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GMAT’s Quantitative section | |||||||||||
The Quantitative section of the GMAT business school entrance exam is the second part of the test, and students are required to complete 37 multiple-choice questions in 75 minutes. |
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considered too difficult or advanced. In fact, many will have seen similar questions before, during high school. The Quantitative questions are comprised of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. However, while participants are saved from answering questions on calculus and trigonometry, calculators aren’t allowed, so students must be prepared to brush up on their mental arithmetic as well as review the key concepts. What are the questions like? Problem Solving questions Problem Solving is a classic question type on standardized tests. Students are presented with a question and given five possible answer choices. Some questions contain diagrams, which may be drawn to scale, meaning you can estimate measurements and size relationships. Each question that contains a diagram states if it is to scale, or not, so participants should remember to check first. Data Sufficiency Questions Data Sufficiency problems consist of a question and two statements of data. Students do not have to provide the answer to the solution here; instead the task is to determine whether the two statements provide sufficient data with which to answer the question. Test-takers will be given directions on how to answer Data Sufficiency questions, and all of the questions will have the same answer choices. In other words, students have to say whether the question can be answered with one of the two statements, with both statements, or indeed with neither. In order to succeed with these questions, a clear understanding of both the directions and also how to eliminate answers efficiently is required. This should come with strategic practice. Scoring on the Quantitative Section As well as an overall score, participants will also receive a scaled score for the Quantitative section, ranging from 0 to 60. This reflects performance compared to all other GMAT test-takers. The average test-taker score for the Quantitative section is 35, so students expecting a high score overall on their GMAT will need to score above that. To read advice on the Analytical Writing Assesment (AWA) section of the GMAT, click here. |
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