In addition to regular forum rules and information, this sticky contains rules specific to the General Math Questions folder; read this information even if you have already read stickies in other folders.

This folder is for GENERAL MATH questions that do not fit into one of the other specific math categories. ManhattanGMAT Math Strategy Guides, ManhattanGMAT CAT Math, and GMATPrep Math all have their own folders; please post any questions from those sources in the appropriate folder.

It is ILLEGAL to reproduce / post questions that you (or someone) saw on the test when you took an official GMAT. Any offending posts will be deleted immediately from our forums. We also strongly recommend that you don't post official questions on any other forum; if you are caught, the people who make the test can ban you from taking it forever AND cancel any scores you already have (and there go your b-school hopes).

The following sources are also BANNED; do not post questions from these sources:
- Kaplan (per request from Kaplan; please contact Kaplan for any questions regarding their material)
- Scoretop (being sued by GMAC for posting "live" test questions)
- "GMAT Sets" (uses copyrighted material from GMAC without permission)
- "Gmatter Software" (uses copyrighted material from GMAC without permission)
- OG and paper-based official GMAT tests (copyrighted material currently sold by GMAC)
- 1000SC (uses copyrighted material without permission; also many questions are of poor quality or contain typos that materially alter the problem)

Multiple-Choice Question Posting protocol
Please follow the below rules; if you don't, your question will not be answered.

1) Use the first five to eight words of the problem as your Subject heading. Also, post the entire text of the question and answer choices. Do not use abbreviations.

2) Cite the source (author or company name) and question number (if applicable) for any problem you post.

3) Be very explicit about your question / problem. Don't just post the text of a question without telling us why you're struggling!

3) Post one problem per thread; if you have more than one problem to review, start a new thread for each problem.

4) Only use image files for complicated diagrams or other things that cannot easily be typed in (eg, geometric shapes or seriously complex fractions). It takes significantly longer for us to download and view image files - the more we have to do that, the fewer problems we can get through.

5) Please be polite and respectful. Inflammatory, profane, or otherwise unacceptable posts will be deleted and the poster banned.

Other Notes

We instructors will strive to respond to posts within 3 business days, but we can't always guarantee this during high-volume days. We will do our best though! If you are currently a student in one of our classes, use your office hours and/or your instructor for any pressing questions.

If one user posts 5 or more questions in a short period, it may take longer for that user to get a response to all questions because we will try to allocate our time evenly over all posters (to ensure that one person doesn't get a monopoly on instructor time).

We may respond to some very open-ended questions with a request to narrow the topic. For example, "How do I get better at Data Sufficiency?" is too broad to be answered in a forum (we spend hours on this in class!).

Happy studying!