GMAT Ninja's Nonstop 24-Hour Crash Course for Ukraine
(Almost) Everything You Need for the GMAT
By now, hopefully you’ve heard about our March 2022 ultramarathon GMAT fundraiser for Ukrainian charities. Early in the war between Ukraine and Russia, we wanted to do our part to help the current wave of Ukrainian refugees. GMAT Club’s founder,
bb, is from Kyiv. My grandparents were from Kharkiv and Crimea, and they came to the United States as refugees after WWII. So the human toll of this war felt personal to us.
We decided to do a nonstop, 24-hour GMAT “crash course” as a fundraiser for five charities working in Ukraine. We raised $45,000, easily topping our original goal of $24,000.
The crash course itself was designed to cover everything you REALLY need for the GMAT -– albeit not in mind-numbing detail -– in a nonstop series of 24 one-hour lessons. I taught live on YouTube all night, and there was plenty of slurring, drooling, and fumbling. But hopefully, some of the content is legitimately useful if you're trying to conquer the GMAT. If not, maybe you'll at least be entertained by the slurring, drooling, and fumbling.
Want to learn everything you can from the crash course? Please keep reading.
A crash course for all skill levels: what you're REALLY doing wrong on the GMAT
The 24 lessons are all built around the same theme: instead of covering the basics of every topic, we focused on pitfalls that are common for GMAT test-takers across a range of skill levels.
The crash course also included a countdown of the 10 biggest study mistakes I've seen students make in my 20+ years as a GMAT tutor, along with interviews with experts who can help you overcome test anxiety and perform your best on test day.
See below for a full list of ALL of the questions in each hour of the crash course, as well as links to the videos for each of the 24 lessons.
If you find the crash course helpful, please donate to... something!
The 24-hour fundraiser supported the following charities that focused on helping Ukrainian refugees:
If you’re passionate about supporting Ukraine, great: we’d love for you to support one of our chosen charities. If not, that’s wonderful, too -- instead, please find a cause that you care about somewhere in the world.
If you watch the lessons and think, “man, I would totally pay for this GMAT course!”, then please donate whatever you think the course is worth. Or if you think, "man, this guy is pathetic", please donate anyway, either to help people somewhere in the world or to help the pathetic guy feel better.
Again, if we've inspired you to donate a piece of your test-prep budget to a good cause, please let us know about it -- regardless of the cause.
Thank you to everybody who supported the fundraiser!
Full disclosure:
bb and I concocted the idea for this fundraiser just eight days before actually doing it. And we needed a TON of help to make it happen.
I'm worried that I'm going to leave some amazing people off this list, but I want to thank a bunch of our friends who helped us :
- Huge thanks to our sponsors: Applicant Lab, e-GMAT, Stratus Admissions, MBA Mission, Personal MBA Coach, Admissionado, Stacy Blackman Consulting, and Gatehouse Admissions. I know that many of you didn't donate for the publicity, and that makes us love you even more.
- A special thanks to Cars Helping Charities, a wonderful organization that has nothing to do with the GMAT or MBA Admissions. This organization -- which is also dedicated to helping charities -- offered to sponsor the event not because it would raise their profile, but just because the organization is run by one of my former GMAT students, and he wanted to support the fundraiser. I can't possibly repay the love fully, but if you're reading this, please visit their website, and pass it along to anybody who might be able to link them with a charity who needs a hand with fundraising.
- It's a huge task to produce 24 hours of GMAT content, and I had a ton of help from heroic friends here at GMAT Club, several of whom stayed up all night with me. Evan, Selbi, Gauri, Doug, Kirsti, Souvik, Nikhil, and especially Abhijit, Bunuel, and Bogdan -- thank you for preventing me from making TOO much of an ass of myself. Thanks also to Dave, Dana, Bransen, Mike, Harry, and Alex -- six tutors who are frankly more talented than I am -- for shoveling questions at me, with minimal guidance. And huge props to Harry for giving me a breather in hour #19, and doing a better job with overlapping sets than I could have.
