GMAT is one more test. An exam that anyone can face and pass. But the GMAT is not just any exam, quite the opposite, it's a test very particular that requires intensive and focused training. The strategies applied by the examinee are more important than the content they may or may not possess. GMAT seeks to evaluate the capacity for analysis and critical reasoning under stress conditions. Therefore, among all the decisions related to this test, one of the most important is to be clear about how one is going to prepare to be successful.
In my case, it was the advice and experience of a friend that led me to seek specialized help to face the study. I found the Técnicas Lingüísticas Aplicadas courses on the web, without any kind of reference, just looking for courses. I was in Buenos Aires about to travel to Barcelona for work and I had thousands of doubts about how to prepare for the GMAT in the short time I would have. The personal attention and dedication with which all my questions were answered, together with the study plan that Técnicas Lingüísticas Aplicadas proposed to me, made me decide for them.
Once in Barcelona, at TLA, I met a group of people with a lot of experience in GMAT and with a very personalized attention. I quickly grasped the essence of the course, the importance of knowing the strategies that have proven to be successful, and the level of intensive study that the GMAT called for. Teachers move freely in their areas and know the hidden “little tricks” of the exam. Absorbing that knowledge from them is the difference between a “good” score and an “excellent” one.
I strongly recommend the Técnicas Lingüísticas Aplicadas course to be successful in GMAT. Only through in-depth knowledge of this exam will the expected result be achieved. It is the techniques, the forms, the question and answer types, the common mistakes, what you really have to learn. At TLA you not only have a highly qualified teaching team but they also inform you of all the "details" to take into account to get a high score. On the other hand, its methodology and the extensive material resources that it makes available to all its students, decisively helps to achieve the expected results.
The other fundamental piece to overcome the GMAT challenge is the effort and personal dedication, the training. It is necessary to train in the techniques learned until they form part of the natural reasoning of each one. It is useless to know the roads if they are not traveled frequently until they are familiar.
To finish, I recommend confidence and tranquility. You have to go out and play the game, to have fun overcoming obstacles. The correct answers are there, in front of each one. You don't have to do the perfect exam, you have to find it; responses are not generated, they are discovered. Therefore, calm down ... read, think, discard, choose, move forward. I toast to future successes. Health!!
Santiago Passeron
October 2005
GMAT 760
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