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GMAT Prep 2023 For Dummies with Online Practice
For Dummies (Verlag)
978-1-119-88663-1 (ISBN)
Show admissions committees you have what it takes to succeed in advanced business and management courses. GMAT Prep 2023 For Dummies gives you the strategies and skills you need to master the Graduate Management Admissions Test. This trusted study guide has the clear explanations and practice you need to maximize your scores on the verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing sections. You’ll find proven tips and strategies to help you prepare for the GMAT and achieve success on test day. Plus, you’ll get access to SEVEN full-length practice tests and plenty of flashcards online!
Learn proven tips and tricks for maximizing your score on all sections of the GMAT
Figure out where you need to study the most and create a targeted study plan
Take seven full-length practice tests, so you’ll be an old pro by the time test day rolls around
Get practice questions, flashcards, and review activities that make studying hands-on and help you remember
This edition, specific to the 2023 GMAT test, covers updates to the verbal section of the exam. We’ve got even better, clearer explanations, plus coverage of all the changes in the Official Guide to GMAT. If you’re ready to kick butt on the GMAT, this is your book!
Lisa Zimmer Hatch served as VP of The Center for Legal Studies, where she created standardized test preparation. Currently, she is an Independent College Counselor and president of College Primers. Scott A. Hatch develops courses for a variety of careers and assists those seeking advanced degrees in law, business, and other professions.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 2
Beyond the Book: The Online Practice 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
When should you 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 25
Tackling a Case of Nerves with Relaxation Techniques 26
Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 27
Choosing a Business School 27
Lining Up Your Ducks — Applying to Business Schools 29
When to apply 30
What to submit 30
Crafting Effective Business School Essays 31
Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33
Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35
Using the Preassessment: The How-To 35
Evaluating Section 1: Quantitative 35
Evaluating Section 2: Verbal 36
Evaluation Section 3: Integrated reasoning 36
Devising a Plan of Attack 36
Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 39
Section 1: Quantitative 40
Section 2: Verbal 44
Section 3: Integrated Reasoning 48
Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 53
Section 1: Quantitative Reasoning 53
Section 2: Verbal 61
Section 3: Integrated Reasoning 64
Answers at a Glance 67
Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 69
Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 71
Building a Solid Foundation: Grammar Basics 72
Getting wordy: The parts of speech 72
Pulling together: The parts of a sentence 75
Pointing Out Mistakes: Common Sentence Correction Errors 76
Errors in grammar and sentence construction 77
Errors in expression 83
Implementing an Approach to Sentence Correction Questions 85
Spotting the error 86
Eliminating answers that don’t correct errors 86
Eliminating choices that create new errors 87
Rereading the sentence 87
Reviewing the process and guessing on sentence corrections 87
Sentence Correction Practice Problems with Answer Explanations 87
Practice problems 88
Answer explanations 90
Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 93
Judging by Appearances: What Reading Comprehension Questions Look Like 93
Approaching Reading Passages 94
Mastering the message: The main point 94
Absorbing the ambiance: Author’s tone 95
Finding the framework: The passage’s outline 95
Sticking to the Subject: Types of Passages 96
Experimenting with natural science passages 96
Gathering in social circles: Social science passages 96
Getting down to business passages 97
Approaching Reading Comprehension Questions 97
Identifying the question type 97
Eliminating answer choices 101
Dealing with exception questions 102
Reading Comprehension Practice Questions with Answer Explanations 104
Reading comprehension practice questions 104
Answer explanations 109
Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 115
Focusing on “Critical” Concepts: An Overview 115
Understanding the structure of the questions 116
Figuring out how to answer the questions 116
Making a Case: Essentials of Informal Logic 117
Fighting fair: The elements of an argument 117
Getting from Point A to Point B: Types of reasoning 117
Thinking Inside the Box: Question Types 119
Stalking Your Prey: How to Approach Each Question Type 120
Strengthening or weakening arguments 120
Delving into drawing conclusions 124
Spotting those sneaky assumptions 125
Using your noggin to make inferences 127
Pondering the paradox 128
Making you r way through method-of-reasoning questions 129
Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations 131
Critical reasoning practice questions 131
Answer explanations 136
Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 141
Working Through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions 142
Understanding What’s Right with Answer Explanations 150
Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 157
Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 159
Fitting in the AWA with the Rest of the GMAT 159
Calling 411: Your AWA Writing Tools 160
Analyzing an Argument 160
Racking Up the Points: How the GMAT Scores Your Essay 161
Getting to know your readers 161
Interpreting the scores 162
Requesting your essay be rescored 162
Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 163
Avoiding Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics Errors 163
Punctuation errors 164
Sentence-structure problems 165
Faulty forming of possessives 165
Spelling issues 165
More dos and don’ts 166
Practice makes perfect! 166
Building a Better Essay: Ten Steps to a Higher Score 167
Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 171
Defining GMAT AWA Scores 171
Taking a Look at Sample Essays 172
Sample essay #1 172
Discussion of sample essay #1 174
Sample essay #2 174
Discussion of sample essay #2 175
Sample essay #3 176
Discussion of sample essay #3 177
Sample essay #4 177
Discussion of sample essay #4 178
Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 179
Sample Prompt #1 179
Sample response to essay #1 180
Dissection of essay #1 180
Sample Prompt #2 181
Sample response to essay #2 181
Dissection of essay #2 182
Sample Prompt #3 182
Sample response to essay #3 183
Dissection of essay #3 183
Sample Prompt #4 184
Sample response to essay #4 184
Dissection of essay #4 184
Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 187
Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 189
Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers 189
It’s Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations 191
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing 191
Checking out the real estate: Properties of real numbers 193
Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents 196
Adding and subtracting with exponents 196
Multiplying and dividing with exponents 196
Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 197
Dealing with fractional exponents 197
Working with negative exponents 198
Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots 198
Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally 200
Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages 200
Defining numerators, denominators, and other stuff you need to know about fractions 201
Adding and subtracting fractions 203
Multiplying and dividing fractions 203
Calculating percent change 205
Taking it further: Repeated percent change 206
Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions 207
Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation 208
Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 211
Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terms 211
Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants 212
Coming together: Terms and expressions 212
Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions 213
Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations 213
Adding to and taking away 213
Multiplying and dividing expressions 215
Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials 218
Something in common: Finding common factors 218
Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials 218
Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions 220
Standing in: Understanding function terminology 220
Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions 222
Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving 224
Isolating the variable: Linear equations 224
Bringing in the substitution: Simultaneous equations 226
Not playing fair: Inequalities 227
Solving quadratic equations 229
Reading between the lines: Word problems 231
Burning the midnight oil: Work problems 232
Going the distance: Distance problems 233
Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 235
Fishing for the Answers: Lines and Angles 235
Trusting Triangles 238
Triple treat: Types of triangles 238
The area of a triangle 239
The Pythagorean theorem and other cool stuff about right triangles 240
A striking resemblance: Similar triangles 243
Playing Four Square: Quadrilaterals 244
Drawing parallels: Parallelograms 244
Raising the roof: Trapezoids 245
Showing Their Good Sides: Other Polygons 247
Eating Up Pieces of Pi: Circles 247
Ring measurements: Radius, diameter, and circumference 248
Blueprints for Noah: Arcs 248
Line ’em up: Chords, inscribed and circumscribed figures, and tangents 249
Getting a Little Depth Perception: Three-Dimensional Geometry 251
Chipping off the old block: Rectangular solids 251
Sipping from soda cans and other cylinders 252
Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 255
Taking Flight: The Coordinate Plane 255
Line dancing: Understanding coordinate geometry 255
What’s the point? Finding the coordinates 256
On all fours: Identifying quadrants 257
Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations 257
Taking a peak: Defining the slope of a line 257
Using the slope-intercept form to graph lines 259
Meeting in the middle 261
Going the distance 262
Considering other shapes on the coordinate plane 263
Fully Functioning: Graphing Functions 264
Passing the vertical line test 264
Feeling at home with domain and range 266
Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 269
Joining a Clique: Groups 269
Setting Up Sets 271
Set terminology 271
Getting a visual: Venn diagrams 271
Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations 273
Positioning with permutations 273
Coming together: Combinations 275
Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode 277
Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation 279
Scouting out the range 279
Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation 279
Predicting the Future: Probability 281
Finding the probability of one event 282
Finding the probability of many events 282
Chapter 20: It’s All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 285
Enough’s Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions 285
You don’t need the solution to find the answer 286
Steps to approaching data sufficiency problems 286
Taking a Look at Data Sufficiency Practice Problems 289
Practice questions 289
Answer explanations 291
Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions 295
Trying Out Some Problem-Solving Practice Problems 297
Practice questions 297
Answer explanations 299
Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 303
Tackling GMAT Math Practice Questions 303
Checking Out the Answer Explanations 311
Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 321
Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 323
Understanding What the IR Section Is All About 323
Skills tested 324
Question format 324
Figuring Out How the IR Section Is Scored 326
Making the Most of Your Time 326
Approaching Each Question Type 327
Table analysis 327
Two-part analysis 330
Graphics interpretation 333
Multi-source reasoning 334
Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 339
Approaching Integrated Reasoning Data in Five Easy Steps 339
Translating Information in Tables 340
Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs 341
Simple bar graphs 341
Graphs with many bars 342
Segmented bar graphs 342
Evaluating Line Graphs 344
Basic line graphs 344
Scatter plots 344
Complex scatter plots 346
Clarifying Circle Graphs (Also Known as Pie Charts) 347
Extracting Data from Venn Diagrams 347
Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 351
Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 353
Answer Sheet 355
Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 358
Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 359
Section 3: Quantitative 360
Section 4: Verbal 367
Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 379
Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 379
Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 381
Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning 381
Section 4: Verbal 396
Answers at a Glance 405
Part 8: the Part of Tens 407
Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You’ve Got a Good Shot at 409
Main-Idea Reading Questions 409
Specific Information Reading Questions 409
Sentence Corrections 410
Exception Questions for Reading Passages 410
Strengthening or Weakening Critical Arguments 410
Data Sufficiency Math Questions 410
Math Problem Solving with Figures 410
Math Problems Involving Basic Operations 410
Substitution Math Problems 411
Graph and Table Analysis Questions 411
Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 413
Composing Complicated Sentences 413
Presenting Your Text in Passive Voice 413
Wasting Time with Unfamiliar Words 414
Using Unclear (Or Zero) Transitions 414
Going Overboard with Generic Terms 414
Writing in Informal English 414
Giving a Laundry List of Examples 414
Succumbing to Sentence Fragments 414
Announcing a Position without Explanation 415
Putting Aside Proofreading 415
Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 417
Accumulate a Little Work Experience 417
Ace the Interview 418
Apply Early 418
Apply While You’re Upwardly Mobile 418
Capitalize on What Makes You Unique 418
Demonstrate Interest 418
Focus on Fit 419
Get the Right Recommendations 419
Study for the GMAT 419
Write a Memorable Admissions Essay 419
Index 421
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.06.2022 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 213 x 277 mm |
Gewicht | 862 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
ISBN-10 | 1-119-88663-5 / 1119886635 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-88663-1 / 9781119886631 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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