This month we switch back to a more quantitative brain teaser. It’s also typical of the type of question one sees on the GMAT and GRE, for reasons that we explain in the answer explanation. Are you up for the challenge? When a clock is at 3:15, what is the...
Brain Teasers
The Beginning and The End
Brain teasers and puzzles often have a more quantitative bent (and test-takers similarly obsess more about the quantitative sections of the SAT, ACT, GMAT, and GRE), so in this month’s newsletter we present a question that is more “verbal” in...
Stuck Truck
Don was driving his tractor-trailer under an overpass when suddenly he came to a screeching halt. Don wasn’t paying enough attention and inadvertently drove under an overpass that was just barely as high as his truck. The tractor-trailer was wedged so...
Magical Lily Pads
In ancient Egypt, there were magical lily ponds. On these ponds, each flower doubled overnight. For example, if a pond had one flower on a certain day, the next day there would be two flowers (both the same size as the original flower). On March 1, a single...
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