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Beat the GMAT Practice Questions Premium Access Winners

November 29, 2010

in GMAT,MBA experience

Four weeks ago I published a post about my Deja Vu experience with GMAT. There I wrote a short review of the new GMAT practice questions from Beat the GMAT (BTG). I am not going to re-count my experience with those questions again here. If interested you can read the complete review here.


In that post I announced an offering of the the free Premium Access to those BTG practice questions to the first four people who would make a claim. The free Premium Access for readers of this blog was offered with compliments from Beat the GMAT team. All four access codes have been claimed.  Now is the time to announce the four winners of that offering. I feel today is an appropriate date for this announcement because it is also a two year anniversary of my own first, not so fabulous, attempt on GMAT. You can read about that experience in my GMAT Anniversary post. In a way, it is my revenge on GMAT for that failure by empowering other people to get a better shot on beating it  ;-) . And also this is a sort of giving back to the community of the people who are supporting this blog by regularly reading it. Thank you to all the readers!

So here are the names of the winners in the order their claims have been submitted:

  • Name:  Puneet
    City: New Delhi
    Country: India
    Target MBA programs: UCLA, MIT
  • Name: David Goliath (no further information was provided)
  • Name: Young
    City: Vancouver
    Country: Canada
    Target MBA programs: UBC, Toronto, Queens, York, MIT and Stanford….
  • Name: Rodrick Womack
    City: Germantown, MD
    Country: USA
    Target MBA programs: GW, Maryland(Smith), Georgetown(McDonough)

I was pleasantly surprised to see the broad  geography from local to international locations and wide range of the target MBA programs of the winners. I wish them all great success on their GMAT and further on in their MBA programs. I am confident that the Practice questions from Beat the GMAT will be of great help to them.

For those of you who missed the chance to claim the Free access, I still have a good news. BTG has extended the discounted price for to Premium Access to Practice Questions till December 7, 2010. So go ahead and grab it at $49 instead of a regular price of $99: Beat the GMAT Practice Questions.

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GMAT Deja Vu – with Compliments from Beat the GMAT

November 2, 2010

in GMAT

Update 11/19/2010. All the codes for Premium access to BTG Practice questions have been claimed already.

Last week I received invitation from the Beat The GMAT (BTG) founder, Eric, to review the new Beat the GMAT Practice Questions. Admittedly, GMAT is far from being on my priorities list with all the classes I am taking now in my second Fall Module of part-time MBA at George Washington University. However I was curious to check this out and to give some feedback to the creators of the BTG to help improve the quality of their offering to all the MBA aspirants.


The excruciating memories flooded me the moment I launched the quantitative section after logging into my reviewer’s account. Ah, all those sleepless nights I was toiling over the GMAT preparation just two years ago ;-) . It took me to go through just a handfull of the math practice questions to realize that there was a good reason for me to spend almost six months of my life preparing for the GMAT test. I courageously mastered through about a dozen questions on each of the sections: verbal and math and realized that it was enough.

Questions did seem to resemble the ones from the GMAT OG. I really liked the fact that the explanations of the answers were both in text and video format. I watched a few video explanations and they were quite clear and to the point. If you don’t have time to go through the video and want to keep your own pace of practicing, then the text explanation comes handy.

Another feature of the BTG GMAT Practice Questions I liked a lot was the benchmarking against other people who practice the questions. You can see not only your own average percent of correct answers and average time per question in each of the sections and sub-sections, such as Data Sufficiency and Problem Solving for math or Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension for verbal, but also the cumulative averages of all other users in the same categories. I think it helps to see other people’s averages in order to identify where your stand in terms of correctness and answering speed.

The team at BTG also took an effort to make the Practice Questions adaptive in order to make the experience as close to the actual GMAT as possible. I think this is really great.

There are a total of about 700 questions available for practice, 300+ verbal and 400+ math.  The access to this new GMAT Practice Questions comes with the price tag – $99 for one year access. This will give anyone plenty of time and practice. However if you sign up for this service before November 15, 2010 you  can get a real bargain – all the features of Premium account for half price. Plus, BTG offers 3 iPads to be rafted among all people who sign up for either Premium paid or Basic free account before November 15. All this comes with  30 days money back guarantee.

As for me, my half-assed attempt on the GMAT Practice Questions resulted, quite predictably, in about 50% correct answers on both verbal and math sections. OK, I will try to compensate for that by getting a higher grade in my actual MBA classes. If that fails, I can also find consolation in my grade for final exam in Financial Markets  ;-)

If your read this far in the post I have another good news for you. Beat the GMAT has kindly offered a few free Premium accounts to the readers of this blog. So if you are still preparing for your GMAT test, shoot me an email ASAP (webmaster at parttimembadegree.com) and the first four people will receive FREE Premium access to the Practice Questions. I also would like to publish name (or at least nickname), country, city, and target MBA programs of those people who get this Premium access to BTG Practice Questions through my blog, with compliments from Beat the GMAT.

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GMAT Prep Scholarship Competition from Beatthegmat

April 11, 2010

in GMAT

For those of my readers who are still in the planning phase of their MBA journey it will be very beneficial to learn about the GMAT Scholarship offered by Beatthegmat.com.

Beat the GMAT (BTG) is one of the few internet sites that provide a unique community platform not only for those who are yet aspiring to embark on the MBA experience, but also for those who are already plowing through the rigors of the business school.


I have been perusing their vast free resources and community knowledge at the time of my preparation for GMAT. But it also proved to be quite useful in other aspects of my application process for MBA. So don’t let the name of the site to mislead you. It maybe started as a place for sharing GMAT preparation knowledge, but over the years evolved into something much bigger than that.

I personally appreciate a very supportive and amicable spirit of a close-knit community on Beat the GMAT. If you have been a member of any forums on the internet you have most likely experienced trolling, flaming and other behavioral fallouts mainly caused by anonymous nature of  the internet. On the forums of beatthegmat.com you will find support for your intellectual quest first, but also just friendly advice and encouragement from the like-minded members.

The forum and other resources of BTG have earned great reputation with the pre-MBA community at large. That’s why they have been able to establish partnerships with many highly-acknowledged GMAT Preparation companies: Grockit, Kaplan, Knewton, Manhattan GMAT, The Princeton Review, and Veritas Prep. For the four previous years Beat the GMAT in co-operation with these companies has been offering the GMAT scholarship, and this year the GMAT Scholarship Competition is back. Taking part in this competition offers a great opportunity to win a free online or in-class GMAT preparation course offered by these companies. Moreover, they will even pay your GMAT test fee! There will be six people selected to receive a prize this year and the competition ends on May 20, 2010. So hurry up, and shoot for the prize! Visit their site for more information: Beat The GMAT Scholarship Competition.

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