You should devote a significant portion of your studying time for the quantitative section in your GMAT preparation. The GMAT quant section, will measure your ability to analyze the data that is provided and draw conclusions from it using your reasoning skills. The level of mathematics that is required to understand and solve the questions in the quant section, would be what you would have learned in high school. You will have 62 minutes to complete precisely 31 multiple-choice questions. The Quantitative section will have two types of questions -Problem Solving questions and questions based on Data Sufficiency. The Quantitative section will have two types of questions -Problem Solving questions and questions based on Data Sufficiency.
Practicing For Quantitative Section in Your GMAT Preparation
You can study for the Quantitative Reasoning section more effectively if you improve your knowledge in the following areas of mathematics.
Arithmetic – This includes basic maths such as integers, whole numbers, fractions, exponents, roots, statistics, and probability
Algebra –This topic would include variables, functions, equations of different types and how to solve to solve them
Geometry – This would include different geometrical shapes and their properties.
Word problems –These kinds of problems would test your skills in reading a problem, deriving the data and solving the problem.
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Questions in the quantitative section would mostly be in the multiple choice format, where you will be provided with one question and five choices from which you must select the right answer. These would test your analytical and logical skills so you should definitely keep your wits around you, when you answer these questions. We provide a few tips for answering these questions
1. Time yourself – During your GMAT preparation, use a timer to work out how much time you are taking to answer each question, and with practice try to reduce the time taken for answering the questions.
2. Write out the working part of your answers, when you practice so that you can refer to it, in case you get the answer wrong.
3. Read each and every question carefully in order to determine what is being asked and the data that is provided. In case of word problems, work on it step by step. Translate the sentences into equations or mathematical representations before you solve them.
4. Take the time to read through the answer choices to make sure that you are inputting the answer in the correct format. For example, if the solution you arrived at is 3/4th but the answer choice is 0.75, then you would need to select that.
With meticulous and consistent preparation, using the tips above, you can score high on the quantitative section of the GMAT test
