What are the Good Mark's Study Guides?

The idea for the Good Mark's Study Guides started when I was revising for my GMAT exams. I was looking for an overview of all the formulas and rules I needed for the exam. I could not find such an overview and hence decided to create one myself. The GMAT Quantitative guide was the first Good Mark's Study Guide.

The study guides are study aids; they are not textbooks and do not replace classroom lessons. What the guides give you is a clear overview of the material. The guides can help you grasp the big picture and can help you prepare for exams in the best way possible.

The study guides are also very useful as reference guides for when you take on more advanced courses and as refresher tools for many years after graduation.

I recently read an interesting book, called The Art of What Works. In this book, the author William Duggan talks about expert intuition, which is defined as "recognition-based decision making"; you recognise that a current situation has similarities to one or more past situations and you apply what worked in the past situation(s) to the current situation. He then argues that "the greater your expertise, the more situations you see as familiar". He later builds on this last point as follows:

"The more you learn, the deeper and faster your intuition will be, and the shorter your path to success."

I thought this was a great way to summarise the spirit of education. You study what has worked in the past and you use that knowledge to build the future. And success is of course not just monetary success; it can be success in any area (academics, business, the military etc.).

The Good Mark's Study Guides embody this point; the guides summarise the core knowledge in a given field and you, the student, acquire this knowledge, make it your own, and use it to develop a successful career.