Princeton Review - Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2016 Edition

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Our GMAT course is much more than clever techniques and powerful computer score reports; the reason our results are great is that our teachers care so much about their students. Thanks to all the teachers who have made the GMAT course so successful, but in particular the core group of teachers and development people who helped get it off the ground: Alicia Ernst, Tom Meltzer, Paul Foglino, John Sheehan, Mark Sawula, Nell Goddin, Teresa Connelly, Phillip Yee, Kimberly Beth Hollingsworth, Bobby Hood, Chris Chimera, Chris Hinkle, Peter Hanink, and Cathy Evins.

Special thanks to John Fulmer and Kyle Fox for their revisions to the current edition.

Special thanks to Adam Robinson, who conceived of and perfected the Joe Bloggs approach to standardized tests and many of the other successful techniques used by The Princeton Review.

1. Go to PrincetonReview.com/cracking
2. Youll see a welcome page where you should register your book using the ISBN. Type in 9780804126359 and then click Go. If you do not currently have a username and password, you will be prompted to create one.
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Congratulations on your decision to attend business school! Preparing for the GMAT is an important part of the process, so lets get started. This chapter will provide you with a strategic plan for acing the GMAT, as well as an overview of the test itself, including question formats and information on how the test is scored.

In the next few chapters, youll find the strategies that have given our GMAT students the edge for the past 20 years.

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Two of the GMATs sections, the Quantitative and Verbal sections, are computer adaptive. These sections quickly hone in on your ability level and then mostly give you questions at or just above that level. It makes sense for you to practice on the level of problem you will actually see during the test. Cracking the GMAT is the only book out there with practice questions grouped by difficulty. Page after page of practice questions are arranged at the back of this book in difficulty binsjust like the questions on the real GMATso that you can concentrate on the question level you will have to answer on the actual test in order to get the score you need.

The recently added Integrated Reasoning section of the GMAT is not computer adaptive. Weve provided two complete Integrated Reasoning sections at the back of this book to help you prepare for this section of the test.