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You’ve worked through basic guides and you’ve taken the practice tests—now take your GMAT score to the next level. Build your higher-level quantitative skills with Manhattan GMAT’s Advanced Quant supplement, specially designed for students seeking 650+ scores.

This guide combines intense practice with techniques for problem solving and data sufficiency questions, ranging from broad principles to tactics for narrowing down possible answers.

From the Author

Chapter By Chapter

0. INTRODUCTION

Part I

1. PROBLEM SOLVING PRINCIPLES

Problem Solving Advanced Principles, Principle #1: Understand the Basics, Principle #2: Build a Plan, Principle #3: Solve - and Put Pen to Paper, Principle #4: Review Your Work

2. PROBLEM SOLVING: STRATEGIES & TACTICS

Advanced Strategies, Advanced Guessing Tactics

3. DATA SUFFICIENCY: PRINCIPLES

Principle #1: Follow a Consistent Process, Principle #2: Never Rephrase Yes/No as Value, Principle #3: Work from Facts to Question, Principle #4: Be a Contrarian, Principle #5: Assume Nothing

4. DATA SUFFICIENCY: STRATEGIES & TACTICS

Advanced Strategies, Advanced Guessing Tactics

Part II

5. PATTERN RECOGNITION

Sequence Problems, Units (Ones) Digit Problems, Remainder Problems, Other Pattern Problems

6. COMMON TERMS & QUADRATIC TEMPLATES

Common Terms, Sequence Problems, Quadratic Templates, Quadratic Templates in Disguise

7. VISUAL SOLUTIONS

1. Representing Objects with Pictures, 2. Rubber Band Geometry, 3. Baseline Calculations for Averages, 4. Number Line Techniques for Statistics Problems

8. HYBRID PROBLEMS

Identify and Sequence the Parts, Where to Start, Minor Hybrids, Conserving Time

Part III

9. WORKOUT SETS

About the Author

In the last decade, Manhattan GMAT has grown from a single, dedicated tutor to a major test prep company with locations across the country. Our philosophy is simple: We aim to help students achieve their goals by providing the best curriculum and the highest-quality instructors in the industry. Manhattan GMAT hires fewer than 1 in 10 qualified applicants for its teaching positions, ensuring every instructor has years of experience and a 99th percentile score. So you can trust our books are developed by the very best.