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GMAT Official Practice Questions 2: May 21 release date

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GMAC, the writers of GMAT, will be releasing a new set of practice questions called GMAT Official Practice Questions 2 on 21st of May that includes a set of 350+ questions. This will include questions from Quantitative, Verbal, and Integrated Reasoning and will cost $30.

This product is a sequel to the GMAT Official Practice Questions 1(originally called GMATPrep Question Pack 1) that was released in 2012 and has 200 Quant questions, 180 verbal questions, and 24 Integrated Reasoning questions.

I highly recommend students to use the official GMAT practice questions and this is a welcome addition to an already large inventory of official GMAT practice questions. 10 years ago I used to complain that there weren’t enough official GMAT practice questions that were of high quality. However, today I can say that there is no dearth of good quality official GMAT practice questions. The only downside is that you have to pay for all of these additional products.

GMAT Problem Solving Question 01: Arithmetico-Geometric series

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The following GMAT Problem Solving question tests your understanding of how to find the sum of an arithmetico-geometric series. This is a difficult question and you should expect something along these lines if you are scoring Q49+ on the GMAT quantitative section.

The limiting sum of the infinite series
$$ \dfrac{1}{2} + \dfrac{3}{4} + \dfrac{5}{8} + \dfrac{7}{16} + \dfrac{9}{32} + \ldots $$
whose $n$-th term is $\dfrac{2n-1}{2^n}$ is:

  1. $\quad \dfrac{5}{2}$

  2. $\quad 3$

  3. $\quad \dfrac{7}{2}$

  4. $\quad \dfrac{15}{4}$

  5. $\quad 4$

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Free video explanations: GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review 2021

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I just published the video explanations to all of the 373 quantitative reasoning questions in the GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review 2021, which was released as an ebook in late April 2021. The physical copy of the guide is scheduled to be released on 3rd June 2020. There are a total of 212 Problem Solving questions and 161 Data Sufficiency questions. Out of these 54 are newly released questions in this guide: 36 Problem Solving questions and 18 Data Sufficiency questions.

Review of GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review 2021

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  • GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review 2021 has been released in ebook format and can be purchased from Wiley’s website.

  • The physical copy of the GMAT Official Guide Quantitative Review 2021 will be available on Amazon and other retailers starting 3rd June 2020.

  • This year’s guide is a significant improvement over previous editions. Instead of replacing questions, as has been done in the past, this year the test writers added a new set of 54 questions to last year’s total of 319 questions in the 2020 GMAT Quantitative Review guide.

  • The new guide has a total of 373 quantitative reasoning questions: 212 are Problem Solving questions and 161 are Data Sufficiency questions.

  • A total of 54 questions are new to the 2021 edition of the GMAT Quantitative Review.

  • Here is the list of the 36 newly added Problem Solving questions: 37, 55, 59, 73, 80, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 135, 147, 150, 156, 157, 158, 161, 163, 179, 204, 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 212.

  • Here is the list of the 18 newly added Data Sufficiency questions: 214, 216, 218, 221, 224, 234, 241, 248, 249, 264, 265, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 307, 370.

  • There are quite a few difficult questions in this year’s GMAT Quantitative Review guide. I would rate at least 10 of them to be on the very difficult side, and more so when you have to do these problems under time and pressure.