed the…
Rote Memorization and Your Verbal Score
Many of us have grown up taking vocabulary quizzes. We’ve learned to excel by memorizing a definition of a word, coughing up those definitions for the quiz and moving on. It’s not surprising then that many studying for the GRE think that learning a definition to a word—even if they are not entirely sure what…
Studying For GRE Verbal and the TOEFL at the Same Time
It seems unfair, doesn’t it? A native English speaker applying for a graduate program in the U.S. might spend months studying for the GRE, just the GRE, but if you aren’t a native speaker, you might have to devote some energy to the TOEFL, too. How do you study for two tests at the same…
The Importance of a Strong Finish
It is easy to get burned out on GRE prep. Sure you start off with pistons pumping but by the second month the mere thought of opening a GRE book makes you shudder. Whether you are taking the test after only a month of prep or after six months, you should make sure to spend…
Getting Over the Hump of a Mediocre Score Range
If you have been prepping for the GRE and have found yourself in the middle range of scores, you are not alone. Indeed, most people taking the test fall within the middle range (a phenomenon explained by the Bell Curve). Getting over 155 or higher, in either math or verbal, will help you break from…
The Ultimate GRE Guide from Magoosh
The GRE experts at Magoosh have just released the Ultimate GRE Guide, which is a great resource for anyone starting to study for the GRE. It answers every question an aspiring graduate student might have, from the very basic (“What is the GRE?”) to the advanced (“How do you get a perfect score?”). It organizes a lot of…
GRE Material Roundup
Studying for a test is easy. Right? You burn the midnight oil, pouring through a textbook, your class notes by your side. As long as you get a pint-sized cup of coffee in the morning, you should probably knock out a ‘B+’—before crashing a few hours later. The GRE is very different. Achieving a high…
Music Playlist Proven to Boost Your Scores!
Washington University School of Law’s Online LLM program just got in touch with us to tell us about their new study aid, Spotify Playlist, a compilation of late baroque era classical music including works by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, and Vivaldi. The playlist was created based on a Stanford study that shows that certain types of…
Getting a Good Grasp of GRE Verbal
The GRE verbal section can be incredibly daunting, even for native English speakers fresh out of college. For those students who are non-native speakers, or for those who have been out of college for awhile and typically don’t pepper their leisure reading with academic writing, the vocabulary and reading on the GRE verbal section can…
GMAT vs. GRE Quant: A Tale of Two Tests
Back in October of last year, ETS (the GMAC of the GRE) posted an important press release on its website regarding the increasing popularity of the revised GRE for business school admissions: http://www.ets.org/newsroom/news_releases/gre_acceptance. Now that MBA programs at top schools like Stanford and Harvard are accepting GRE scores as well, many students are weighing the relative difficulty of the two exams,…
GMAT vs. GRE Verbal: A Tale of Two Tests
Now that over 7,000 MBA programs worldwide accept GRE scores, you may be seriously debating just which test to take: the GRE or the GMAT. Crucial to the GMAT vs. GRE decision is which test will allow you to put your best academic foot forward. Indeed, you may be wondering exactly how the two tests…
Should You Take the GMAT or GRE?
69% of b-schools now accept the GRE (including Stanford, HBS, Wharton, Booth, and MIT Sloan, among others), so MBA applicants will need to decide whether the GMAT or GRE will better increase their chances of acceptance. Here are some factors you should consider when making this decision: GMAT: Take the GMAT if at least one of…
How to Cram GRE Vocabulary Words
I know, I know… I always preach the importance of learning vocabulary slowly and in-context, so the usage of a word really seeps into your brain. But sometimes, you just don’t have the time, and you need to cram as many GRE vocabulary words as you can in a limited amount of time. Maybe you only…
MBA Applicants Stick with the GMAT
According to a recent Kaplan Test press release, the majority of MBA applicants prefer to stick with the GMAT instead of the GRE even though 69% of business schools accept GRE scores. The press release states that fewer than 1 in 10 applicants submitted GRE scores to GRE-friendly schools this past admissions cycle. And it’s…
