Too often, students look for complicated solutions to GMAT Quant questions. This approach is a mistake because most, if not all, GMAT quant questions have rather simple solutions.

GMAT Quant questions tend to be designed so that, in each, there are one or two key things that you have to see in order to answer the question efficiently. When you see these key aspects, the questions can become quite easy — far easier than you expected them to be. In fact, it’s often the case that a complex question, one that takes many test-takers three minutes to solve, can be answered correctly in under a minute if a test-taker sees one or two key aspects of the problem.

Consider these three GMAT Quant questions, all of which seem difficult until we see the simplicity that exists in them.

Even when a test-taker is scoring well and therefore seeing relatively challenging questions, many of the questions presented can be solved through the use of not particularly sophisticated methods. That is, the optimal paths to the solutions of many GMAT Quant questions will be very basic.

Seeing simplicity in the question is your goal.

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Scott