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adonis · 10-13-2004, 07:55 AM

The Quant section

“The quant section of the GRE can be cracked by any smart high – school kid” is the notion prevailing. Wake up guys, the ETS has tightened its noose on the quant section. I’m not telling this to intimidate you; it’s just a word of caution for u to allot sufficient hours of preparation time for quant.

Doing the math review from the powerprep CD with emphasis on the DI section will suffice as far as the preparation is concerned. A cool head at the exam center is all that stands between you and 800 in the quant section. Barron’s will be of sum help coz it gives sum neat tips on how to exploit each pattern of questions to your benefit. Non math students (that was a crude way of saying humanities & arts students) can do stuff from R.S Agarwal just in case they feel uncomfortable with their degree of preparation.

DATA INTEPRETATION

You need to spend some time in understanding basic terms in statistics like range, median, mode, standard deviation etc. which will be useful for the DI section. DI is one area where the schools down in India don’t emphasize much on. So, you hafta do DI related questions. Barron’s is good. But the BIG BOOK of GRE is the best. Spend more time learning the techniques rather than do a lotta problems using ur own.

GEOMETRY

It’s one of the easiest section, but these days more questions relating to circles and polygons are being asked. So learning sum basic formulae like “sum of internal angles of a polygon=?” and “area of sector, segment =?” would be of great help.

WORD PROBLEMS

Word problems too are easy, but again ETS gives u huge word problems where u’ll hafta deal with more calculations than applying ur brains to it. So the key factor is TIME. Check the time remaining always.

Note: Quite a few problems on “Probability”, “Permutations and Combinations” and “Multiple ratios” are asked, so learn’ ‘em.

ARITHMETIC COMPARISON

You get questions where u’ll hafta be careful with the range of values that the given no. can take, especially those lying between 0 & 1 and negative numbers.

So, given any problem, the first thing u gotta check is whether the no. can take negative values or if it lies between 0 & 1 and proceed with the problem.

I guess tht’s all abt the quant section. Time is the most important factor these days, so make sure u complete the section on time.
More later
Cheers

10-13-2004, 07:55 AM	#6 (permalink)
adonis Smells like teenspirit;-) Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: rite in the mi'l of nowhere Posts: 711	Cracking the GRE-Quant The Quant section “The quant section of the GRE can be cracked by any smart high – school kid” is the notion prevailing. Wake up guys, the ETS has tightened its noose on the quant section. I’m not telling this to intimidate you; it’s just a word of caution for u to allot sufficient hours of preparation time for quant. Doing the math review from the powerprep CD with emphasis on the DI section will suffice as far as the preparation is concerned. A cool head at the exam center is all that stands between you and 800 in the quant section. Barron’s will be of sum help coz it gives sum neat tips on how to exploit each pattern of questions to your benefit. Non math students (that was a crude way of saying humanities & arts students) can do stuff from R.S Agarwal just in case they feel uncomfortable with their degree of preparation. DATA INTEPRETATION You need to spend some time in understanding basic terms in statistics like range, median, mode, standard deviation etc. which will be useful for the DI section. DI is one area where the schools down in India don’t emphasize much on. So, you hafta do DI related questions. Barron’s is good. But the BIG BOOK of GRE is the best. Spend more time learning the techniques rather than do a lotta problems using ur own. GEOMETRY It’s one of the easiest section, but these days more questions relating to circles and polygons are being asked. So learning sum basic formulae like “sum of internal angles of a polygon=?” and “area of sector, segment =?” would be of great help. WORD PROBLEMS Word problems too are easy, but again ETS gives u huge word problems where u’ll hafta deal with more calculations than applying ur brains to it. So the key factor is TIME. Check the time remaining always. Note: Quite a few problems on “Probability”, “Permutations and Combinations” and “Multiple ratios” are asked, so learn’ ‘em. ARITHMETIC COMPARISON You get questions where u’ll hafta be careful with the range of values that the given no. can take, especially those lying between 0 & 1 and negative numbers. So, given any problem, the first thing u gotta check is whether the no. can take negative values or if it lies between 0 & 1 and proceed with the problem. I guess tht’s all abt the quant section. Time is the most important factor these days, so make sure u complete the section on time. More later Cheers