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GMAT Interview with a 760 Scorer

Posted by Mark Skoskiewicz on November 30, 2012 7:37:00 AM CST

Congratulations to Holly, who recently scored a 760 on the GMAT.

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Tags: GMAT prep, GMAT, GMAT Blog, testimonials

GMAT SC Rule of the Day: 1.27.2012

Posted by Mark Skoskiewicz on January 25, 2012 9:10:00 AM CST

Subject Verb Agreement: Collective Nouns

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Tags: GMAT prep, GMAT, GMAT Blog, Sentence Correction, Subject / Verb Agreement, Uncategorized

GMAT Combinatorics 1.2: Problem Solutions

Posted by Mark Skoskiewicz on December 27, 2011 11:03:00 AM CST

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1. Suppose you perform the following experiment - You flip a coin 5 times and record the results. How many different outcomes are there? (A result being a 5-character long string of H's and T's, such as HHTHT)

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Tags: GMAT, GMAT Blog, Combinatoircs, Solved Problems

GMAT Combinatorics 1.1: Practice Problems

Posted by Mark Skoskiewicz on December 27, 2011 3:45:00 AM CST

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This post will give you some GMAT practice problems related to the post GMAT Combinatorics 1.0: Introduction. These will not be GMAT type problems as MyGuru takes a bottom-up approach to test prep. We want out students to learn the fundamentals first. At a later point we'll focus on useful tricks and traps to avoid in the problems solving and data sufficiency format.

1. Suppose you perform the following experiment - You flip a coin 5 times and record the results. How many different outcomes are there?

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Tags: GMAT, GMAT Blog, Combinatorics

GMAT Combinatorics 1.0: Introduction

Posted by Mark Skoskiewicz on December 26, 2011 6:34:00 AM CST

This is an introductory post on combinatorics - the art of counting. Combinatorics is one of the most difficult parts of the GMAT because it is not part of the standard American high school curriculum. With many other troubling types of problems, such as rate questions, fraction / decimal / percent problems, etc., a bit of review and a lot of practice will do the trick, but, in general, to get a handle on combinatorics problems students have to learn something new.

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Tags: Probability, GMAT, GMAT Blog, Combinatorics

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