GMAT Strategy Courses

GMAT Strategy Courses

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Reserve your place now in one of these GMAT Strategy Courses by mailing a check or money order for the course fee of $500. You may also pay by credit card.

Each course is limited to 20, based on a first come, first served policy. You will receive confirmation of your place by return mail. Testing for the Public will bill your credit card or cash your check when the course actually begins.



To view an on-line version of the complete GMAT Strategy Course, personally narrated by the founder of Testing for the Public, David M. White, visit: TestUpGMAT.com


Testing for the Public offered its first GMAT Strategy Course in November 1986. Since then, hundreds of business school candidates have studied our unique strategies for conquering the GMAT.

Find the Right Answer

Learn Multiple-Choice Math

Learn How Little Data is Sufficient

Look for the GMAT Grammar

Read Efficiently to Learn More

Clarify your Critical Reasoning

Learn to Avoid Test Bias

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Find the Right Answer

The GMAT has 78 Right Answers surrounded by 312 wrong answers.

Testing for the Public has developed strategies that are designed to find the Right Answer, rather than waste time eliminating wrong answers.

You will learn how questions are written, edited, and disguised in the answer grid.
You will be able to use this knowledge to find the Right Answer and reassure yourself that it is the Right Answer.

Learn Multiple-Choice Math

The GMAT has one 75-minute Quantitative section with 37 items. Approximately one-half will be five-option multiple-choice math items.

Testing for the Public boils down the basic math facts into three simple pages. Much more importantly, it shows students how the answer grid includes the Right Answer, as well as the predictable wrong answers.

You will learn to use this simple fact to attack multiple-choice math items.
You can learn to avoid stupid mistakes and discover how the wrong answers point to the Right Answer
Whatever your math ability, multiple-choice math strategies can raise your GMAT Quantitative score.

Learn How Little Data is Sufficient

The GMAT has one 75-minute Quantitative section with 37 items. Approximately one-half will be five-option data sufficiency items.

Testing for the Public shows how the format of the data sufficiency items makes them easy to solve. Since you are only given two statements to evaluate, the format is as important as the basic math.

You will learn how to take advantage of the inherent limitations of the data suficiency format.
You will learn how to take advantage of the temptation to pick "C".

Look for the GMAT Grammar

The GMAT has one 75-minute Verbal section with 41 questions, including approximately one-third sentence correction items.

Testing for the Public has identified the major grammar issues tested, as well as the stylistic choices favored on the GMAT. In addition, it shows how the subtle choices among the answers can be used to focus your attention on the crucial difference between a wrong answer and the Right Answer.

You will learn to spot the common GMAT grammer errors, as well as the idioms that are preferred.
You will also learn to spot a sentence that has no errors.

Read Efficiently to Learn More

The GMAT has one 75-minute Verbal section with 41 questions, including three or four reading comprehension passages.

Testing for the Public recognizes that these passages are often boring and unnecessarily complicated.

You will learn how to quickly find the relevant information in the passage and ignore the irrelevant distractions.
You will discover how the questions point to the Right Answer.

Clarify your Critical Reasoning

The GMAT has one 75-minute Verbal section with 41 questions, including approximately one-third critical reasoning questions.

Testing for the Public has examined every critical reasoning question that has appeared on the GMAT since 1980. Clear patterns have emerged for different types of questions with the same types of answers.

You will learn how to quickly dissect the reasoning presented in each paragraph.
You can combine your understanding of basic logic with our advanced strategies to discover how the wrongs answers point to the Right Answer.

Learn to Avoid Bias

The GMAT has questions and passages about women and minority groups that are inserted to satisfy diversity specifications.

Testing for the Public has discovered that these materials actually present potential obstacles for the very applicants that are supposedly reassured by these passages.

You will learn how to recognize potential bias in the answer choices.
Our strategies are designed to directly confront such potential bias.

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San Francisco
Fort Mason Center
Marina & Laguna

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Timed Administration of Actual GMAT Form

Saturday, September 27, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Sentence Correction

Monday, September 29, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Logical Reasoning

Saturday, October 4, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Data Sufficiency

Monday, October 6, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Reading Comprehension

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Saturday, October 11, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Review of Verbal Items

Monday, October 13, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Review of Math Items

   

Berkeley
University of California

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Timed Administration of Actual GMAT Form

Thursday, September 25, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Sentence Completion

Sunday, September 28, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Logical Reasoning

Thursday, October 2, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Data Sufficiency

Sunday, October 5, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Reading Comprehension

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Thursday, October 9, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Review of Verbal Items

Sunday, October 12, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Review of Math Items

   

Los Altos Hills
Los Altos Hills
12345 El Monte Road

Monday, November 17, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Timed Administration of Actual GMAT Form

Monday, November 24, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Sentence Correction

Monday, December 1, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Logical Reasoning

Sunday, December 7, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Data Sufficiency

Monday, December 8, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Reading Comprehension

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Multiple-Choice Math

Sunday, December 14, 2008 9 am - 1 pm
Review of Verbal Items

Monday, December 15, 2008 6 - 10 pm
Review of Math Items