GMAT Quantitative Study Guide: 97 Flashcards on the Format, the Scoring and the Math That Still Counts
GMAT Quant is 21 questions in 45 minutes with no calculator. A 97-card flashcard guide to the Focus Edition format, scoring and the algebra actually tested.
Studying. But it's also a video game. 🎮
Flashcards, quizzes and games that make you actually remember.
Posted by
FLIP IT TeamRelated reading
How to Memorize GMAT Verbal and Data Insights: 97 Flashcards Decoded
GMAT Verbal and Data Insights flashcards decoded: section timing, scoring, the five DI question types, plus the nine retired cards to suspend today.
The GMAT Quantitative Reasoning section is 21 questions in 45 minutes, with no calculator. That is roughly two minutes per question, done by hand on a laminated board. Most of the score you lose there is lost to pacing and to rusty arithmetic, not to exotic mathematics — and both are fixable with flashcards.
Study this deck: GMAT Quantitative
1 / 10What is the GMAT?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
The GMAT Quantitative deck on Flip It (deck code RR3224, 97 cards) covers two things at once: the rules of the exam itself, and the arithmetic and algebra vocabulary the questions are built on.
Know the format before you drill the math
The Focus Edition changed the section enough that older prep advice is now actively misleading. Eight cards straight from the deck:
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many questions are in the Quantitative Reasoning section? | 21 questions |
| How much time is allotted for the Quantitative Reasoning section? | 45 minutes |
| What is the score range for the Quantitative Reasoning section? | 60 to 90 in 1-point increments |
| Are calculators allowed on the GMAT Quantitative section? | No — you work by hand with a wet erase pen and laminated graph paper |
| What areas of math are tested in the Quantitative section? | Algebra and arithmetic |
| What type of questions appear in the GMAT Quantitative section? | Problem-solving questions (only one type) |
| What major change occurred with the Focus Edition? | Removed the Analytical Writing Assessment, sentence correction and geometry questions |
| What new feature was introduced in the Focus Edition? | Question Review & Edit — revisit your answers and change up to three per section |
The deck also carries the context numbers admissions conversations rely on: total score 205–805 in 10-point increments, scores valid 5 years, US $275 per sitting, up to five attempts a year at least 16 days apart, 650 test centres in 114 countries, more than 7,700 programmes at some 2,400 business schools, and a 99th percentile that sits at 715 on the Focus Edition.
The math the 97 cards actually define
Everything on the quant side is named and defined somewhere in the deck: integers, prime and composite numbers, LCM and GCD, perfect squares, absolute value, reciprocals, fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios and proportions, scientific notation, rounding and estimation, order of operations (PEMDAS), the commutative, associative and distributive properties, variables, coefficients, constants, terms, monomials, binomials, trinomials, polynomials, factorization, exponents and square roots, linear equations, inequalities, quadratic equations and the quadratic formula, slope-intercept form y = mx + b, systems of equations solved by substitution or elimination, functions with their domain and range, arithmetic and geometric sequences, mean, median and mode, rates, simple interest (I = PRT) and compound interest, markup, discount and profit margin, probability, the fundamental counting principle, permutations versus combinations, and statistical correlation.
Two things worth doing with this deck
Delete geometry from your study plan. The Focus Edition removed it. If a card, a book chapter or a tutor is drilling you on circle theorems, that time is now free for word problems and percentages.
Convert the pacing number into a card. 21 questions in 45 minutes is about 2 minutes 10 seconds each. Rehearse the checkpoint — 7 questions at the 15-minute mark, 14 at the 30 — until it is as automatic as the quadratic formula, and use Question Review & Edit for the three you flagged instead of stalling on them live.
Because there is no calculator, review the arithmetic cards out loud and finish the computation in your head rather than recognising the definition and moving on. Recognition is not the skill being tested.
Study the deck RR3224 GMAT Quantitative on Flip It.
Related: GRE High-Frequency Words and the LSAT Logical Reasoning study guide.
Ready to learn faster? 🚀
Join FLIP IT for free and turn studying into a game.