Tips to Ace the GMAT Problem Solving

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Planning to take GMAT this year? While it is important to improve your vocabulary and work on cracking the tough Data Sufficiency section, it is as important to prepare for GMAT Problem Solving (PS) section.

This section has been designed with a purpose to assess candidate's skills in geometry, algebra, statistics, and arithmetic. Problem-solving questions present multiple-choice problems in arithmetic, basic algebra, and elementary geometry. The task is to solve the problems and choose the correct answer from among five answer choices.


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5) Learn how to estimate:

Estimation is the key to PS success. Frequently, a question will test your ability not to compute, but rather to make reasonable approximations. For example, the fact that 11 goes into 76 a little more than 7 times means that 11/76 must be slightly less than 1/7.

The only problem here is that 11/76 is slightly GREATER than 1/7.