Re: 6 months away from my GMAT
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17 Feb 2008, 17:22
Thanks for your quick response People .
Ok, listed below are the topics i intend to cover in Quant...Please let me know if this will suffice, Also, please let me know if I'm missing out on anything important.
NUMBER PROPERTIES
DIVISIBILITY & PRIMES: Factors, Multiples, Prime Factorization, Factor Foundation Rule, Prime Boxes, Prime Products, GCF, LCM
ODDS & EVENS: Sum, Difference, & Product Rules, Two Prime Sum Rule
POSITIVES & NEGATIVES: Absolute Value, Product & Quotient Rule, Systematic Testing
CONSECUTIVE INTEGERS: Series Counting, Series Sum, Series Average, Special Products, Special Sums, Series Divisibility
EXPONENTS: General Rules, Special Bases, Simplifying & Combining Exponential Expressions
ROOTS: General Rules, GMAT Root Convention, Simplifying & Combining Root Expressions, Imperfect vs. Perfect Squares, Common Roots & Cubes
PEMDAS: Order of Operations
STRATEGIES FOR DATA SUFFICIENCY: Sample Data Sufficiency Rephrasing
FRACTIONS DECIMALS AND %
DIGITS & DECIMALS: Place Value, Estimation, Powers of 10, Last Digit Shortcut, Heavy Division Shortcut, Decimal Operations
FRACTIONS: Simplifying, Multiplication Shortcut, Reciprocals, Cross-Multiplication, Splitting Denominators, Benchmark Values, Smart Numbers
PERCENTS: Percent Tables, Percentage Change, Successive Percents, Percent Formulas, Percent Mixtures
FDP's: FDP Connections, Conversions, Common Equivalents
STRATEGIES FOR DATA SUFFICIENCY: Sample Data Sufficiency Rephrasing
WORD PROBLEMS
ALGEBRAIC TRANSLATIONS: Translation Techniques, Variable Organization
RATES & WORK: RTD Charts, Average Rate, Simultaneous Motion, Clicking Charts, Basic Work, Working Together, Population
RATIOS: Labels, Proportions, Unknown Multipliers
COMBINATORICS: Factorials, Anagrams, Permutations, Combinations, Constraints
PROBABILITY: And vs. Or, 1 - x Shortcut, Domino Effect, Winning Scenarios, Counting Methods
STATISTICS: Average Formula, Median, Standard Deviation
OVERLAPPING SETS: Double-Set Matrix, Sets & Percents, Sets & Algebraic Representation, Venn Diagrams
STRATEGIES FOR DATA SUFFICIENCY: Sample Data Sufficiency Rephrasing
EQUATIONS AND INEQUALITIES
BASIC EQUATIONS: One-Variable Equations, Simultaneous Equations, Mismatch Problems, Combo Manipulations, Absolute Value Equations
EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS: Even Exponents, Common Bases, Common Exponents, Eliminating Roots
QUADRATIC EQUATIONS: Factoring, Disguised Quadratics, Foiling, Undefined Denominators, Favorite Forms
FORMULAS: Plug-Ins, Strange Symbols, Unspecified Amounts, Sequences, Patterns
FUNCTIONS: Numerical Substitution, Variable Substitution, Compound Functions, Unknown Constants, Graphs
INEQUALITIES: Basic Inequalities, Even Exponent Inequalities, Absolute Value Inequalities, Combining Inequalities, Extreme Values
VIC'S: Variables In Answer Choices, Tracking Charts, Target Numbers, Equation-Based VIC's
STRATEGIES FOR DATA SUFFICIENCY: Sample Data Sufficiency Rephrasing
GEOMETRY
POLYGONS: Quadrilaterals, Interior Angles, Perimeter, Area, Dimensionality, Surface Area, Volume
TRIANGLES & DIAGONALS: Side-Angle Relationships, Triangle Theorems, Isosceles & Equilateral Triangles, Special Ratios, Polygon Diagonals
CIRCLES & CYLINDERS: Circumference, Arc Length, Area, Sectors, Inscribed & Central Angles, Cylinder Surface Area & Volume
LINES & ANGLES: Intersecting Lines, Parallel Lines, Exterior Angles, Transversals
COORDINATE PLANE: Slopes, Intercepts, Distance, Quadrants, Perpendicular Bisectors
STRATEGIES FOR DATA SUFFICIENCY: Sample Data Sufficiency Rephrasing