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Learning Maths from Scratch [#permalink] New post   02 Apr 2014, 02:27
Hi All,

Just joined the forum today and looking to take my GMAT in around 4-5 months time so hopefully plenty of time to prep.

The issue I've found so far though is that as a Brit, I stopped doing any Maths after GCSE (aged 16) and many of the concepts around Calculus, Algebra and Geometry I never learned in school. I've got the Official 2014 GMAT study book but it's 'Math Review' section offers little to no explanation of key concepts and it occurred to me I'll have to learn it from scratch.

In people's experience, what's the best way to fill these gaps? Are there particular study books that specifically teach the general knowledge needed as the foundation before getting onto specific testing strategies?

Any thoughts and advice appreciated!

Joss
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Re: Learning Maths from Scratch [#permalink] New post   02 Apr 2014, 07:15
I have the exact same experience.. I'm in my 30s and have not done maths since I was 16 and it doesn't help that I have mild dyslexia
Get the Manhattan foundation books
And the other Manhattan prep books
I wouldn't bother with the advanced quant book
I'm not saying it's bad .. infact it's very good but i have used it and if you have a problem with maths , it probably won't help much because of how advanced it is. Only get it once you get to a good level
At the moment I score between 40 and 47 on practice test but If I paced my self better and didn't panic I could score a lot more because half the time I go back and look at the question and realise how easy it was.
It's not only about the maths though .. strategy has a lot to do with it .. there are loads of short cuts to answer questions and it would help memorizing some general maths principles like the powers of 2 or the diagonal of a cube or square ..
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Re: Learning Maths from Scratch [#permalink] New post   02 Apr 2014, 07:16
By the way .. it would help doing specific question types that you are weak on , over and over again , so if the question type comes up you know the best way to solve it once you look at it
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Re: Learning Maths from Scratch [#permalink] New post   02 Apr 2014, 07:26
One last thing .. sign up to the Manhattan gmat site and purchase the book set and 6 practice tests, yes it's expensive but worth it if you have not studied for a while . My brother was an investment banker before he did it and also studied chemical engineering, so all he needed was a few practice test to score 700 , meanwhile I'm a graphic designer who hasn't done maths since I was 18.

.. you also get a pool of several hundred practice questions .. you can go to a question in the book , answer it on the Manhattan gmat navigator and it gives you pretty detailed stats .. There are several hundred question to answer so it will take a while to run out of questions.

I hope this helps .. I'm no gmat expert so someone else may be able to give some more input
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Re: Learning Maths from Scratch [#permalink] New post   04 Apr 2014, 07:39
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Hi there,

I also wanted to recommend that you check out a free trial of the Economist GMAT Tutor's course. The course is adaptive, meaning that it will teach you what you need to know at your level. So very quickly the program will determine that you need extra help in math and it will hone in on teaching you basic skills. Once you learn the basics, it will build upon that foundation to teach you more advanced concepts. You can check out the course here: https://gmat.economist.com/

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