Sunday 3 March 2013

The Real Ingenious GRE and GMAT Math Jitters Sdn Bhd



When I took the GRE General Test for graduate school admissions, it had been almost 5 years since I had taken my last math class - with the exception of a dumbed-down introductory statistics class I slept through as an undergraduate student. I did a bit of brushing up on my math, but to be honest, I was much more focused on my undergraduate studies my family psychology. Imagine my surprise when I got a score well over 700 on the math section!

The lesson learned: The level of math on the GRE (and GMAT) is not very high. It’s not like you need to have taken multivariate calculus to do well. In fact, the GRE and GMAT only present questions that require you to utilize concepts from arithmetic, elementary algebra, and geometry. You need to understand these secondary school subjects well and have the critical reasoning skills to apply them to complex scenarios.

Of course, the quantitative reasoning section on the GMAT is much more difficult than that on the GRE. Then again, if you’re aiming for a program that only accepts the GMAT for admissions (business, finance, etc.), then chances are you’ve been using quantitative skills all along in your career. If you’re one of those poor blokes in non-quantitative career fields such as dance management, then all I can say is, “Study up!”

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