{"id":17815,"date":"2013-04-09T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2013-04-09T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T00:09:12","slug":"a-little-bit-of-gmat-quant-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/a-little-bit-of-gmat-quant-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little bit of GMAT Quant Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it. You hate GMAT math. You\u2019ve already toiled for hours here on GMAT Club and you feel desperate when someone like Bunuel or MikeMcGarry rip your math solution apart half a minute after you post your question. 700? A dream. You\u2019ll be lucky if the computer doesn\u2019t flash that iconic wagging finger from Jurassic Park halfway through the quant section letting the whole room know that you\u2019re a failure. Okay, maybe you\u2019re not that bad off. Maybe you\u2019re stuck on the basics or Barron\u2019s GMAT review<\/a> has got your head in a tizzy. It happens. No big deal, just your future we\u2019re talking about here.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll be honest. I spend a lot of my time in the GRE clouds, but I know that the best way to crack the new GRE<\/a> is not exactly the same as cracking the GMAT<\/a>. You may not need engineering GRE scores<\/a> in math to get into your I\u2019m-destined-to-be-a-Wall-Street-rockstar MBA program, but you\u2019ll definitely need to know your way around GMAT probability questions<\/a> and the like. But you don\u2019t need me to tell you that, if you\u2019re reading this you\u2019re already miles ahead of the competition (or maybe you\u2019re just procrastinating?).<\/p>\n

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Now when you\u2019re out there with your head swimming in GMAT math equations<\/a> and maybe even some official\u00a0practice IR problems<\/a>, keep your eye on the prize. It\u2019s tough sloughing through all the quantitative mess that is GMAT math, especially if you\u2019ve got the other half of your brain worried about verbal or after 3 months you\u2019re still hunting for that elusive \u201cbest\u201d GMAT book<\/a> that will tell you everything you need to know from A to Z (here\u2019s a hint: most resources aren\u2019t that great). Take your time and be patient in learning. It\u2019s a pretty tall order to expect to know how to prepare for the GMAT in one month<\/a> - or less; though if you\u2019re masochistic, I suppose that just might be up your alley.<\/p>\n

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And since I\u2019m slightly more of a GRE jockey myself, I can tell you GMATers that you when you get bored studying the same old 100 practice problems, or you feel bogged down with data sufficiency, try your hand at figuring out how to solve complicated GRE math problems<\/a>. Pick some quantitative comparison questions and you\u2019ll be surprised at how much less pressure you feel in answering them. After all, you\u2019re not exactly aiming for Stanford GRE scores<\/a>, are you? You\u2019re just taking a little GMAT break (read: pressure break), while flexing that math muscle.<\/p>\n

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This post was written by Chris Swimmer\u00a0an analyst at\u00a0Magoosh<\/a>\u00a0who spends his time helping folks out with their math hang ups while studying for the GRE and the GMAT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let\u2019s face it. You hate GMAT math. You\u2019ve already toiled for hours here on GMAT Club and you feel desperate when someone like Bunuel or MikeMcGarry rip your math solution…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[783,243,736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magoosh-blog","category-blog","category-quant-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17817,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/17817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}