Problem Solving

are htere a lot of formulas, vics, and functions on the exam?

What do you mean? You are lucky to be left with your underwear to take the exam. You are given nothing more than an erasable board and a pen. There is a big brother camera recording all you movements.

LMAO.

OP is asking whether such Q's come up a lot on the exam.

Atlantic,

You mistook it for whether they are permitted on the exam.

I liked your UW analogy.

I don't know about the real exam, but from what I've seen on practice exams (about 10 at this point), I would have to say:

You might see 1 or 2 functions questions,

About 1 or 2 formulas questions,

About 4 to 6 VIC questions.

However, it also depends on the level of difficulty of each question. For example, you could be asked to solve profit, distance, percentage, amount of a job done, etc. These questions would probably have numbers at the 300 to low-600 level qustions, but will then contain variables as you move towards mid-600s and above.

don't underestimate the difficulty of the gmat questions. to this day, i still remember the first question i got on my real gmat. it was something with rates but everything was in variables such as x, y and z and all the answer choices were in x y and z....so the most efficient way to solve this problem was to plug in numbers. similar to official guide but a little harder since you were on a time constraint and also the question was modified. since that was the first question it must have been a 500 level question for quant. i got it wrong ....i was too nervous.