Rowan Introduction Well we were promised that when the Focus Edition came out, they were only subtracting information from the GMAT rather than adding it. And then we find Completing the Square questions on the test. This is a quadratics topic that was never in the GMAT curriculum before FE, so you do the math on … Read More
GMAT Number of Factors: How to Count the Possible Divisors of a Number One of the recent additions to the GMAT content sphere is questions that ask you to count the total number of factors of a number rather than simply the number of prime factors. That is, all factors, not just the prime ones. … Read More
99,999^2 – 1^2 = GMAT difference of squares quant question Here’s the actual text of the question in a proper layout: First things first, we need to figure out what sort of question this is. At first, it looks like something where we need to get it back into powers of 10, particularly given the … Read More
How to Read for GMAT Reading Comprehension Here’s a simple trugh: You Don’t Read Fast Enough for the GMAT This isn’t an insult. It’s not a personal attack. It’s a statement of fact. Top scorers in the Verbal section simply read faster. The people who treat GMAT Verbal like a light morning jog, who have … Read More
Why I’m Not Talking About the 700 GMAT Score Anymore That’s it. I’m fed up with having to explain that 700 is no longer the bar. Not only is this not my job, it’s becoming a drain on my mental health. Just recently, I had a 685 scorer tell me that she was disappointed in … Read More
Does the GMAT Repeat Questions? The Ultimate Guide “The secret is reps, reps, reps.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger Quick Answer? No. But also… kind of. It depends on what you mean by “repeat.” If you’re asking “does the GMAT repeat questions” the exact same question—same wording, same numbers—will appear on multiple GMATs: absolutely not. That’s a … Read More
Can You Use a Caclulator on the GMAT ? And Why This Matters The short answer to this question is NO. 100% you cannot use a calculator on the Quant section of the GMAT. It’s a bit like asking whether you can use ChatGPT on the Verbal section (again, the answer is NO). The more … Read More
How to Solve GMAT Questions Faster: the Recognition-Execution Loop The GMAT tests pattern recognition under pressure. The high scorer is one who can identify what the question is really asking—and execute the right solution strategy faster and more confidently. What Is the Recognition-Execution Loop? The recognition-execution loop is a cognitive cycle you repeat every time … Read More
How to Detect Baloney in GMAT Critical Reasoning When tackling Critical Reasoning questions on the GMAT, many test-takers approach them like puzzles—but famed astronomer Carl Sagan would argue they’re more like scientific claims. To get them right, you don’t just need verbal skills—you need a baloney detection kit. Sagan’s philosophy of scientific skepticism, distilled in … Read More
2^(1/2)/4 + 3/(2*2^(1/2)) or \sqrt{2}\4 (The most difficult thing about this question is writing it in a way that will be found by the search engines–which don’t appreciate LaTeX code–so please forgive me having to write shit like 2^(1/2)/4 + 3/(2*2^(1/2)) or \sqrt{2}\4 over and over). All that out of the way, the question itself … Read More