Preparing for GMAT: Important Links for You

July 8, 2013December 17, 2022Dilip Oak's Academy

Gathered together here are some useful links that will help you get prepared for that all-important exam!

Reading Comprehension

Preliminary Reading and Practice for the RC (for Dilip Oak’s Academy students)

Data Sufficiency

Read these blogs and never get confused about Data Sufficiency questions on the GMAT again:

Integrated Reassoning

Wondering what Integrated Reasoning is and why it was introduced? Find out with these simple explanations.

Analytical Writing Helps

Problems with writing good essays in English affect almost everyone. Here are some important links on cutting out the mistakes that pull you down.

Hypergrammar from Ottowa UniversityFind out about:
– what kind of sentences work best in formal writing assignments such as essays
– the purpose of different types of sentences
– the importance of sentence structure
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Find out about:
– how to how to move smoothly from one paragraph to another by using transition words and phrases effectively
– tips on how to improve sentence clarity through using parallel constructions, transition phrases, clear pronoun references and other grammatical devices
– when to use capital letters and when to go with small case:
– making sure you don’t confuse your a’s, an’s and the’s:
– advice on proper subject-verb agreement

Tackle Options in GMAT DS Questions the Oak’s Academy Way

May 30, 2013February 27, 2023Dilip Oak's Academy

~ by our Quantitative Reasoning Faculty

Step 2 of the Approach to DS Questions: Tackle the Options the Oak’s Way

Step 1 of the approach dealt with carefully reading the question statement (see previous blog). Once that is done you have to deal with the options, which are standard in DS questions:

(A) Statement (1) alone is sufficient but statement (2) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked

(B) Statement (2) alone is sufficient but statement (1) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked

(C) Both statements (1) and (2) together are sufficient to answer the question asked, but neither statement alone is sufficient

(D) Each statement alone is sufficient to answer the question asked

(E) Statements (1) and (2) together are not sufficient to answer the question asked and additional data are needed.

To deal with them in the most systematic way possible just follow the sufficiency/insufficiency table below. It offers the best way of thinking through the options

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Next Generation GMAT/ GMAT Integrated Reasoning

December 22, 2012March 6, 2023Dilip Oak's Academy

On 5 June 2012 the GMAC launched the Next Generation GMAT Continue reading →

Why has the GMAT Changed?

July 2, 2012December 24, 2022Dilip Oak's Academy

The GMAT has been facing competition from the GRE for some time. Around 600 business schools accept the GRE scores. The less expensive revised GRE, introduced last year, has changed its gears a bit and moved from a heavily vocabulary-based Verbal section to one based more on reading comprehension and critical reasoning skills.

In other words the GRE has become more similar to the GMAT. The GMAT is gearing up for this challenge with the new Integrated Reasoning section.