GMAT Tip: Math Basics

The GMAT Tip of the Week is a weekly column that includes advice on taking the Graduate Management Admission Test, which is required for admission to most business schools. Every week an instructor from a top test-prep company will share suggestions for improving your GMAT score. This week’s tip comes from Brian Galvin, director of academic programs at Veritas Prep.

The GMAT is a test on which the most complex problems often have the simplest solutions, at least for those willing to reason through them. Students often chase the “hardest” content items available on the test and breeze past—or overlook entirely—the most useful items. Let’s take a look at how some of the GMAT’s trickiest-looking problems lend themselves to simple solutions.