| Start Here | 1 |
| About This Book | 1 |
| Foolish Assumptions | 1 |
| Icons Used in This Book | 2 |
| Where to Go from Here | 2 |
| Block 1 GMAT Overview in 20 Minutes | 3 |
| Signing Up for the GMAT | 3 |
| Deciding where to take the test | 3 |
| Registering for the GMAT | 4 |
| Knowing What's on the Test | 4 |
| Checking out how the GMAT is structured | 5 |
| Knowing what you're being tested for | 5 |
| Navigating the computerized test | 6 |
| Preparing for the GMAT | 7 |
| Getting Up to Speed on GMAT Scoring | 8 |
| Interpreting your score | 8 |
| Deciding whether to retake the test | 9 |
| Block 2 Vanquishing the Verbal Section | 11 |
| Acing the Reading Comprehension Questions | 11 |
| Knowing what reading comprehension questions look like | 11 |
| Approaching reading passages | 12 |
| Sticking to the subject: Types of passages | 13 |
| Approaching reading comprehension questions | 14 |
| Reading comprehension practice questions with answer explanations | 20 |
| Sharpening Your Critical Reasoning Skills | 25 |
| Focusing on "critical" concepts: An overview | 25 |
| Making a case: Essentials of informal logic | 26 |
| Thinking inside the box: Question types | 29 |
| Stalking your prey: How to approach each question type | 30 |
| Critical reasoning practice questions and answer explanations | 41 |
| Block 3 Conquering the Quantitative Section | 47 |
| Juggling Numbers and Operations | 47 |
| Just your type: Kinds of numbers | 47 |
| It's not brain surgery: Basic operations | 48 |
| Working with bases and exponents | 52 |
| Checking out the ancestry: Roots | 54 |
| Following the order of operations | 55 |
| Splitting up: Fractions, decimals, and percents | 56 |
| Making comparisons: Ratios and proportions | 61 |
| Playing the numbers: Scientific notation | 62 |
| Considering All the Variables: Algebra | 63 |
| Defining the elements: Algebraic terminology | 63 |
| Mastering algebraic operations | 65 |
| Extracting information: Factoring polynomials | 70 |
| Minding your Ps and Qs: Functions | 71 |
| Putting on your thinking cap: Problem solving | 75 |
| Seeing is believing: The coordinate plane | 87 |
| Slip-sliding away: Slope and linear equations | 89 |
| Manipulating Statistics and Sets | 91 |
| Joining a clique: Groups | 92 |
| Setting up sets | 93 |
| Dealing with permutations and combinations | 94 |
| Meeting in the middle: Mean, median, and mode | 97 |
| Solving range and standard deviation problems | 99 |
| Predicting the future: Probability | 101 |
| Tackling Problem-Solving Questions | 105 |
| Block 4 Excelling on the Data Insights Section | 107 |
| Knowing What to Expect: Four Key Integrated Reasoning Question Types | 107 |
| Understanding what the IR questions are all about | 107 |
| Approaching each question type | 110 |
| Extracting Insights from Graphic Data | 122 |
| Mastering graphics-focused questions with five simple steps | 122 |
| Translating information in tables | 123 |
| Making comparisons with bar graphs | 123 |
| Honing in on histograms | 126 |
| Looking at line graphs | 127 |
| Perusing stem-and-leaf plots | 130 |
| Clarifying circle graphs (also known as pie charts) | 130 |
| Venturing into Venn diagrams | 131 |
| Taking on Data Sufficiency Questions | 133 |
| You don't need the solution to find the answer | 133 |
| Steps to approaching data sufficiency questions | 134 |
| Block 5 Taking a (Shortened) Practice Test | 139 |
| Section 1: Data Insights | 140 |
| Section 2: Quantitative | 145 |
| Section 3: Verbal | 148 |
| Answer and Explanations | 152 |
| Section 1: Data Insights | 152 |
| Section 2: Quantitative | 155 |
| Section 3: Verbal | 159 |
| Answer Key | 162 |
| Block 6 Ten Tips for Scoring Higher on the GMAT | 163 |
| Pace Yourself | 163 |
| Guess and Move On | 164 |
| Take Advantage of the Review and Edit Option | 164 |
| Finish It! Completing Each Section | 164 |
| Give Each Question Equal Treatment | 165 |
| Make Time for the Last Ten Questions | 165 |
| Use the Process of Elimination to Improve Your Odds | 166 |
| Maintain Your Focus | 166 |
| Take Time to Read the Questions | 166 |
| Don't Sink All Your Time into the Hard Questions | 167 |
| Index | 169 |
