Course Description
JMU's GMAT Focus Live-Online Prep Course provides 18 hours of classroom instruction to help you prepare for the GMAT Focus Exam. This comprehensive course includes a review of the mathematical and verbal concepts tested on the GMAT and prepares you for the question types typically seen on the test. The online portion of the class is delivered by a live instructor, combining the interactivity of a classroom experience with the convenience of an online course. This program includes a course workbook, the official textbook from GMAC containing previously released test questions, and online support resources—access to an instructor-monitored question forum, online office hours, and live class recordings and pre-recorded modules. Course materials are shipped directly to you.
Session Information
Test-Taking Strategies
- Utilizing the process of elimination
- Mastering time management skills
- Minimizing test anxiety
- Identifying common distractors
Quantitative Topics
- Approaches to math questions presented in abstract form
- Tactics for translating difficult real-world word problems into algebraic expressions or equations
- Review of the mathematical concepts tested in each of the GMAT quantitative formats
Verbal Topics
- Understanding the key components of arguments in critical reasoning problems
- Answering reading comprehension questions quickly, without reading the entire passage
Data Insights Topics
- Interpreting data from tables, graphs, text, and other sources
- Dealing with multiple questions about the same data
- Analyzing data from multiple columns for Two-Part Analysis questions
- Strategies for handling quantitative questions in the challenging data sufficiency format
Course Plan
Session 1 Overview; Equations and Inequalities
Session 2 Picking Numbers; Data Sufficiency; Reading Comprehension—Global Items
Session 3 Number Properties; Critical Reasoning — Role, Weakener, Strengthener
Session 4 DS—Counting Variables; Exponents and Roots; Sentence Correction — Agreement, Verb Forms, Parallelism
Session 5 Fractions; Percents; Reading Comprehension — Local Items
Session 6 Rates and Ratios; Geometry; Critical Reasoning — Assumption, Inference, Explanation, Evaluation
Session 7 Integrated Reasoning; Sentence Correction — Logical Predication, Diction, Grammatical and Rhetorical Construction
Session 8 Integrated Reasoning; Coordinate Geometry; Statistics; Probability and Counting; Analytical Writing
Adult Degree Program
Professional Development
Lifelong Learning Institute
Test Preparation
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