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.
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
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