One of the most dread-inducing additions to the GRE—back when it changed in Aug. 2011—was the Numeric Entry question. The reason is apparent: instead of five answer choices to guide you, suddenly there is nothing more than a box, a big blank waiting for you to cough up one number out of millions (if not [...]
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How to Approach Complicated Math Problems
Every GRE test is going to have a few math questions that are very difficult. Upon seeing them, you may become completely flustered and believe that there is no way you are able to solve such a question. Oftentimes this is not the case. Rather, you fall into any number of traps that prevent you [...]
GRE Perfect Math Score Challenge
The Revised GRE is a long, grueling test. To get a perfect score on the quantitative section (a 170) you will not only have to answer the difficult questions correctly, but you will also have to answer all of the easy ones. Nonetheless, I’ve focused on the difficult questions for the 170-challenge. I can’t promise [...]
Revised GRE Math Practice Questions: Explanations!
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a Revised GRE Math practice questions post. The math practice questions ranged from relatively easy to very difficult. At the time I provided answers but not explanations. One of my hopes was that students would be able to reason on their own why a certain answer is correct. [...]
Revised GRE Math Practice Questions
Maybe you’ve been prepping for months or maybe this is your first foray on-line to see what this GRE thing is all about. Regardless, you need to do well on Quant, so you want to have a sense of where on the Revised GRE scale of 130 – 170 you are scoring. Below are some [...]
Numeric Entry Practice Question of the Week #21 Answer
Here are the answer and explanation to yesterday’s practice question. Thanks for submitting your answers! Video Explanation:
Numeric Entry Practice Question of the Week #21
This week’s practice question is Numeric Entry, so no answer choices are given! You’ll have to type the number in to submit your answer. Good luck, we’ll be posting the answer and explanation tomorrow! If , what is the value of n? Update: Here’s the answer/explanation post!
Statistics Practice Question of the Week #17 Answer
Here’s the answer to yesterday’s numeric entry question: Video Explanation: Hope the explanations helped! We’ll be posting the practice questions and answers on Monday and Tuesday, respectively, from now on so see you next Monday for another practice problem!
Statistics Practice Question of the Week #17
This week’s practice problem is a Numeric Entry question, so instead of choosing an answer from a set of given possibilities, you’ll type in your answer before you submit. Set A: {x, x, x, y, y, y, 3x+y, x–y } If the median of set A is 10 and 0 < x < y, what [...]
New GRE Numeric Entry: Practice Question of the Week #11 Answer
Since this week’s question is in the Numeric Entry format, try it on the Magoosh site to practice typing in the number and submitting your answer. Once you submit to check whether or not you got the problem correct, you can watch the video explanation to check to see if you missed any steps in [...]
