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MBA Life: An Insider’s Perspective on Stanford’s Graduate School of Business

Kyle Hausmann is a Content Developer at Knewton, where he helps students with their GMAT prep. In the first installment of our MBA Life series, we talked to Knewton’s Nathan Lasche about his experience at HBS. We found out how Nate felt about class size, the people he met, Cambridge and Boston, and the weather. [...]

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Introducing… The Virtual High Five!

David Ingber is Knewton‘s Faculty Manager, as well as an expert GMAT prep and SAT prep teacher. It all began with a high five. I was teaching an online class, and all 27 of the students in the class answered a difficult question correctly. In an attempt to form what I thought was the closest [...]

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Knewton Video: Intro to Law School and the LSAT (Part II)

Did you miss Part 1 of Knewton’s Introduction to Law School and the LSAT video? Grappling with the law school admissions process, or want to learn more about what law school is really like? Check out Part 2 of Knewton’s Introduction to Law School and the LSAT series, in which Kristen Kennedy (one of Knewton’s [...]

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SAT Tip: How to Memorize Vocab Words

Alex is a Content Developer for the Knewton SAT prep course. He thinks he’s super funny, though he’s only very funny. The best way to learn vocab words is to come across them in context—in books, in conversations with teachers or parents, on television shows—over and over again until you understand what they mean and [...]

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World Class Course. World Cup Discount.

We’re so excited about the arrival of the World Cup that we’re offering a world-class discount. Take 10% off Knewton GMAT through Monday night at 11:59pm EDT. Use the promo code… WorldCup-GMAT … and get the best course in the world at a discount!

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GMAT Prep: Brutal SC Practice Question

Joanna Bersin, a Content Developer at Knewton,  takes special pride in crafting mind-numbingly  hard GMAT Sentence Correction questions. Prepping for the GMAT? Check out this super-challenging Sentence Correction question. If you can get this one right, you’ve got nothing to worry about on test day!  For the answer, check out the discussion here. The policy [...]

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SAT Prep: Evil SAT Trick of the Week #4

Alex Sarlin is the Lead Verbal Developer at Knewton. He moonlights as Knewton’s designated SAT Prep Archangel. Welcome to the fourth installment of “Evil SAT Trick of the Week.” As always, we want to remind you that the makers of the SAT are not evil. They do not break laws, for example (we assume). They [...]

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So what is Knewton?

An online test prep company. The world’s most powerful adaptive learning engine. An educational platform, about to do a great amount of good. A second home to 35 extraordinarily talented people, working around the clock. We like to believe all those assertions are true. And we plan to use this blog as the enlightenment arm [...]

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