Lisa Zimmer Hatch - GMAT For Dummies

GMAT For Dummies, 7th Edition with Online Practice

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Youre merrily skimming through the admissions requirements for your favorite MBA programs when all of a sudden, youre dealt a shocking blow. Your absolute top choice program youll die if you dont get in requires that you take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). And you thought your days of speed-reading passages and solving for x were over.

Many MBA programs include the GMAT as an admissions requirement, so youll be in good company. But how do you prepare for such a comprehensive test? What are you going to do? Get out your spiral notebooks from undergraduate courses and sift through years worth of doodles? Many years may have gone by since you encountered a geometry problem, and we bet your grammar skills have gotten a little rusty since English 101.

Clearly, you need a readable, concisely structured resource. Well, youve come to the right place. GMAT For Dummies, 7th Edition with Online Practice, puts at your fingertips everything you need to know to conquer the GMAT. We give you complete math and grammar reviews and provide insights into how to avoid the pitfalls that the GMAT creators want you to fall into. We also try to make this book as enjoyable as a book that devotes itself to setting up equations and critiquing arguments can be.

We suspect that you arent eagerly anticipating sitting through the GMAT, and youre probably not looking forward to studying for it, either. Therefore, weve attempted to make the study process as painless as possible by giving you clearly written advice in a casual tone. We realize you have a bunch of things youd rather be doing, so weve broken down the information into easily digested bites. If you have an extra hour before work or Pilates class, you can devour a chapter or even a particular section within a chapter. (If these eating metaphors are making you hungry, feel free to take a snack break.)

In this book, you can find

• Plenty of sample questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Our sample questions read like the actual test questions, so you can get comfortable with the way the GMAT phrases questions and expresses answer choices.
• Detailed explanations of the strategies for mastering all four sections of the GMAT. Enjoy a grammar review for the verbal-reasoning section, an extensive math lesson to help you with the quantitative-reasoning section, a summary of good writing practices for the analytical writing assessment, and a how-to on reading all kinds of charts and graphs for the integrated-reasoning section.
• Six practice tests. One appears in this book in , and youll find that one plus five others online. Ultimately, the best way to prepare for any standardized test is to practice on lots of test questions, and this book, along with the accompanying online test bank, has more than 600 of them.
• Time-tested techniques for improving your score. We show you how to quickly eliminate incorrect answer choices and make educated guesses.
• Tips on how to manage your time wisely.
• Suggestions for creating a relaxation routine to employ if you start to panic during the test.

Weve included all kinds of information to help you do your best on the GMAT!

You should find this book easily accessible, but a few things may require explanation. A few of the chapters may contain sidebars (a paragraph or two in a shaded box) with quirky bits of information that we think may interest you but arent essential to your performance on the GMAT. If youre trying to save time, you can skip the sidebars.

Although we guess its possible that you picked up this book just because you have an insatiable love for math, grammar, and argument analysis, were betting its more likely that youre reading this book particularly because youve been told you need to take the GMAT. (We have been praised for our startling ability to recognize the obvious!) And because were pretty astute, weve figured that this means that you intend to apply to MBA programs and probably are considering working toward a masters of business administration.