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Probability theory for the GMAT/GRE
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Probability questions come up a lot in the Quantitative section of the typical GMAT or GRE exam and a lot of candidates fail them. Our strategy for passing probability questions is very simple - understand the principles involved; and rightly apply the principles.

Probability is a quantity that expresses the chance of an event occurring in a long series of repeated trials of the event.

Probability questions are all about EVENTS and OUTCOMES. The typical probability question will describe to you, a DESIRED OUTCOME, and your job, as the candidate writing the exam will be for you to orchestrate a SERIES OF EVENTS that lead to the desired outcome, ASSIGN PROBABILITIES to these series of events and hence compute the probability that the desired outcome described by the question will come to pass.

If you understand the immediate bolded above, probability questions will be very easy for you.

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I like what u do. Can i please get a Gmat past questions from you. Like 2016. Please. My email is obotlynda9@gmail.com. thanks

eastafro:

you can definitely retake the test while you prepare your other documents ready(SOP and what not ). and yeah i was able to increase my 152 quant score to 161 cause i practiced a lot of questions basically.
see the thing is it depends on the school you want to apply to. are you from engineering background? is the program you intend to enroll at math intensive or is it more verbal reasoning intensive? did you see what the scores(average scores since the scores vary) of students admitted to your intended program are ?
the last time i took the test i just took it for the sake of taking it and i was studying in balanced way half of my time on verbal(stressed alot on this cause my first language is not English )and half of it on quant. and i took it ,sadly i got 305(152 quant).
so i started contemplating a lot looking at yocket admits and their gre score. thats when i realized i needed 160+ score on the quant since my intended program was data science or cs,to be competitive that is . i thought if i score good on the math atleast i wont get rejected on the basis of my gre score.
so comes the strategy....focused on math since thats what i am better at. i did Manhattan back to back and nova and the official guide.
i practiced what i thought was challenging me(basically taking me time to figure the problem out since most of them are solvable but the how fast is the key) like remainder questions (got two of them on the test, use nova for this) ,probability and counting(got only one question) and standard deviation(had difficult ones the last time but fortunately none on this time around)
i did almost zero ,yes zero study on verbal cause last time i took a lot of time studying vocab and i did not see none of them so this time i sad Bleep it!! i aint worrying about vocab. i did some RC questions from the GMAT though.
uhhh whatelse, thats it i guess. sorry if im all over the place.
check out the diagnostic report and see which sections you messed up so you can try to improve.
if you still have questions let me know

Please can u share your questions with me especially Gmat. Please help a sister�. my email obotlynda9@gmail.com. thanks

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Pls i need too. Obotlynda9@gmail.com