How to Prepare for the GMAT: The Verbal Section

How to Prepare for the GMAT: The Verbal Section

GMAT: The Verbal Section The business world is dominated by numbers, charts, and graphs. Thus, most business school hopefuls understandably focus on developing their analytical thinking and math skills when preparing for the GMAT exam. But it’s a mistake to neglect...
Consecutive Integers (plus more on Odds and Evens)

Consecutive Integers (plus more on Odds and Evens)

In our last post, we left you with a GMAT Official Guide Data Sufficiency problem to tackle regarding Odd/Even Number Theory. Here it is, if you didn’t get a chance to do it before: If x and y are integers, is xy even? (1) x = y + 1. (2) x/y is an even integer....
GMAT Rate Problems: Average Speed

GMAT Rate Problems: Average Speed

Welcome back to our series on GMAT quant rate problems. This article and the next will introduce concepts related to average speed. Though average speed is a simple concept, there are many ways for GMAT quant problems to “trick” test-takers with average speed...
Independent vs. Dependent Probability

Independent vs. Dependent Probability

Independent vs. Dependent Probability As promised last time, we’ll return to some strict GMAT probability today. Specifically, we’ll discuss the difference between independent and dependent probability. This simply refers to whether or not the events involved are...
Combinations with Restrictions

Combinations with Restrictions

In our previous post, we discussed how GMAT combinatorics problems can involve subtracting out restrictions. However, we discussed only PERMUTATIONS and not COMBINATIONS. Today, we’ll take a look at how the same technique can be applied to COMBINATION problems. This...