Erfun Geula
Erfun is a professional GMAT tutor based in Manhattan, with over 12 years and 12,000 hours of standardized test tutoring experience. He has been a full-time GMAT tutor for the past nine years, but his experiences since graduating from Yale have all, one way or another, revolved around standardized tests.
Before focusing his efforts on GMAT tutoring, he worked in New York full-time as GMAT Content Developer and Instructor for a major test-prep company, where he wrote, edited, and explained hundreds of practice GMAT questions. His immersion in the process of question-construction gave him first-hand insight into the tricks that the test-makers develop and the crafty ways they manipulate seemingly simple concepts into complex puzzles. Additionally, Erfun is sole author of McGraw Hill’s Preparation for the GRE, 2017 Edition, a 500-page, comprehensive guide available on Amazon and at all major book stores.
As a bona fide GMAT geek, Erfun is one of the few people in the world who can boast of having scored in the 99th-percentile (760+) on all four of his GMAT attempts, including a perfect Quantitative score of 51 and a Verbal score of 48 (99.5th percentile). He now uses his substantial expertise in the GMAT to help students see past superficial tricks and shortcuts and understand the logic of the exam. He has helped students gain admission to some of the nation’s top business schools, including HBS, Columbia, Stern, Wharton, Stanford, and Sloan. And he’s one of the most consistently well-rated GMAT tutors in the world, as evidenced by the numerous 5-star testimonials of his services.
GMAT Tutor in NYC & Online
- Full-time New York GMAT tutor, with over 15 years and 15,000 hours of tutoring experience.
- Scored in the 99th-percentile (760+) five different times on the GMAT Score Report
- Wrote and edited hundreds of practice GMAT questions full-time for major test prep company
- Yale graduate with Distinction
- Published 600-page test prep book for McGraw Hill
- Interviewed by US News for expert perspective on the GMAT & GRE
- Hundreds of GMAT tutoring students successfully admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Wharton, HBS, etc.
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The GMAT Compass Advantage
FAQs about GMAT Tutoring
- Need to maximize the return on their study time. If you’re in a time-crunch with applications around the corner, or if you have a demanding job that limits your available study time, then hiring a GMAT tutor would probably be a good decision for you.
- Benefit from structure and accountability. The amount of GMAT resources out there can be overwhelming. Hiring a good GMAT tutor will save you the headache of separating the good from the bad and will let you spend that precious time doing targeted, effective studying. A good GMAT tutor will structure your preparation to ensure that you have both an overall study plan governing your preparation and a structured homework plan for each week (and, ideally, each day!) of your preparation.
- Are aiming for 730+. The dirty secret of most GMAT prep courses is that they target the median student. Because of this, the difficulty level of the classes and homework assignments rarely exceeds the 700-level. Working with a GMAT tutor who themselves have scored in the 99th-percentile and who have a documented track record of helping students achieve similar success is a high-probability way to position yourself to achieve a stellar score.
- Over 5,000 official GMAT questions customized by topic and level of difficulty
- Access to over 70 GMAT videos made by our head tutor, Erfun Geula
- A detailed, streamlined error log that will help you easily track and review your performance across your preparation
- Day-by-day homework assignments pointing you to important official GMAT questions that reinforce what we cover at our lessons
- “Refresher” PDFs covering all the major rules and formulas you need to know for the exam
- For online sessions, we give GMAT tutoring students the ability to record our sessions for review later in the day
GMAT Video Series
GMAT Algebraic Translations
Having trouble with GMAT word problems? In this video, we’ll cover powerful techniques to successfully tackle GMAT questions. We’ll provide…
Lesson Overview
Having trouble with GMAT word problems? In this video, we’ll cover powerful techniques to successfully tackle GMAT questions. We’ll provide you with a step-by-step method for turning wordy questions into algebra, and we’ll cover common mistakes students make when tackling word problems. We’ll cover how to identify unknowns, how to assign variables, and, importantly, how to find words and phrases in the question that lend themselves to creating an algebraic equation.
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GMAT Standard Deviation
Having trouble with GMAT standard deviation questions? Though standard deviation isn’t a huge topic on the GMAT, it’s one that…
Lesson Overview
Having trouble with GMAT standard deviation questions? Though standard deviation isn’t a huge topic on the GMAT, it’s one that you need to master if you want to achieve a Quant score in the 45+ range. In this video, we cover everything you need to know to master standard deviation on the GMAT. We’ll examine how standard deviation differs from other statistical measurements, an informal way of measuring standard deviation, and situations in which the standard deviation of a set does and does not change.
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GMAT Age Questions
GMAT age questions can be one of the more challenging question-types on the exam. Many test-takers have difficulty staying organized…
Lesson Overview
GMAT age questions can be one of the more challenging question-types on the exam. Many test-takers have difficulty staying organized and setting up relationships that properly account for people’s ages at different times. In this video, we’ll cover the common mistakes students make and how to properly account for changes in people’s ages over time. We’ll also show you a powerful table technique that you can use to tackle any GMAT age question.
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