Master the GMAT Sample Questions: Essential Tips and Strategies

TLDRLearn key tips and strategies to master the GMAT sample questions, including reading comprehension, critical reasoning, sentence correction, and quantitative reasoning. Understand the different question types and concepts tested in each section.

Key insights

🔑Reading Comprehension: Be prepared for primary purpose, detail and supporting ideas, inference, logical structure, application, and style and tone questions.

🔑Critical Reasoning: Familiarize yourself with weaken, strength, assumption, inference and conclusion, argument structure, boldface, dialogue, paradox, evaluate, and complete the argument questions.

🔑Sentence Correction: Focus on agreement, verb tense, grammatical construction, parallelism, logical predication, rhetorical construction, diction and idiom.

🔑Quantitative Reasoning: Practice problem solving and data sufficiency questions, covering topics such as arithmetic, elementary algebra, geometry, powers and roots, and coordinate geometry.

🔑Prioritize Data Sufficiency: Understand the different answer choices and thoroughly analyze each option to avoid common mistakes.

Q&A

Which question types should I focus on for Reading Comprehension?

Focus on primary purpose, detail and supporting ideas, inference, logical structure, application, and style and tone questions.

What are the key question types in Critical Reasoning?

Key question types in Critical Reasoning include weaken, strength, assumption, inference and conclusion, argument structure, boldface, dialogue, paradox, evaluate, and complete the argument questions.

What topics are tested in Sentence Correction?

Topics tested in Sentence Correction include agreement, verb tense, grammatical construction, parallelism, logical predication, rhetorical construction, and diction and idiom.

What should I focus on in Quantitative Reasoning?

In Quantitative Reasoning, focus on problem solving and data sufficiency questions, covering topics such as arithmetic, elementary algebra, geometry, powers and roots, and coordinate geometry.

How can I approach Data Sufficiency questions effectively?

Prioritize Data Sufficiency questions, understand the different answer choices, and thoroughly analyze each option to avoid common mistakes.

Timestamped Summary

00:00Erika, a senior curriculum manager at Magoosh, provides tips and strategies to master GMAT sample questions.

00:11Reading Comprehension: Be prepared for different question types such as primary purpose, detail and supporting ideas, inference, logical structure, application, and style and tone.

01:40Critical Reasoning: Understand weaken, strength, assumption, inference and conclusion, argument structure, boldface, dialogue, paradox, evaluate, and complete the argument questions.

04:10Sentence Correction: Focus on agreement, verb tense, grammatical construction, parallelism, logical predication, rhetorical construction, diction and idiom.

06:38Quantitative Reasoning: Practice problem solving and data sufficiency questions covering arithmetic, elementary algebra, geometry, powers and roots, and coordinate geometry.

09:44Prioritize Data Sufficiency questions, understand the different answer choices, and thoroughly analyze each option.