GMAT 2021 for dummies : with online practice
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GMAT 2021 for dummies : with online practice
（--For dummies）（Learning made easy）
John Wiley, c2021
9th ed
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Gain confidence to crack the GMAT
You have your heart set on getting into a particular MBA program, but you're required to submit your GMAT score as part of the application process. Ack! If you dread the idea of taking a standardized test, you've come to the right place. GMAT For Dummies 2021 with Online Practice gets you ready for test day with helpful reviews and smart advice. To make the chore of studying a bit more bearable, the four parts of the test are broken down into sections so you can focus on exactly what you need.
If you need a refresher on grammar and reading comprehension, it's here. Is math your nemesis? Overcome the challenge with reviews of algebra, geometry, and statistics. And the exasperating but essential topics of essay writing and integrated reasoning are covered too. In addition, you get insights into how to avoid GMAT pitfalls and make the most of time-management tactics during the exam.
Take a pre-assessment test to identify the subject areas you need to brush up on
Access 7 practice tests and 500 flashcards online
Hone your analytical and reasoning skills
Create a targeted study plan
If you want to conquer the GMAT and stand out from other MBA program applicants, you'll find everything you need here for a stellar score!
Table of Contents
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
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
Can't we all just get along? Errors in subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement 77
Building code violations: Faulty construction 79
Follow the idiom: Correct use of standard expressions 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 100
Dealing with exception questions 101
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
Critical Reasoning Practice Questions and Answer Explanations 130
Critical reasoning practice questions 130
Answer explanations 134
Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 139
Working through Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions 140
Understanding What's Right with Answer Explanations 148
Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 155
Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 157
Fitting in the AWA with the Rest of the GMAT 157
Calling 411: Your AWA Writing Tools 158
Analyzing an Argument 158
Racking Up the Points: How the GMAT Scores Your Essay 159
Getting to know your readers 159
Interpreting the scores 160
Requesting your essay be rescored 160
Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 161
Avoiding Grammar, Punctuation, and Mechanics Errors 161
Punctuation errors 162
Sentence-structure problems 163
Faulty forming of possessives 163
Spelling issues 163
More dos and don'ts 164
Practice makes perfect! 164
Building a Better Essay: Ten Steps to a Higher Score 165
Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 169
Defining GMAT AWA Scores 169
Taking a Look at Sample Essays 170
Sample essay #1 170
Discussion of sample essay #1 172
Sample essay #2 172
Discussion of sample essay #2 173
Sample essay #3 174
Discussion of sample essay #3 175
Sample essay #4 175
Discussion of sample essay #4 176
Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 177
Sample Prompt #1 177
Sample response to essay #1 178
Dissection of essay #1 178
Sample Prompt #2 179
Sample response to essay #2 179
Dissection of essay #2 180
Sample Prompt #3 180
Sample response to essay #3 181
Dissection of essay #3 181
Sample Prompt #4 182
Sample response to essay #4 182
Dissection of essay #4 182
Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 185
Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 187
Just Your Type: Kinds of Numbers 187
It's Not Brain Surgery: Basic Operations 189
Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing 189
Checking out the real estate: Properties of real numbers 191
Using Little Numbers for Big Values: Bases and Exponents 194
Adding and subtracting with exponents 194
Multiplying and dividing with exponents 194
Figuring out the powers of 0 and 1 195
Dealing with fractional exponents 195
Working with negative exponents 196
Checking Out the Ancestry: Roots 196
Order of Operations: Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally 198
Splitting Up: Fractions, Decimals, and Percentages 198
Defining numerators, denominators, and other stuff you need to know about fractions 199
Adding and subtracting fractions 201
Multiplying and dividing fractions 201
Calculating percent change 203
Taking it further: Repeated percent change 204
Making Comparisons: Ratios and Proportions 205
Playing the Numbers: Scientific Notation 206
Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 209
Defining the Elements: Algebraic Terms 209
Braving the unknowns: Variables and constants 210
Coming together: Terms and expressions 210
Knowing the nomials: Kinds of expressions 211
Maintaining an Orderly Fashion: Algebraic Operations 211
Adding to and taking away 211
Multiplying and dividing expressions 213
Extracting Information: Factoring Polynomials 216
Something in common: Finding common factors 216
Two by two: Factoring quadratic polynomials 216
Minding Your Ps and Qs: Functions 218
Standing in: Understanding function terminology 218
Taking it to the limit: Domain and range of functions 220
Putting On Your Thinking Cap: Problem Solving 222
Isolating the variable: Linear equations 222
