Quantitative Section Review

Learn everything about the quantitative section of the GMAT, including practice, explanations and tips.
 
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The GMAT quantitative section relies on a number of high school-level math topics, presented in two question formats. Some fields are trivial; others would probably require a thorough review. While the basic knowledge required for this section merely consists of mathematical concepts and topics introduced in high school, it turns into a complicated, time pressured task. Add to this the adaptive aspect of the test, which introduces questions according to your specific answering pattern, and here's a recipe to a tough and mind boggling test section.

Math fields presented in the test

  1. Arithmetic: Basic mathematical operations, ratios and percents. The properties of common number groups; odds & evens, primality, divisibility rules, factoring, remainders, arithmetic sets. 
  2. Statistics & probability: Averages, medians, variance, S.D and combinatory.
  3. Elementary algebra: Including expressions, powers and roots, different types of equations, inequalities, and basic functions.
  4. Basic geometry: Including two and three dimensional polygons, circles, and analytic geometry.

Math Formulas

There is a long list of GMAT math formulas which should be memorized, and we have gathered all of them into one document.
Download our GMAT math formulas.

Two types of questions

All the questions in this section are in the multiple choice format, however, there a two different question presentations which introduce the same quantitative topics .

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