Prepare for the GMAT exam
Prepare for the GMAT exam
Key points
Students train to gain experience and acquire the skills necessary to achieve their desired score in the GMAT exam. Teachers challenge students to achieve to the maximum of their potential, and set milestones and goals for each student, with constant evaluation. This sets the pace for each learner to surpass their academic expectations.
Students sit rehearsal tests under exam conditions. These are repeated as required to build confidence and familiarity with the exam.
Small class sizes allow for close tutor attention, which provides students with confidence and familiarity in the exam format.
All students who successfully complete this course are eligible for a course certificate. Completion consists of submitting the final course assignment.
Homework tasks are set daily to allow learners to reflect on and consolidate what they have learned in the day, as well as prepare for the next day.
This course focuses on not only increasing the student’s ability to think critically on a topic, but also their ability to then analyse that subject within its given context. Additionally, the course refreshes the student’s knowledge of some of the more complex parts of English grammar in order to write clearly, concisely and also understand complicated written texts.
Objective of the stay
To make the student familiar with the exam and to give the student the confidence and skills required to achieve the maximum possible score in the exam.
Octorial Programme: GMAT Preparation
25 hours per week.
The tutor coaches the learner in the content of the exam and guides them with strategies for understanding and navigating the test questions.
Each module focuses on different aspects of academic skills, the ability to think critically on a topic and how to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a particular argument.
Assignments are set for homework and during lesson time there is repeated work on essay writing, vocabulary, comprehension and speaking practice.
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Course Content
Session I:
- Academic Skill: Skimming and Scanning
- Academic Skill: Making Inference
- Tone and attitude of a reading passage
Session II:
- Critical Reasoning Skills → Evaluating Arguments/Opinions
- Academic Skill: Summarizing and Paraphrasing
Session III:
- Analytical Writing Assessment
- Essay Template
- Identifying relevant points to be discussed
- Looking for ‘flaw patterns’ in the writing being analyzed
Session IV:
- Complex Grammar Revision
- Sentence Completion and Error Correction on the GMAT
Session V:
- Multi-Source Reasoning
- Table Analysis
Expected Outcomes
By the end of this course, the student is expected to be able to:
- Take notes on a piece of listening.
- Summarise and paraphrase an unfamiliar passage of text.
- Plan, structure and write a report or essay of 500 words.
- Report verbally and in writing the data/information shown in diagrams and graphs.
- Speak in an interview situation for 5 minutes.
Staying in a homestay gives participants the chance to be fully immersed into the local culture of the destination, whilst also being able to practice the language in a relaxed and natural setting. No two students of the same mother tongue are placed with the same host, which enables students to broaden their scope in their use of the language and become familiar with expressing themselves. Homestay arrivals the Sunday before the course begins, and departures the Saturday after the course ends.
For students who wish to make their own accommodation arrangements.
The experience of living in Cambridge
Cambridge is home not only to one of the world’s great universities, its iconic buildings and colleges peppering the old town, but also to the dynamic high-tech hub sometimes known as ‘Silicon Fen’ (Microsoft Research, Amazon, Apple, ARM, CSR, Autonomy and several thousand more), and the largest biomedical campus in Europe.
The result is a rich mix of students and professionals, and an ambience of tradition, scholarship and innovation. The town is host to a myriad of cafes, restaurants and pubs (including The Eagle, in the front room of which Crick and Watson demonstrated the first model of the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953), and to innumerable buildings of great historical and architectural significance, such as King’s College Chapel, the Wren Library, the Mathematical Bridge and Trinity Great Court.
Compact, green and beautiful, the city is dominated by the historic university buildings and bound by the lovely River Cam. It offers a unique ambiance, where the charm of tradition blends with the conveniences of modern urban life. Cambridge is a prime location for committed English language study.
Cultural programme
A variety of social and cultural activities are available to students throughout the week, helping them to get to know Cambridge. Popular activities include walking tours, visits to galleries and museums and discovering highlights of the city, including pub The Eagle, where in 1953, scientists Crick and Watson celebrated the discovery of DNA. Tours of the medieval city and the university can also be organised.
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Price Includes
The price includes 25 hours of tuition per week, half-board accommodation in a homestay and a cultural programme.
(Note: course fees do not include examination fees which will vary depending on the chosen exam and examination centre.)
Operational Entity
Courses are organised by OISE at Cambridge which is accredited by the British Council for the teaching of English and is a member of English UK. OISE at Cambridge is owned by Instill Education Ltd.