
Revise the general structure and content of the GMAT Quantitative section and its scoring system.
Learn the Data Sufficiency Question structure
Understand the concept of Sufficiency
Identify the most common mistakes when reasoning a Data Sufficiency question
Learn the outline for a general strategy to tackle DS questions in the GMAT
Revise strategies to operate fractions faster when solving operations manually.
Learn to work with fractions rather that with decimals, transforming decimals to fractions and thus avoiding the pitfalls of negotiating the placing of the decimal dot.
Identify the different behaviors of decimals when accompanied by exponents or radicals.
Learn basic rules to operate powers and roots of real numbers.
Learn how to rationalize expressions with radicals in the denominators.
Learn the concept of rounding and place values of digits in real numbers.
Revise basic considerations when working GMAT questions with integer numbers and variables.
Revise the definition of parity and the properties that determine the result of the addition, subtraction, and multiplication of integer numbers.
Revise the concepts of factors, multiples and divisibility among integers as well as a useful approach to solve questions about factors and multiples.
Revise the definitions of prime numbers and prime factorization, which are at the core of many further concepts about integers.
Learn a formula to determine the number of factors/divisors of any integer.
Learn how to handle statements about integer powers that are divisible by certain integer factors and what these statements tell you about the original integers.
Learn a practical rule to determine the Least Common Multiple and the Greatest Common Divisor using prime factorization
This course will introduce you to the GMAT Quantitative section and will provide you with the basic arithmetic tools you need to ace Number Theory questions in the GMAT.
The GMAT Quantitative section is aimed to measure your analytical ability with numerical reasoning situations. It is part of the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), a requisite for admission into most Business school programs.
The course comprehends:
A review of the Data Sufficiency (DS) question structure: Definition of Data Sufficiency, the meaning of Data Sufficiency answer choices, examples and a general strategy to DS.
Basic Arithmetics built on:
(1) Number Theory for Fractions and Decimals: Operations with Fractions, Fractions vs Decimals, Powers of Decimals, Properties of Exponents and Roots, Place Values of Digits in Real Numbers, Rationalization;
(2) Number Theory of Integers: Integer Parity, Factors and Multiples, Number of Factors, Divisibility of Powers of Integers, Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Divisor.
This course supposes a strong foundation to further arithmetic knowledge for the GMAT Quant section. The course includes theory presentation (video lectures), solved examples, and practice material (questions solved and explained) that can be done by the student as homework.
The duration of the course covers about 65 min of instruction and it can be covered at a different pacing according to the circumstances of each learner.