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Problem Solving Pill Almost Ready
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when the problem solving pill is coming out.
We realize a lot of you have your exam dates coming up so we are working hard to finalize the member site for the problem solving section.
So when will the Problem Solving Pill be available?Update Jan 18: Sorry guys! The number of topics in problem solving is quite a big larger than I expected. I only want to release the problem solving pill when I believe it adequately addresses the variety of problems you will see. As such, it’ll take probably another week or so to finish. Apologies for those of you who are urgently waiting! But quality comes first!
Here are a few teaser screenshots:
Update Jan 23: The Problem Solving Pill is now available!
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267,000 students take GMAT in 2009
Yup, that’s how many people you are competing with when you take the GMAT exam. At least that’s the figure that the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) announced for 2009. 267,000 is just a few thousand more than 2008’s number of 264,700. So roughly the same as last year.
Interesting to see what will happen next year as ETS tries to market themselves and promote their GRE exam as an alternative to the GMAT.
Some points:
1) A lot of the testing boom has been driven by students outside of the U.S. It was the first time in the exam’s history that there were actually more international test takers than U.S. test takers. In terms of numbers, about 51% of test takers were non-U.S. citizens.
2) There’s a trend of higher quality business schools around the world outside the US. It used to be that all the international students were sending their test scores to U.S. business schools. About 75% of them did this. But now, that number is down a little bit to 65%—indicating that more of them are sending scores to business schools around the world. There is less of a U.S.-centric mentality when it comes to applying to business school from a global perspective.
3) Also, there are relatively more women taking the exam now–about 105,000 out of the 265,000 or so taking the exam.
Anyway, just some interesting trends in test taking that I thought you might find interesting.
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Kaplan now owns ManhattanGMAT
Looks like Kaplan now owns ManhattanGMAT. Sources say it technically happened near the end of December 2009.
It’ll be very interesting to see how it plays out in the future. The discrepancy in instructor pay between the two companies might be an issue going forward. It seems they intend to keep everything the same. The only difference seems to lie in who gets the leftover cash–now it’s Kaplan instead of the founder who probably cashed a hefty check from Kaplan.
Anyway, I don’t want to say too much since I don’t have the details, but thought some of you might want to know.
We’ve had many students who previously used Kaplan and ManhattanGMAT–so far they’re enjoying the GMAT Pill! Would be quite interesting if Kaplan bought out the GMAT Pill—!
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I Love Getting These Emails
I love getting these emails from students. Here’s an UNSOLICITED testimonial from a student who took prep courses, ManhattanGMAT, AND private tutoring–and still got the same results. Then he looked at the GMAT Pill.
So I replied with this:
Then he wrote back saying he went through all the ManhattanGMAT materials, private tutoring, and a prep course. His results from GMAT Pill are “night and day.”
In fact, this is just one of the several students who have told me their story of using other prep material and taking the GMAT 3 times. But everything seemed to change for them after taking the GMAT Pill.
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