__________ Chapter Takeaways_________
1.
If you decide to retake the GMAT, do not wait too long.
2.
Your GMAT prep has sharpened your intellectual skills and tested your persever
ance. Being good at analysis and persistent will serve you well in business school.
3.
Think about getting started on your applications. You took this test for a reason!
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Appendix A
It can be intimidating to approach the GMAT as a non-native speaker of American English. Although
there are a few little wrinkles in the language of math, for the most part, the issues are in the Verbal sec
tion of the test. Here are some tips that can really help:
Tip #1: If you learned English in India, we recommend that you read Manhattan GMATs
Foundations of GMAT Verbal Appendix: Helpful Hints for Indian Speakers of English. This
material is actually useful for anyone who learned any variant of British English. The GMAT
tests American English, and there are some significant differences in idioms and even verb us
age that you should be aware of.
Tip #2: Even if you scored above the 40th percentile on your Verbal pre-test, the reading
practice recommended in Chapter 3 of this book is strongly recommended for all non-native
speakers.
Tip #3: If your pre-test Verbal score was particularly low (below the 25th percentile), start
your reading program even sooner than recommended in Chapter 2. We have seen non-native
students who committed to the reading program make huge progress in Verbal—however, it
usually takes those students extra time to build their reading fluency.
Tip #4: A very helpful thing to do during your reading program is to make flash cards of the
words that you read in the articles that you do not know. Sometimes the biggest problem
words are not the scientific and technical terms, but rather the academic words (e.g., moreover,
henceforth, and thusly) that are important for determining the passage structure but that are
not used much in everyday speech.
Above all, do not avoid studying Verbal and hope to make it all up by doing well on math. This is not a
good strategy. There is nothing magic to Verbal content—it can be mastered just as any other GMAT
content can be mastered. You have already mastered a tremendous amount of American English if you
are reading this book, and all that is really necessary is refinement.
Non-native speakers can and do achieve excellent Verbal scores on the GMAT. One of our most beloved
99th percentile scoring instructors, Horacio Quiroga, is not a native English speaker. Read his words
that follow for some encouragement and suggestions.
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