After June 2, 2012, the GMAT will change. The “Next Generation GMAT” introduces a new section called Integrated Reasoning, which replaces one of the two essay sections. The GMAT remains the same length, but the 30-minute Integrated Reasoning section introduces a fresh element – four new types of questions that focus on your data analysis skills. There will be 12 new questions in all.

Background: I have been out of high school since 1988. Last math class was in 1991 in college. Thought my strength was verbal, but overestimated my abilities.... My goal was a minimum of 600, but my dream was 700.

“There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,” says Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson in The Sign of the Four.