{"id":7351,"date":"2024-06-03T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2024-06-03T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:09:27","slug":"master-these-gmat-math-skills-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/gmat\/master-these-gmat-math-skills-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Math Skills Are Tested on the GMAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start the year off strong by diving into your GMAT math prep with vigor (or renewed vigor, as the case may be.) The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gmat\/gmat-test\/what-is-the-gmat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quantitative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> section is often the most feared, but its content is predictable and conquerable. Brush up on the specific math skills that the exam tests and pair this knowledge with solid critical thinking to be successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remember, the concepts presented here are the basics of what the GMAT tests. For advanced concepts and questions, the test-makers will build on the basics and use certain variations to make these more difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>[<\/strong> <strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/study\/gmat\/simple-quantitative-strategies-for-the-gmat\/\">GMAT Quantitative Strategies<\/a> <strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div  style=' margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:4px;'  class='hr hr-custom hr-center hr-icon-no  0  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner  inner-border-av-border-none' style=' width:50px;' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_heading  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >GMAT Math Skill #1: Arithmetic<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While arithmetic is foundational in grade school (and thus requires a great deal of review for many GMAT students), you must study the fundamentals as well as the more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/gmat\/courses\/gmat-advanced-course\">advanced concepts<\/a>. The GMAT tests your ability to do the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manipulate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1pJ-g9MUewc&amp;list=PLNxL1oW45vt3sl87otgzKJf-2h_Bj9M1C&amp;index=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fractions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, decimals, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/2017\/05\/11\/land-your-score-brush-up-on-ratios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ratios<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (as well as convert among the three).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand the properties and concepts of real numbers (such as odds and evens, integers, and multiples).<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work with percentages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calculate and manipulate exponents and roots.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand and apply descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, standard deviation).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand and apply properties of sets (such as Venn diagrams).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know and apply various counting methods (including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uq98QxYEKBc&amp;list=PLNxL1oW45vt3sl87otgzKJf-2h_Bj9M1C&amp;index=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">permutations and combinations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understand, calculate, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaptest.com\/blog\/business-school-insider\/2017\/05\/30\/land-your-score-probability-problems-primer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analyze probability<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several Quantitative questions you\u2019ll encounter on GMAT Test Day will require the application of more than one of these topics. In arithmetic, there are several concepts and equations you\u2019ll have to memorize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_sidebar  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >GMAT Math Skill #2: Algebra<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generally, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qIFZ4fOQ8Q4&amp;list=PLNxL1oW45vt3sl87otgzKJf-2h_Bj9M1C&amp;index=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">algebra you\u2019ll encounter on the GMAT<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not test you above a high school level. However, it has probably been several years since high school. These are the concepts you must review for the test:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manipulating algebraic expressions (isolating variables and solving for a variable).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solving equations (linear equations with one or more unknowns and quadratic equations).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Solving and manipulating <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t9E7c25C-w4&amp;list=PLNxL1oW45vt3sl87otgzKJf-2h_Bj9M1C&amp;index=9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inequalities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Applying and solving functions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div  class='avia-builder-widget-area clearfix  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_heading '><div id=\"text-76\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_text\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span data-sumome-listbuilder-embed-id=\"70f62512b89832cc8e7fcd96b9d03245c2794cf0b7170fa257f26acec72436d9\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><div id=\"text-77\" class=\"widget clearfix widget_text\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span data-sumome-listbuilder-embed-id=\"71160db829b51adcc3539815988485f372b020407413c2957efe50cfe72ea639\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<p><div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_sidebar  el_before_av_heading  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >GMAT Math Skill #3: <span class='special_amp'>\u201c<\/span>Real Life<span class='special_amp'>\u201d<\/span> Issues<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the GMAT isn\u2019t a high school equivalency exam, the test-makers added additional concepts that borrow heavily from the items above but add a real-life dimension to the concept. \u00a0The GMAT requires that you know a few more equations and concepts. However, at the base level, this is just an additional application of the concepts above. These additional applications include the ability to calculate the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interest (both simple and compound).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discounts and\/or profits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Work and combined work problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rate and measurement problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this list of what you need to know for GMAT math is comprehensive, it is not sufficient by itself. Since the GMAT doesn\u2019t require a significant amount of outside knowledge, you\u2019ll find these concepts presented in a manner that makes them far more difficult than they seem on paper. The only way to ensure you are prepared is to practice.<\/span><\/p>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h3    avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_heading  avia-builder-el-last  '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >GMAT Math Skill #4: Coordinate Plans<\/h3><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>While geometry was removed from the GMAT, coordinate plane geometry is actually considered algebra\u2014so coordinate plane can still appear on the exam.<\/p>\n<p>Every line on a coordinate system can be expressed in the form\u00a0<strong><em>y<\/em>\u00a0=\u00a0<em>mx<\/em>\u00a0+\u00a0<em>b<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0where\u00a0<em>m<\/em>\u00a0is the slope and\u00a0<em>b<\/em>\u00a0is the\u00a0<em>y<\/em>-intercept (that is, the point where the line crosses the\u00a0<em>x<\/em>\u00a0axis).<\/p>\n<p>Be sure you are comfortable with the relationships between parallel and perpendicular lines in the coordinate plane. Lines that are\u00a0<b>parallel\u00a0<\/b>have the same slope; they continue at the same slope to infinity and never cross. A line that is\u00a0<strong>perpendicular<\/strong>\u00a0to another line has a slope that is the negative\u00a0reciprocal\u00a0(change the sign and flip the fraction) of the other line\u2019s slope.<\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0<em>y\u00a0<\/em>=\u00a023<em>x\u00a0<\/em>+ 4\u00a0will be parallel to all other lines that share a slope of\u00a023. A line that is perpendicular to\u00a0<em>y\u00a0<\/em>=\u00a023<em>x\u00a0<\/em>+ 4\u00a0would have a slope of \u00a0-(1\/23), which you find by changing the positive sign to a negative and taking the reciprocal of the fraction.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<h4 class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#ab0c78\"><strong>FREE PREMIUM CONTENT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-col-240-f-6-e-color has-text-color\">GMAT Math Quicksheet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlock access to our free GMAT Math Quicksheet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" style=\"background-color:#ab0c78\" data-sumome-listbuilder-id=\"3dd243db-2e5a-4156-a79f-5a651d2fdb0d\">Get Access<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start the year off strong by diving into your GMAT math prep with vigor (or renewed vigor, as the case may be.) 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