Free Online Executive Assessment Course

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The Basics of the Executive Assessment

If you’re wondering what the heck the EA is and why you would want to suffer through it, you’re in the right place.

Our guide to the Executive Assessment goes in depth on the basics, so feel free to take a look through to get an understanding of what this exam is. If you think you have a silly “rookie question” about the Executive Assessment, we’ve probably answered it in one of our articles.

Welcome to EA Quant

Everything you need to know about Executive Assessment Quant.

The Executive Assessment Quantitative Reasoning section consists of 14 questions and features two question types: Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency. After you finish the EA, you’ll receive a quant section score on a scale from 0 to 20. Your quant score will also be combined with your verbal and Integrated Reasoning scores to produce your overall Executive Assessment composite score, on a scale from 126 to 174.

EA Quant Lessons

Each video below focuses on a core quant concept and shows you how it actually appears on Executive Assessment questions, how strong test-takers reason with those concepts, and how to make better decisions under time pressure.

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How to Approach EA Quant
Before the content comes the mindset. Charles shows you how the quant section really works, and the decision-making habits that separate stuck scores from moving ones.
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Lesson 1: Arithmetic
Harry rebuilds your fraction, decimal, and mental-math fluency. Welcome to your calculator-free future!
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Lesson 2: Linear Algebra
John Michael walks through solving equations efficiently, including when setting up an equation is the wrong move entirely.
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Lesson 3: Quadratics
John Michael covers quadratics and factoring patterns that you'll want to start recognizing on sight.
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Lesson 4: Exponents
John Michael untangles exponent rules, and shows you how the test can disguise exponents as intimidating expressions.
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Lesson 5: Inequalites & Absolute Values
Harry works through the sign flips and edge cases where careless errors can catch you, and teaches you how to handle them calmly.
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Lesson 6: Word Problems
Harry teaches you how to translate words into math, turning the EA's wordy setups into clean, solvable equations.
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Lesson 7: Ratios
Tim shows you how disciplined ratio setups turn a messy question type into one of the most reliable points on the test.
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Lesson 8: Percents
Tim breaks down percent change, successive percents, and the pitfalls that can catch you on both.
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Lesson 9: Number Properties Part I
Alex covers the properties of odds and evens, positives and negatives, and divisibility — the building blocks behind half of EA quant.
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Lesson 10: Number Properties Part II
Alex goes deeper into primes, factors, and remainders, where the EA hides some of its favorite hard questions.
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Lesson 11: Counting & Sequences
Tim walks through how to find patterns in numbers, instead of counting endlessly.
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Lesson 12: Conversions & Rates Part I
John Michael teaches you how to set up equations for units, speed, and distance-time problems.
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Lesson 13: Rates Part II
John Michael tackles work-rate and combined-rate problems, question types that are very easy to overcomplicate.
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Lesson 14: Overlapping Sets
Charles teaches you how to organize two-group problems in a tidy manner.
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Lesson 15: Statistics Part I
Alex covers mean, median, and range as reasoning tools, not formulas — exactly how the EA likes to test them.
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Lesson 16: Statistics Part II
Alex works through weighted averages and standard deviation, including the counterintuitive versions the test loves.
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Lesson 17: Probability
Charles shows you how to count outcomes and think through "and" vs. "or" without reaching for formulas in a panic.
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Lesson 18: Combinations & Permutations
Charles demystifies when order matters and when it doesn't, so you stop guessing which formula you need to grab.
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Welcome to EA Verbal

Everything you need to know about the Verbal section on the Executive Assessment.

The Verbal Reasoning section of the Executive Assessment consists of 14 questions and features three question types: Critical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and Sentence Correction. As with the EA quant section, you’ll receive an EA verbal score on a scale from 0 to 20, and this will be combined with your quant and Integrated Reasoning scores to produce your overall composite score, on a scale from 126 to 174.

EA Critical Reasoning Lessons

CR doesn’t usually go badly because you don’t “know the question types.” If you’re struggling, it’s probably because you keep making the same predictable mistakes under time pressure.

