Although we have hundreds of practice questions for both the SAT and the GMAT, some of our more dedicated members were seeing repeat questions.

So, Grockit now keeps track of the questions you’ve seen and only shows you new ones. There are a couple of exceptions:

If you haven’t gotten it correct yet it’s fair game for obvious reasons.

If you have answered it correctly but a teammate hasn’t you may see the question again. This has two benefits: Your teammate gains from your experience with the question and teaching others is a great way to further your mastery.

The no repeats feature along with our ever increasing question pool will set you up for many hours of productive studying for the GMAT or the SAT.

In these times of economic uncertainty and huge stimulus packages, we thought we would do our best to help out by offering a year of free GMAT access in the Grockit network to anyone that lost their job after Oct 1, 2008.

We call it the Grockit Stimulus Package!

Going back to school and earning your MBA is a great way to re-up on your business skills, make new connections and ride out the storm. Start your MBA and GMAT prep with a free Premium account in the Grockit GMAT network.

Just email or fax us your pink slip and we’ll get you back a coupon code to sign-up for a free year of Premium GMAT access.

email – economy@grockit.com
fax – 866-863-2041 (make sure to include your email address)

The Grockit Stimulus Package will be available until May 15, 2009.

Part of closing the loop on your learning is to review the work you’ve done. In Grockit, we provide this functionality with our post game reviews. Each game you play in Grockit spawns a review session. In a review you get…..

1. Detailed expert explanations for every question you’ve played in the game.
2. Chat history of your discussion around each question.
3. A global comment stream sourced from other players that have reviewed that question.

If you’ve been playing in Grockit a lot, you probably noticed your review list getting pretty long and potentially taking a few moments to load on the page. We’ve addressed this issue by adding pagination to the reviews page.

You will now see your review list broken down with ten reviews per page with a cool little pagination list at the bottom.

To implement the pagination we used will_paginate, developed by the team at GitHub.

At Grockit we are committed to research and development. We work diligently to incorporate cutting edge learning theory into our products and code. To this end, there are several exciting initiatives we have been working on in the Grockit Labs.

Today we are proud to announce the implementation of our research around test scores and their relation to your astrological reading. It turns out that your birthdate and the date of your actual test have a strong infuence on the outcome of your test.

So, we have built an algorithm that takes into account your birthdate, the date of your test and standard astrological knowledge to provide you with an expected score for your test. Even more exciting is our algorithms ability to recommend a test date for you based on the same data.

According to our analysis, students can see score improvements from 10-50 points on their standardized test by picking a test date that aligns with the stars. Sure, studying and practice, practice, practice are the best ways to prepare for any test, but the power of astrology cannot be discounted.

We look forward to sharing more about our efforts at Grockit Labs. Good luck on your test and may the stars be with you!

Here is some preliminary data on our findings. Personal results may vary.

GMAT for Aries
Your first instinct is always brilliant, and almost always right. Not everybody knows that the GMAT favors your sign, but now you do. Don’t bother studying, just be you. 760

GMAT for Taurus
Your beauty and good taste are your only hope for this fateful event. Your only hope is to reschedule, but if you can’t do that, at least you can blame the stars. Remember that you have other talents. 230 (ouch)

GMAT for Gemini
Use your super-twin powers to achieve total GMAT domination. Your verbal side gets it and your quantitative side is a machine. But beware, your over-active imagination may exhaust your reserves on the essay section. Stay focused, stay focused. 740

GMAT for Cancer
Imagine the GMAT is a piece of chocolate cake with your name on it. This is not the time for a diet! Apply your love of food to every question, savor the questions, own the GMAT. Good luck. 680

GMAT for Leo
It’s all about you Leo, every question that has been written and tested has been in anticipation of your big test day. You can do no wrong, everybody loves you when you take the GMAT. 800

GMAT for Virgo
Your desire to keep everything organized and your methodical approach to questions will not aide you today. Sorry Virgo. If cheating was an option we’d recommend sending a Leo in your place, but for you the stars recommend rescheduling. (Reschedule or decline your score.)

GMAT for Libra
OK Libra, do you think you can stop thinking about your boyfriend/girlfriend for 3 hours? Actually, we know that you CAN’T. Your only hope is to pretend that the GMAT is your boyfriend/girlfriend. Test your heart out. 620

GMAT for Sagittarius
Sagittarius, your destiny is in Business School, nothing can prevent you from fulfilling this goal, including the dismal performance on the GMAT you are about to demonstrate. Letters of recommendation are your strength. 450

GMAT for Scorpio
Using your connection to Pluto you will see through the questions and answer with laser-eye focus. Scorpio you are on fire! 780

GMAT for Capricorn
We know that you’ve been studying diligently, you’ve done everything right, too bad the stars aren’t going to align for you. Avoid certain failure by rescheduling. (Reschedule)

GMAT for Aquarius
Your imagination and wacky sense of humor is your strength. You will fail both Quantitative and Verbal but your essay will be so compelling that it will be published in the Atlantic Review and you will be awarded and honorary score. 780

GMAT for Pisces
Like a fish out of water… poor Pisces, you won’t even find the test center. 200