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MBA Programs - Quant Prep Best Practices

"Interactions with a leading MBA program revising its core curriculum and pre-term quantitative skills prep crystallized the following recommendations for MBA administrators, which might also be of interest to prospective students: In my opinion, the best practice for online-only quant prep is to set a proficiency threshold for all MBA Math lessons, excepting only those topics not needed for a given program (e.g., calculus for marginal analysis in econ). The top third can breeze through the lesson-specific quizzes, digging into the learning material only when they encounter proficiency gaps..."
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Source: MBA Quant Experience

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