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• GMAT Tip: Think Like the Testmaker Series, Volume 2

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from Veritas Prep. Earlier this week, we shared with you the first volume of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series.” In today’s article, they present their second installment to help you as you study:The writers of the GMAT are tasked with a fairly difficult challenge — using fairly ...
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• GMAT Tip: Think Like the Testmaker Series, Volume 1

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at Veritas Prep. In this article, they present the first installment of their “Think Like the Testmaker Series”:As Veritas Prep’s Director of Academic Programs, Brian Galvin runs all of our GMAT prep courses.Greetings, readers! In this space over the coming months, the ...
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 7)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: Would you consider taking outside financing? RV: We will consider anything. Right now the business is running in a healthy fashion without outside financing. If someone brought in quality board members and added something more than just financing to our business, that would appeal to us. We... ..
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• Preparing for Standardized Tests

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 155
  In simplest form, and their original intended use, tests given in schools are a way for teachers and education officials to measure how well a student understands the subjects that they have been taught. But, like many other things in life, tests have transformed to previously unthinkable levels–who would have ...
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 6)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: You have scaled to a $13 million business over the past seven years. What has been challenging in that process?RV: The most challenging aspect has been our individual personal growth. When we first started the business we did everything, including the teaching. We went from a two-person team... ..
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 5

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: In terms of revenue, what is the size of your company?RV: Our SAT business is at $11 million, and we are just over $13 million in total. SM: Looking at the size of your company, I have to ask one question. Why you are in so many businesses?RV: We have violated all the rules [...] ..
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• GMAT Tip: Breaking Down Weighted Average Problems #2

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from ManhattanGMAT. This article is a follow-up to an earlier one on weighted average problems. This time, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers advice on a more difficult weighted average problem:Earlier, we tackled a medium-level GMATPrep® weighted average question. This time, ...
  1 week ago

• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 4)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: What does a deal size look like for your company? Let’s use Los Angeles Unified as the example.RV: The LAUSD contract ends up being between $500K and $600K annually. SM: Is that an annual subscription service?RV: Yes. It is $30 per student, per year. The price of the contract can fluctuate... ..
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 3)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: Are you primarily a brick-and-mortar tutoring service, or are you an online education service?RV: The SAT prep courses are 90% offline and 10% online. However, we have another larger business that we started in California and Texas three years ago which is 100% online. In California, students... ..
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 2)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  SM: What kinds of learning challenges do you help your students overcome?RV: A lot of students have a hard time reading long passages. They read something and then realize they have no idea what they just read. To counter this we teach kids how to actively read by asking themselves questions after... ..
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• Helping Failing High School Students Pass: Revolution Prep Founders Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg (Part 1)

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 485
  Revolution Prep was founded 2002 by Ramit Varma and Jake Neuberg, who met at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Founded in 2002, Revolution has become the largest provider of SAT prep courses and tutoring in California and one of the largest providers nationwide, with students in 12... ..
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• GMAT Tip: Breaking Down Weighted Average Problems

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. In this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers advice on weighted average problems:This week, we’re going to tackle a GMATPrep® question from the quant side of things. We’ll tackle a medium-level question this week in order to learn how ...
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• GMAT Practice Problem: Reciprocal Difference

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT challenge question comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT.  To help you with your GMAT studying, try to solve the problem on your own, and then read on for the explanation of its solution:ProblemTwo positive numbers differ by 12 and their reciprocals differ by 4/5.  What is their product?(A)   ...
  2 weeks ago

• GMAT Tip: Dealing with Very Hard Max/Min Statistics Problems

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. This article serves as a follow-up to a recent one on max/min questions. This time around, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers advice on an even more difficult sample GMATPrep® max/min question:Recently, we tackled two GMATPrep® questions; if ...
  2 weeks ago

• GMAT Practice Question: Modifier Madness: Breaking Down a Sentence Correction Problem

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from the folks at test prep firm ManhattanGMAT. As a follow-up to another recent GMAT article, in this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince breaks down another example of a GMATPrep® Sentence Correction (SC) question:This week, we’re going to analyze a particularly tough ...
  3 weeks ago

• GMAT Tip: Unofficial Guide to the Official Guide – Part 1

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from the folks at Kaplan. In this article, Kaplan teacher Brian Fruchey shares advice on best practices for using the GMAC Official Guide:The GMAC Official Guide is a fantastic book.  (So fantastic, that when students enroll in a Kaplan GMAT course, we buy a copy for them!)   While the book ...
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• GMAT Tip: Maximize/Minimize Statistics Problems

  
  Clear Admit: MBA Admissions Consultants Blog — Authority: 136
  Today’s GMAT tip comes from our friends at ManhattanGMAT. In this article, ManhattanGMAT instructor Stacey Koprince offers explanations to sample GMATPrep® max/min questions:This week, we’re going to tackle two GMATPrep® questions, this time from the quant side of things. My students have been asking (really, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Socrato Aims to Help Students Score Higher on Standardized Tests

  
  Innovation Economy — Authority: 530
  You may be spending today preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, or a gift-buying foray shortly afterward. But if you have a high-schooler in the house, the preparation theyre thinking about is for two important standardized tests looming in December: the SAT (December 5th) and the ACT (December 12th.) Socrato, a North ...
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• WTF: Test Prep for Preschoolers?!

  
  MomLogic — Authority: 541
  Heres yet another phenomenon in the paranoia surrounding preschool.
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• Test-prepping for ‘gifted” kindergarten

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 600
  To get their children into “gifted” kindergarten classes, affluent New Yorkers are hiring tutors to test-prep three- and four-year-olds , reports the New York Times.  A “gifted” public education is free, while private school may cost $20,000 a year. So the cost of tutoring seems small by comparison ...
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