The sections of GMAT are Problem Solving, Data Sufficiency, Reading Comprehension, Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction along with essays. I'm assuming you meant Data Sufficiency or Critical Reasoning?
I don't say this with pride, more like shame at the evil depths to which I have sunk on occasion: I worked for one summer for ETS in New Jersey. I sat in a cubicle and wrote math questions for $. It was... kind of depressing. They have this big campus near Princeton and it is overrun by pooping geese (at least in the summer). I remember taking my lunch break and trying to take walks, weaving in between the little deadly green piles, while avoiding the angry birds. The permanent employees there were full of "could have been a contender" stories, as in "I would be a professor at X if it hadn't been for that meddling Smithers!" types of stories. Very sobering. We'd write the questions kind of generically, and then they get sent to a test by more experienced EST employees. No kidding, the hardest questions go to the PSAT. The next hardest go to SAT. Then the easiest questions go to the graduate school things like GRE and GMAT. They said that's because most people take less and less math as they go along through school, with most people taking close to zero math as undergraduates. I'm not sure if they still work that way or not, and NO, I am not going to try those questions today. I also don't mean to say the questions are "easy," but just that ETS is weird and the hardest questions go to the youngest students. PS -- Also, they had a bizaro training manual related to cultural sensitivity. I wish I could post examples without looking like a complete a-hole. But imagine a huge number of examples of what types of questions would be considered offensive. Just pages and pages of rude questions as bad examples involving ethnic names and ethnic activities. I can't believe that manual existed.
Good point! I started thinking about that when I was on the phone with Apple tech support. That's actually why I left right then. But I didn't think about that. Nice job!
I took the GMAT a few months ago and was surprised with how little Geometry there was. It was bad for me, since geometry was my strong point. Anyways, it seemed like the majority of the math was basic number algebra equations/theory.