Each video targets a specific error pattern that we often see in our students. Find the mistake that sounds like you, watch that video, and then go apply it to official CR questions right away.

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Lesson 1: How to Approach Critical Reasoning
Charles lays out the mindset that makes CR click: read for the argument, not the answer choices, and let precision beat speed.
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Lesson 2: Missing the Heart of the Passage
Bransen shows you how to nail down what the argument is actually claiming in CR.
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Lesson 3: Paraphrasing
Dana teaches the habit that fixes half of CR: putting the argument in your own words before you touch the answers.
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Lesson 4: Obsessing Over Question Types
Memorizing question categories feels productive and mostly isn't. Harry shows you what to focus on instead.
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Lesson 5: Anticipating the Correct Answer… Incorrectly
Predicting the answer helps, until your prediction blinds you. Dana shows you how to guess flexibly instead of stubbornly.
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Lesson 6: Falling in Love with an Answer Choice
Everyone's done it: one choice looks perfect, so the others get skimmed. Harry shows you how to stay skeptical to the end.
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Lesson 7: Irrelevant & Out of Scope
"Out of scope" is the most misused phrase in GMAT prep. Bransen shows you what it really means, and when a weird-looking answer is actually right.
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Lesson 8: Word Matching
Incorrect answers like to quote the passage; the right ones often don't. Dana shows you why matching words isn't matching meaning.
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Lesson 9: Rejecting Imperfect Answer Choices
On hard questions, the right answer often looks flawed. Harry shows you how to pick the best of five instead of hunting for perfect.
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EA Sentence Correction Lessons

The EA is now the only exam that still tests Sentence Correction. That makes SC easy to underestimate. Our free video course gives you a thorough, systematic approach to these questions.

Lesson 1: How to Approach Sentence Correction
Lesson 1: How to Approach Sentence Correction
Charles shows you why SC isn't really a grammar quiz — and how reading for meaning first makes every rule easier to apply.
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Lesson 2: Pronouns
Lesson 2: Pronouns
Charles covers how the test hides pronoun problems in plain sight, and the quick checks that catch them.
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Lesson 3: Demonstrative Pronouns
Lesson 3: Demonstrative Pronouns
This, that, these, those: Harry shows you how to tell when a little pointer word is pointing at nothing at all.
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Lesson 4: Special Parallelism Triggers
Lesson 4: Special Parallelism Triggers
Dana walks through the paired constructions — not only/but also, either/or, and friends.
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Lesson 5: And/Or Parallelism
Lesson 5: And/Or Parallelism
Dana shows you how to check that everything joined by "and" or "or" actually lines up.
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Lesson 6: Parallelism & Meaning
Lesson 6: Parallelism & Meaning
Dana takes parallelism past the pattern-matching stage: structures can look parallel and still say the wrong thing.
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Lesson 7: Modifiers: That, Which & Friends
Lesson 7: Modifiers: That, Which & Friends
Bransen untangles relative clauses — which word a modifier actually describes, and when "which" is modifying the wrong one.
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Lesson 8: -ing & -ed Modifiers
Lesson 8: -ing & -ed Modifiers
Dana covers the participle modifiers that dangle, drift, and change a sentence's meaning without changing how it sounds.
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Lesson 9: Subject-Verb Agreement
Lesson 9: Subject-Verb Agreement
Harry shows you how the test buries subjects far from their verbs, and how to find the real pairing under all the padding.
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Lesson 10: Comparisons Part I
Lesson 10: Comparisons Part I
Bransen covers the fundamentals of comparing things properly — like vs. as, and making sure you're comparing apples to apples.
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Lesson 11: Comparisons Part II
Lesson 11: Comparisons Part II
Bransen tackles the harder comparisons: the omitted words, the ambiguity, and the constructions that sound fine but compare the wrong things.
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Lesson 12: Verb Tenses
Lesson 12: Verb Tenses
Harry shows you how to reason through a sentence's timeline, so tense questions become logic problems instead of memorization.
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Lesson 13: Countable vs Uncountable Nouns
Lesson 13: Countable vs Uncountable Nouns
Fewer or less? Many or much? Harry covers the countability rules the test checks more often than you'd expect.
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Lesson 14: Noun Modifiers — Absolute Phrases & Other Modifiers That Sound Wrong
Lesson 14: Noun Modifiers — Absolute Phrases & Other Modifiers That Sound Wrong
Bransen walks through the constructions that are perfectly correct and sound terrible to your ear.
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Lesson 15: Punctuation & Sentence Structure
Lesson 15: Punctuation & Sentence Structure
Bransen covers semicolons, colons, fragments, and run-ons: the structural rules that decide whether a sentence holds together at all.
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Lesson 16: Three Small Things You Should Know
Lesson 16: Three Small Things You Should Know
Harry rounds up three small, testable details that don't fit anywhere else — quick points that are easy to bank.
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Lesson 17: What NOT to Worry About
Lesson 17: What NOT to Worry About
The most freeing episode in the series: Dana tells you which "rules" the EA doesn't actually test, so you can stop studying myths.
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Lesson 18: How to Approach Meaning-Based Questions
Lesson 18: How to Approach Meaning-Based Questions
Charles shows you how to handle the questions that hinge on what a sentence means rather than whether it's grammatical.
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Welcome to EA Integrated Reasoning

