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 If you’re planning to apply for an MBA program, you’re required to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of sharpening number 2 pencils were over! How do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? Never fear.
GMAT For Dummies, Fifth Edition, puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. This highly readable, friendly guide makes the study process as painless as possible, providing you with complete math and grammar reviews and all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition. You’ll discover how to:
- Understand the test’s format
- Bring the right stuff
- Make educated guesses
- Avoid the exam’s pitfalls
- Calm your nerves
- Save time and beat the clock
This Fifth Edition is packed with plenty of updated practice questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Our sample questions read just like the actual test questions, so you can get comfortable with the way the GMAT phrases questions and answer choices. You get plenty of tips on correctly answering the sentence correction, reading comprehension, and critical reading questions and tackling the analytical essays. There’s also a comprehensive math review of everything from number types to standard deviation and expanded coverage of statistics and probability.
Each section ends with a mini practice test to prepare you for the two full-length practice tests featured in this easy-to-digest guide. You’ll see how to:
- Quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices
- Read passages quickly and effectively
- Break apart and analyze arguments
- Write a well-organized, compelling essay
- Tackle the data sufficiency math question type that only appears on the GMAT
- Use relaxation techniques if you start to panic during the test
Complete with a scoring guide, explanatory answers, timesaving tips, math formulas you should memorize, and a list of writing errors to avoid, GMAT For Dummies is all you need to practice your skills, improve your score, and pass with flying colors.
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 5 edition (September 12, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764596535
ISBN-13: 978-0764596537
CONTENTS AT A GLANCE
Introduction
Part I: Putting the GMAT into Perspective
Chapter 1: Getting the Lowdown on the GMAT
Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT
Part II: Vanquishing the Verbal Section
Chapter 3: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction
Chapter 4: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension
Chapter 5: Getting Logical: Critical Reasoning
Chapter 6: Bringing It Together: A Practice Mini Verbal Section
Part III: Acing the Analytical Writing Section
Chapter 7: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA
Chapter 8: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay
Chapter 9: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays
Part IV: Conquering the Quantitative Section
Chapter 10: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations
Chapter 11: Considering All the Variables: Algebra
Chapter 12: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids
Chapter 13: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry
Chapter 14: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets
Chapter 15: It’s All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types
Chapter 16: All Together Now: A Practice Mini Quantitative Section
Part V: Practice Makes Perfect
Chapter 17: Putting the GMAT into Practice: Test #1
Chapter 18: Explaining the Answers to Practice Test #1
Chapter 19: Putting the GMAT into Practice: Test #2
Chapter 20: Explaining the Answers to Practice Test #2
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: Ten Questions You’ve Got a Good Shot At
Chapter 22: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid
Chapter 23: Ten Formulas You Need to Know on Test Day
Index
Chapter 1
Getting the Lowdown on the GMAT
In This Chapter
- Finding out how MBA programs use your GMAT score
- Knowing when to take the GMAT and what to bring
- Figuring out the format of the GMAT
- Skimming through the way they score the GMAT
- Considering whether you should retake the GMAT
Congratulations on deciding to take a significant step in your business career! More than one hundred countries offer the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), and it’s used by over 1,800 graduate programs in admissions decisions. But you’re probably not taking the GMAT because you want to. In fact, you may not be looking forward to the experience at all!
The GMAT need not be a daunting ordeal. A little knowledge helps calm your nerves, so this chapter shows you how admissions programs use your test score and addresses the concerns you may have about the GMAT’s format and testing and scoring procedures. ...
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