Bringing in the substitution: Simultaneous equations 224
Not playing fair: Inequalities 225
Solving quadratic equations 227
Reading between the lines: Word problems 229
Burning the midnight oil: Work problems 230
Going the distance: Distance problems 231
Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 233
Fishing for the Answers: Lines and Angles 233
Trusting Triangles 236
Triple treat: Types of triangles 236
The area of a triangle 237
The Pythagorean theorem and other cool stuff about right triangles 238
A striking resemblance: Similar triangles 241
Playing Four Square: Quadrilaterals 242
Drawing parallels: Parallelograms 242
Raising the roof: Trapezoids 243
Showing Their Good Sides: Other Polygons 245
Eating Up Pieces of Pi: Circles 245
Ring measurements: Radius, diameter, and circumference 246
Blueprints for Noah: Arcs 246
Line 'em up: Chords, inscribed and circumscribed figures, and tangents 247
Getting a Little Depth Perception: Three-Dimensional Geometry 249
Chipping off the old block: Rectangular solids 249
Sipping from soda cans and other cylinders 250
Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 253
Taking Flight: The Coordinate Plane 253
Line dancing: Understanding coordinate geometry 253
What's the point? Finding the coordinates 254
On all fours: Identifying quadrants 255
Slip-Sliding Away: Slope and Linear Equations 255
Taking a peak: Defining the slope of a line 255
Using the slope-intercept form to graph lines 257
Meeting in the middle 259
Going the distance 260
Considering other shapes on the coordinate plane 261
Fully Functioning: Graphing Functions 262
Passing the vertical line test 262
Feeling at home with domain and range 264
Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 267
Joining a Clique: Groups 267
Setting Up Sets 269
Set terminology 269
Getting a visual: Venn diagrams 269
Making Arrangements: Permutations and Combinations 271
Positioning with permutations 271
Coming together: Combinations 273
Meeting in the Middle: Mean, Median, and Mode 275
Straying from Home: Range and Standard Deviation 277
Scouting out the range 277
Watching out for wanderers: Standard deviation 277
Predicting the Future: Probability 279
Finding the probability of one event 280
Finding the probability of many events 280
Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 283
Enough's Enough: Data Sufficiency Questions 283
You don't need the solution to find the answer 284
Steps to approaching data sufficiency problems 284
Taking a Look at Data Sufficiency Practice Problems 287
Practice questions 287
Answer explanations 289
Houston, We Have a Problem: Problem Solving Questions 293
Trying Out Some Problem Solving Practice Problems 295
Practice questions 295
Answer explanations 297
Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 301
Tackling GMAT Math Practice Questions 301
Checking Out the Answer Explanations 309
Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 319
Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 321
Understanding What the IR Section is All About 321
Skills tested 322
Question format 322
Figuring Out How the IR Section is Scored 324
Making the Most of Your Time 324
Approaching Each Question Type 325
Table analysis 325
Two-part analysis 328
Graphics interpretation 331
Multi-source reasoning 332
Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 337
Approaching Integrated Reasoning Data in Five Easy Steps 337
Translating Information in Tables 338
Making Comparisons with Bar Graphs 339
Simple bar graphs 339
Graphs with many bars 340
Segmented bar graphs 340
Evaluating Line Graphs 342
Basic line graphs 342
Scatter plots 342
Complex scatter plots 344
Clarifying Circle Graphs (also Known as Pie Charts) 345
Extracting Data from Venn Diagrams 345
Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 349
Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 351
Answer Sheet 353
Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 356
Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 357
Section 3: Quantitative 358
Section 4: Verbal 365
Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 377
Section 1: Analytical Writing Assessment 377
Section 2: Integrated Reasoning 379
Section 3: Quantitative Reasoning 379
Section 4: Verbal 394
Answers at a Glance 403
Part 8: The Part of Tens 405
Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 407
Main-Theme Reading Questions 407
Specific Information Reading Questions 407
Sentence Corrections 408
Exception Questions for Reading Passages 408
Strengthening or Weakening Critical Arguments 408
Data Sufficiency Math Questions 408
Math Problem Solving with Figures 408
Math Problems Involving Basic Operations 408
Substitution Math Problems 409
Graph and Table Analysis Questions 409
Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 411
Composing Complicated Sentences 411
Presenting Your Text in Passive Voice 411
Wasting Time with Unfamiliar Words 412
Using Unclear (or Zero) Transitions 412
Going Overboard with Generic Terms 412
Writing in Informal English 412
Giving a Laundry List of Examples 412
Succumbing to Sentence Fragments 412
Announcing a Position without Explanation 413
Putting Aside Proofreading 413
Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 415
Accumulate a Little Work Experience 415
Ace the Interview 416
Apply Early 416
Apply While You're Upwardly Mobile 416
Capitalize on What Makes You Unique 416
Demonstrate Interest 416
Focus on Fit 417
Get the Right Recommendations 417
Study for the GMAT 417
Write a Memorable Admissions Essay 417
Index 419
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