- I can't possibly list all of the people who put a smile on my face with their kind words during the livestream, but I wanted to give a special shout-out to anybody who survived for all 24 hours (Vubar and Dub C jump to mind, but I'm sure there were others); every viewer who asked for my hand in marriage; my lovely friends at Aringo, GMAT Club, Applicant Lab for sending food and caffeine; AndrewN & IanStewart for being wonderful human beings and amazing teachers; and my lovely wife Amber, who was on solo parent duty for 24 hours but still managed to find time to toss Red Bull, smoothies, espresso, and burritos into my office.
Thank you, everybody. It's a vulnerable feeling to babble into a camera for 24 hours straight while asking people to donate money, and every donation and friendly message meant the world to me.
Links to EVERY Crash Course Question and Video
If you're looking for a specific topic area, here's the breakdown:
- Quant: hour #2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24
- Reading comprehension: hour #1 & 23
- Critical reasoning: hour #5, 7, 16, 23
- Sentence correction: hour #8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 22
- Test anxiety and general GMAT study tips: hour #3 & 10
Need help with something that isn't on this list? Additional piles of GMAT videos are available
here or
here.
Hour #1: Reading Comprehension+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- Questions 1, 2, & 4 from this passage.
- The start of this passage is at 7:26.
- Question 1 starts at 20:36.
- Question 2 starts at 28:24.
- Question 4 starts at 35:48
. - Question 1 from this passage.
- The start of this passage is at 42:32.
- Question 1 starts at 53:05
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Additional RC questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #2: Quadratics, Exponents, and the Silly Ways You Torture Algebra+ Video- Starts from 58:13.
- How to approach every quant question from 1:01:36.
- Discussion of quadratics, exponents, and algebra starts at 1:05:56.
Questions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #3: The 10 Most Apocalyptic GMAT Study Mistakes+
Hour #3.5: Sleep, Exercise, & Test Anxiety (Panel Discussion)+
Hour #4: Blending Logic & Algebra on DS: Inequalities and Absolute Values+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 2:54:24
- Questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #5: CR Assumption, Evaluate, Logical Flaw, & Strengthen Questions+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #6: Percents & Interest Rates+ VideoVideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 4:50:23
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video- Question 10 is here.
- Question 11 is here.
Hour #7: CR BoldFace, EXCEPT, Fill-in-the-Blank, & Paradox Questions+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #8: Subjects, Verbs, & Things You Mistake for Verbs on SC+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #9: Scary Symbols & Walls of Words on GMAT Quant+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #10: Overcoming Test Anxiety: Interview w/Mindfulness Coach Dr. Jenny Forman+
Hour #11: Remainders & Divisibility+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 9:47:42
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video- Question 10 is here.
- Question 11 is here.
- Question 12 is here.
- Question 13 is here.
- Question 14 is here.
Hour #12: Parallelism on GMAT SC+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #13: Probability, Permutations, & Combinations+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 5:15
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #14: Even GMAT Tutors Screw Up SC Pronouns Sometimes+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #15: Rates & Conversions+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 1:59:13
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video- Question 11 is here.
- Question 12 is here.
- Question 13 is here.
Hour #16: “Uncategorizable" CR Questions & Hard Inferences+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #17: Statistics and GMAT "Min/Max" Questions+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 3:58:50
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video- Question 10 is here.
- Question 11 is here.
- Question 12 is here.
Hour #18: Please Stop Overthinking Modifiers on SC!+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #19: Overlapping Sets & Venn Diagrams+ VideoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 6:02:20
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
- Question 6 is here and starts at 6:37:57.
- Question 7 starts at 6:46:03 but needs rewriting to remove some ambiguities in the question stem. We’ll post a rephrased version of this on the forum when it’s ready.
- Question 8 is here and starts at 6:55:12.
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #20: SC Comparisons (A.K.A. Why Common Sense is HARD Sometimes)+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #21: How You're Letting GMAT Geometry Screw You+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoQuestions discussed in the video- The quiz starts at 8:00:23
- The questions from the quiz:
- The other questions in this hour are:
Additional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #22: Meaning & Things That Feel Like Judgment Calls on SC+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #23: Dealing with the Nastiest RC & CR Passages (+ a Spontaneous GMAT Q&A)+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
Hour #24: Hell with Bunuel: His Hardest Quant Questions Ever+ VideoQuestions discussed in the videoAdditional questions that didn't make it into the video
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Updated on: 26 May 2022, 09:38
