Geometry Guides

Hi bml1105,

Can you define WHY geometry is such a "problem category" for you?

Here's what Geometry ultimately comes down to:
1) Know the formulas/rules. It's tough to answer a question about circles if you can't remember the circle formulas that you need to use.
2) Draw pictures. This is part of the "organizational aspect" of answering a GMAT question. Whether you're taking notes, drawing pictures, doing math, etc., you have to write everything down and stay organized. When answering ANY geometry question, try drawing a picture and write down any formulas that are referenced by the prompt.
3) Do the math that's required. Many geometry questions are just about "plugging in" information and doing the handful of math "steps" that are required to get to the answer. Sometimes geometry questions can be solved by TESTing Values or TESTING THE ANSWERS, but that's dependent on how the question is written.

Before you put too much energy into Geometry though, you need to respect that other categories in the Quant section are usually "bigger" and worth more overall points than Geometry. Algebra, Number Properties, Arithmetic and Data Sufficiency will appear more often than Geometry will, so if you're not great at any of these categories, then you should put your energy there first.

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

If you want to focus on Geometry, you can use BTG's tagging feature to isolate one concept at a time.
For example, here are all of the questions tagged as statistics questions: https://www.beatthegmat.com/forums/tags/ ... statistics
See the left side of that linked page for more tag options (such as triangles, circles, etc).

Be sure to spend a lot of time reviewing the responses from the Experts. They often model the steps you should be taking when answering question.

Cheers,
Brent