Expanded coverage of statistics and probability
Practice your skills and improve your score!
Nervous about taking the GMAT? Don't panic! This friendly guide gives you all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition. You'll see how to think "the GMAT" way and chart your study progress with updated practice questions, math and grammar reviews, and two full-length sample exams.
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
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.
GMAT For Dummies, 5th edition is a highly readable, friendly guide and makes the study process as painless as possible, providing complete math and grammar reviews and all the preparation you need to maximize your score and outsmart your competition.
This 5th edition is packed with plenty of updated practice questions so you can see just how the GMAT tests a particular concept. Sample questions are framed 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.
Table of Contents
Part I: Putting the GMAT into Perspective.
Part III: Acing the Analytical Writing Section.
Part IV: Conquering the Quantitative Section.
Part V: Practice Makes Perfect
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Scott and Lisa Hatch have prepared students for college entrance exams for over 25 years.
Scott has presented standardized test preparation courses since 1979. He is listed in Who’s Who in California and Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, and he was named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America by the United States Jaycees.
He was a contributing editor to The Judicial Profiler (McGraw-Hill) and the Colorado Law Annotated (West/Lawyers Co-op) series, and he was editor of several award-winning publications. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and his Juris Doctorate from Southwestern University School of Law.
Lisa has been teaching legal certificate and standardized test preparation courses since 1987. She graduated with honors in English from the University of Puget Sound, and she received her master’s degree from California State University. She and Scott have co-authored numerous law and standardized test texts, including Paralegal Procedures and Practices, published by West Thomson Publishing, and SAT II U.S. History For Dummies, SAT II Biology For Dummies, SAT II Math For Dummies, and Paralegal Career For Dummies, published by Wiley Publishing.
