Arithmetic

Today’s Undertaking: Today, I will take up a relatively simple topic – Percentages. It is extremely relevant for GMAT and your everyday life. For the critics amongst you, let me give an example: What does a 20% sale with an […]

Today’s Undertaking: Today, I will delve into one of the most important GMAT arithmetic practice questions (ubiquitous application) that are tested on GMAT. It is also one of the topics that will appear time and again during MBA e.g. in […]

Today’s Undertaking: It is common for test-takers to think in the right direction, understand what a question gives and what it is asking to be found out, but still get the wrong answer. Mistakes made during the execution of a […]

Today’s Undertaking: Cracking High-Level GMAT Mixture Problems Today we continue to look at ways to achieve that much desired score of 90 in Quant. Obviously, we don’t need Sheldon Cooper’s smarts to realize that for that revered high score, we […]

Today’s Undertaking: We have read a lot about one way of handling complex questions – simplify them to a question you know how to solve. Here is another way – first do what you do know, and then figure out […]

Today’s Undertaking: How Tricky Arithmetic Can Outsmart the GMAT Algorithm Most of us know that GMAT questions can be quite sneaky. It is well established that GMAT is able to give a pretty accurate estimate of aptitude with just a […]

Today’s Undertaking: The GMAT Time Constraints Those of you who have studied my approaches and methods know that I do not like to take variables. In GMAT questions, often I do not take any variables, rarely I take one and […]

You must have come across questions which you thought tested one concept but later found out could be easily dealt with using another concept. Often, crafty little mixture problems belong to this category. Sneaky Mixture Problems on GMAT For example: […]

Today’s Undertaking: Understanding Interest on Interest in GMAT Compound Problems We know that simple and compound interest (compounded annually) in the first year is the same. In the second year, the only difference is that in compound interest, you earn […]

Today’s Undertaking: Why Traditional Math Sometimes Fails in TSD Problems They say Mathematics is a perfect Science. There is a debate over this among scientists but we can definitely say that Mathematical methods are not perfect so we cannot use […]