16. Is Harvard Really Worth It? with Jake Taylor
A lot of people believe that if they can't get in to a top-tier college or graduate school, it's not worth going. Yet, there are a lot of considerations that play into your decision to go back to scho...
11 Feb 202043min
15. Overcoming Test Anxiety, with Bara Sapir
Conventional wisdom tells us that if we study hard, high test scores will inevitably follow. But what if we are unmotivated to study or hampered by fear of failure? Or what happens if when we do study...
28 Jan 202042min
14. How to do Social Media Right for an Admissions Edge, with Taylor Siebert
A recent survey shows that 40% of admissions officers reported to have looked at a candidate's social media while reviewing his/her application, a trend that is expected to continue and even grow in t...
14 Jan 202048min
13. Reading Comprehension Strategies for ESL Students (and everyone else!)
Struggling with reading comprehension questions on your standardized test? Often that's the case when you're not reading the passages in the most effective way. In this episode we share three strategi...
23 Dec 201936min
12. The Best Way to Improve your Vocabulary
Having a strong English vocabulary is important for doing well on pretty much all standardized tests. It helps with reading comprehension, certainly. But it's also fundamentally important for logicall...
17 Dec 201946min
11. 9 Ways to Avoid Making Careless Errors
Sometimes you get questions wrong on your standardized test because you don’t use the proper strategy or simply don’t know the underlying content well enough. But sometimes you get wrong answers becau...
3 Dec 201953min
10. Business Education Trends, a GMAT Section Order Fallacy, and CAT Battleship
Several interesting bits of news and insights came out of the recently-held summit at the headquarters of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), makers of the GMAT and Executive Assessment ...
19 Nov 201943min
9. Finding Assumptions Using the "Big 6" Assumption Categories, with Brandon Royal
Brandon Royal, Ace the GMAT author, joins the podcast this week to share his expertise on an important logical reasoning skill that comes into play on numerous standardized tests — identifying assumpt...
5 Nov 201937min
