If you are planning to go to a b-school abroad in the near future, the first step to that plan is preparing for GMAT. A high score these test can help you to get into the b-school of your choice. In order to boost your GMAT prep in easier and cost-friendly manner, we bring you a list of apps and online courses that you can take-up in order to ace the tests. Read to know more!
IntelliVocab for SAT, GRE, GMAT
This is an app designed by MIT students. The IntelliVocab app will provide you definitions for 694+ words used on the SAT, GRE, and GMAT. Users of the app are quizzed about their meaning. The questions focus on the context of the words -- how they sound and how they are written. The quizzes generally take 12 minutes to complete. Within this limited time, you have to give meaning to 30 words and assesses your answers. The app provides its user with a custom learning schedule and feedback.
GMAT Timer
The GMAT Timer app is made to help test-takers manage their time. The app gives you an idea of how much time you need to spend on each section. You can use this app to do both practice test or just sectional test. There is also a full version of the GMAT Time app which costs $1.99 and has no ads.
Magoosh GMAT Prep App
The Magoosh GMAT Prep app allows you to take Magoosh's video lessons from your iPhone. Most of the app content is only available to those with a Magoosh premium account. App content includes 22 hours worth of video lessons covering the GMAT's math, verbal, and analytical writing sections.
Online Resources For Verbal Section
- IFTTT - Send yourself a weekly vocabulary list of Wikipedia words of the day: Every day you can learn 7 new words. All you need is an IFTTT and a Pocket account (both free).
- ESL Exercises: Test your vocabulary skills by taking a series of online structured quizzes.
- Visual thesaurus: Understand what words mean, and why. Visualize the origin of words and their interconnections.
- Dictionary.com Flashcards: When you are on the go, use this flashcard app to learn new words.
- Spritz: Increase your reading speed. Spritz is one of its kind speed-reading websites/app that can actually help test-takers.
- BBC - Learning English: A great resource to know and understand the various nuances of the English language.
- TenADay: Solve 10 questions every day from the CAT curriculum. Level up, slowly but steadily
Online Courses For Specialisation:
Business and management (mostly beginner courses)
- Basics of supply chain management (SCM)
- Basics of Marketing
- Basics of Operations
- Basics of digital marketing
Economics and finance
- Financial markets: This course is taught by the renowned Nobel-laureate and Yale Prof. Robert Shiller and covers various concepts of Financial markets and their machinations. Apart from the basics, it also covers other aspects of behavioural finance, financial crises and the role of regulations.
- Microeconomics: This course covers the basics of Microeconomics from supply-demand, market efficiency, types of competitions, market power, public goods and externalities.
- Introduction to finance: It will teach you the basics of the time value of money and valuations.
Statistics and data analysis
- Regression models: The course looks at the various regression models and special cases like ANOVA. All of which is taught in the 1st year.
- Data analysis and statistical inference: Estimation, confidence intervals, decision making based on data analysis etc.
- Data visualization: Will be helpful both during and after the MBA. How to present the data in the most impactful manner, use software to make complex designs etc.
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