• The Test Prep Process
  How to arrange sessions and set goals
• SSAT Skills
  Secondary School Admissions Test, for 8th graders applying to private high schools
• SAT Skills
  Scholastic Assessment Test, for college-bound high school juniors and seniors
• GRE Skills
  Graduate Record Exam, for graduate school applicants
• GMAT Skills
  Graduate Management Admissions Test, for business school program applicants

GMAT Skills

• Reading Comprehension
• Sentence Correction
• Critical Reasoning
• Analytical Writing Assessment

The verbal section of the GMAT tests writing, reading, critical reasoning, and grammar/syntax in 75 minutes for 41 multiple choice questions, plus an hour for two essays. There is also a quantitative section with 37 questions in 75 minutes.

• Critical reading passages include short and long nonfiction passages on topics from infectious diseases to geology to art history, and the questions test a range of skills, including literal comprehension, narrative devices, and a variety of inference-based analyses.
• The section devoted to sentence correction is based on a wide knowledge of grammar and usage, with questions targeting verb conjugation, dependent and independent clauses, prepositional use, and parallel syntax. It’s more important, though, to be able to recognize what’s right than it is to be able to name the grammatical issue.
• The Critical Reasoning section employs passage completion and logic-based questions, seeking responses that would most seriously weaken or strengthen the passage conclusions.
• The Analytical Writing section consists of two 30-minute writing tasks: Analysis of an Issue, and Analysis of an Argument. Both writing tests require organizational skills and an ability to convincingly articulate and support a position. They are structured differently, though. The Issue test provides an issue prompt for you to respond to, argue, and support, while the Argument section presents a written argument for you to analyze and critique its quality and presentation.
• The computer format of the test requires different testing strategies than the paper format, since you can’t mark questions you’re unsure of and return to them later.