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May, 24, 2010
This is another post from Taichi Kono, author of two textbooks on TOEFL and one on TOEIC and a highly experienced TOEFL, TOEIC, and GMAT instructor. Most of his posts will be in Japanese. This post is on GMAT sentence correction. His other posts can be found here.-Adam ——————————————————————————————— 河 野塾代表の河野太一です。年来の友人であるAdam Markusさんのご厚意で、”The Official Guide for […]
May, 11, 2010
Some of the readers of this blog may have noticed the list of schools (See the left-column) that I sponsor for Japan Trips and Treks. I wanted to briefly explain why I do this. In 2010, I sponsored IE, HBS, LBS, Tuck, and UCLA’s official Japanese student organized trips to Japan. In 2009, I sponsored […]
May, 11, 2010
This is another post from Taichi Kono, author of two textbooks on TOEFL and one on TOEIC and a highly experienced TOEFL, TOEIC, and GMAT instructor. Most of his posts will be in Japanese. This post is on GMAT sentence correction. His other posts can be found here.-Adam ——————————————————————————————— 河野塾代表の河野太一です。年来の友人である Adam Markusさんのご厚意で、”The Official Guide for […]
May, 05, 2010
This is another post from Taichi Kono, author of two textbooks on TOEFL and one on TOEIC and a highly experienced TOEFL, TOEIC, and GMAT instructor. Most of his posts will be in Japanese. This post is on GMAT sentence correction. His other posts can be found here.-Adam ——————————————————————————————— 河野塾代表の河野太一です。年来の友人である Adam Markusさんのご厚意で、”The Official Guide for […]
May, 04, 2010
A Japanese member of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth’s class of 2011 was kind enough to answer my questions. “Tuck 2011” is a former client and one of the organizers of Tuck’s 2010 Japan Trek. As a matter of disclosure, I was one of the 2009 and 2010 Treks’ sponsors.—————— Adam: What […]
Apr, 23, 2010
On April 28th at 9pm PST/April 29th at 1pm Japan time, I will be presenting a webinar titled “MBA Reapplication for Success” as part of the AIGAC Graduate Admissions Virtual Summit. I will be taking questions as part of that webinar. Space is limited, but still available. For details, see http://www.aigac.org/summit/2010. A recording of the […]
Apr, 18, 2010
My blog’s sponsor and English language GMAT content provider has provided me with the following post on the Quantitative Section. If you have not done so, consider taking a free trial of Knewton GMAT.–Adamアダム ————————————————————————————— Knewton Tips: Probability vs. Combinatorics on the GMAT Rich Zwelling is one of Knewton’s expert GMAT prep instructors. He enjoys […]
Apr, 18, 2010
My post analyzing Oxford’s MBA application essay questions can be found here. For applicants who are required to demonstrate their English proficiency, the new TOEFL and IELTS standards for Fall 2010 admission imposed at Oxford University’s Said Business School pose a serious hurdle: Minimum score TOEFL – Internet 109 TOEFL – Computer 267 TOEFL – […]
Apr, 14, 2010
On April 28th at 9pm PST, I will be presenting a webinar version of the post below as part of the AIGAC Graduate Admissions Virtual Summit. I will be taking questions as part of that webinar. For details, see http://www.aigac.org/summit/2010.This post has been updated from last year. Was your admissions game plan for Fall 2010 […]
Apr, 14, 2010
This is another post from Taichi Kono, author of two textbooks on TOEFL and one on TOEIC and a highly experienced TOEFL, TOEIC, and GMAT instructor. Most of his posts will be in Japanese. This post is on GMAT sentence correction. His other posts can be found here.-Adam ——————————————————————————————— 河野塾代表の河野太一です。年来の友人である Adam Markusさんのご厚意で、”The Official Guide for […]
