Syllabi

GMAT Full Course:

Lesson 1:

  1. Parts of Speech: count-nouns, non-count nouns, pronouns, gerunds, infinitives, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, participles, prepositions, and punctuation
  2. Reading Comprehension: how to take an overview, question types (main idea, specific, purpose, inference, negative-item, statements), common structures to look for, traps and tricks, and which problems not to do.

Lesson 2:

  1. Subject-Verb Agreement: finding main clauses, tricky subjects, Latin words, conjunctions, and disjunctions
  2. Critical Reasoning: parts of an argument, conclusion questions, assumption questions, inference questions, evaluate-a-plan questions, and resolve-the-paradox questions

Lesson 3:

  1. Pronouns: Pronoun reference, pronoun agreement pronoun case, relative pronouns (that, which, who, whom, whose)
  2. Critical Reasoning: Strengthening/weakening questions, identify-the-flaw questions, bold-face questions, and dialog questions

Lesson 4:

  1. Modifiers: subject modifiers, placement rules, perfect participles, regular modifiers
  2. Parallelism: phrases of parallelism and parallelism in lists
  3. Essay: Analysis of an Issue

Lesson 5:

  1. Tenses: present simple/progressive, past simple/progressive, present perfect simple/progressive, past perfect simple/progressive, future simple/progressive, future perfect simple/progressive, and subjunctive
  2. Essay: Analysis of an Argument

Lesson 6:

  1. Conditionals: real present, real future, unreal present, unreal past, and alternatives to "if"
  2. Comparisons: logic and idioms according to comparison type (comparative, superlative, equality, inequality, number comparisons, and 'as'-vs.-'like')
  3. Small Details: most frequently tested SC idioms, ellipses, and the double possessive

Lesson 7:

  1. Review: 3 hours of solving and discussing real GMAT problems

TOEFL Full Course:

Lesson 1:

  1. Reading Comprehension: 2 full texts with questions (factual/specific, negative, inference, rhetorical purpose, vocabulary, reference, sentence simplification, insert text, and main-idea summary)
  2. Speaking: introduction of templates for 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)

Lesson 2:

  1. Listening Comprehension: academic and non-academic conversations, and academic lectures
  2. Speaking: 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)

Lesson 3:

  1. Opinion Essay
  2. Speaking: 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)

Lesson 4:

  1. Opinion Essay: Reviewing student's essay/s for content and mechanics (grammar, punctuation, spelling)
  2. Speaking: 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)

Lesson 5:

  1. Integrated Essay: How to take notes and structure essay
  2. Speaking: 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)

Lesson 6:

  1. Integrated Essay: Review of student's essay/s for content and mechanics (spelling, grammar, and punctuation)
  2. Speaking: 1 full speaking section (6 tasks: experience, opinion, non-academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, academic integrated reading-listening-speaking, non-academic integrated listening-speaking, academic integrated listening-speaking)