3 MORE of the Most Common GRE Trick Questions (No. 2 in the Series)

You know how the wording of those Quant questions that always seems to get you? This No.2 in the series video is aimed at training you to avoid the most common trick questions the GRE and other tests can through at you.

The GRE and GMAT are two of most used graduate exams for those seeking to study a Masters Degree or Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree. The Graduate Record Exam and Graduate Management Admissions Test have been taken for over 50 years and are taken by approximately 600,000 and 300,000 people worldwide annually, respectively. These exams are typically taken between the ages of 18-40, by those who have completed, or are about to complete, their Bachelors Degree.

[hannahelliott]

Hi Philip - thank you so much for the amazing content you create! Watching all of your quant videos helped me to substantially boost my quant score. I can’t thank you enough!

[rithanathiths]

Guys, this man need lot of appreciation...best playlist to always look on to...keep posting more video s

[cameronysidron]

Man, #1 got me on two separate occasions. I was initially confident in A, B, C, then realized after watching a bit more of the video that I'm not accounting for roots and was set on B and C. And then mind blown again upon realizing that odd powers could still have roots. These types of trick questions are what drag me down on my practice tests for sure

[salmanij]

i felt like you have read through my mind in solving every question

[Crisean]

Love this! Thank you, Philip. That first and third trick questions made me go "ooooh!".

[sardarzayad]

Hi Philip! In Question 3 We can take the log for both quantities and this will cancel out the "y" in exponent and In that case quantity B will be bigger always.

[abdurrasheed]

Trick no-1 is really wonderful.. we didnt think about under root values... and the last one is nice too where we include "0" as non-negative integer.. First i thought non-negative means positive but now i am confident about it... Thank you Philip

[infxtv]

Fantastic Phillip. You're a great teacher! I'm curious about your blue words at the bottom of each problem, especially "the tree goes deep". Kind of like your own commentary yeah? -Hillary

[rabinsonrai]

Constructive criticism: write the numbers while explaining math problem . The 1st trick went over my head when you started explaining without writing something.

[megank]

Thank you soo much for your videos and the tricks discussed.

[deepanshu.saxena]

kudos Philip! please make more such videos in this series.

[MrMcfire]

For the second question for 'y': Would would also need to consider the order of operations (i.e. BODMAS)

[wildhorse]

Relating to trick #2--If in our own calculation of a problem (a non-geometric problem), when we end up squaring something in order to simplify it, then the answer is either negative or positive, right? VS. When the GRE throws out a sq. rt symbol to begin with in a Q, it always means it to be positive right off-the-bat? If this is not right, a video on this sometime would be awesome. Maybe I'm missing something in the rules of sq. rooting something. Thanks!

[anikajabin]

Very meticulous explanation. I would have ignored all of the tricks and choose bluntly. Thanks again. I would appreciate if you could do one on number series, though it comes on 165+ question. Yet it would be helpful.

[pankajmallik]

Those tricks are amazing ....will help me a lot !!

[dhamotharann]

Lol Philip u got me in first question literally obscure enough .. immersed with anxiety after watching this video...cracyyy..

[manalireddy]

your videos are great sir. just one suggestion: kindly use online writing board to explain math questions rather than just speaking out the steps.. Thank u

[john-howtohub]

Waoh, this scintillating. Thank you sire

[kishanagarwal]

Great explanations Philip. I fell for the first one. Please keep flowing the videos on such topics.

[elteteliterariodemartin]

I am so grateful for these videos explaining wordings of the GRE! So illuminating. Thank you so very much!