Teaching data analysis under time pressure.

The Integrated Reasoning section of the Executive Assessment consists of 12 questions and features four question types: Multi-Source Reasoning, Table Analysis, Graphical Interpretation, and Two-Part Analysis. As with the EA quant and verbal sections, you’ll receive an EA Integrated Reasoning score on a scale from 0 to 20, and this will be combined with your quant and verbal scores to produce your overall composite score, on a scale from 126 to 174.

Our free EA Integrated Reasoning video course focuses on helping you understand what’s REALLY important as you unwind the often-unwieldy tangles of information on the IR section.

Integrated Reasoning Lessons

Please note that while this series was written for the GMAT Data Insights section, the question types and fundamental skills required to succeed are exactly the same as those required in the EA Integrated Reasoning section.

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Lesson 0: How to Approach DI
Charles shows you how DI questions are built, why they overwhelm on purpose, and how to stay in control of the clock.
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Lesson 1: Graphical Interpretation I
Dana shows you how most GI misses come from skipping the axes and the fine print, and the disciplined read that stops them.
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Lesson 2: Graphical Interpretation II
You'll meet charts here you've never seen in your life. Tim shows you how to decode an unfamiliar graph quickly instead of freezing on it.
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Lesson 3: Key Quant Skills for GI
GI isn't really a math section — until suddenly it is. Alex covers the short list of quant skills these questions lean on, so you estimate more and calculate less.
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Lesson 4: Table Analysis
If you can sort a spreadsheet, you're closer than you think. Dana shows you how to work these tables like Excel.
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Lesson 5: Verbal TPA Questions
Tim shows you how to keep the logic straight without reading the question four times.
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Lesson 6: Quant TPA Questions
Alex shows you the setups that keep linked unknowns straight, and how to spot when solving one half hands you the other.
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Lesson 7: Intro to MSR
Tabs, emails, tables, charts: MSR buries the answer on purpose. Dave shows you what to read up front, what to skip, and how to find things fast when a question actually asks.
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Lesson 8: Key Reminders for MSR
Everyone tries to memorize the tabs up front. Mike shows you why that backfires, and the habits that protect your clock instead.
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Lesson 9: How to Approach DS
The strangest question type on the test, and one of the most learnable. Charles shows you what "sufficient" actually means, and why solving all the way through is usually the trap.
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Your Continuing Studies

As you progress through your studies, you might have questions about time management, test anxiety, or how to prepare for your exam.

If you can think of it, we’ve probably covered it. Feel free to peruse our blog or our YouTube channel for a host of content on everything under the test prep sun

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