From the course: Test Prep: GRE

Overview of GRE math questions

From the course: Test Prep: GRE

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Overview of GRE math questions

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- [Voiceover] The quantitative reasoning aka math section of the GRE will test a variety of math skills, as well as your ability to think, reason, and adapt to unfamiliar looking questions. In this video, I'll talk about the kinds of things the math sections will throw at you. Many of my students need to relearn a lot of concepts since they haven't done math in years. A great place to start learning about the GRE's quantitative section is the GRE's official website. There's a math review on there that will discuss all the kinds of concepts that will be tested and it provides some examples so that you can practice those concepts. There's also a list of mathematical conventions that the test plays by. The concepts the GRE tests can be divided into four main categories, arithmetic, which is things like fractions, decimals, and percents. Algebra, which are things like equations, functions, and word problems. Geometry, which is the coordinate plane and things like circles and triangles. Finally, data analysis, which is things like questions pertaining to graphs, probability, and statistics. Along with normal multiple choice questions, for which you select one answer, the GRE math sections will also have a small number of questions for which you have to type in your numerical answer. For those questions, you won't have the benefit of multiple choice. There's also going to be a few questions for which you can select one or more answer choices. In this course, I'll cover all the concepts the GRE will test, and provide you with my favorite techniques for solving the kinds of questions that commonly appear on the GRE. Your first job is to make sure you know the concepts, so that you can more easily handle the reasoning style questions the GRE writes. I'll make some recommendations for learning math concepts in the next video.

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