Gear up for mastering the GMAT Administered around the world, the GMAT measures verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills to assess qualifications for advanced study in business and management. This new edition of GMAT For Dummies with Online Practice includes proven tips and strategies to help you prepare for the GMAT and achieve ultimate success on test day. The 2020 GMAT test structure has changed slightly, and this revised edition of the trusted test-prep book addresses those changes-including the number of questions per section and the time allotted per section-to make you feel more confident than ever. Two practice tests in the book, plus FIVE more online for a total of SEVEN practice tests Review of foundational concepts for every section Complete explanations of every question type Online practice and flash cards When you have your heart set on scoring high on the GMAT, you only need one ace up your sleeve-and this book is your ticket to success.
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Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5 Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7 Knowing Why the GMAT is Important 7 Timing It Perfectly: When to Take the GMAT (And What to Bring) 8 When to register for and take the GMAT 8 Things to take to the GMAT (and things to leave at home) 10 Forming First Impressions: The Format of the GMAT 10 Getting familiar with what the GMAT tests 10 Understanding the computerized format 11 Honing your computer skills for the GMAT 12 Knowing Where You Stand: Scoring Considerations 13 How the GMAT testers figure your score 13 How the GMAT testers report your score 13 Why you should (almost) never cancel your GMAT score 14 Repeating the Process: Retaking the GMAT 15 Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17 Discovering Strategies for Successful Guessing 17 Forcing yourself to guess so you can move on 18 Understanding the importance of completing each section 18 Winning the Race against the Clock 19 Giving each question equal treatment 19 Making time for the last ten questions 19 Keeping track of your pace 20 Getting Rid of Wrong Answers 20 Keeping track of eliminated answer choices for the computer test format 20 Recognizing wrong answers 21 Playing It Smart: A Few Things You Shouldn't Do When Taking the Test 25 Don't lose your focus 25 Don't read questions at lightning speed 25 Don't waste all your time on the hardest questions 25 Don't cheat 26 Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques 26 Devising a Plan of Attack 27 Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 29 Choosing a Business School 29 Lining Up Your Ducks - Applying to Business Schools 31 When to apply 32 What to submit 32 Crafting Effective Business School Essays 33 Part 2: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 35 Chapter 4: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 37 Building a Solid Foundation: Grammar Basics 38 Getting wordy: The parts of speech 38 Pulling together: The parts of a sentence 40 Pointing Out Mistakes: Common Sentence Correction Errors 42 Can't we all just get along? Errors in subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement 43 Building code violations: Faulty construction 45 Follow the idiom: Correct use of standard expressions 48 Implementing an Approach to Sentence Correction Questions 51 Spotting the error 51 Eliminating answers that don't correct errors 52 Eliminating choices that create new errors 52 Rereading the sentence 53 Reviewing the process and guessing on sentence corrections 53 Sentence Correction Practice Problems with Answer Explanations 53 Practice problems 54 Answer explanations 56 Chapter 5: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 59 Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like 59 Approaching Reading Passages 60 Mastering the message: The main point 60 Absorbing the ambiance: Author's tone 61 Finding the framework: The passage's outline 61 Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages 62 Experimenting with natural science passages 62 Gathering in social circles: Social science passages 62 Getting down to business passages 63 Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions 63 Identifying the question type 63 Eliminating answer choices 66 Dealing with exception questions 67 Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations 70 Reading comprehension practice questions 70 Answer explanations 74 Chapter 6: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 79 Focusing on "Critical" Concepts: An Overview 79 Understanding the structure of the questions 80 Figuring out how to answer the questions 80 Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic 81 Fighting fair: The elements of an argument 81 Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning 81 Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types 83 Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type 84 Strengthening or weakening arguments 84 Delving into drawing conclusions 88 Spotting those sneaky assumptions 89 Using your noggin to make inferences 91 Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations 94 Critical reasoning practice questions 94 Answer explanations 98 Chapter 7: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 103 Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions 104 Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations 113 Part 3: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 121 Chapter 8: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 123 Fitting in the AWA with the Rest of the GMAT 123 Calling 411: Your AWA Writing Tools 124 Analyzing an Argument 124 Racking Up the Points: How the GMAT Scores Your Essay 125 Getting to know your readers 125 Interpreting the scores 126 Requesting your essay be rescored 126 Chapter 9: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 127 Avoiding Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics Errors 127 Punctuation errors 128 Sentence-structure problems 129 Faulty forming of possessives 129 Spelling issues 129 More dos and don'ts 130 Practice makes perfect! 130 Building a Better Essay: Ten Steps to a Higher Score 131 Chapter 10: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 133 Defining GMAT AWA Scores 133 Taking a Look at Sample Essays 134 Sample essay #1 135 Discussion of sample essay #1 136 Sample essay #2 136 Discussion of sample essay #2 137 Sample essay #3 138 Discussion of sample essay #3 139 Sample essay #4 139 Discussion of sample essay #4 140 Chapter 11: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 141 Sample Prompt #1 141 Sample response to essay #1 142 Dissection of essay #1 142 Sample Prompt #2 143 Sample response to essay #2 143 Dissection of essay #2 144 Sample Prompt #3 144 Sample response to essay #3 145 Dissection of essay #3 145 Sample Prompt #4 146 Sample response to essay #4 146 Dissection of essay #4 146 Part 4: Conquering the Quantitative Section 149 Chapter 12: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 151 Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers 151 It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations 153 Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing 153 Checking out the real estate: Properties of real numbers 155 Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents 157 Adding and subtracting with exponents 158 Multiplying and dividing with exponents 158 Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 158 Dealing with fractional exponents 159 Working with negative exponents 159 Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots 160 Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally 161 Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages 162 Defining numerators, denominators, and other stuff you need to know about fractions 163 Adding and subtracting fractions 164 Multiplying and dividing fractions 165 Calculating percent change 167 Taking it further: Repeated percent change 168 Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions 169 Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation 170 Chapter 13: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 171 Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terms 171 Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants 171 Coming together: Terms and expressions 172 Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions 172 Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations 173 Adding to and taking away 173 Multiplying and dividing expressions 175 Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials 177 Something in common: Finding common factors 177 Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials 178 Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions 179 Standing in: Understanding function terminology 180 Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions 181 Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving 184 Isolating the variable: Linear equations 184 Bringing in the substitution: Simultaneous equations 185 Not playing fair: Inequalities 187 Solving quadratic equations 189 Reading between the lines: Word problems 190 Burning the midnight oil: Work problems 192 Going the distance: Distance problems 193 Chapter 14: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 195 Fishing for the Answers: Lines and Angles 195 Trusting Triangles 198 Triple treat: Types of triangles 198 The area of a triangle 200 The Pythagorean theorem and other cool stuff about right triangles 200 A striking resemblance: Similar triangles 203 Playing Four Square: Quadrilaterals 204 Drawing parallels: Parallelograms 205 Raising the roof: Trapezoids 206 Showing Their Good Sides: Other Polygons 207 Eating Up Pieces of Pi: Circles 208 Ring measurements: Radius, diameter, and circumference 208 Blueprints for Noah: Arcs 208 Line 'em up: Chords, inscribed and circumscribed figures, and tangents 209 Getting a Little Depth Perception: Three-Dimensional Geometry 211 Chipping off the old block: Rectangular solids 211 Sipping from soda cans and other cylinders 213 Chapter 15: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 215 Taking Flight: The Coordinate Plane 215 Line dancing: Understanding coordinate geometry 215 What's the point? Finding the coordinates 216 On all fours: Identifying quadrants 216 Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations 217 Taking a peak: Defining the slope of a line 217 Using the slope-intercept form to graph lines 219 Meeting in the middle 221 Going the distance 222 Considering other shapes on the coordinate plane 223 Fully Functioning: Graphing Functions 224 Passing the vertical line test 224 Feeling at home with domain and range 226 Chapter 16: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 229 Joining a Clique: Groups 229 Setting Up Sets 231 Set terminology 231 Getting a visual: Venn diagrams 231 Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations 233 Positioning with permutations 233 Coming together: Combinations 235 Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode 237 Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation 239 Scouting out the range 239 Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation 239 Predicting the Future: Probability 241 Finding the probability of one event 241 Finding the probability of many events 242 Chapter 17: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 245 Enough's Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions 245 You don't need the solution to find the answer 246 Steps to approaching data sufficiency problems 246 Taking a Look at Data Sufficiency Practice Problems 249 Practice questions 249 Answer explanations 251 Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions 255 Trying Out Some Problem Solving Practice Problems 257 Practice questions 257 Answer explanations 259 Chapter 18: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 263 Tackling GMAT Math Practice Questions 263 Checking Out the Answer Explanations 270 Part 5: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 281 Chapter 19: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 283 Understanding What the IR Section is All About 283 Skills tested 284 Question format 284 Figuring Out How the IR Section is Scored 286 Making the Most of Your Time 286 Approaching Each Question Type 287 Table analysis 287 Two-part analysis 290 Graphics interpretation 293 Multi-source reasoning 294 Chapter 20: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 299 Approaching Integrated Reasoning Data in Five Easy Steps 299 Translating Information in Tables 300 Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs 301 Simple bar graphs 301 Graphs with many bars 301 Segmented bar graphs 302 Evaluating Line Graphs 304 Basic line graphs 304 Scatter plots 304 Complex scatter plots 306 Clarifying Circle Graphs (Also Known as Pie Charts) 307 Extracting Data from Venn Diagrams 307 Part 6: Practice Makes Perfect 311 Chapter 21: GMAT Practice Test 313 Answer Sheet 315 Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 318 Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 319 Section 3: Quantitative 320 Section 4: Verbal 327 Chapter 22: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 339 Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 339 Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 341 Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning 341 Section 4: Verbal 356 Answers at a Glance 365 Part 7: The Part of Tens 367 Chapter 23: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 369 Main-Theme Reading Questions 369 Specific Information Reading Questions 369 Sentence Corrections 370 Exception Questions for Reading Passages 370 Strengthening or Weakening Critical Arguments 370 Data Sufficiency Math Questions 370 Math Problem Solving with Figures 370 Math Problems Involving Basic Operations 370 Substitution Math Problems 371 Graph- and Table Analysis Questions 371 Chapter 24: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 373 Composing Complicated Sentences 373 Presenting Your Text in Passive Voice 373 Wasting Time with Unfamiliar Words 373 Using Unclear (Or Zero) Transitions 374 Going Overboard with Generic Terms 374 Writing in Informal English 374 Giving a Laundry List of Examples 374 Succumbing to Sentence Fragments 374 Announcing a Position without Explanation 374 Putting Aside Proofreading 374 Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 375 Accumulate a Little Work Experience 375 Ace the Interview 375 Apply Early 376 Apply While You're Upwardly Mobile 376 Capitalize on What Makes You Unique 376 Demonstrate Interest 376 Focus on Fit 376 Get the Right Recommendations 377 Study for the GMAT 377 Write a Memorable Admissions Essay 377 Index 379
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781119617945
Publisert
2020-02-13
Utgiver
Vendor
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Vekt
750 gr
Høyde
275 mm
Bredde
216 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
06, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
416

Biographical note

Lisa Zimmer Hatch, MA, and Scott A. Hatch, JD, have been helping students succeed on standardized tests since 1987. They have written curricula and numerous test-prep guides and have taught internationally through their online forums, live lectures, DVDs, and study programs.