GMAT Prep 2024/2025 for Dummies (GMAT Focus Edition): Book + 3 Practice Tests + 100 Flashcards Online (Paperback, 11)

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5

Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7

Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17

Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 27

Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33

Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35

Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 41

Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55

Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 71

Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 73

Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 95

Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 117

Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 143

Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 159

Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 161

Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 165

Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 173

Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 181

Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 189

Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 191

Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 213

Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 237

Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 257

Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 271

Chapter 20: It’s All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 287

Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 305

Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 323

Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 325

Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 341

Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 353

Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 355

Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 381

Part 8: The Part of Tens 409

Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You’ve Got a Good Shot At 411

Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 415

Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 419

Index 423